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While he’s never been busier, David Oyelowo has delivered a career’s worth of terrific performances going back to his work as the empathetic agent Danny Hunter in the British series MI5: Spooks. Oyelowo, whose turns include playing Martin Luther King Jr in the Ava DuVernay-directed Selma, just got a…

EXCLUSIVE: The Book of Clarence, the Legendary and Jay Z-produced adventure-comedy, won’t be released in UK cinemas this week as planned.  The biblical epic has quietly dropped off the UK release schedule at the eleventh hour after initially being lined up for a January 19 release by Sony. UK…

LaKeith Stanfield stars in his second straight film with The Harder They Fall writer/director Jeymes Samuel. He moves from an old West gunslinger to a false prophet who finds faith in the days of Jesus Christ in The Book of Clarence, the Legendary Entertainment film just released by Columbia Pictures. The…

Exhibitors are lighting candles and saying prayers that Paramount’s feature musical redux Mean Girls carries them big-time throughout January after a dry spell caused by the double strikes. Ya see, for the next three weeks following Mean Girls, there isn’t a major studio wide release until Apple Original…

Jeymes Samuel was intent on putting a "hood" vibe into his Biblical epic The Book of Clarence starring LaKeith Stanfield as the eponymous Clarence, a local lad in the Holy Land who gets by dealing weed and holding chariot races against a no-nonsense Mary Magdalene. Clarence soon sees an opening to make…

It's not every day that a filmmaker will rise up during an interview and recite Old Testament tales and sing out their favorite hymn. Well, hallelujah, brother Jeymes Samuel for spreading the gospel's good news. The director's spectacular Jesus in the hood movie, The Book of Clarence, starring a…

Deadline Contenders Film returned to London to be the host of an event that would spotlight 13 of the buzziest movies of the year. The lineup included Ridley Scott, Emerald Fennell, Todd Haynes and Michael Mann. Panels at the event taking place at London’s Ham Yard Hotel included Scott’s Napoleon, Fennell's Saltburn…

"I wanted to tell a story about the environment that I grew up in but based in the biblical era and merge the two," Jeymes Samuel told Deadline's Baz Bamigboye of the idea behind his latest pic, The Book of Clarence, at London Contenders.  Starring LaKeith Stanfield, David Oyelowo, and Benedict…

Tristar/Legendary has dropped the first trailer for Jeymes Samuel's biblical-times feature The Book of Clarence. “I’m Clarence. I’m not a man without faults. I played the cards I was dealt.” So says LaKeith Stanfield’s title character at the beginning of the trailer. Stanfield’s streetwise but…

UPDATED with more details: Sony Pictures said Wednesday that it has removed from its release date schedule El Muerto, the Bad Bunny-starring Spider-Man spinoff movie being directed by Jonas Cuarón. The Columbia Pictures film is set to be the first time a Latino character leads a Marvel live-action…

Sony has just dated Jeymes Samuel’s biblical-times feature The Book of Clarence for September 22 this year. Inspired by classic Hollywood epics set in biblical times, Legendary’s The Book of Clarence tells the tale of Clarence (LaKeith Stanfield), a down-on-his-luck denizen of Jerusalem embarking on…

EXCLUSIVE: Following the critical acclaim of his Netflix western The Harder They Fall, Jeymes Samuel’s follow-up, The Book of Clarence, has gained momentum with a new producing partner and two major stars to lead the ensemble. Sources tell Deadline that Legendary has acquired the BAFTA Award winner’s next…