John Singleton will direct Lionsgate's legal drama "
Tulia," starring Halle Berry and Billy Bob Thornton.
Pic centers on a lawyer's efforts to expose a rash of drug convictions in rural
Tulia, Texas, in 1999. It's an adaptation of the Nate Blakeslee book "
Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town," in which 10% of the black population of
Tulia was incarcerated.