Joseph Baxter Feb 22, 2019
Michael B. Jordan will star in Denzel Washington’s dramatic directorial effort, titled Journal for Jordan.
Michael B. Jordan has banked his share of blockbuster franchises, be it with a memorable villain turn in Marvel’s Black Panther, or the hit Rocky-spun-off Creed films, with even more intriguing projects on his docket. However, the actor just signed up to headline a drama, titled Journal for Jordan (no relation), directed by Denzel Washington, that serves as a heartfelt memoir to the sacrifices of our armed forces with a tragically broken bond between a father and son.
Sony Pictures is in talks with Jordan to star in Journal for Jordan, as reported by trades like Variety. The film will see Denzel Washington flex his sporadically-utilized directorial muscles for the film, working off a screenplay by Virgil Williams based off Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dana Canedy’s 2008 non-fiction book, A...
Michael B. Jordan will star in Denzel Washington’s dramatic directorial effort, titled Journal for Jordan.
Michael B. Jordan has banked his share of blockbuster franchises, be it with a memorable villain turn in Marvel’s Black Panther, or the hit Rocky-spun-off Creed films, with even more intriguing projects on his docket. However, the actor just signed up to headline a drama, titled Journal for Jordan (no relation), directed by Denzel Washington, that serves as a heartfelt memoir to the sacrifices of our armed forces with a tragically broken bond between a father and son.
Sony Pictures is in talks with Jordan to star in Journal for Jordan, as reported by trades like Variety. The film will see Denzel Washington flex his sporadically-utilized directorial muscles for the film, working off a screenplay by Virgil Williams based off Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dana Canedy’s 2008 non-fiction book, A...
- 2/22/2019
- Den of Geek
Michael B. Jordan is in talks to star in and co-produce the upcoming Sony film “Journal for Jordan,” which will be directed by Denzel Washington.
“Journal for Jordan” tells the true story of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dana Canedy’s love affair with First Sergeant Charles Monroe King. King kept a journal full of poignant life lessons for their newborn son Jordan while deployed overseas, lessons that lived on after King was killed in action in 2006, when Jordan was just seven months old.
Washington will direct from a script by Oscar-nominated “Mudbound” writer Virgil Williams and based on Canedy’s 2008 memoir. Washington is producing with Escape Artist’s Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, and Steve Tisch, and Jordan is in talks to also produce through his Outlier Society banner.
Jordan is coming off a wildly successful 2018 in which he starred in the Best Picture Oscar nominee “Black Panther” and “Creed II.” He...
“Journal for Jordan” tells the true story of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dana Canedy’s love affair with First Sergeant Charles Monroe King. King kept a journal full of poignant life lessons for their newborn son Jordan while deployed overseas, lessons that lived on after King was killed in action in 2006, when Jordan was just seven months old.
Washington will direct from a script by Oscar-nominated “Mudbound” writer Virgil Williams and based on Canedy’s 2008 memoir. Washington is producing with Escape Artist’s Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, and Steve Tisch, and Jordan is in talks to also produce through his Outlier Society banner.
Jordan is coming off a wildly successful 2018 in which he starred in the Best Picture Oscar nominee “Black Panther” and “Creed II.” He...
- 2/21/2019
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
Michael B. Jordan is in talks to star in Sony’s “Journal for Jordan,” a drama that will be directed by Denzel Washington.
The movie, penned by “Mudbound” screenwriter Virgin Williams, is based on the true story of Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Dana Canedy’s love affair with First Sergeant Charles Monroe King. King kept a journal full of poignant life lessons for their newborn son, Jordan, while deployed overseas. He was killed in Iraq in 2006 when Jordan was just seven months old, but his spirit lives on in his messages of love to Dana and Jordan.
Jordan will also produce through his Outlier Society banner, while Washington and Escape Artist’s Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, and Steve Tisch will also produce.
Jordan garnered critical acclaim for portraying the tormented villain Erik Killmonger in “Black Panther,” the first Marvel movie to score a best picture Oscar nomination. He most recently starred in “Creed II,...
