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NO SUDDEN MOVE Begins Covid-Regulated Shoot For HBO Max

Beholden to strict Covid-19 protocols, production is officially underway in Detroit for No Sudden Move, a new heist thriller from HBO Max and Warner Bros. Pictures. Oscar and Emmy-winner Steven Soderbergh (Oceans Trilogy, Haywire) is directing from a script by Ed Solomon (Mosaic, Men in Black), with Casey Silver (Mosaic, Godless) attached to produce. No Sudden Move is set in 1955 Detroit, and centers on a group of small-time criminals who are hired to steal what they think is a simple document. When their plan goes horribly wrong, their search for who hired them – and for what ultimate purpose – weaves them through all echelons of the race-torn, rapidly changing city. The ensemble cast is led by Don Cheadle (Black Monday, Ocean’s Eleven), Benicio Del Toro (The French Dispatch, Sicario), David Harbour (Stranger Things, Black Widow), Amy Seimetz (The Comey Rule, The Girlfriend Experience), Jon Hamm (Baby Driver, Mad […]

Don Cheadle and Myka Price for Radicle Act

AMARI AND THE NIGHT BROTHERS: Don Cheadle Launches Radicle Act, Partners With Producers For Upcoming Book Adaptation

Lee B. Golden III

Actor Don Cheadle is launching Radicle Act as of Thursday coinciding with the current development of feature adaptation, Amari and the Night Brothers with Universal Pictures. The move marks Cheadles latest partnership with Industrial Media per their first look deal, and with Radicle also adding Myka Price to the station of SVP and Head of Development. Developments surrounding the adaptation of the novel began around the tail end of May when word broke that Universal nabbed the rights. Cheadle will produce via his banner alongside Madeville Films’ Todd and David Hoberman (Beauty and the Beast, Wonder), and Marsai Martin (Black-ish) and Josh Martin of Genius Productions. Debut author B.B. Alston is penning the forthcoming novel billed as a contemporary fantasy about a middle-school age black girl who sets off on a journey during which she awakens her hidden powers. According to Borys Kit at THR, HarperCollins imprint, Balzer + Bray, […]

Review: MILES AHEAD (2016) Is Chromatic Testimony Of Life, Love, Turmoil And Groove

Lee B. Golden III

There is an old rumor that Ernest Hemingway could only write when he was in love, and that each of his books represents his love for one woman. It’s a nice story, if even only a reverie, and it came to mind while watching Miles Ahead, Don Cheadle’s directorial debut of the Miles Davis biopic. The short-lived love affair and marriage that Miles Davis had with Francis Taylor is a referential centerpiece of the film, and is presented as being inexorable to the reason for the jazz musician’s five year hiatus from music, during which he spiraled into drugs and reclusiveness, earning him a historical association with the eccentricities that characterized even Howard Hughes. Cheadle co-wrote Miles Ahead with Steven Baigelman, Stephen J. Rivele, and Christopher Wilkinson. It is based on the life of the great jazz musician, and the story is told in free form and flashback -as if, […]