Gabrielle Union

Atlas Literary is out with MAIDEN ROCK by Barbara Stepansky.

Good Fear Content is out with RELENTLESS by Brad Gann. Vernon Turner is recruited by Carson–Newman College’s head coach Ken Sparks to play running back.

A one night stand leads to a secret relationship between an African American woman and an Asian American man

Set against the antebellum South, The Birth of a Nation follows a literate slave and preacher, Nat Turner, whose financially strained owner, Samuel Turner, accepts an offer to use Nat’s preaching to subdue unruly slaves. As he witnesses countless atrocities, Nat orchestrates an uprising in the hopes of leading his people to freedom.

The festive story of a beloved patriarch who asks his family for one gift this holiday season: to get along. If they can honor that wish and spend five days under the same roof without killing one another, it will be a Christmas miracle.

Grand Jury Prizes and Audience Awards were handed out to the top films and three more big deals were made as the Sundance Film Festival of 2016 came to a close.

We’re halfway through Sundance and people are still buzzing about Daniel Radcliffe’s “farting corpse” movie. More importantly, studios are paying top dollar for the hottest movies playing at the festival — and The Birth of a Nation is one of them.

A Meyers Christmas has added Romany Malco to the cast of its holiday film. He joins Gabrielle union, Danny Glover, Mo-Nique, and Jessie T. Usher. David E. Talbert wrote the script and will be directing the holiday flick.

Logline: Pitched as Panic Room flipped on its head, story centers on a mother who must break into her own home to save her children from the home invaders who have taken them hostage.

Sleepless Night is a remake of the French film of the same title, directed by Frederic Jardin. Union joins Jamie Foxx and Michelle Monaghan in the story following an undercover cop that attempts to locate and retrieve his kidnapped son from a drug-dealing nightclub owner, after his his only bargaining chip is taken from him.

The New Line comedy follows a group of friends who pretend to be drug dealers in order to take back a stolen kitty. Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele of Comedy Central’s hit sketch comedy series Key & Peele will headline the film.

Centers around an estranged family that is forced to come together for their first Christmas since the death of the family matriarch.

Round up of this weeks TV sales, pick-ups, attachments, renewals & deals.

A popular comedian who wants to be taken seriously as an actor juggles his newly found sobriety with his reality TV star fiancee looking to stage their wedding for television.

Logline: A group of friends pose as drug dealers to infiltrate the criminal underworld, all to retrieve a stolen kitty.

A popular comedian who wants to be taken seriously as an actor juggles his newly found sobriety with his reality TV star fiancee looking to stage their wedding for television.

A Las Vegas wedding weekend is derailed when all the couples invited find themselves in compromising situations.

Logline: A popular comedian who wants to be taken seriously as an actor juggles his newly found sobriety with his reality TV star fiancee looking to stage their wedding for television.

An estranged father and son end up sharing the same vacation home with their girlfriends.

A recap of TV news for the day.

Logline: A Las Vegas wedding weekend is derailed when all the couples invited find themselves in compromising situations.

A daily recap of pilot and series castings!

Logline: An estranged father and son end up sharing the same vacation home with their girlfriends.

Logline: Centers on a father and son duo who accidentally end up in the same vacation home with their two girlfriends, with the father’s company practically the same age as his son.

Steve Harvey’s book adaptation finalizes cast!

Logline: Story centers on a successful entrepreneur who is set to be married, but finds himself falling for a down-on-her-luck single mother who rekindles a spark in him that seems to have faded with his uptown fiancee.

18 Shows adds 25 new cast members. Highlights including ABC adding some Big Love to fairytale drama Once Upon A Time, CBS asking for double duty on NCIS and Hail Mary, CW finding it’s female lead for their new zombie series, Fox finding Little In Common with a Union, and NBC overloads their Wonder Woman pilot, continues their Battlestar reunion on 17th Precinct, while also casting some key stars for Prime Suspect and a breakout role for Playboy.

Included inside: Once Upon A Time, The River, Work It, Untitled Rob Schneider Project, Untitled Colin Cowherd Story, NCIS, Hail Mary, CSI, Awakening, Weekends At Bellevue, Tagged, Little In Common, Wonder Woman, 17th Precinct, Prime Suspect, Playboy, Untitled Dan Goor Comedy, A Mann’s World

Logline: A consumer affairs representative, tired of dealing with irate customers, decides to play hooky one day and randomly calls a stranger with whom she begins to fall in love.

Logline: Follows the relationship between a dreamer with culinary talents and a high-powered advertising executive.