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02/01/2024 JuVee Productions, the banner headed by Viola Davis and Julius Tennon, is branching into animation with a partnership that will see the Woman King shingle produce a slate of afro-anime films. JuVee is partnering with N LITE, a Black and Japanese-led media company and anime studio, on animated films that will focus on Black and afro-indigenous stories.
01/22/2024 Amazon MGM Studios and MRC have rounded out a star-studded cast for their action thriller G20, produced by and starring Viola Davis, which has resumed production. In addition to Anthony Anderson (black-ish), who is coming off of hosting a well-received Emmys ceremony, the list includes Marsai Martin (black-ish), Ramón Rodríguez (Will Trent), Antony Starr (The Boys)
10/16/2023 The Critics Choice Association (CCA) has announced the nominees for the Eighth Annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards (CCDA). The winners will be revealed at a Gala Event on Sunday, November 12, 2023 at The Edison Ballroom in Manhattan.
10/11/2023 The latest documentary from director Raoul Peck (“I Am Not Your Negro”) is “Silver Dollar Road,” available on Prime Video this Friday and playing at this week’s Chicago International Film Festival. Peck’s new film documents the struggles of a Black family against developers trying to take their land on the coast of North Carolina that they’ve lived on for generations.
9/28/2023 In “Silver Dollar Road,” documentarian Raoul Peck foregrounds two resolute women, Mamie Reels Ellison and Kim Renee Duhon — the heir of a deceased landowner and her niece — to tell a story of familial grit, land grabs and the failings, if not the outright biases, of the courts.
9/8/2023 The feature-length documentary “Silver Dollar Road,” directed by Oscar-nominated Raoul Peck, is premiering today at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival. The film is based on Lizzie Presser’s award-winning reporting for ProPublica and The New Yorker on Black land loss and the taking of heirs’ property in the South. Co-produced by Velvet Film, ProPublica, JuVee Productions and Amazon MGM Studios, it will be in theaters in New York City and Los Angeles on Oct. 13 and on Prime Video on Oct. 20.
07/31/2023 Viola Davis is stepping away from producing “G20,” announcing the decision in a statement signaling support for Hollywood’s ongoing strikes.
06/08/2023 Viola Davis secures a Best Actress nomination, while The Woman King earns a nod for Best Movie at the BET Awards.
5/31/2023 Meet the creative and business changemakers — including Viola Davis, Julius Tennon and Gina Prince-Bythewood — who are continuing to push the industry to be inclusive onscreen and off.
05/30/2023 Ashé Audio Ventures, the newly created podcast label from Viola Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions and Maurício and Katie Mota’s Wise Entertainment, has reached an exclusive multi-project deal with Audible.
05/18/2023 The Inclusion List, courtesy of Dr. L Stacy Smith and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative in collaboration with the Adobe Foundation, will show the world who is doing best in terms of representation in theatrically released movies.
05/2/2023 Viola and Julius graced the Met Gala this year, which paid homage to the late designer through its theme, “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty.
05/2/2023 The story of Nike’s groundbreaking deal with Michael Jordan, starring Viola and Julius as the Jordans, will be released on Amazon Prime Video May 12.
04/28/2023 The Webby Awards recognized JuVee’s collaborative effort with Verizon and 3dar in creating a musical AR experience, awarding it in the Metaverse, Immersive & Virtual: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion category. The project was also a finalist in the Augmented Reality category.
04/27/2023 Viola stars as Dr. Volumnia Gaul in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, scheduled for a November 2023 premiere.
04/26/2023 Viola received the prestigious Chaplin Award at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in NYC. Presenters included Meryl Streep, Jessica Chastain, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Steve McQueen, and many others.
04/9/2023 Viola’s memoir, which has recently been released in paperback, has earned a spot on the New York Times’ bestsellers list for nonfiction in paperback format.
03/13/2023 Activist Maya Penn has revealed the trailer and cast for her upcoming directorial debut, “Asali: Power of the Pollinators.” Penn dropped the trailer at South By Southwest during the Empowering the Next Generation to Build a Better Future featured session. “Asali: Power of The Pollinators,” is an animated action-adventure short film that follows honey bee Asali after she meets a group of pollinators and a human environmental scientist. The unlikely group slowly saves Asali, her family and their home from a deadly monstrous force.
