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Angelique Jackson Floyd Mayweather Jr. is set to chronicle his life and career as a champion boxer through a new docuseries, titled “The GOAT,” after inking a life-rights deal with Hidden Empire Films’ Deon Taylor and Roxanne Avent Taylor. “Now is the perfect time to share my story with the world and let viewers in on my journey from early days of hardships to overcoming adversity to become the athlete and entrepreneur I am today,” Mayweather said in a statement announcing the deal. “As someone who owns his own brand, I can’t think of better partners than Deon, Roxanne, Robert F. Smith — the wealthiest African American in the world — and Hidden Empire Films, a prolific Black-owned production company. This is going to be incredibly special!”

Jonathan Majors has made his first public appearance at an industry event after being found guilty of reckless assault and harassment. The Lovecraft Country alum attended the 7th Annual AAFCA Special Achievement Awards luncheon with Meagan Good.

Angelique Jackson On Friday night, Oprah Winfrey hosted a swanky celebration for “Lawmen: Bass Reeves” executive producer and star David Oyelowo at the Sunset Tower Hotel in West Hollywood. Photographers lined the driveway of the iconic hotel while a who’s who of Hollywood — including Gayle King, Lupita Nyong’o, Niecy Nash-Betts and the cast of the hit Paramount+ series — posed in front of a black and gold backdrop. Inside the luxurious venue, even more stars — like Macro chief Charles D.

Angelique Jackson The African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) has teamed with independent film producers Roxanne and Deon Taylor to host a special Halloween screening of “Blacula,” commemorating the 1970s Blaxploitation classic’s 50th anniversary. The screening will be held on Oct. 24 at the Fine Arts Theater in Beverly Hills, with the vampire classic shown in its original 35mm format.

Even on a specialty level, horror just works post-pandemic with the latest pop from a strong showing by a trio of films, Fear and Infinity Pool, released this weekend, and Skinamarink in week three.

Neon and Topic Studios present writer/director Brandon Cronenberg’s Infinity Pool at 1,835 theaters in a lively specialty weekend sandwiched between a new crop of Sundance films and noteworthy expansions in the glow of Oscar nominations.

EXCLUSIVE: The Hideaway Entertainment has promoted Kristy Grisham to SVP of Development and Production, upping Ryan Cassells to Director of Development and Production, and tapping Jennifer Cox as Creative Executive. The company’s expansion reflects a recent initiative to ramp up their slate by buying and optioning books, screenplays, life rights and other IP in all stages of development.

EXCLUSIVE: Deon Taylor and Roxanne Avent Taylor’s Hidden Empire Film Group is partnering with actor, comedian and digital content creator Andrew “King Bach” Bachelor to develop a scripted series chronicling his rise to fame on social media amid mainstream entertainment aspirations.

EXCLUSIVE: Derek Nguyen, the award-winning writer, director and producer behind horror-romance The Housemaid (Cô Hầu Gái), has signed with Cinetic Media for management.

EXCLUSIVE: Deon Taylor and Roxanne Avent Taylor’s Hidden Empire Film Group (Black and Blue, The Intruder) has kicked off development on a new scripted series centered on Percy Miller, the hip-hop mogul otherwise known as Master P, which will chart his journey from childhood through to the heights of his success in the music business

Hidden Empire Film Group’s comedy/horror romp The House Next Door: Meet the Blacks 2 scared up a $1.064M opening weekend (per screen average of $2,533) with writer-director Deon Taylor and his team huddling right now over where and how much to expand the run — but expand it they will. Taylor’s thrilled with the $$ although he and others in the indie space acknowledged Sunday that ongoing distancing restrictions in key New York and LA is a major bummer.

If you didn’t Meet The Blacks in 2016, they’re back this weekend in Deon Taylor’s second horror-comedy installment.

Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson has come aboard to star in and executive produce Free Agents, a sports heist thriller that Deon Taylor will direct for Lionsgate. Taylor wrote the script with Joe Bockol and came up with the story.

Hidden Empire Film Group — the film and TV production entity run by filmmaker Deon Taylor, Roxanne Avent and billionaire businessman Robert F. Smith — has brought industry veteran Quincy Newell on board as chief operating officer.

