By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act A day after news that the Nina Simone film she stars was picked up by RLJ Entertainment for release in December, Zoe Saldana has picked up a new project; she will star in an adaptation of the graphic novel, "I Kill Giants," by Joe...
by Ali Jaafar | Deadline Hollywood Will Smith has replaced Hugh Jackman in Collateral Beauty, the feature about a New York advertising executive who experiences a personal tragedy and the subsequent unconventional plan from his colleagues to break him out of his...
by The Deadline Team | Deadline Hollywood Macro, the multiplatform media company founded by former WME partner and agent Charles D. King, revealed today that it has closed its first round of funding. It scored financing from lead investor Emerson Collective, MNM...
Pete Hammond | Deadline Hollywood The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences just announced that David Hill and Reginald Hudlin will produce the 88th Annual Oscars. Django Unchained Oscar nominee Hudlin is no stranger to the Academy, having been tapped by...
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 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...
by Jeremy Gerard | Deadline Hollywood The Oscar winner will take on the lead role in a revival of the 1941 drama staged by British director Michael Grandage (Red, Frost/Nixon). Whitaker (Southpaw, The Last King Of Scotland, Bird, etc.) will play Erie Smith, the role...
By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act A newly-restored print of Ousmane Sembène's 1966 classic "La Noire de…" ("Black Girl") has been announced as an official selection of the Film Society of Lincoln Center's lineup for Special Events and Revivals taking place during...
By Sandy Schaefer | ScreenRant Is there any Hollywood superstar who’s busier than Dwayne Johnson right now? “The Rock” is filming the buddy action/comedy Central Intelligence (which costars Kevin Hart) and lending his voice to the Disney Animation title Moana, for...
by Antonia Blyth | Deadline Hollywood Less than three years ago Uzo Aduba was crying on the subway. Returning from an audition, she resolved to give up acting and re-train as a lawyer. Just 45 minutes later, she got a phone call. “It was 5:43 p.m. I’ll never forget...
By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act At least, that's a suggestion made by both Queen Latifah's Flavor Unit production partner, Shakim Compere, and producer Lili Zanuck (who, along with producing partner, the late ace Richard Zanuck, first approached Latifah...
By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act And I was just having a conversation about what John Boyega would do next now that "Star Wars" is in the can, and will be out in a few months. The man still has to keep working after all, despite all the press and probably a...