03/06/2023 TriStar Pictures film “The Woman King” has been given official permission to release in cinemas in mainland China. It is expected to debut on April 14. The Viola Davis-starring action drama film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September last year and went into U.S. and international commercial release shortly after.
02/05/2023 Viola Davis is officially an EGOT winner! The actress, 57, claimed the coveted title — which also requires an Academy Award, Emmy Award and Tony Award — as she won best audiobook, narration & storytelling recording for her memoir Finding Me on Sunday at the 65th Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony.”Oh my God! I wrote this book to honor the 6-year-old Viola, to honor her life, her joy, her trauma, everything,” Davis began in her acceptance speech. “And it has just been such a journey.
01/23/2023 Viola Davis and her husband Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions have signed off on a two-year first-look television and media deal with eOne Entertainment. The arrangement comes off the major box office success of “The Woman King,” which eOne co-financed and distributed in the United Kingdom.
01/05/2023 The walls of the conjoined living and dining rooms in the Los Angeles home of actor-producers Viola Davis and Julius Tennon are wrapped in Barnaba Fornasetti’s cloud wallpaper. Ever popular among aesthetes and design cognoscenti, the beloved pattern is paradoxical, simultaneously suggesting tranquility and turbulence. From a distance, the cloudscape appears pillowy and dreamlike, an effect buoyed by its subtle grisaille palette. Upon closer inspection, the sky scene takes a blustery turn. Somehow, the pattern manages to capture seemingly contradictory illusions—the tempest itself and the calm, quiet eye at the center of the storm.
12/28/2022 Get Viola Davis and Julius Tennon talking about how they found each other and the conversation instantly turns into one of those couples interviews you see in “When Harry Met Sally,” with the husband and wife finishing each other’s sentences while making sure that the details are relayed just so.
12/16/2022 The story of the real-life female warriors who protected an African kingdom is now a major box-office hit. Director Gina Prince‑Bythewood tells Jeremy Kay why The Woman King is everything she had always wanted to do.
12/03/2022 Viola Davis in “The Woman King.
12/12/2022 The 57-year-old actress hit the red carpet with her 68-year-old husband Julius Tennon and their 12-year-old daughter Genesis at the Public Counsel’s Annual William O. Douglas Award Dinner on Sunday night.
11/08/2022 Davis will also produce the Prime Video release via her JuVee Productions banner.
10/19/2022 Viola Davis is set to executive produce climate activist Maya Penn’s original animated short, “Asali: Power of the Pollinators..
9/28/2022 There’s a quote often attributed to Winston Churchill that asserts history is written by the victors.
9/9/2022 “I want to do for young Black girls what Miss Tyson did for me when I was 7 years old,” said Davis after the film’s screening at Roy Thomson Hall
6/11/2022 JuVee Productions CEO Viola Davis and her husband, JuVee President Julius Tennon, said the entertainment industry must become a kinder workplace.
6/10/2022 Ben Affleck’s untitled Nike drama for Amazon Studios, Skydance Sports and Mandalay Pictures has assembled a stellar cast
5/22/2022 Yolonda Brinkley, creator of Diversity in Cannes, the independent global film movement promoting inclusion at the Cannes Film Festival, is pleased to announce her return to the Croisette, for the 13th year, with Diversity Days
4/28/2022 The 2022 Tribeca Festival has set its lineup for Tribeca Immersive, a global stage for innovation where top creators debut their latest work.
4/21/2022 Discovery+ is set to launch a new docuseries focused on Black food history in America from producer Viola Davis, featuring scholar and cookbook author Caroline Randall Williams as host, Variety has learned exclusively.
4/05/2022 ‘Lucid,’ which is in early development, will combine a whimsical, whodunit narrative with puzzle-solving gameplay elements.
3/26/2022 April is the kindest month, the season when novels spring forth from the richest literary soil. Beloved novelists return to push their particular talents in bold new directions (and one, Ocean Vuong, returns to poetry).
3/16/2022 The film now in production is based on Stephanie Capparell’s 2008 book, The Real Pepsi Challenge: How One Pioneering Company Broke Color Barriers in 1940s American Business.
2/22/2022 It’s really happening. Viola Davis will play former First Lady Michelle Obama for the upcoming Showtime anthology series The First Lady.
1/11/2022 Viola Davis is in talks to star in Two Butterflies, an Amazon drama based on an original idea and script by Evan Dodson, which will be directed by Strong Island‘s Yance Ford.
11/5/2021 Viola Davis’ warrior epic “The Woman King” will hit theaters on September 16, 2022. Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, Davis stars in the historical movie as Nanisca, general of the all-female military unit in the Kingdom of Dahomey, one of the most powerful states of Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries.
9/21/2021 John Boyega has joined Viola Davis and Thuso Mbedu in The Woman King, a historical epic from TriStar Pictures. Gina Prince-Bythewood, who most recently directed Netflix’s sci-fi actioner The Old Guard, is on board to helm the feature that also has No Time to Die actress Lashana Lynch on the roll call.
9/2/2021 Lashana Lynch, one of the stars of the upcoming James Bond feature, No Time to Die, has joined Viola Davis in The Woman King, a historical epic from TriStar Pictures. Gina Prince-Bythewood, who most recently directed The Old Guard, is on board to helm the feature that also has The Underground Railroad star Thuso Mbedu as one of the headliners.
5/20/2021 EXCLUSIVE: The century-old story of Bruce’s Beach, which has been garnering national attention amid an effort to return the land to the owners’ descendants, will be subject of a scripted TV series. The project, from Brad Pitt’s Plan B and Viola Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions, is in development at Amazon Studios.
4/30/2021 Rockhill Studios has joined Viola Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions along with Everywhere Studios to produce the movie adaptation of Rachel Lloyd’s critically acclaimed novel Girls Like Us. Julie Lynch is on board to pen the script.
3/25/2021 ABC has pulled together a starry ensemble cast for its upcoming comedy pilot, Black Don’t Crack, which is produced by Viola Davis’ JuVee Productions.
1/29/2021 Two of the pilots — a reboot of “The Wonder Years” and “Maggie” — are single-cams and will be produced by 20th Television. The third, an untitled multi-cam from Regina Hicks, is produced by ABC Signature.
1/22/2021 Variety, in partnership with Dell Technologies, will host a conversation with the team behind JuVee Productions, Viola Davis and Julius Tennon’s production company, during the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 29 at 2 p.m. PT. Davis last attended the festival with her film “Troop Zero” in 2019.
1/21/2021 Oscar and Emmy nominee Michelle Pfeiffer (French Exit) will portray Betty Ford in The First Lady (working title, fka First Ladies), Showtime’s anthology, executive produced by Viola Davis who stars as Michelle Obama.
11/19/2020 The bright future of Broadway performance is waiting to be discovered in Giving Voice, a documentary following several teenage finalists for the 2018 August Wilson Monologues Competition. Check out the trailer above ahead of the film’s debut on Netflix December 11.
07/09/2020 JuVee Productions, the production company of Viola Davis and Julius Tennon, has set an expanded first-look deal with Amazon. The deal will now include television in addition to extending their film deal.
03/03/2020 Imagine being so close to Martin Luther King Jr. as he gives one of the world’s most famous speeches that you notice the creases in his face and then realize the late civil rights leader is looking you square in the eye.
02/05/2020 Viola Davis is officially moving from Shondaland to the White House. Showtime has handed out a series order to anthology First Ladies, with the How to Get Away With Murder star set to play Michelle Obama in the first season. The news arrives as Davis will officially say farewell to ABC’s Shonda Rhimes-produced drama How to Get Away With Murder in the spring.
02/04/2020 Giving Voice, the film from James D. Stern and Fernando Villena that had bowed in the Documentary Features section at the Sundance Film Festival, has won the event’s Festival Favorite Award. The honor, separate from the juried and audience awards handed out Saturday as the festival wrapped its 2020 edition, is selected by audience votes from the 128 features screened in Park City this year.
01/27/2020 Viola Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee Production is teaming with HBO to develop the comedy House of Chow from Ken Cheng (Wilfred, Betas), who wrote the pilot and will serve as executive producer alongside Head of TV Development at JuVee Andrew Wang and pilot director Jude Weng. Davis and Tennon also will serve as EPs.
