by Patrick Hipes | Deadline Hollywood EXCLUSIVE: Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant is in the process of rounding out it main cast ahead of production, which is now being eyed to start next month. Jussie Smollett, Amy Seimetz, Carmen Ejogo and Callie Hernandez have signed...
Dave McNary | Variety Hollywood’s failure to present more diverse casts in movies and television is potentially costing the industry billions of dollars, according to a new report issued by the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. The report,...
By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act Queen Latifah has teamed up with actresses Jessica Chastain and Juliette Binoche, and director Catherine Hardwicke to launch a production company called We Do It Together (WDIT), which will focus on producing films and TV...
https://youtu.be/IJBnK2wNQSo Director: Alex Proyas Writer(s): Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless Starring: Brenton Thwaites, John Samaha, Courtney Eaton, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Paula Arundell, Alia Seror-O’Neill, Emily Wheaton, Elodie Yung, Rachael Blake, Bryan Brown,...
https://youtu.be/BfQvGdUMrwQ Director: John Hillcoat Writer(s): Matt Cook Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Casey Affleck, Anthony Mackie, Woody Harrelson, Aaron Paul, Kate Winslet, Gal Gadot, Norman Reedus, Teresa Palmer, Michael Kenneth Williams, Clifton Collins Jr.,...
Gordon Cox | Variety “The Birth of a Nation,” the Nate Parker film that was a buzz-magnet sensation at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, has been positioned for an awards-season release this fall from Fox Searchlight. Written, directed by and starring...
By James Roberts | Screenrant The current Hollywood obsession with remaking the hits of yesterday poses many questions about the state of the industry today. While some questions are more practical (“Has Hollywood run out of ideas?”) others tend towards the...
By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act Following the February 8th announcement that Ava DuVernay was offered (that we know of, at least) 2 high profile studio projects (one from Disney and the other from DreamWorks), comes news that the filmmaker has officially inked...
https://youtu.be/LQIe4JKjYn4 Director: Stephen Hopkins Writer(s): Joe Shrapnel, Anna Waterhouse Starring: Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis, Eli Goree, Shanice Banton, Carice van Houten, Jeremy Irons, William Hurt, David Kross, Jonathan Higgins, Tony Curran, Amanda Crew,...
Justin Kroll | Variety Octavia Spencer is on board to co-star opposite Taraji P. Henson in Fox 2000’s “Hidden Figures.” The studio has been developing the adaptation of Margot Lee Shetterly’s book “Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win...
https://youtu.be/kUks-m9ody4 Director: Thierry Michel Writer(s): Thierry Michel and Colette Braeckman Starring: Martin Spinhayer, Doctor Denis Mukwege, Hillary Clinton Synopsis: Winner of the Sakharov Prize 2014, Doctor Mukwege is internationally known as the man who...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ7HGnW5luQ Director: John Asher Writer(s): Alonzo Bodden Starring: Alonzo Bodden Synopsis: Alonzo Bodden returns with a hilarious look at the historical inaccuracies of the present and past from his unique comedic perspective in...