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As Pam Grier waxes over her groundbreaking career — touching on everything from Foxy Brown and Coffy to Quentin Tarantino’s 1997 love letter to Grier and the genre she built, Jackie Brown — she takes a moment to take stock of what it all represents.

“I hope I’ve given you a slice of what it’s like to be a woman in film,” says the gilded icon of Blaxploitation films during a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter. “From age 19 to me today, I’m in such gratitude and honor of all the people who taught me so much.”

While a library could be built around what’s been written about the Blaxploitation era and her role in it — the recent Netflix documentary Is that Black Enough for You?!? in part chronicles how the genre made her one of the highest-grossing film stars in the 1970s — these days, Grier is focused on...

Antonio Fargas (“Starsky and Hutch”) and Stephanie Sigman (“Miss Bala”) have joined star Mike Colter in Tubi’s ‘Murder City,’ the second movie filmed under Village Roadshow Pictures’ Black Noir Cinema franchise, co-founded by NBA great Kevin Garnett.

Last December, Variety exclusively announced “Murder City” as one of the first films slated for Black Noir Cinema, a lineup of genre movies developed and produced by Village Roadshow and Tubi, which will exclusively debut on the Fox-owned free streaming platform.

Described as a “thrilling contemporary crime story,” the film follows Neil (Colter), a disgraced former cop, who after losing his job on the police force is forced to work with the city’s most notorious — and ruthless — kingpin, Ash (Sigman), to settle the debts of his estranged, deadbeat father, Graham (Fargas), and protect his wife and son.

Rounding out the film’s cast are Medina Senghore, Rhys Coiro, James Udom, Steven Prescod,...

Last August, it was revealed that Universal Studios and Boom! had parterned up once again for a big screen adaptation, following the success of 2 Guns, and would bring the series Day Men to the big screen. Now, The Hollywood Reporter brings word that Universal has hired Will Simmons, whose script Murder City made the Black List back in 2012, to pen the adaptation.

The Hollywood Reporter grabbed the scoop today, that Hollywood blacklist writer Will Simmons will be scripting Universal’s adaptation of Boom!’s “Day Men.” Simmons wrote Murder City, a crime thriller that made the Black List in 2012. The project has Sylvain White attached to direct, Aldamisa financing, and Basil Iwanyk andBrooklyn Weaver producing. He is also wrapping up his scripting during on Defenders, Warners’ adaptation of […]...

Some of this summer's most anticipated science fiction features are coming from Warner Bros, including Man of Steel and Pacific Rim. So it should be no surprise the studio that's also bringing us the Wachowski siblings' next sci-fi epic Jupiter Ascending is on the prowl for more original sci-fi content. And they've found it in Hugo Award-winning author Will McIntosh's upcoming novel. The Wrap reports Warner Bros bought the rights to McIntosh's Defenders in a pre-emptive pitch deal. Already Pain and Gain producer Donald De Line has been lined up to produce and Will Simmons, who made the 2012 Black List with his script Murder City, will adapt the soon-to-be released novel. At this time Warner Bros is not sharing plot details of the sci-fi thriller, much less a logline. But we're not at a total loss as to what Defenders is about, as the novel is based on a short...

In a pre-emptive pitch deal, Warner Bros. has acquired sci-fi thriller "Defenders," based on the upcoming novel by Hugo Award-winning author Will McIntosh. Donald De Line ("Pain and Gain") will produce through his De Line Pictures banner, while Will Simmons ("Murder City") will write the script. WB is keeping the logline under wraps. Lightspeed Magazine published "Defenders" as a short story in August 2011. The story serves as the basis of McIntosh's novel, which will be published by Orbit in summer 2014. Project was brought in by De Line's recently-promoted VP Jacob Robinson, who will...