As Megalopolis continues to seek a U.S. distribution deal, its writer-director Francis Ford Coppola was asked to comment on the state of the film industry and whether the movie’s best destination is on streaming. “Streaming is what we use to call home video,” was the director’s first response to the…

Bleecker Street has picked up U.S. rights to Mikael Håfström's sci-fi thriller Slingshot, starring Casey Affleck, Laurence Fishburne and Emily Beecham. Additional cast includes Fauda star Tomer Capone and The Walking Dead's David Morrissey.  The film, which is written by R. Scott Adams and Nathan…

The Witcher has found its Regis. Emmy winner and Oscar nominee Laurence Fishburne is joining the upcoming fourth season of the Netflix series as the fan-favorite character from The Witcher books and games. Introduced in Sapkowski’s novel Baptism of Fire, Regis is a world-wise Barber-surgeon with a…

EXCLUSIVE: After a grueling few months for UK film and TV producers, there are signs that the industry is starting to head back to work following twin actors and writers strikes in the U.S. Amateur, the 20th Century terrorism thriller starring Rami Malek, will be among the first studio shoots to…

Laurence Fishburne was a life saver to young Emilio Estevez. Appearing Tuesday on The Jennifer Hudson Show alongside father Martin Sheen, Emilio talked about how Fishburne saved him from drowning in a Philippines river. Estevez was visiting his father on the set of Vietnam War epic Apocalypse…

EXCLUSIVE: Actor Laurence Fishburne will present a workshop of his new solo stage show Like They Do In The Movies this July as part of the New York Stage and Film Summer Season at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Directed by Leonard Foglia (Thurgood, starring Fishburne), Like They Do In The M…

More. More. More. That seems to be the mantra for the fourth edition in the wildly successful John Wick franchise. There is certainly more action with a whopping 14 action sequences, nearly four times the amount in previous Wick flicks; more locations…

EXCLUSIVE: Emma Roberts (Madame Web) and Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix franchise) have been set to star in sci-fi thriller The Astronaut, which is being produced by A Quiet Place and The Purge producer Brad Fuller. Production is due to start later this year in Ireland on the film in which Roberts…

Move over diamonds; it seems like Dinosaurs are a girl’s best friend. At least, that’s the case for Lunella Lafayette (Diamond White) in Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. Based on the comic book of the same name, the series follows Lunella, a Black 13-year-old Manhattanite who uses her genius to…

“A new day is dawning,” the Marquis de Gramont says. “New ideas, new rules, new management.” Check out the first trailer above and the poster below. Here’s your plotline: John Wick (Reeves) uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face…

It isn’t going to get points for originality, to be sure, but long-gestating Netflix film adaptation of the Soman Chainani books The School for Good and Evil is a fun cross of Harry Potter and Wicked. The latter is the most obvious inspiration as the story…

The Laurence Fishburne-produced and Laura Checkoway-directed documentary, The Cave of Adullam, which premieres tonight at the Tribeca film festival, and repped by CAA Media Finance, ICM Partners and Paradigm–is a love letter to masculine vulnerability. Cave leader Jason Wilson uses a quote from Frederick Douglas for…