TAKING FLIGHT: THE STORY BEHIND WAR EPIC ‘DEVOTION’ AND ITS LITTLE-KNOWN AMERICAN HEROES
By Andreas Wiseman February 1, 2021 7:36am Five years ago, filmmaker J.D. Dillard launched his debut movie, the low-budget sci-fi-thriller Sleight, at the Sundance Film Festival. Five years before that, he had been working on the reception desk at Bad Robot. Dillard’s star has been on the rise ever-since and today the 32-year old filmmaker... Read More
‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ AERIAL DUO AMONG CREW SET FOR FIGHTER PILOT PIC ‘DEVOTION’
By Andreas Wiseman January 21, 2021 8:15am EXCLUSIVE: Top Gun: Maverick aerial DoP Michael FitzMaurice and Aerial Coordinator/Helicopter Camera Pilot Kevin LaRosa Jr are among the crew aboard for fighter pilot movie Devotion, which gets underway next month in Savannah, Georgia. Sought after pilot LaRosa has worked on a string of blockbusters including Spider Man:... Read More
JOE JONAS & THOMAS SADOSKI JOIN BIG-BUDGET WAR MOVIE ‘DEVOTION’ ALONGSIDE JONATHAN MAJORS, GLEN POWELL & CHRISTINA JACKSON
By Andreas Wiseman January 12, 2021 11:15am EXCLUSIVE: Here’s some hot casting. Joe Jonas and Thomas Sadoski (John Wick) are joining the cast of big-budget war movie Devotion, which is due to get underway next month in the state of Georgia. We brought you news earlier today that The Good Fight and Outsiders actress Christina... Read More
‘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