12/18/2019 The March will debut as an experiential exhibit on Feb. 28, 2020, at Chicago’s DuSable Museum of African American History, the first independent African American history museum in the country.To stay informed about The March, click here to sign up for TIME’s History newsletter
12/18/2019 Academy, Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor and producer, Viola Davis and actor and producer Julius Tennon, along with their award-winning production company JuVee Productions, serve as executive producers for The March. The project is created with the support of Intellectual Properties Management, Inc. (Licensor of the Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr.), which granted TIME development rights for the project.
12/05/2019 After screening at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, Amazon Studios bought Troop Zero, the indie dramedy from rising directorial duo Bert & Bertie. Now, you can watch the first trailer of the film that feels like Moonrise Kingdom meets The Bad News Bears.
11/21/2019 The latest gathering was held on Oct. 30 at the Burbank offices of JuVee Prods., Davis and husband Julius Tennon’s company, which The Hollywood Reporter attended.
11/11/2019 Amazon’s original feature Troop Zero, which made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival back in January, will be released worldwide on Amazon Prime Video on Jan. 17, 2020.
10/11/2019 Emanuel is a different kind of film entering the Specialty box office. In fact, the film is less about making money and more about telling a story. Directed by Brian Ivie and produced by Steph Curry, Viola Davis and Mariska Hargitay, the documentary chronicles the tragedy that happened on June 17, 2015 when a white supremacist gunman took the lives of members of the Emanuel A.M.E. church in Charleston, South Carolina.
09/09/2019 Bravo’s new event series In a Man’s World will follow four women as they temporarily morph into men to see how the other gender lives when it premieres Tuesday, October 1 at 10/9c. With the help of the Academy Award-winning Special Effects make-up team of Lou and Dave Elsey, as well as voice and movement coaches, these women will be trained on to walk, talk, and look like men in order to go undercover for two days to experience what life is like for guys.
09/09/2019 Bravo’s new event series In a Man’s World will follow four women as they temporarily morph into men to see how the other gender lives when it premieres Tuesday, October 1 at 10/9c. With the help of the Academy Award-winning Special Effects make-up team of Lou and Dave Elsey, as well as voice and movement coaches, these women will be trained on to walk, talk, and look like men in order to go undercover for two days to experience what life is like for guys.
08/27/2019 Viola Davis is set to portray Michelle Obama in First Ladies, a one-hour White House drama that has been put on fast-track development at Showtime with a three-script commitment. Davis will executive produce the project, which hails from writer Aaron Cooley (novels Four Seats: A Thriller of the Supreme Court, The Guns of Ridgewood), Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions, Cathy Schulman’s Welle Entertainment (Otherhood), Jeff Gaspin’s Gaspin Media (LA’s Finest) and Brad Kaplan (The Intruder). Showtime and Lionsgate TV co-produce.
08/08/2019 The Nelson Rodrigues Estate, considered the largest and most diverse literary estate in Latin America, is partnering with Viola Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions for both a stage and film/TV adaptation of Brazilian playwright Nelson Rodrigues’ seminal 1960 play The Asphalt Kiss.
07/31/2019 Digital arts journal Stage Raw announces the nominees for its fifth annual Stage Raw Theater Awards, to be held Monday night September 9, 2019, at Los Angeles Theatre Center, 514 S. Spring Street. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
07/30/2019 Amazon Studios is developing Fast Color, a TV series based on the 2018 sci-fi film, I have learned. The project comes from Viola Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions, along with feature’s writers Julia Hart and Jordan Horowitz and their Original Headquarters as well as Mickey Liddell’s LD Entertainment.
07/30/2019 Amazon Studios is developing Fast Color, a TV series based on the 2018 sci-fi film, I have learned. The project comes from Viola Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions, along with feature’s writers Julia Hart and Jordan Horowitz and their Original Headquarters as well as Mickey Liddell’s LD Entertainment.
