Exclusive: A remarkable, little known slice of Black American history is coming to light with Boley, an premium event series in development at Universal Television from writer Dianne Houston and producer Rudy Langlais.
Hailed as “television’s first premium Black western,” Boley is inspired by the e true story of an early 20th century black utopia, Boley, Oklahoma, which was established in 1904 as one of the largest and most thriving black towns in the country.
In 1930s Oklahoma, a group of proud Black citizens and businessmen took up arms against notorious gangster Pretty Boy Floyd and his band of outlaws to defend their community. Boley was a bourgeoning, prosperous town in the middle of the American Depression and its citizens were determined to protect what they had built. They were successful.
The rich legacy of this revolutionary all-Black town...
Hailed as “television’s first premium Black western,” Boley is inspired by the e true story of an early 20th century black utopia, Boley, Oklahoma, which was established in 1904 as one of the largest and most thriving black towns in the country.
In 1930s Oklahoma, a group of proud Black citizens and businessmen took up arms against notorious gangster Pretty Boy Floyd and his band of outlaws to defend their community. Boley was a bourgeoning, prosperous town in the middle of the American Depression and its citizens were determined to protect what they had built. They were successful.
The rich legacy of this revolutionary all-Black town...
- 10/4/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Rapper Snoop Dogg is set to release an illustrated children's book series.
The Signs hitmaker - real name Calvin Broadus - is reportedly in the process of creating the Where's The Cheese series of urban books.
Snoop is writing Where's The Cheese, which will be illustrated by his cousin Joe Cool, to help city youngsters cope with the problems that can arise in their environment.
The series will focus on a character called Lil Mouse and her constant quest for cheese, reports AllHipHop.com.
The website also claims an animated Where's The Cheese TV show is in development - which may be narrated by Snoop's daughter Cori 'Choc' Broadus.
Last month, Snoop announced his youth is to be turned into an animated series for America's Comedy Central cable TV network.
The Signs hitmaker - real name Calvin Broadus - is reportedly in the process of creating the Where's The Cheese series of urban books.
Snoop is writing Where's The Cheese, which will be illustrated by his cousin Joe Cool, to help city youngsters cope with the problems that can arise in their environment.
The series will focus on a character called Lil Mouse and her constant quest for cheese, reports AllHipHop.com.
The website also claims an animated Where's The Cheese TV show is in development - which may be narrated by Snoop's daughter Cori 'Choc' Broadus.
Last month, Snoop announced his youth is to be turned into an animated series for America's Comedy Central cable TV network.
- 4/11/2008
- WENN
Marion Cotillard, who was nominated for an Oscar for her star turn in La Vie en Rose, is in negotiations to join Johnny Depp and Christian Bale in Public Enemies, Universal's Depression-era crime drama being directed by Michael Mann.
An adaptation of Brian Burrough's book "Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-43," the story follows the government's attempt to stop the criminals John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd. Depp is playing Dillinger to Bale's famed FBI agent Melvin Purvis.
Cotillard will play Billie, Dillinger's torch singer girlfriend.
Mann, Ronan Bennett and Ann Biderman wrote the script.
Production is due to start later this winter in Chicago and other Midwest locales.
Mann and Kevin Misher are producing. Robert De Niro and his partner Jane Rosenthal, who originally optioned the book, are exec producing.
Enemies is not Cotillard's first English-language feature. The French actress has appeared in, among other English productions, A Good Year, with Russell Crowe.
Cotillard is repped by CAA.
An adaptation of Brian Burrough's book "Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-43," the story follows the government's attempt to stop the criminals John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd. Depp is playing Dillinger to Bale's famed FBI agent Melvin Purvis.
Cotillard will play Billie, Dillinger's torch singer girlfriend.
Mann, Ronan Bennett and Ann Biderman wrote the script.
Production is due to start later this winter in Chicago and other Midwest locales.
Mann and Kevin Misher are producing. Robert De Niro and his partner Jane Rosenthal, who originally optioned the book, are exec producing.
Enemies is not Cotillard's first English-language feature. The French actress has appeared in, among other English productions, A Good Year, with Russell Crowe.
Cotillard is repped by CAA.
- 1/27/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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