Sean Reed | ScreenRant Iron Man may have launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe into the box office stratosphere, but it was arguably Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury who kept it all together from the very beginning and paved the way for Earth’s mightiest to assemble...
Variety Staff | Variety.com HBO has lined up more notables for key roles in “Confirmation,” the telepic revisiting the drama of the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill showdown in 1991. Greg Kinnear is set to play Joe Biden, who was a prominent voice in the Supreme Court...
Maane Khatchatourian | Variety.com Nichelle Nichols, best know for her role as Lt. Uhura in “Star Trek,” suffered a stroke in her Los Angeles home on Wednesday night. Her rep Zach McGinnis announced the news on Facebook. “Last night while at her home in L.A., Nichelle...
Ali Jaafar | Deadline Hollywood The Weinstein Company is in talks with Laurence Fishburne and Idris Elba to direct and star, respectively, in their long-gestating adaptation of Paulo Coelho’s bestselling novel The Alchemist. No deals have closed yet, but this is a...
...On Hiring Of Women And Minorities David Robb | Deadline Hollywood SAG-AFTRA has scrapped its plans to conduct a comprehensive five-year survey of the employment of women and minority actors in the film and TV industry. The guild’s top diversity official told...
Anita Busch | Deadline Hollywood Zoe Kravitz, who is part of Lionsgate’s Divergent, Insurgent and Allegiant franchise films, is set to star in Black Belle, portraying a gunslinging hit woman from the Old West. The gritty project, which is scheduled to begin...
Dave McNary |Variety.com Open Road Films has acquired all U.S. distribution rights to Marlon Wayans’ spoof “Fifty Shades of Black” and set a January 29 release date. IM Global came on board last month to produce and finance. “Fifty Shades of Black” reunites the team...
Mannie Holmes | Variety.com Shonda Rhimes’ anticipated memoir “Year of Yes” is set to be published this fall, Simon Schuster VP and Editor-in-Chief Marysue Rucci announced on Tuesday. The premise is simple and an interesting business strategy: In December 2013, the...
Paula Patton is making a deal to join Adam Sandler and David Spade in The Do Over, the Steve Brill-directed comedy that will be the second film in the multipicture pact Sandler and his Happy Madison made with Netflix. Scripted by Chris Pappas and Kevin Barnett, the...
Maane Khatchatourian | @MaaneKhat | Variety.com On the heels of reaching a settlement in his lawsuit against Walmart, Tracy Morgan will give his first TV interview, since he was critically injured in a highway crash last June, Monday on “Today.” Morgan will sit down...
by Mike Fleming Jr. | Deadline Hollywood EXCLUSIVE: Azealia Banks, the provocative hip-hop artist who made her debut last year with the album Broke With Expensive Taste, has just landed her first starring role in a feature film. She’ll play the title character in...
Alex Stedman | @a_sted | Variety.com Tracy Morgan and Walmart have reached a settlement in the suit Morgan filed against the corporate giant over the New Jersey highway accident in June 2014 that killed one man and severely injured Morgan and two others. Details of...