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Laurence Fishburne, Juan Pablo Raba Join

Laurence Fishburne, Juan Pablo Raba, Edward James Olmos, Jon Huertas, Esai Morales, and John Heard have joined the upcoming indie thriller “Imprisoned,” Variety has learned exclusively.

The film is scheduled to begin production in mid-May in Puerto Rico. 13 Films is handling worldwide sales and will present the title to buyers this month during the Marché du Film at the Cannes Film Festival.

Paul Kampf’s Equitas Entertainment is producing. Producers are Paul Kampf, Holly Levow, Tom Sperry, and Luillo Ruiz from the Pimienta Film Company in Puerto Rico. Megan Messmer is co-producer with Equitas Entertainment. Executive producers are Walter Josten, Tannaz Anisi, and Greg Schenz.

Kampf is directing from his own script, described as a revenge thriller wrapped around a love story with the question of the sacrifices made for love. The cast also includes Juana Acosta and Fernanda Urrejola.

Kampf, Levow and Sperry launched Equitas Entertainment last year as a production/film fund with the mission to close the gender pay gap and elevate underserved talents in the entertainment industry. Equitas’ last film was the dark comedy “Best Fake Friends.”

Fishburne recently starred in “John Wick: Chapter Two.” Raba stars as Gustavo Gaviria in “Narcos.” Olmos is reprising his role as Gaff in “Blade Runner 2049.” Huertas starred in ABC’s “Castle.”

Source; Variety

Released over 15 years ago, the film Baby Boy has remained relevant in pop culture long after it hit movie theaters.

And as the film quickly approaches the two-decade mark, Tyrese has revealed on social media that a sequel to Baby Boy is in the works. The crooner and star of Baby Boy shared the news on Instagram earlier this week.

He also gave a subtle nod to the film’s director, John Singleton.

“Sequel to Baby Boy coming soon….. #BabyBoyComingOfAge shout to @johnsingleton,” Tyrese wrote in a caption to his video, which shows a clip from Baby Boy.

Outside of Tyrese’s Instagram post, no other details on a sequel to Baby Boy have surfaced.

Released in theaters in 2001, Baby Boy chronicled the chaotic life of 20-year-old Joseph “Jody” Summers. In addition to Tyrese, the film also starred Omar Gooding, Taraji P. Henson, and Ving Rhames.

News of a Baby Boy sequel comes weeks after another iconic film, Coming To America was rumored to be receiving its own sequel. Despite Eddie Murphy claiming to be unaware of a second installment, it was later reported that Paramount hired the original writers from Coming To America for a follow-up.

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Watch: The New Trailer For ‘The Dark Tower’ Starring Idris Elba!

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Sony has premiered a first trailer for its upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s fantasy series, “The Dark Tower,” which stars Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey. Originally set for a February 17, 2017 premiere, the studio moved its release date to August 4, 2017, right in the thick of the competitive summer movie season.

The reason for the date shift was to give the filmmakers more time to complete the film’s visual effects work, which, as you can assume given the source material, is probably heavy.

The trailer, and previously released poster (which will probably draw comparisons to the poster for Christopher Nolan’s “Inception”) are both embedded at the bottom of this post.

Stephen King’s mammoth series has been adapted for the big screen in a planned feature film trilogy, as well as a TV series. Media Rights Capital (MRC) – the production company with the rights to “The Dark Tower” – plans to adapt the fourth book, “Wizard and Glass,” as a spin-off TV series, with a commitment of between 10 and 13 episodes, and a production date start likely in 2017 for TV premiere in 2018. Releasing the film and TV series within a few months apart (maybe 6 – 8 months) might be in consideration.

No network is attached to the TV series yet, but the producers say that a cable network or streaming service (like Netflix, Amazon or Hulu) would be preferable due to the story’s mature/adult content. Since MRC also produces “House of Cards” for Netflix, there’s a chance that “Wizard and Glass” will end up there as well.

Fans will be happy to know that Idris Elba, who stars in the upcoming “The Dark Tower” movie as the gunslinger Roland Deschain, is also attached to appear in the TV series, as is Tom Taylor, who plays Jake Chambers. Matthew McConaughey as the villainous Man in Black in the film, may appear in the TV show as well.

The “Dark Tower” franchise of novels which King himself considers his magnum opus, is a cross-genre work, including elements of science fiction, fantasy, horror and western, with at least 8 novels in the series, published between 1982 and 2012.

Here’s a general plot summary: In the story, Roland Deschain is the last living member of a knightly order known as gunslingers and the last of the line of “Arthur Eld”, his world’s analogue of King Arthur. Politically organized along the lines of a feudal society, it shares technological and social characteristics with the American Old West but is also magical. Many of the magical aspects have vanished from Mid-World, but traces remain as do relics from a technologically advanced society. Roland’s quest is to find the Dark Tower, a fabled building said to be the nexus of all universes. Roland’s world is said to have “moved on”, and it appears to be coming apart at the seams. Mighty nations have been torn apart by war, entire cities and regions vanish without a trace and time does not flow in an orderly fashion. Even the sun sometimes rises in the north and sets in the east. As the series opens, Roland’s motives, goals and age are unclear, though later installments shed light on these mysteries. Along his journey to the Dark Tower, Roland meets a great number of both friends and enemies. For most of the way he is accompanied by a group of people who together with him form the Ka-tet of the Nineteen and Ninety-nine, consisting of Jake Chambers, Eddie and Susannah Dean, and Oy.

Source: Shadow & Act

Sony will release the first installment of “The Dark Tower” on August 4.

Watch: The New Trailer For ‘The Dark Tower’ Starring Idris Elba!

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Laurence Fishburne Joins New Indie Thriller Titled ‘Imprisoned’

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