Los Angeles Community Screening Event & Red Carpet on January 6th
On January 6, Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, Brie Larson, OβShea Jackson Jr., and Karan Kendrick and author and executive producer Bryan Stevensonattend a special community screening hosted by Kobe Bryant and Terrence J at the Cinemark Baldwin Hills. Here are a few of our favorite photo’s. We can’t wait to see JUST MERCY, in theaters everywhere January 10th.









Michael B. Jordan (βBlack Panther,β the βCreedβ films, βFruitvale Stationβ) and Oscar winners Jamie Foxx (βRay,β βBaby Driver,β βDjango: Unchainedβ) and Brie Larson (βRoom,β βShort Term 12,β βCaptain Marvelβ) star in βJust Mercy,β an inspiring drama that brings one of the most important stories of our time to the big screen. Award-winning filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton (βThe Glass Castle,β βShort Term 12β) directed the film from a screenplay he co-wrote, based on the award-winning nonfiction bestseller by Bryan Stevenson.
A powerful and thought-provoking true story, βJust Mercyβ follows young lawyer Bryan Stevenson (Jordan) and his history-making battle for justice. After graduating from Harvard, Bryan had his pick of lucrative jobs. Instead, he heads to Alabama to defend those wrongly condemned or who were not afforded proper representation, with the support of local advocate Eva Ansley (Larson). One of his first, and most incendiary, cases is that of Walter McMillian (Foxx), who, in 1987, was sentenced to die for the notorious murder of an 18-year-old girl, despite a preponderance of evidence proving his innocence and the fact that the only testimony against him came from a criminal with a motive to lie. In the years that follow, Bryan becomes embroiled in a labyrinth of legal and political maneuverings as well as overt and unabashed racism as he fights for Walter, and others like him, with the oddsβand the systemβstacked against them.
The main cast also includes Rob Morgan (βMudboundβ), Tim Blake Nelson (βWormwoodβ), Rafe Spall (βThe Big Shortβ), OβShea Jackson Jr. (βStraight Outta Comptonβ), and Karan Kendrick (βThe Hate U Giveβ).
The film was produced by two-time Oscar nominee Gil Netter (βLife of Pi,β βThe Blind Sideβ), Asher Goldstein (βShort Term 12β) and Michael B. Jordan. Bryan Stevenson, Mike Drake, Niija Kuykendall, Gabriel Hammond, Daniel Hammond, Scott Budnick, Jeff Skoll and Charles D. King served as executive producers. Cretton co-wrote the screenplay with Andrew Lanham (βThe Glass Castleβ), based on Stevensonβs book Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. Published in 2014 by Spiegel & Grau, the book has spent more than 180 weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers List and counting. It was also named one of the yearβs best books by a number of top publications, including TIME Magazine. For the book, Stevenson also won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, an NAACP Image Award, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction.