LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - When DreamWorks announced in May that it planned to make a movie about Martin Luther King Jr., it took less than 24 hours for the prestige project to hit a speed bump. Two of King's children disputed a third's authority to speak for the estate, and soon enough King's own words came to ...

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Robert Redford is visiting the land of Lincoln. The actor/filmmaker, who has an acute interest in political topics, will direct the historical drama "The Conspirator," the story of Mary Surratt, who was convicted and executed as a conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth. James Solomon, the writer and executive producer ...

Today is Sunday, April 26, the 116th day of 2009. There are 249 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On April 26, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, was surrounded by federal troops near Bowling Green, Va ...

THE ASSASSIN'S ACCOMPLICE by Kate Clifford Larson Perseus Group, £15.99, pp. 263, ISBN 9780465038152 In the spring of 1865 Washington was celebrating victory in a bitterly fought civil war. It had begun in 1861 when six southern states had seceded from the Union, setting up the separate Confederate state with its capital in Richmond. For Southerners, the Union ...