07/18/2019 Academy, Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor and producer, Viola Davis and actor and producer Julius Tennon, along with their award-winning production company, JuVee Productions, are joining TIME’s immersive project The March, which will bring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s iconic “I Have a Dream” speech to virtual reality for the first time, as executive producers, it was announced today by TIME.
06/19/2019 Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman will star in the movie adaptation of the play “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” for Netflix. George C. Wolfe (“Lackawanna Blues”) will direct from a script by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, based on the award-winning play by August Wilson. Other cast include Glynn Turman, Colman Domingo (“If Beale Street Could Talk”) and Michael Potts.
06/19/2019 The limited run of the gripping documentary Emanuel from Steph Curry and Viola Davis ends today (which is June 19 aka Juneteenth) and celebrities are doing their part to support, advocate and spread the message about the feature that focuses on the tragedy that struck the Emanuel A.M.E. church on June 17, 2015. Actors including Mahershala Ali, Halle Berry and Lena Waithe as well as musicians like SZA and Questlove are buying out theaters to raise awareness for the film.
05/30/2019 Bravo is teaming with Viola Davis and Julius Tennon for a new social experiment series. Bravo is teaming with Viola Davis and Julius Tennon for a new social experiment series.The NBCUniversal-owned cable network has greenlit In a Man’s World, a docuseries in which four women will morph into men for several days.
5/09/2019 Viola Davis, Julius Tennon and Marlee Matlin will be some of the keynote speakers at Variety‘s 2019 Inclusion Summit on Thursday.
3/26/2019 Amazon Prime Video is developing Wild Seed, a drama series based on the first book in Octavia E. Butler’s acclaimed Patternist sci-fi series, from Viola Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions.
3/14/2019 Viola Davis and Stephen Curry have co-produced a documentary honoring the victims of the devastating mass shooting on June 17, 2015 that took place inside Emanuel A.M.E Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
1/25/2019 Viola Davis and husband Julius Tennon developed the play through their JuVee Productions, which fosters independent, socially relevant new works in theater, film, television and other media.
11/29/2018 Amazon Studios has closed an exclusive first look feature production deal with Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Emmy Award and Tony Award-winning actress Viola Davis and actor/producer Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions
11/01/2018 Emanuel, a documentary about the 2015 Charleston church shooting in which white supremacist Dylann Roof killed nine African American parishioners, has signed on NBA star Stephen Curry and Viola Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions as executive producers.
9/04/2018 The star of the upcoming film “Widows” needed to know what kind of wig or extensions she should wear to play Veronica Rawlins, the leader of an unlikely band of robbers scrambling to pull off a dangerous heist. Director Steve McQueen’s answer shocked the Emmy-, Tony- and Oscar-winning actress.
8/23/2018 The network is teaming with Viola Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions to develop the hourlong drama ‘Ohana. The potential series is based on Kiana Davenport’s 1994 novel Shark Dialogues and follows four hapa women who reunite when their grandmother, a mystic known as a kahuna, dies mysteriously and leaves them the family plantation.
7/27/2018 Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals is going to take another look at the case, and Jones’ lawyer is crediting The Last Defense for bringing national attention to racism in the criminal justice system.
7/17/2018 When husband and wife team Viola Davis and Julius Tennon started JuVee Productions in 2011, they wanted to create a platform for underrepresented voices to share their stories.
7/11/2018 The Last Defense will highlight the possibility of racism in the court’s decision and a lack of solid evidence. The trailer focuses briefly on a red bandana, worn by the killer during the fatal shooting. The Last Defense notes the bandana, which was submitted into evidence, was never tested for DNA evidence.
6/12/2018 Viola Davis is serving as an executive producer alongside Julius Tennon for a new ABC documentary series, The Last Defense, which will take an in-depth look at two past death row cases: Darlie Routier and Julius Jones.
5/12/2018 Yolonda Brinkley, creator of Beyond Borders: Diversity in Cannes, the independent filmmaker movement promoting inclusion at the world’s most prestigious film event, is pleased to bring diversity to the 71st Festival de Cannes. With support from Viola Davis and Juilus Tennon’s JuVee Productions and Ajuua Entertainment.
4/4/2018 The seven-episode docu-series explores and exposes flaws in the American justice system through emotional, in-depth examinations of multiple death row cases.
