David Robb | Deadline Hollywood Morgan Creek might have some competition in its long-delayed efforts to bring a Tupac Shakur film to the big screen. Another project is also in the works, this one from Tupac’s former producing partner Gobi Rahimi, who has just launched...
Jamie Foxx has been cast in director Noam Murro’s heist movie Blink. Foxx, whose most recent roles include Horrible Bosses 1 & 2, Annie and Django Unchained, will play a hospital caregiver whose patient is the victim of a bank robbery who it turns out has ulterior...
Carole Horst reporting from Cannes | Variety.com David Oyelowo has joined Luke Evans in thriller Three Seconds,” directed by Otto Bathurst. SEE MORE: Cannes Film Festival Bloom is handling international sales; CAA and WME are repping domestic rights for the adaptation...
from The Week Walking Dead star Chad Coleman has apologized after being videotaped going on a tirade against his fellow passengers while riding the New York City subway. “Where my humanitarians are?” the actor yelled during the bizarre three-minute outburst, caught on...
by Mike Fleming Jr | Deadline Hollywood Jeff Nichols, the director of the acclaimed indies Mud and Take Shelter, has solidified his next film. Big Beach and Raindog Films are teaming on Loving, a drama that Nichols wrote and will direct for a September start in...
Jeff Carter | ScreenRant Sometimes it feels like Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson owns a cloning machine, because the guy is absolutely everywhere these days. He just appeared in the highest-grossing movie of 2015 thus far, Furious 7 (at $1.4 billion worldwide and counting),...
by Mike Fleming Jr | Deadline Hollywood Even though Legendary Pictures’ Thomas Tull and director Paul Greengrass can be uncompromising guys, when they had a chance to make a movie about Jimi Hendrix four years ago with or without his estate’s cooperation, they backed...
Brent Lang | @BrentALang | Variety.com Captain America’s name may be in the title of “Captain America: Civil War,” but he’s just one of several superheroes scheduled to appear in the comicbook adventure. Paul Rudd, the star of this summer’s “Ant-Man,” will appear...
A day after pushing Monster Trucks off of its 2015 release schedule, Paramount Pictures is now pushing Beverly Hills Cop out of 2016 and will remain unset for the time being. In addition, the studio dropped their Untitled Bad Robot movie into a March 11, 2016 date....
Erik Pedersen | Deadline Hollywood ARC Entertainment has acquired the Cuba Gooding, Jr.-starring family drama Freedom. Based on a true story, the film juxtaposes the lives of two men living a century apart: an escaped slave named Samuel Woodward (Cuba Gooding, Jr.),...
Kofi Outlaw | Screenrant.com DC and Warner Bros.’ Suicide Squad movie is currently filming in Canada, but even before production started, director David Ayer and his high-profile cast of stars were making waves on the Internet, either through character and casting...
Cynthia Littleton | Variety.com Viola Davis is attached to star in an HBO telepic about the life of Harriet Tubman, the activist who helped devise a system that allowed hundreds of slaves to escape to freedom via the Underground Railroad. Davis is developing the...