Entertainment Roundup 1.18-24.13

Michael B. Jordan as Oscar Grant in “Fruitvale.” Image via Collider.com

Fruitvale: This dramatization of the final events of Oscar Grant’s life became the hottest property at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, with a reported bidding war capping off with the film’s acquisition by the Weinstein Co.

The film is also generating buzz for Michael B. Jordan, who plays Grant in the film:

I heard about it. It was up in the Bay, and I was living in L.A. at the time, and it trickled down. You hear about it and you get enraged, you know? It’s something that gets you upset. It could’ve been me. It could’ve been my brother. It could’ve been one of my friends. It could’ve been anybody. It makes you feel a certain type of way, and sometimes you can’t always win. So what I tried to do was to voice my opinion through my work and through the film and through Oscar, so that was my homage. That was my way of giving back.

–AG

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