{"id":249144,"date":"2025-10-24T18:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/249144\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T18:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:29:08","slug":"moses-the-black-with-omar-epps-wiz-khalifa-quavo-wraps-shoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/249144\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Moses The Black&#8217;, With Omar Epps, Wiz Khalifa, Quavo, Wraps Shoot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Stoic has boarded sales ahead of the American Film Market on gangland crime pic <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/moses-the-black\/\" id=\"auto-tag_moses-the-black\" data-tag=\"moses-the-black\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Moses the Black<\/a>,\u00a0starring <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/omar-epps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Omar Epps<\/a>\u00a0(Power Book III: Raising Kanan), rappers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/wiz-khalifa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wiz Khalifa<\/a>\u00a0and Quavo, and Chukwudi Iwuji (The Day Of The Jackal). Curtis \u201c50 Cent\u201d Jackson and his G-Unit Film and Television are aboard as executive producers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe story about a gangster in modern day Chicago is inspired by the repentance story of the fifth-century saint of the same name.\u00a0Epps plays Chicago gang leader and lead character Malik, with Khalifa as 2wo-3ree, the confident and volatile leader of Malik\u2019s young crew. It marks the Grammy nominated rapper\u2019s second movie role and his first as one of the leads. Quavo plays Straw, Malik\u2019s\u00a0arch-nemesis.\u00a0The title character, St. Moses the Black, is played by Iwuji. Principal photography wrapped earlier this month in Chicago.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tYelena Popovic (Man of God) is writer-director. Producers include Alexandros Potter and Popovic for Simeon Faith. Khalifa is executive-producing through his Taylor Gang Films, while Epps is also serving as an executive producer through his production company BrooklynWorks Films.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSimeon Faith financed the film alongside the Nick Mirkopoulos Cinematic Fund, backed by the former owners of Cinespace Film Studios\u2014the Pissios family of Chicago and the Mirkopoulos family of Toronto\u2014who also serve as executive producers on the film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tStoic will launch worldwide sales on the film and will unveil first-look footage at the upcoming American Film Market. The deal for worldwide sales rights was negotiated by Nat McCormick of Stoic and Alexandros Potter, Principal of Simeon Faith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMcCormick said: \u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to present this powerful, star-driven film that unites acclaimed actors and global music stars in a story that will resonate with audiences worldwide. Its emotional depth and dynamic soundtrack make Moses the Black a truly standout title for the market.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tStoic\u2019s slate includes Carousel, starring Chris Pine and Jenny Slate, The Midnight Pool starring Aaron Paul, and Miami Nights, starring Terrence Howard, Jeremy Piven, Thomas Jane, and Jeremy Sumpter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Stoic has boarded sales ahead of the American Film Market on gangland crime pic Moses the Black,\u00a0starring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,136026,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-249144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-moses-the-black","10":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}