By Jasmin Mohamed | ScreenRant xXx, released in 2002, was the third film (just after The Fast & The Furious and Pitch Black) that helped launch Vin Diesel into super-stardom. Even though he had major roles in The Iron Giant, Boiler Room, and Knockaround Guys,...
By Jared Jones | ScreenRant The ball is now rolling on the DC Extended Universe’s Aquaman thanks to Arthur Curry’s appearances in both Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice and the first Justice League teaser trailer. Jason Momoa will be headlining the upcoming James...
Shadow & Act | Sergio Mims Well we’re swiftly approaching the end of the summer film season and getting ready for fall film releases, starting next month, but the consensus is in already: This has been one rotten summer season for movies. Sure there were some good...
by Michael Cieply | Deadline Hollywood If ever there was a reluctant revolutionary, it is Cheryl Boone Isaacs. Asked lately what she expected from a fourth year as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — if she is indeed re-elected by the...
from Shadow & Act The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced today that the 2016 News & Documentary Emmy Award honoree for Lifetime Achievement is documentarian and founder of Firelight Media, Stanley Nelson. Mr. Nelson is to be honored...
Patrick Hipes | Deadline Hollywood Lennie James is joining the cast of the Blade Runner sequel, which ss set several decades after the 1982 original, with Harrison Ford returning to play Rick Deckard. The cast also includes Ryan Gosling, Robin Wright, Ana de Armas,...
Shadow & Act | Sergio Mims We’ve certainly talked a lot about this new Kino Lorber five-disc Blu-Ray/DVD set, “Pioneers of African-American Cinema,” but we wouldn’t be doing it if it wasn’t so vital and important. Nearly 500 independently produced black films...
Feature-Length Defining Portrait of Marvin Gaye in Development with Full Support From Family Shadow & Act | Tambay Obenson Still no updates on Jesse L. Martin’s Marvin Gaye film, which stalled production in 2013. And no word on whether what was rumored to be a...
Shadow & Act | Tambay Obenson Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Chad’s foremost filmmaker, whose latest film – the documentary “Hissein Habre, A Chadian Tragedy” – premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May of this year, and, before that, the feature drama “Grigris”...
Shadow & Act | Tambay Obenson Sundance Institute today announced it will present its Vanguard Award to filmmaker and actor Nate Parker at Night Before Next, a summer celebration benefiting the Institute and its artists on the eve of Sundance Next Fest at the...
Shadow & Act | Tambay Obenson The British Academy of Film and Television Arts Los Angeles (BAFTA Los Angeles) has announce that it will honor Samuel L. Jackson with the Albert R. Broccoli Britannia Award for Worldwide Contribution to Entertainment at this year’s...
Shadow & Act | Tambay Obenson “Ready Player One” is a 2011 multiple award-winning science fiction and dystopian novel by Ernest Cline. A film adaptation directed by Steven Spielberg is in the works, and is slated to begin production this summer (2016), for a...