Also Read: 'The Boys' Gets Early Season 3 Renewal From Amazon, Sets Aisha Tyler-Hosted Aftershow“Silent John” is a production of Hidden Empire Film Group. Tyler developed the film along with John Doherty and David Jacobson.

recently interviewed former NBA player Matt Barnes for my show The Rematch, where he discussed meeting with Joe Biden before November’s presidential election.

Also Read: Barack Obama Honors John Lewis as 'Founding Father' of a 'Fuller, Fairer, Better America' (Video)Taylor said in a statement: “John Lewis once said, ‘You are a light. You are the light! Never let anyone — any person or any force — dampen, dim or diminish your light… Release the need to hate, to harbor division and the enticement of revenge.

EXCLUSIVE: Deon Taylor is set to direct Freedom Ride, a period drama that will be produced by The Hideaway Entertainment’s Matthew Rhodes (Cherry), INDE Companies’ Kim Leadford (The Butler), Mark R. Harris (Crash) and Hidden Empire Film Group’s Roxanne Avent Taylor (Fatale).

Dennis Harvey Film CriticOffering melodramatic thrills very much in the “Fatal Attraction” mode, “Fatale” presents Michael Ealy as a married L.A.

Also Read: Deon Taylor to Direct Remake of Vietnamese Horror Film 'The Housemaid'David Prior directs the film based on a screenplay he wrote based on Cullen Bunn’s graphic novel.

South Korea's CJ Entertainment, best known as the studio behind Bong Joon-ho's Oscar winner Parasite, has signed Deon Taylor (The Intruder, Black and Blue, Traffik) to direct the upcoming gothic thriller Grave Hill, the company’s English-language remake of the hit Vietnamese horror film The Housemaid.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefDeon Taylor (“The Intruder,” “Black and Blue”) is to direct the horror-thriller “Grave Hill” for CJ Entertainment, the Korean studio behind Oscar winner “Parasite.” The film is an English-language remake of the hit Vietnamese horror film “The Housemaid.”The original romance-horror “Housemaid,” which premiered in the U.S. in 2017, explores racial and social themes.

Also Read: Kevin Hart to Remake Korean Box Office Hit 'Extreme Job' at UniversalCJ Entertainment, which financed and produced “The Housemaid,” is also financing, developing and producing the new English language remake “Grave Hill.” The film’s executive producers are CJ Group vice chairwoman Miky Lee, CJ Entertainment’s Jinnie Choi and Jerry Ko along with Hidden Empire’s Roxanne Taylor and Motor’s Sean Sorensen.The film’s producers are Don Handfield through his Motor production banner, Timothy

Andreas Wiseman International EditorParasite producer CJ Entertainment has tapped Black And Blue and Traffik filmmaker Deon Taylor to direct gothic horror-thriller Grave Hill, the company’s English-language remake of the hit Vietnamese horror film The Housemaid.As we previously revealed, Oscar-winner Geoffrey Fletcher (Precious) wrote the adapted screenplay with Derek Nguyen, writer-director of 2016 film The Housemade, which explores racial and social themes through a genre lens.

Lionsgate is pushing back the release of the star-driven titles Fatale and Voyagers from this fall to 2021 amid the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic. The studio has moved Fatale, the Hilary Swank and Michael Ealy-starring noir thriller from The Intruder director Deon Taylor, to next year, likely in the first quarter of 2021.

The Hollyshorts Film Festival is the latest cinephile gathering to head online amid the coronavirus pandemic as around 300 titles will screen virtually as part of its 2020 edition on Bitpix in November.

Kim Kardashian West, Chelsea Handler and Maxine Waters are encouraging you to vote! In a video released Friday as part of Deon and Roxanne Taylor’s BE WOKE.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorLike many, filmmaker Deon Taylor has been stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic. And like many, he’s been itching to get back to production.Inspired by quarantine and lockdown, Taylor told his wife, producer Roxanne Avent Taylor, he was going to make a film.

By Anthony D'Alessandro

Naomie Harris shines in this otherwise run of the mill, though occasionally enjoyable corrupt police drama/thriller from Deon Taylor (The Intruder).