The movie, penned by “Mudbound” screenwriter Virgin Williams, is based on the true story of Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Dana Canedy’s love affair with First Sergeant Charles Monroe King. King kept a journal full of poignant life lessons for their newborn son, Jordan, while deployed overseas. He was killed in Iraq in 2006 when Jordan was just seven months old, but his spirit lives on in his messages of love to Dana and Jordan.
Jordan will also produce through his Outlier Society banner, while Washington and Escape Artist’s Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, and Steve Tisch will also produce.
Jordan garnered critical acclaim for portraying the tormented villain Erik Killmonger in “Black Panther,” the first Marvel movie to score a best picture Oscar nomination. He most recently starred in “Creed II,...
- 2/21/2019
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
NBC has released the second wave of former contestants returning for “America’s Got Talent: The Champions,” the franchise’s new, all-star winter edition.
While the first half included former finalists and winners like kid ventriloquist Darci Lynne Farmer, singer Susan Boyle, and magician Shin Lim, the remaining set includes young fan favorites, like vocalists Angelica Hale and Courtney Hadwin, along with more unusual acts, like Stevie Starr aka “The Professional Regurgitator.”
Premiering on Jan. 7, “Agt: The Champions” brings together former winners, finalists and impossible-to-forget acts from previous seasons of “America’s Got Talent,” “Britain’s Got Talent” and other “Got Talent” franchises from around the globe, to compete for the title of World Champion.
Also Read: 'America's Got Talent: The Champions' Books Susan Boyle, Darci Lynne Farmer, and 23 Other Competitors
This special installment of the NBC competition series will feature usual “Agt” judges Simon Cowell, Mel B,...
While the first half included former finalists and winners like kid ventriloquist Darci Lynne Farmer, singer Susan Boyle, and magician Shin Lim, the remaining set includes young fan favorites, like vocalists Angelica Hale and Courtney Hadwin, along with more unusual acts, like Stevie Starr aka “The Professional Regurgitator.”
Premiering on Jan. 7, “Agt: The Champions” brings together former winners, finalists and impossible-to-forget acts from previous seasons of “America’s Got Talent,” “Britain’s Got Talent” and other “Got Talent” franchises from around the globe, to compete for the title of World Champion.
Also Read: 'America's Got Talent: The Champions' Books Susan Boyle, Darci Lynne Farmer, and 23 Other Competitors
This special installment of the NBC competition series will feature usual “Agt” judges Simon Cowell, Mel B,...
- 11/30/2018
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
By now, most of you reading this are undoubtedly aware of how the Flash will be sporting a new costume not long after the fifth season of his eponymous TV series commences. Already, we’ve received a number of looks at said threads via officially released images, set pics and trailers.
Now, our latest glimpse at the Scarlet Speedster’s new duds comes by way of a very unexpected source, that being acclaimed author Brad Meltzer. Perhaps best known to DC readers because of his work on the modern classic that was Identity Crisis – not to mention his days on Justice League of America – he’s since kept up with the characters he’s written for by visiting the sets of The Flash, Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow.
Seen below, Meltzer is hyping his latest novel, Escape Artist, while also enjoying a moment in between takes with actor Grant Gustin,...
Now, our latest glimpse at the Scarlet Speedster’s new duds comes by way of a very unexpected source, that being acclaimed author Brad Meltzer. Perhaps best known to DC readers because of his work on the modern classic that was Identity Crisis – not to mention his days on Justice League of America – he’s since kept up with the characters he’s written for by visiting the sets of The Flash, Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow.
Seen below, Meltzer is hyping his latest novel, Escape Artist, while also enjoying a moment in between takes with actor Grant Gustin,...
- 9/24/2018
- by Eric Joseph
- We Got This Covered
Ron Shelton, the filmmaker behind sports comedies such as Tin Cup, White Men Can’t Jump and Bull Durham, is set to write and direct Escape Artist.
Announced on Friday by Gold Star Films and Signature Films and based on script written by Shelton and Al Reinert, Escape Artist will depict the true-life events that led Ed “Hacksaw” Jones to break out of 14 prisons and become the first person to ever be put on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list without ever committing a violent crime.
