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Laurence Fishburne’s   Cinema Gypsy Productions and   Larenz Tate’s   TateMen Entertainment are partnering to produce “ Policy Kings ,” the first scripted audio series from digital audio ad sales company Audio HQ .  The actors are hoping to build on the success of audio dramas such as “Serial.” Policy Kings is a 10-episode audio drama that was created by TateMen Entertainment and written by a “A History of Violence” scribe Josh Olson. The series, which will launch in the fall, chronicles the lives of the players in Chicago’s illegal lottery system of the 1940s, which was played mostly in poor black neighborhoods, and was eventually taken over by the mafia. Fishburne’s Cinema Gypsy is currently producing ABC’s hit comedy series “black-ish,” as well as the upcoming six-hour Nelson Mandela miniseries “Madiba,” for BET Networks.  TateMen Entertainment most recently produced the indie “Beta Test,” alongside Queen Latifah’s Flavor Unit Productions. Mean...

The space-set romantic drama has a script by Jon Spaihts. When you put two high profile, hot-as-all-hell actors like Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt together in a movie, that’s going to get some attention. Which is just what has happened with their upcoming sci-fi romance,  Passengers . And not only does it have two big, A-list celebs leading the way, the film is putting together an impressive supporting cast, including the latest addition, Morpheus himself, Laurence Fishburne. the veteran actor who has appeared in everything from  Apocalypse Now  to  Hannibal  to the upcoming  Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice , is in talks to join  Passengers . Along with Pratt and Lawrence, Fishburne joins another recent addition, Michael Sheen, who plays a robot on a spaceship. What we don’t know, however, is what role Fishburne will play, as the report doesn’t offer much in the way of details. The story of...