My Aunt Nancy made the best chocolate cake. Bessie Jernigan, great-grandmother of George Tillman Jr., enjoys a Sunday dinner with family. The dinners were about food, fellowship, and connecting ...

By Aisha Harris The director George Tillman Jr. discusses a scene in which a father teaches his children how to handle themselves in an encounter with police officers. By Mekado Murphy A young ...

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker George Tillman Jr has signed with Kaplan/Perrone for management. Tillman's feature directing credits include The Hate U Give, Men of Honor, Notorious, Faster and Soul Food.

Someone who society had given up on, but Doc saw something in him, and it changed both of their lives,” said George Tillman Jr., whose film “Big George Foreman” opens in theaters April 28.

The cast includes Jasmine Mathews, Sullivan Jones, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., John Magaro and Sonja Sohn. It’s directed by George Tillman Jr. from a story by Dan Gordon, Frank Baldwin and Tillman Jr ...

Director George Tillman Jr.’s biopic, produced by Foreman himself, aims to show us the multitudes within the boxer/preacher/pitchman, his transformation from Muhammad Ali’s scowling antagonist ...

Director George Tillman Jr. talks Big George Foreman The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

George Tillman Jr. "didn't get a lot of sleep," as he tells EW, trying to get one specific scene right in his latest movie, Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future ...

the fighter-turned-reverend had input on the script by writer and director George Tillman Jr., who wrote the screenplay based on their long conversations and Foreman's four memoirs. But during ...

Twenty-five years ago, Milwaukee filmmaker George Tillman Jr. released his first movie, "Soul Food." Little did he know then that the movie would still resonate among African American families today.

They say a filmmaker tells a story from what they know. I knew my family’s story. When I wrote “Soul Food,” I was desperate. I sold an independent film that never came out and I needed to ...