By Elaine Low | Variety Netflix and Shonda Rhimes are extending their creative relationship, inked in 2017, beyond television to feature films and gaming. Under the terms of the expanded deal, which encompasses Rhimes’ Shondaland Media and her longtime producing...
Angelique Jackson | Variety Filmmaker Dee Rees made history on June 29 when her debut feature “Pariah” joined the Criterion Collection, making the Oscar and Emmy nominee the first Black American woman to have her work included. Before Rees, Euzhan Palcy, who is from...
by Michael Appler | Variety The question of work — who gets it and who doesn’t — has driven the Hollywood zeitgeist for years, from #MeToo to recent reckonings over race and equity. At the Tribeca Festival in New York City on Wednesday, Emmy winner Lena Waithe, her...
DESCRIPTION Regé-Jean Page (“Bridgerton”) and Emma Corrin (“The Crown”) sat down for a virtual chat for Variety‘s Actors on Actors. For more, click here. Thanks to Netflix’s “Bridgerton,” Regé-Jean Page became an overnight sensation as a heartthrob, and his work as...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8r4wEKJaBs DESCRIPTION Chris Rock and Nicole Kidman discuss 'Fargo,' 'The Undoing' and more in a virtual chat for Variety's Actors on Actors. Read Full Article
Trey Mangum | Shadow and Act Amazon Studios has inked a first-look deal with Russell Wilson and Ciara, Shadow and Act has learned. Under the deal, through their Why Not You Productions, the duo will develop and produced scripted series and films with Amazon. “We’re so...
by Marc Malkin | Variety Michael B. Jordan hopes “Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse” isn’t the last audiences will see of him as John Clark. “At the end of the day we wanted it to be a franchise, but we also know that you got to do one good movie first,” Jordan tells me on...
by Michael Schneider | Variety When Steve McQueen first approached John Boyega about playing London police officer Leroy Logan in his Amazon Prime Video anthology series “Small Axe,” they were both amazed and puzzled by the story of the real-life trailblazer. Logan...
https://youtu.be/n3_Hqvy1HqU John David Washington made a major impression as the protagonist of Warner Bros.’ Christopher Nolan film “Tenet,” now available for home viewing, and continues his stellar run opposite Zendaya in Sam Levinson’s two-hander “Malcolm &...
by Angelique Jackson | Variety After her breakthrough role in “Queen and Slim,” Jodie Turner-Smith is taking on her next major challenge: playing a military officer opposite Michael B. Jordan in “Without Remorse” and a condemned queen in the upcoming series “Anne...
Monique Jones | Shadow and Act Da 5 Bloods actor Delroy Lindo opens up to GQ for its May issue, revealing how he feels about his reputation and working with Spike Lee again. Lindo talked to GQ contributor Mosi Secret about gaining a reputation as an actor typecast in...
By Angelique Jackson | Variety Exactly 30 years to the day since Whoopi Goldberg officially became an Oscar winner, the entertainer is reliving the moment over Zoom. Watching a clip from the 1991 Academy Awards telecast from her home in New Jersey, Goldberg breaks...