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...
from Variety.com Sony has officially announced a sequel to the Denzel Washington thriller “The Equalizer.” Rumors of an “Equalizer” follow-up began months before the R-rated auctioneer opened in September, but it was the film’s strong box office results and home...
by Andrew Dyce | Screenrant.com It’s time to add yet another name of note to the growing cast (how many characters are left?) of Warner Bros.’ first Batman V Superman follow-up film, writer/director David Ayer’s Suicide Squad, introducing some of the most brutal and...
Justin Kroll | @krolljvar | Variety.com Tyler Perry is set to join the cast of Paramount and Michael Bay’s “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2,” where he will play scientist Baxter Stockman. Megan Fox and Will Arnett are on board to reprise their roles in the sequel,...
Ramin Setoodeh | @RaminSetoodeh | Variety.com Whoopi Goldberg is one of Variety’s Power of Women New York honorees. For more profiles on the honorees, click here. SEE MORE: From the April 21, 2015 issue of Variety As a 7-year-old girl living in the New York City...
by Chris Agar | ScreenRant.com After a prolonged slump to begin 2015, the box office got a desperately-needed shot in the arm when Universal released Furious 7 on April 3. Taking advantage of a weak crop of “competitors,” the action sequel broke the month’s opening...
Sandy Schaefer | Screenrant.com The upcoming Creed is a spinoff/sequel to the Rocky movie franchise, with Sylvester Stallone reprising his role as Rocky Balboa. [su_lightbox type="image"...
Variety.com Director David Ayer tweeted the first cast photo of “Suicide Squad” on Wednesday. The star-studded group, which includes Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Viola Davis, Joel Kinnaman and Jai Courtney, sat down for a table reading before the film starts shooting...
By Jeff Sneider | The Wrap.com Spike Lee is making his next movie for Amazon Studios and the Oscar-nominated filmmaker is courting Samuel L. Jackson, Jeremy Piven, Common and Kanye West for the ensemble cast of “Chiraq,” multiple individuals familiar with the project...
by Borys Kit | The Hollywood Reporter Vin Diesel, fresh off the rousing $342 million worldwide opening of Furious 7, and Chris Tucker are in negotiations to join the growing cast of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, the adaptation of the Ben Fountain novel being...