Sports movies share a common theme: a person overcomes all odds to become the greatest athlete in their sport, changing their ...

Rachel Morrison's feature-length debut nearly turns a real-life story of sport and circumstance into something worthwhile.

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series highlighting awards season’s buzziest movies continues with The Fire Inside, the boxing ...

The cinematographer and filmmaker, who brought Claressa Shields’s story to the screen, discusses being a mother in a ...

Yet even Olympic gold couldn’t guarantee equal treatment. In one scene from the new film The Fire Inside, Shields stares ...

The man arrested on murder and arson charges in the death of a woman who was set on fire inside a subway train has been ...

The story of the boxer Claressa Shields could have been just another sports movie. Directed by Rachel Morrison and penned by Barry Jenkins, it’s much more than that.

"The Fire Inside," in theaters Christmas Day, casts Ryan Destiny as history-making Olympic boxer Claressa Shields.

Ryan Destiny, Rachel Morrison and Claressa Shields talk about bringing the Olympic boxer’s little-known life story to the ...

A pandemic, the loss of a studio and the exit of a key actor were just some of the obstacles in the way of the biopic of ...

"The Fire Inside" is loosely based on Shields' life so all events in the film are not exactly true. For instance, the movie ...