‘The Favourite’ Producer Sets Female Muslim Boxer Biopic ‘In the Shadows’

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‘The Favourite’ Producer Sets Female Muslim Boxer Biopic ‘In the Shadows’
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Producer Lee Magiday (“The Favourite”) under her new production shingle Sleeper Films, and Madeleine Sanderson of Curate Films are teaming for the drama “In the Shadows.” The film is based on the t…

Eighteen-year-old Tunde Johnson isn’t consciously able to explain why he wakes up gasping every day. Every day is the same day, May 28, and every night, he’s murdered by the cops and “The Obituary of Tunde Johnson” is read anew: an upper-middle class, gay high schooler destined to be shot by jumpy officers [...]It wasn’t just Pennywise’s signature red balloons that inflated this weekend. Warner Bros.

“It’s nice to play somebody a little more vile,” Evans said at Variety‘s Toronto Film Festival studio presented by AT&T. “I don’t always get the opportunity to play someone who’s so despicable; so yeah it’s [...]When a prophecy from a traveling sheik portends that a young Sudanese boy will die at the age of 20, he and his mother are faced with the difficult task of navigating the space between coming of age and confronting the end.

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