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Sidney Poitier documentary within the works at Apple with Oprah Winfrey as government producer

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Apple Studios is in the course of filming a documentary on Hollywood icon Sidney Poitier, who handed away on January 6 on the age of 94 at his house in Beverly Hills.
According to Deadline, media magnate Oprah Winfrey is hooked up to the venture as government producer. Reginald Hudlin will direct the movie on the Oscar-winning actor.
The documentary had been below wraps and in manufacturing for greater than a 12 months. Described as an in-depth look into the lifetime of Poitier, the primary Black man to win an Academy Award for greatest actor for the 1963 movie Lilies of the Field.
The movie, an Apple Original Films launch, additionally contains the participation of his household.
Oprah Winfrey will produce by her Harpo Productions and Network Entertainment.
Sidney Poitier is credited for serving to open doorways for different minority performers following his efficiency in Hollywood classics reminiscent of In the Heat of the Night, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? and To Sir With Love.