Reece Ristau | Variety Floyd Mayweather has defeated Manny Pacquiao once again. This time, the 1-2 punch comes below the belt: his wallet. Mayweather topped Forbes‘ “Celebrity 100: The World’s Highest-Paid Superstars of 2015″ with a whopping $300 million, much of...
by Mike Fleming Jr. | Variety Empire star Taraji P. Henson is poised to reunite with that hit Fox show’s creator Danny Strong by playing the lead in The Best Of Enemies. That film will mark the directorial debut for Hunger Games producer Robin Bissell, who wrote the...
Reece Ristau | Variety Souped-up sports cars sped into the Universal Studios Hollywood backlot Tuesday to rev up excitement for the “Fast & Furious: Supercharged” ride. Along with the flashy cars, “Fast & Furious” cast members Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez,...
by Mike Fleming Jr. | Deadline Hollywood Dwayne Johnson is re-teaming with New Line and producer Beau Flynn for Rampage, a live action feature that has been set for a 2016 summer production start. The film is based on the classic 80’s Midway Arcade Game that has since...
by Ali Jaafar | Deadline Hollywood Who loves ya, baby? Philip Gawthorne has been tapped to write the screenplay for Kojak, Universal Pictures’ modern-day film adaptation of the classic TV series. Vin Diesel (Fast & Furious) will produce with Samantha Vincent for...
By Robert Yaniz Jr. | ScreenRant Vin Diesel first burst onto the scene as a big-time action star in the early 2000s, with sci-fi thriller Pitch Black and the original The Fast and the Furious. While his career has hit the same highs and lows that most Hollywood stars...
by Patrick Hipes | Deadline Hollywood Nia Long has joined the cast of Keanu, the debut feature film pairing comedy duo Key & Peele that has been set up at New Line Cinema. Long, who co-stars on ABC’s upcoming fall comedy Uncle Buck, will play the wife of the...
Justin Kroll | Variety Forest Whitaker is in negotiations to join the cast of Lucasfilm’s “Star Wars” anthology pic “Rogue One.” The film stars Felicity Jones, Riz Ahmed, Diego Luna and Ben Mendelsohn, with Gareth Edwards directing. Disney and Lucasfilm had no comment...
For decades, Denzel Washington has proven himself one of Hollywood’s most bankable leading men. However, in a career that includes countless hit films and two Academy Awards, there’s one part of the business that’s always eluded him. Washington has never starred in a...
by Mike Fleming Jr. | Deadline Hollywood Deadline has learned definitively what role Chiwetel Ejiofor will play when he suits up for Doctor Strange, the Scott Derrickson-directed Marvel Studios film that will star Benedict Cumberbatch as the title character. Ejiofor,...
Ali Jaafar | Deadline Hollywood Disney is in discussions with Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films and David Oyelowo’s Yoruba Saxon to come on board and produce feature project The Water Man, written by newbie writer Emma Needell. This is a fairytale moment for Needell,...
by Mike Fleming Jr. | Deadline.com Ice Cube and Charlie Day are in talks with New Line Cinema to climb into the ring for Fist Fight, a comedy from scribes Van Robichaux and Evan Susser. The producers are 21 Laps’ Shawn Levy, Billy Rosenberg and Max Greenfield, with...