‘DEVOTION’: CHRISTINA JACKSON CAST AS FEMALE LEAD IN BIG-BUDGET WAR MOVIE FROM ‘SICARIO’ & ‘LA LA LAND’ BACKERS BLACK LABEL
By Andreas Wiseman January 12, 2021 8:36am EXCLUSIVE: The Good Fight and Outsiders actress Christina Jackson has been cast as the female lead in big-budget war movie Devotion, which is due to get underway next month in the state of Georgia. Sony pre-bought domestic last fall on JD Dillard’s (Sweetheart) Korean war pic, which will... Read More
BENICIO DEL TORO WILL EXECUTIVE PRODUCE, STAR IN ‘REPTILE,’ DIRECTORIAL DEBUT FROM MUSIC VIDEO HELMER GRANT SINGER
By Matt Donnelly Benicio Del Toro has joined the feature film “Reptile” as star and executive producer, Variety has learned exclusively. The Black Label Media project will also mark the feature directorial debut of Grant Singer, the prolific music video director whose collaborators include The Weeknd and Taylor Swift. Del Toro will play Nichols, a hardened New England detective unflinching... Read More
SONY PRE-BUYS DOMESTIC ON KOREAN WAR PIC ‘DEVOTION’ WITH JONATHAN MAJORS & GLEN POWELL, STX BOARDS INT’L
By Andreas Wiseman International Editor September 4, 2020 10:00am Sony has pre-bought domestic on JD Dillard’s (Sweetheart) Korean war pic Devotion, which is set to star Jonathan Majors (Da 5 Bloods) and Glen Powell (Top Gun: Maverick). STX has come aboard for international sales ahead of the TIFF market and will distribute in UK and... Read More
GUNPOWDER & SKY’S DUST, JOHN DAVIS, BLACK LABEL MEDIA DEVELOPING FEATURE BASED ON KOREAN SHORT ‘TIME AGENT,’ JOHN WICK’S DEREK KOLSTAD TO WRITE
By Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/Reporter August 18, 2020 9:00am Gunpowder & Sky’s sci-fi label Dust is teaming with producer John Davis (Predator franchise, the upcoming Jungle Cruise) and Black Label Media (La La Land, Sicario) to develop time-hopping action pic Time Agent. John Wick scribe Derek Kolstad is set to write the feature based on the Korean short film The Time Agent from writer/director Jude Chun, which was previously... Read More
ALCON ENTERTAINMENT PICKS UP FILM RIGHTS TO ‘P.S. I LOVE YOU’ FOLLOW-UP NOVEL ‘POSTSCRIPT’
By Amanda N’Duka February 11, 2020 9:56am Alcon Entertainment has secured all filmed entertainment rights to Postscript, the recently released follow-up to Cecelia Ahern’s 2004 debut novel P.S. I Love You. The Blind Side production company will co-finance and co-produce the feature adaptation along with Black Label Media. Alcon produced and financed the 2007 film adaptation of P.S. I Love You, which starred... Read More
J.D. DILLARD TO HELM BLACK LABEL MEDIA’S KOREAN WAR EPIC ‘DEVOTION’ STARRING GLEN POWELL
By Justin Kroll J.D. Dillard has signed on to helm Korean War epic “Devotion,” starring “Top Gun: Maverick” actor Glen Powell, sources tell Variety. The film, from Black Label Media, is an aerial war epic that tells the harrowing true story of two elite U.S. Navy fighter pilots, Tom Hudner and Jesse L. Brown, during the Korean War.... Read More
BLACK LABEL MEDIA EXPANDING INTO PODCASTS WITH BLEAV DEAL
By Patrick Hipes June 27, 2019 EXCLUSIVE: Black Label Media said Thursday that its newly formed Black Label Ventures has struck an equity partnership with the Bleav Podcast Network, a move that will give the La La Land producer a branded platform to produce original podcast content. It marks the latest move for Black Label, whose recent films include Sierra Burgess... Read More
SHANNON PURSER IS A RELATABLE TEEN HEROINE IN FIRST SIERRA BURGESS IS A LOSER TRAILER
‘OUR PHYSICAL APPEARANCES DO NOT DEFINE US,’ PURSER TELLS MTV NEWS OF HER FIRST LEADING ROLE BY CRYSTAL BELL In Sierra Burgess Is a Loser, a high school band geek (played by Stranger Things breakout Shannon Purser) falls in love with a popular jock (Noah Centineo) via text messages and phone calls. Sounds like your... Read More
BENICIO DEL TORO AND JOSH BROLIN GO TO WAR IN SICARIO: DAY OF THE SOLDADO TRAILER
DEREK LAWRENCE March 19, 2018 AT 09:28 PM EDT Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro are preparing for all-out war. With Emily Blunt not returning for the follow-up to 2015’s Sicario, the two actors take the spotlight in the latest trailer for Sicario: Day of the Soldado. In the upcoming sequel, Brolin’s Matt Graver has... Read More
TRUE KOREAN WAR FIGHTER PILOT STORY ‘DEVOTIOIN’ SET AT BLACK LABEL WITH GLEN POWELL TO STAR
By Patrick Hipes March 7, 2018 11:24am EXCLUSIVE: Black Label Media has optioned rights to Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice, and will make a film about the true story at the center of Adam Makos’ 2015 book about two Korean War Navy pilots — one from an affluent white New England... Read More