3/07/2018 Inspired by the book and its curated collection of photographs and stories, Dandy Lions will chart the history of the Black Dandy fashion and style movement
3/01/2018 TriStar Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to The Woman King, a film inspired by true events
2/20/2018 Duo Bert & Bertie are also attached to direct “Troupe Zero”for Amazon from a script by Lucy Alibar, with Todd Black producing.
2/06/2018 The Simone Biles Story: Courage To Soar, was the most watched cable television broadcasts on February 3rd for its time slot. The Lifetime original movie drew in an impressive 1.8 million viewers.
2/03/2018 At aTVFest 2018, Julius Tennon and Andrew Wang presented an episode followed by a Q&A.
1/25/2018 Julius Tennon & Gwen Carr discuss the TV ONE docuseries #TwoSides on Build Series NYC.
1/24/2018 Julius Tennon, Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner, and Samira Rice, mother of Tamir Rice, discuss the crime and justice documentary #TwoSides on the Megyn Kelly Today Show.
1/22/2018 A new documentary series called “Two Sides” dives deep into the events surrounding the deaths of four black people at the hands of police–and tells the stories from the perspective of both law enforcement and the victims.
1/21/2018 A new series tackles police killing, both from the victims’ standpoint and the officer’s
1/20/2018 Viola Davis is bringing her real life investigative skills to the small screen, with new TV One documentary series Two Sides of the Truth. The show will look at four notable accounts of police encounters that ended up fatal.
10/04/2017 Universal Pictures has has won an auction and has optioned from The Jackal Group the rights to Terry McMillan’s bestseller I Almost Forgot About You, which the studio will mount a star vehicle for Oscar-winning Fences star Viola Davis, with Girls Trip helmer Malcolm D. Lee directing.
10/04/2017 How To Get Away With Murder star Viola Davis has teamed with Insecure co-creator Larry Wilmore for Black Don’t Crack, a multi-camera comedy, which has sold to ABC.
09/24/2017 The wife-and-husband team set up their own production company to tackle Hollywood’s persistent diversity problem
08/07/2017 On the red carpet at ABC’s party for the Television Critics Association Summer Tour, “American Koko” Executive Producers Viola Davis and Julius Tennon share kind words with Access Hollywood about series star and fellow EP Diarra Kilpatrick – watch Diarra’s sweet reaction!
07/19/2017 Viola Davis and husband Julius Tennon’s company, JuVee Productions, is partnering with EveryWhere Studios to produce a movie adaptation of Rachel Lloyd’s critically acclaimed novel “Girl’s Like Us.”
07/13/2017 Viola Davis was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series on How to Get Away with Murder.
06/19/2017 ABC’s streaming service today launched the second season of the Diarra Kilpatrick-created short-form digital comedy series American Koko, in honor of Juneteenth. June 19, known as Juneteenth, commemorates the abolition of slavery in Texas (June 19, 1865) and producers Viola Davis and her husband Julius Tennon, felt it was an appropriate date on which to premiere Season 2 of the racially-themed series.
03/12/2017 Viola Davis and husband Julius Tennon’s production company JuVee Productions has released a new five-part web series called “Emerging Artist Series,” which highlights the experiences of multiple up-and-coming creatives working in several different areas throughout the entertainment industry.
04/26/2017 Produced for the TV One network by L. Plummer Media in partnership with JuVee Productions, “Two Sides” will dissect and present both points of view of these highly charged cases so the audience can draw their own conclusions after hearing both sides of the story.
03/12/2017 The fund will be used for the development, production and distribution of film and digital content
02/02/2017 JuVee produced film Custody will debut on Lifetime on March 4th at 8/7c.
01/26/2017 There are a number of films about men and women who work odd jobs to make ends meet, but Marshall Tyler’s Night Shift may be the first to shed light on an oft-invisible figure.
01/24/2017 The actress received a Best Supporting Actress nod for her performance opposite Denzel Washington in Fences.
01/08/2017 Viola Davis, after five nominations, wins her first Golden Globes.
10/28/2016 The Zipcoders’ is based on an original idea about a group of black teens growing up in Texas and their quest to form a band like The Beatles.
