Ramin Setoodeh | Variety Idris Elba nearly plunged to his death filming Cary Fukunaga’s “Beasts of No Nation.” The indie drama, about an African tyrant known as “the commandant” who recruits an innocent boy into his army of youth soldiers, took Elba into the depths of...
https://youtu.be/JRlVn4cKxJE Director: Jamie Babbit Writer(s): Karey Dornetto Starring: Judy Greer, Natasha Lyonne, Malcolm Barrett, Jessica St. Clair, Edward Barbanell, Ron Livingston, Aubrey Plaza, John Roohinian, Kumail Nanjiani, Davenia McFadden, Jon Daly, Paul...
by Greg Evans | Deadline Hollywood Kyle Jean-Baptiste, a 21-year-old New York actor who made his Broadway starring debut July 23 in Les Miserables as the youngest — and Broadway’s first African-American Jean Valjean died August 21 night in a home accident, falling...
https://youtu.be/jX_eOikBBps Director: Roger M. Bobb Writer(s): Cas Sigers Beedles Starring: Garcelle Beauvais, Terri J. Vaughn, Essence Atkins, Malinda Williams, Stephen Bishop, Khalil Kain, Xiona R. Nieves-Vargas, Eli Cay, Teresa Truesdale, Elia Enid Cadilla,...
https://youtu.be/mIl-XY9t_Lw Director: Alex Kendrick Writer(s): Stephen Kendrick, Alex Kendrick Starring: Karen Abercrombie, Priscilla C. Shirer, T.C. Stallings, Tenae Downing, Alena Pitts, Michael Jr., Jadin Harris, Alex Kendrick, Dave Blamy, Thomas A. Ford III,...
by Mike Fleming Jr. | Deadline Hollywood The Weinstein Company is ready to greenlight its Richard Pryor biopic, and my, have Harvey Weinstein and Lee Daniels put together a terrific cast. The new additions: Oprah Winfrey will play Pryor’s grandmother, who ran a...
By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act It may come as a surprise to some that Spike Lee, despite a 30-year-long career as a filmmaker, and over 20 feature films, has never won an Academy Award (unless you count the Student Academy Award he received in 1983 for his NYU...
By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act Viola Davis, who won a Tony award for her performance in the 2010 Broadway production of "Fences," has revealed that she will appear in a screen adaptation of the August Wilson play. “They are making 'Fences,' August Wilson’s...
By Pete Hammond | Deadline Hollywood The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences just unveiled its honorees for the 2015 Governors Awards, with Spike Lee and Gena Rowlands landing the annual honorary Oscars and Debbie Reynolds getting the Jean Hersholt...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hz2GIowLII By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act Courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter, here's the 4th part of its annual Emmy season roundtable chats that we all love so much, released leading up to the September 20 Primetime Emmys this...
Shannon Lanier interviewing stars on the red carpet at the McDonald's 365 Black Awards in 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xywic3jtkS4 Director: Ben Samuels Writer(s): Ben Samuels Starring: Rosebud Baker, Matt Riker, Ben Samuels, Montana Marks, Amy Rutledge, Jonas Parker, Carol Anne Raffa, Bradford How, Peter Delaurier, Dan McGlaughlin, Ryan Haagen, Matt...