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  • Movie Review: 'The Longshots'

    ...cliche-driven script by TV writer-producer Nick Santora ("Prison Break") and "Akeelah" writer-director Doug Atchison. None of the principals talks like a person; they're all exposition machines, rigidly laying out their conflicts......

  • Fred Durst, Ice Cube Mount a 'Comeback'

    ...will play the girl's uncle, a former high school star. The project is, oddly, set up at Dimension Films with Doug Atchison ("Akeelah and the Bee") rewriting the script. Durst's feature directing debut, the period drama ......

  • 'Bee' Builds Black Film Awards Buzz

    ... Despite those major wins, "Akeelah" was limited in several additional categories because writer-director Doug Atchison is white and therefore ineligible. That vacuum allowed Kriss Turner to win the screenwriting prize for "Something......

  • Halle Berry Is a 'Class Act'

    ... Halle Berry to star in "Class Act," a somewhat-fact-based drama from "Akeelah and the Bee" director Doug Atchison. The project tells the story of Tierney Cahill, a Reno sixth-grade teacher who accepted her class' challenge......

  • 'Akeelah and the Bee'

    ...and Palmer is quite simply remarkable as the nervous, uncertain Akeelah. Perhaps more importantly, director Doug Atchison's script never quite surrenders to formula: It puts unexpected spins on the relationships between Akeelah and her......

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