10/20/2016 ABC is developing Head Games, a neurotic thriller drama from The Art of More creator Chuck Rose, Viola Davis & Julius Tennon’ JuVee Productions and ABC Studios.
9/10/2016 Viola Davis was already set to produce period drama The Personal History Of Rachel Dupree, and has now been confirmed to star in the pic.
7/18/2016 ABC’s streaming service ABCd has acquired American Koko, the digital series created by and starring Diarra Kilpatrick.
4/28/2016 How To Get Away with Murder star Viola Davis has signed an overall deal with ABC Studios, which produces the ABC drama series…..
4/17/2016 Viola Davis and Raúl Esparza are among the theatre stars featured in the family court drama…..
3/22/2016 TNT is developing Conviction, a legal drama inspired by the life of Kym Worthy, the chief prosecutor of Wayne County, MI, known as the toughest woman in Detroit….
2/1/2016 Congratulations to Viola Davis on her 2016 SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series! This marks her second straight SAG Award…
11/15/2015 Released online this morning, here’s the JuVee Productions short film, whose trailer I shared on this blog a month ago, titled ‘The Brink.’
9/22/2015 On Sunday night, Viola Davis became the first African American ever to win best actress in a drama series, for her role on ABC’s How to Get Away with Murder.
6/24/2015 To celebrate the release of “Lila & Eve,” a new feature film release starring Viola Davis and Jennifer Lopez, JuVee Productions has announced the launch of the Viola Davis and Jennifer Lopez Trivia Game. The Samuel Goldwyn distributed film represents the first co-star pairing of Davis and Lopez and centers around two distraught mothers who, after local authorities fail to take action, team up to avenge the deaths of their children8after a gang-related drive-by.
6/10/2015 In THR’s roundtable, six Emmy contenders — including Lizzy Caplan, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jessica Lange and Ruth Wilson — speak candidly…..
6/08/2015 Jane Fonda, Viola Davis on Tackling Serious Issues With Their Characters…..
2/26/2015 Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to Charles Stone III’s “Lila and Eve,” starring Viola Davis and Jennifer Lopez….
11/25/2014 Sundance Film Festival will premiere Lila & Eve starring Viola Davis and Jennifer Lopez…
11/25/2014 Viola Davis, who portrays tough-as-nails law professor/defense attorney Annalise Keating on ABC’s breakout hit How To Get Away With Murder, is set to produce another ABC drama project about a powerful female lawyer, this time on the other side of the courtroom aisle…
12/20/2013 Viola Davis has joined the cast of “Get On Up” which is an upcoming movie that will chronicle popstars James Brown’s rise from poverty and a bad home life to becoming one of the most influential musicians in history. The movie is directed by Tate Taylor and written by Steven Baigelman, Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth. Get On Up stars Chadwick Boseman as Brown, Nelsan Ellis and Tika Sumpter.
08/08/2014 Viola Davis has joined the cast of “Get On Up” which is an upcoming movie that will chronicle popstars James Brown’s rise from poverty and a bad home life to becoming one of the most influential musicians in history. The movie is directed by Tate Taylor and written by Steven Baigelman, Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth. Get On Up stars Chadwick Boseman as Brown, Nelsan Ellis and Tika Sumpter.
11/11/2013 The critically acclaimed show received awards for ‘Best Playwright,’ ‘Best Producer,’ and ‘Best Lighting Design.’ Produced by Julius Tennon and Viola Davis along with Alex Morris, Vanessa Paul, and Robey Theatre Co.’s Ben Guillory where the production ran April through May of last year…
10/25/2013 Hollywood’s New Leaders and 10 Assistants to Watch, along with their guests, mingled in the wide aisles of the Theory clothing boutique in West Hollywood on Oct. 24 at the Variety event celebrating the new generation of leadership in entertainment. The crowd included agents, managers…
09/04/2013 Capital City Black Film Festival (CCBFF) takes place from September 26-28, 2013 in Austin, Texas and exists to provide burgeoning Black filmmakers from across the nation an opportunity to showcase their works in one of the top cities in the United States for independent filmmakers.
04/18/2012 Her life tells a story of personal and professional excellence. Viola, 46, has given her stage and screen characters true presence, depth and authenticity because of her uncompromising real-life character.
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