https://vimeo.com/60815981 Director: Seyi Adebanjo Writer(s): Seyi Adebanjo Starring: Chief Moloran Iya Oloya Synopsis: A queer Gender Non Conforming Nigerian returns home to connect with the Orisa (African Goddess) tradition, and follows a trail back to the powerful...
Maane Khatchatourian | Variety.com Nichelle Nichols, best know for her role as Lt. Uhura in “Star Trek,” suffered a stroke in her Los Angeles home on Wednesday night. Her rep Zach McGinnis announced the news on Facebook. “Last night while at her home in L.A., Nichelle...
Ali Jaafar | Deadline Hollywood The Weinstein Company is in talks with Laurence Fishburne and Idris Elba to direct and star, respectively, in their long-gestating adaptation of Paulo Coelho’s bestselling novel The Alchemist. No deals have closed yet, but this is a...
Debra Birnbaum | Variety.com The following is part of Variety’s Actors on Actor Emmy Studio. For more videos, click here. You could almost hear the music as Queen Latifah joined Taraji P. Henson in Variety’s Actors on Actors studio for a candid conversation about...
...On Hiring Of Women And Minorities David Robb | Deadline Hollywood SAG-AFTRA has scrapped its plans to conduct a comprehensive five-year survey of the employment of women and minority actors in the film and TV industry. The guild’s top diversity official told...
Anita Busch | Deadline Hollywood Zoe Kravitz, who is part of Lionsgate’s Divergent, Insurgent and Allegiant franchise films, is set to star in Black Belle, portraying a gunslinging hit woman from the Old West. The gritty project, which is scheduled to begin...
Dave McNary |Variety.com Open Road Films has acquired all U.S. distribution rights to Marlon Wayans’ spoof “Fifty Shades of Black” and set a January 29 release date. IM Global came on board last month to produce and finance. “Fifty Shades of Black” reunites the team...
Mannie Holmes | Variety.com Shonda Rhimes’ anticipated memoir “Year of Yes” is set to be published this fall, Simon Schuster VP and Editor-in-Chief Marysue Rucci announced on Tuesday. The premise is simple and an interesting business strategy: In December 2013, the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgRBVDzITNE Director: Emile Edwin Smith Writer(s): Jacob Cooney, Bill Hanstock Starring: Faran Tahir, Robbie Kay, Aqueela Zoll, Matias Ponce, Howard Gordon, Alberto Barros Jr., Adam Blake, David Campfield, Angie Teodora Dick, Daniel...
Paula Patton is making a deal to join Adam Sandler and David Spade in The Do Over, the Steve Brill-directed comedy that will be the second film in the multipicture pact Sandler and his Happy Madison made with Netflix. Scripted by Chris Pappas and Kevin Barnett, the...
Dominic Patten | Deadline Hollywood “I’m not the person to ask about racism in this town, coming from where I came from I never had to go through what I’ve heard a lot of people had to go through in this town,” said Tyler Perry today at the Produced By conference. “I...
A Personal Essay by Michael B. Jordan (As told to Chris Lee) | Entertainment Weekly You’re not supposed to go on the Internet when you’re cast as a superhero. But after taking on Johnny Storm in Fantastic Four—a character originally written with blond hair and blue...