Antoine Fuqua
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 (...
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...
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...
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 (...
ZERO VFX is aptly named, reflecting a mantra which calls for effects to be “invisible,” according to visual effects supervisor Sean Devereaux who co-founded the studio with Brian Drewes nearly seven years ago. The latest prime example of this working philosophy being applied is The...
Deciding to remake "The Magnificent Seven " with a fresh batch of movie stars is certainly no sin. John Sturges' 1960 tome, itself a remake of Akira Kurosawa's classic "Seven Samurai," is a fun confection of star power and charismatic bravado, sure, but held in such high esteem probably more...