By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act And so it begins... I've long wondered what distribution company would pick this up. Question answered! RLJ Entertainment has announced its acquisition of all North American rights to “Nina,” the Nina Simone biopic that Zoe...
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...
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...
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...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW5htgBElYI Fandango MovieClips Trailers presents: I Love Movies - Where celebrities sit down to talk about their favorite films and how movies have impacted them personally and professionally. This Week: Darius Rucker explores why he...
Q&A with Keegan-Michael Key, Emmy Nominee for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy for his performance in Key and Peele. Moderated by Mark Peikert, Editor-in-Chief, Backstage. SYNOPSIS The hit five-time Emmy-nominated sketch series and Peabody winner Key &...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9reYw-sDjk Fandango MovieClips Trailers presents: I Love Movies - Where celebrities sit down to talk about their favorite films and how movies have impacted them personally and professionally. This Week: Evander Holyfield discusses how...
Record breaker! Idris Elba becomes the first ever solo male cover star for Maxim magazine By Ross McDonagh| Dailymail.com Most men would be ecstatic to break a world record in a lifetime. Idris Elba just broke his second in less than three months. The 42-year-old has...
Q&A with Omar Sy of SAMBA. Moderated by Lesley O'Toole. SYNOPSIS SAMBA reunites The Intouchables’ acclaimed directing duo, Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, with award-winning actor Omar Sy in a richly entertaining chronicle of an undocumented kitchen worker...
By Sergio | Shadow and Act Actor Omar Sy challenges the long-standing industry belief that black stars don’t sell overseas. One of the major reasons why he was cast in "Jurassic World" is because he is one of the biggest movie stars in France, and Europe overall, and...
...Film That Never Was, But Could Still Be & Other Films on the Haitian Revolutionary By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act When I spoke to Danny Glover about his long-in-development Toussaint L'Ouverture film in late 2011, this is what he had to say: "We're still...