Gold Star Films co-chairman, Joey Tufaro, Signature Films founder, Marc Goldberg, and production executive...
Announced on Friday by Gold Star Films and Signature Films and based on script written by Shelton and Al Reinert, Escape Artist will depict the true-life events that led Ed “Hacksaw” Jones to break out of 14 prisons and become the first person to ever be put on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list without ever committing a violent crime.
Gold Star Films co-chairman, Joey Tufaro, Signature Films founder, Marc Goldberg, and production executive...
- 11/4/2017
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ron Shelton is set to direct Escape Artist, a movie from a script that he and Al Reinhert wrote about the true events surrounding Ed “Hacksaw” Jones, who broke out of 14 prisons and later ended up renting a house from Shelton in Los Angeles. Shelton is helming for Gold Star Films and Signature Films. Jones would become the first person to be put on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list without ever committing a violent crime. "I got to know Ed well when he rented a house in the…...
- 11/4/2017
- Deadline
A dangerous act wasn’t the only dramatic thing to happen on Tuesday’s episode of “America’s Got Talent.” When Simon Cowell made a crude joke about Mel B’s wedding night, she threw a glass of water at him and stormed off stage. Escape artist Demian Aditya performed a stunt in which he had to escape from a box he was cuffed to before the only rope holding the box above three burning spikes was burned through. At the end of the performance, it looked like there had been a problem, and the box got stuck mid-fall. Mel B hit the buzzer,...
- 8/23/2017
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Escape artist Demian Aditya performed Tuesday night during the Quarterfinals 2 episode of “America’s Got Talent” 2017. The past two times Aditya performed he made the “Agt” judges believe that he’d failed his stunts and possibly died, before then appearing from another location very much alive and well. Was Aditya able to trick the judges […]...
- 8/23/2017
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
Escapes at the IFC Center: "It's like that Thom Andersen movie Los Angeles Plays Itself. This is not a portrait of a place but a portrait of a person." Photo: Ed Bahlman
Escape artist Hampton Fancher reveals beating out Jean-Pierre Léaud and the pathway that led him to star in Michael Pfleghar's Romeo und Julia 70, opposite Tina Sinatra. Norman Taurog's Blue Hawaii starring Elvis Presley and Joan Blackman, Teri Garr, Brian Kelly and Flipper surface. Michael Almereyda makes a Skinningrove (his film on photographer Chris Killip) connection to a scene with Harrison Ford in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and remarks "it's called Escapes for a reason as almost every episode involves a near-death experience."
Hampton Fancher starred with Tina Sinatra in Michael Pfleghar's Romeo Und Julia 70
When do you think you know a person? What does this knowing entail? A face, a name, a voice,...
Escape artist Hampton Fancher reveals beating out Jean-Pierre Léaud and the pathway that led him to star in Michael Pfleghar's Romeo und Julia 70, opposite Tina Sinatra. Norman Taurog's Blue Hawaii starring Elvis Presley and Joan Blackman, Teri Garr, Brian Kelly and Flipper surface. Michael Almereyda makes a Skinningrove (his film on photographer Chris Killip) connection to a scene with Harrison Ford in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and remarks "it's called Escapes for a reason as almost every episode involves a near-death experience."
Hampton Fancher starred with Tina Sinatra in Michael Pfleghar's Romeo Und Julia 70
When do you think you know a person? What does this knowing entail? A face, a name, a voice,...
- 8/6/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Escape artist Matt Johnson tonight reveals the emotional reason behind his act, as he tries to pull the hood over Penn & Teller’s eyes on their hit series Fool Us. Johnson’s performance on The CW show sees him locked in a box full of water, with his hands cuffed and chains attached to his limbs. He has to escape before his body runs out of oxygen from the last gasp he takes before being locked in. But in an interview with producers Johnson, from Canada, reveals the reason he does his act is because he wants to know what his...read more...
- 8/3/2017
- by Julian Cheatle
- Monsters and Critics
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