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RaMell Ross's Nickel Boys will be the opening-night film of the 62nd New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall on September 27, the fest’s parent organization, Film at Lincoln Center, revealed Monday. The adaptation of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel stars Ethan Herisse and Brandon…

TITLE: Exhibiting ForgivenessSection: U.S. Dramatic CompetitionDirector/Screenwriter: Titus KapharLogline: Utilizing his paintings to find freedom from his past, Tarrell (André Holland), a Black artist well on the path to success, is derailed by an unexpected visit from his estranged father La'Ron (John…

Exhibiting Forgiveness, directed and written by Titus Kaphar, is a thought-provoking film starring André Holland, John Earl Jelks, Andra Day, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and Ian Foreman. Set against a backdrop of familial struggle and personal demons, Kaphar’s film navigates the complexities of forgiveness…

Titus Kaphar’s Exhibiting Forgiveness premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday. “Some things can’t be worked out on canvas,” Andra Day says to André Holland in the drama, but some things can come alive on-screen and off-screen. That certainly proved true now at the Sundance Film…

EXCLUSIVE: Angelina Jolie is getting into this year’s Oscar race. As AMPAS voting enters its final days, the Academy Award winner today threw her support behind Ava DuVernay's Origin in what looks to be doubling down by any other name. First of all, Jolie held an invite-only get together at her…

Welcome to the Scene 2 Seen Podcast. I am Valerie Complex, an associate editor and film writer at Deadline. As schedules go, they could not record together, so we're having another double episode today, but this time with Origin director Ava DuVernay and the film's star Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. O…

EXCLUSIVE: "This is a beautiful piece of art that I had no idea was going to resonate so deeply with me," Regina King declared at last night's overflowing tastemaker screening of Ava DuVernay's Origin. "It's a film about connectivity," the Oscar winner added to the heavy hitter crowd. "I believe this is a…

EXCLUSIVE: Ava DuVernay is handing out a big screen holiday gift on Christmas Day, but you can get a sneak peek right now. The Oscar nominated filmmaker will be holding special presentations of her acclaimed Origin for Guild members on December 25. The screenings will be held on the West Coat at the…

Deadline's Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year's most talked-about scripts continues with the ambitious Ava DuVernay-directed drama Origin, with the script also written by DuVernay inspired by Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson's groundbreaking book Caste: The Origin of Our…

Neon has released the official trailer for Origin, Ava DuVernay’s ambitious adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson’s Pulitzer-winning book Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents, focusing the drama on Wilkerson and her book’s own origin story. Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor stars as the author in the pic, which hits…