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Hollywood star Denzel Washington is set to play Hannibal in a new film. The 68-year-old Hollywood legend will reunite with Antoine Fuqua - who directed him in 2001 movie `Training Day`, for which Washington won an Oscar. He will also produce the film alongside Fuqua, Erik Olsen and Adam Goldworm, according to Deadline. John Logan will pen the script, and Jeremy Lott and Frank Rodriguez Moll are to executive produce the movie, reports ‘Female First UK’. Hannibal commanded the forces of Carthage in their…

Director Antoine Fuqua will helm the upcoming biopic film, Michael, based on the life of Michael Jackson from Lionsgate. Set to begin principal photography in 2023, the movie will be produced by Graham King, Oscar winner for The Departed (2006), and three-time nominee for The Aviator (2004), Hugo (2011) and Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), which won four Oscars, including best actor for Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury. Antoine Fuqua Written by Skyfall scribe John Logan, Michael is said to give audiences the never-before-told…

Michael Jackson Biopic: The life of the world-famous and our all-time favourite pop singer, songwriter, and dancer Michael Jackson is soon going to be made into a film. Tentatively titled as ‘Michael’, the biopic will be helmed by Training Day (2001), fame director Antoine Fuqua and will be produced by Graham King, who is well known for his work like The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), Hugo (2011), and Bohemian Rhapsody (2018). John Logan, who wrote the scripts Gladiator (2001) and The Aviator (2004) has also…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAntoine Fuqua was just a child when he was shot on the streets of Pittsburgh. But the memory is spectacularly vivid. “I was 15,” says the 56-year-old director of the Oscar-winning Training Day. “I remember running through an alleyway and I remember it raining and I remember hearing a voice say ‘run’. I don’t know where it came from. But I remember every detail of those moments. Every…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeDirector Antoine Fuqua has shared his hope that audiences can move on from Will Smith’s Oscars slap.Fuqua, whose previous films include Training Day and The Equalizer, is set to release his latest movie Emancipation next month. Set in Louisiana in the late 19th century, the film features Smith as a man named Peter who goes on a gruelling journey to freedom after escaping his…

It’s been a little over four years since The Equalizer 2 came out, and for a long portion of that period, it was unclear if we’d ever see Denzel Washington play Robert McCall again. Then in January 2022, Washington revealed that The Equalizer 3 was moving forward. 10 months later, the threequel has begun filming, so naturally Washington and the rest of the cast and crew needed to commemorate the occasion.Sony Pictures announced that The Equalizer 3 has begun principal photography on the Amalfi Coast in Italy, and Denzel…

Antoine Fuqua and Denzel Washington have been a profitable duo in Hollywood for almost two decades. Most of their team-ups have been huge successes, from Training Day to the Equalizer franchise. But at one point, Fuqua was a music video director-turned-feature director just starting to make waves in the film industry. The then-rising movie director’s style caught the attention of Washington, leading to them working on the Oscar-nominated Training Day. And the Training Day director spoke recently about the moment he knew…