FOCUS FEATURES ANNOUNCES PRODUCTION ON HARRIET FEATURE ON THE LIFE OF HEROIC ABOLITIONIST HARRIET TUBMAN STARRING CYNTHIA ERIVO

FOCUS FEATURES ANNOUNCES PRODUCTION ON HARRIET FEATURE ON THE LIFE OF HEROIC ABOLITIONIST HARRIET TUBMAN STARRING CYNTHIA ERIVO

Directed by Kasi Lemmons, Leslie Odom Jr., Joe Alwyn, and Jennifer Nettles join cast

New York, NY, September 12, 2018 – Focus Features chairman Peter Kujawski announced today that Focus has set production on Harriet, a new feature chronicling the life of heroic abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Tubman will be played by Tony, Emmy and Grammy Award®-winner Cynthia Erivo (Bad Times at the El Royale, Widows), and the cast includes fellow Tony Award®-winner and Grammy Award®-winner Leslie Odom Jr. (Hamilton, Murder on the Orient Express), Joe Alwyn (Boy Erased, The Favourite, Mary Queen of Scots), multiple Grammy Award®-winner Jennifer Nettles, and Clarke Peters (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri). Awarding winning director Kasi Lemmons (Eve’s Bayou) will direct a screenplay she co-wrote with Gregory Allen Howard (Ali, Remember the Titans). Debra Martin Chase (The Princess Diaries, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) with Martin Chase Productions, Daniela Taplin Lundberg (Beasts of No Nation, The Kids are All Right) with Stay Gold Features and Gregory Allen Howard will produce. They’re joined by cinematographer John Toll and costume designer Paul Tazewell. Josh McLaughlin, Focus Features president of production, will oversee the production. The film is set to begin filming this October in Virginia.

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BOY ERASED FILMMAKERS TO PRODUCE ‘UNERASED’ PODCAST WITH THE CREATORS OF RADIOLAB

BOY ERASED FILMMAKERS TO PRODUCE ‘UNERASED’ PODCAST WITH THE CREATORS OF RADIOLAB

UnErasedpodcast will uncover the history and damaging effects conversion therapy has on LGBTQIA youth in America

New York, NY, August 30, 2018 – Limina House, Focus Features, and Anonymous Content announced today that the filmmakers behind the anticipated fall film Boy Erased along with the creators of the widely acclaimed Radiolab podcast and radio program will launch a new podcast, UnErased, this fall. The four-part podcast series will reveal the controversial truth behind the “pray away the gay” movement and conversion therapy in America. The series will be produced by Limina House, which was started by Mikel Ellcessor, the co-creator with Jad Abumrad of Radiolab. The UnErased production team is Ellcessor, Kat Aaron, Alice Quinlan and Shima Oliaee with the author of the Boy Erased memoir Garrard Conley, whose life story and experience with conversion therapy is the basis for the film, and the film’s co-producer and cast member David Joseph Craig. Abumrad provided editorial oversight and conducted key interviews.

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GAL GADOT TO VOICE NEW CHARACTER SHANK IN “RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET”

GAL GADOT TO VOICE NEW CHARACTER SHANK IN “RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET”

Gal Gadot (“Justice League,” “Wonder Woman”) revealed today that she is voicing the character Shank, a tough and talented driver in an intense and gritty online racing game called Slaughter Race, in Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Ralph Breaks the Internet,” which hits theaters this Thanksgiving.

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Mary Poppins Returns | Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer, Meryl Streep, Colin Firth, Dick Van Dyke, Angela Lansbury, Pixie Davies, Joel Dawson, Nathanael Saleh | Review

Jacqueline Monahan

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THE WOMEN FILM CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2018

THE WOMEN FILM CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2018

Here is the full list:

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Bohemian Rhapsody | Rami Malek, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy, Joseph Mazzello, Lucy Boynton, Tom Hollander, Aaron McCusker

Jacqueline Monahan

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Bohemian Rhapsody | Rami Malek, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy, Joseph Mazzello, Lucy Boynton, Tom Hollander, Aaron McCusker

Judy Thorburn

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UNIVERSAL PICTURES AND REGAL OFFER U.S. VETERANS AND ACTIVE-DUTY SERVICEMEMBERS MORE THAN 14,000 FREE TICKETS TO UNIVERSAL’S FIRST MAN

Offer Valid at More Than 500 Regal Theatres Nationwide to First 25 Servicemembers Who Request Tickets for the 7:00 P.M. Preview Screening on Thursday, October 11

The Riveting Story behind the First Manned Mission to the Moon Arrives in Theatres on October 12

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A Star is Born | Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Sam Elliott, Dave Chappelle, Andrew Dice Clay | Review

Judy Thorburn

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A Star is Born | Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Sam Elliott, Andrew Dice Clay, Dave Chappelle | Review

Jacqueline Monahan

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