Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023

Filmmaker Antoine Fuqua has been dreaming about taking the Equalizer abroad for years. The action franchise (very loosely based on a 1980s television series) starring Denzel Washington as the reluctant assassin Robert McCall had rooted itself in humble domestic beginnings, in Boston. But after...

Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023

There's an awful lot of talk about the end of movie stars considering Denzel Washington is right over here, walking around.

Antoine Fuqua's "Equalizer 3," a taut and textured sequel to Washington's vigilante series, isn't one of the actor's best films. It wouldn't crack his top 10. But it...

Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022

While filming "Emancipation," Will Smith routinely drew inspiration from the words "sacred motivation" that were written on the front page of a script. But the Oscar winner heavily leaned on the phrase even more in recent months, as he tried to overcome the backlash to his Oscars slap and...

Saturday, Dec. 3, 2022

It comes as some relief that Antoine Fuqua's "Emancipation," starring Will Smith as a runaway slave in Civil War-era Louisiana, is not, at least traditionally speaking, an Oscar movie.

Despite the film's important historical backdrop, its awards-season timing and its inevitable connection...

Monday, Oct. 3, 2022

After holding it in limbo following Will Smith's slap of Chris Rock at the Academy Awards in March, Apple will release the actor's next big project, "Emancipation," this December.

In the fallout of Smith's smack of the comedian, the fate of "Emancipation" — a $120 million runaway slave...

Tuesday, Jun. 28, 2022

Chris Pratt portrays a Navy SEAL in his new Amazon series " The Terminal List, " and is surrounded on camera and behind-the-scenes by former members of the U.S. military.

In the 2013 movie "Zero Dark Thirty," Pratt played one of the Navy SEALs who helped kill Osama Bin Laden." For that...

Tuesday, Sep. 21, 2021

Jake Gyllenhaal was driving when a COVID-19 supervisor called and told him to pull the car over.

This was in November 2020, when U.S. cases were skyrocketing and Gyllenhaal was days away from starting shooting on "The Guilty,"  a thriller about a demoted Los Angeles police detective (...

Monday, Apr. 12, 2021

Will Smith and director Antoine Fuqua have pulled production of their runaway slave drama "Emancipation" from Georgia over the state's recently enacted law restricting voting access. 

The film is the largest and most high profile Hollywood production to depart the state since Georgia's...

Wednesday, Jul. 18, 2018

You won't usually find Denzel Washington in a movie sequel. He just doesn't do them. Something about not wanting to repeat himself. So there must be something special indeed for him to break his own rule for "The Equalizer 2."

Fans of the first film will instantly know why Washington is...

Friday, Jan. 27, 2017

Walmart has secured feature filmmakers to direct three :60s that will run during commercial breaks of the Feb. 26th Oscar telecast on ABC. Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, The Equalizer, last year’s The Magnificent Seven) is set to direct one of the ads, as are Marc Forster (...

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