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Award-Winning Filmmaker Ava DuVernay Expands Creative Partnership with OWN

    Los Angeles – Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films announced today it has partnered with award-winning filmmaker Ava DuVernay (“13th,” “A Wrinkle in Time”) on a first-look deal for television and digital media. The first collaboration is DuVernay’s recently announced limited drama series “Central Park Five” for Netflix from Participant Media, Tribeca Productions and Harpo Films. 

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“Remember The Titans” Screenwriter to Pen Fannie Lou Hamer Biopic

Gregory Allen Howard (“Remember the Titans”) has been hired to pen a biopic of Fannie Lou Hamer – a sharecropper who became an important voting-rights advocate and founded the first integrated political party in 1960s Mississippi. Hamer helped organize the 1964 Freedom Summer African-American voter registration drive in her native Mississippi. At the Democratic National

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Cast of Black Panther Striking on the Cover of Entertainment Weekly

    We just can’t get over the images surfacing of Marvel’s new film Black Panther! This image of  Chadwick Boseman, the heir to Black Panther (T’Challa), Michael B. Jordan (Erik Killmonger), T’Challa’s primary rival, and Lupita Nyong’o (Nakia), on the cover of  Entertainment Weekly is badassness!  This fierce cover and the upcoming previews of San Diego Comic-Con, has TCV anticipating what’s to come

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Ava DuVernay Takes Central Park Five Case To Netflix

  Credit:  Paras Griffin/Getty Images   Netflix announced today that Oscar-nominated filmmaker Ava DuVernay will helm a five-episode limited series revolving around the lives of the Central Park Five, a group of Harlem teenagers — Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, and Korey Wise — wrongly convicted for the rape of Trisha Meili in

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Academy Welcomes 774 New Members: Barry Jenkins, Donald Glover, Leslie Jones and more!

  Pictured: Writer-Director Barry Jenkins, Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs and Sreenwriter Theodore Witcher prior to a 20th Anniversary screening of “Love Jones” presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, on Tuesday, June 13, 2017. In a push for diversity and inclusion, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences is welcoming

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OWN’s Hit Series “Greenleaf,” Returns in August with 2-night Premiere

  OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network’s acclaimed original drama series, “Greenleaf,” from Lionsgate, award-winning writer/producer Craig Wright (“Lost,” “Six Feet Under”) and executive producers Clement Virgo (“The Book of Negros”) and Oprah Winfrey (“Selma”), will return with a two-night premiere on Tuesday, August 15 at 10 p.m. ET/PT (after a new episode of Tyler Perry’s “The

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