Director: Nia DaCosta Writer(s): Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld, Clive Barker (characters) Starring: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Tony Todd, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Colman Domingo Synopsis: A reboot of Candyman, the 1992 horror classic adapted from Clive...
By Pete Hammond | Deadline Hollywood The Avengers rule the day as Marvel and Disney’s box office juggernaut Avengers: Endgame picked up 14 Saturn Award nominations, along with another couple for Avengers: Infinity War. It was by far the biggest individual total for a...
Director: Josh Cooley Writer(s): John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Josh Cooley, Valerie LaPointe, Rashida Jones, Will McCormack, Martin Hynes, Stephany Folsom, Andrew Stanton, Stephany Folsom Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Annie Potts, Tony Hale, Keegan-Michael Key,...
Director: Henry Selick Writer(s): Keegan-Michael Key, Clay McLeod Chapman, Jordan Peele, Henry Selick Starring: Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele Synopsis: Two demon brothers face off against a nun and a pair of goth teens. Release Date: Unknown | Length: Unknown...
by Beyoncé Knowles-Carter | Time Magazine Loving Michelle Obama wasn’t much of a choice. It was something that came naturally, because of how she carried herself. Because she resembled us and was moving in spaces where, as black Americans, we weren’t exactly meant to...
Director: Evan Marlowe Writer(s): Evan Marlowe Starring: Jordan Peele, James Marsters, Christopher McDonald, Sid Haig, Robert Englund, Hana Mae Lee, Rich Fulcher, Patrick Cavanaugh, David Alen, Ross King, Carole Ruggier, Darren Darnborough, Elizabeth Arends, Kerry...
Director: Xavier Burgin Writer(s): Ashlee Blackwell, Danielle Burrows, Robin R. Means Coleman (book) Starring: Rusty Cundieff, Ernest R. Dickerson, Robin R. Means Coleman, Jordan Peele, Tananarive Due, Rachel True, Ken Foree, Keith David, Tony Todd, Paula Jai Parker,...
By Dave McNary | Variety Jordan Peele’s horror-thriller “Us” will launch the 26th edition of the South by Southwest Film Festival on March 8. “Us,” which follows a family confronted by a group of doppelgängers, stars Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, and Elisabeth Moss....
by Monique Jones | Shadow and Act If you’re tired of Halloween celebrations that are all pumpkins, candy and costumes over the truly spooky, these 13 Black horror films will put the fear back into your holiday. 1. Blacula Every Black horror film binge should...
by Dade Hayes and Patrick Hipes | Deadline Hollywood First Reformed, The Favourite and Eighth Grade were among the most-recognized films in the 28th annual Gotham Awards nominations, which were announced this morning. (See below for the full list.) First Reformed,...
By Daniel Holloway | Variety Atop the coffee table inside the house where Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Prods. lives sit some very on-brand periodicals — titles like Heavy Metal, Fangoria and Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone Magazine. The Twilight Zone issue is a gem. It not...
Director: Spike Lee Writer(s): Spike Lee, Kevin Willmott, Ron Stallworth (book), Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz Starring: John David Washington, Adam Driver, Topher Grace, Laura Harrier, Alec Baldwin, Paul Walter Hauser, Ryan Eggold, Corey Hawkins, Robert John...
by Dino-Ray Ramos, Anthony D’Alessandro and Matt Grobar | Deadline Hollywood Get Out took home the top prize of Best Feature tonight at the Film Independent Spirit Awards. Peele also took home the trophy for Best Director in what could possibly be one of the...
Tambay Obenson | Shadow and Act The list continues to get shorter, as new information is revealed, and we are now at the end of the journey with this being the final list, less than a month (Tuesday, January 23, 2018) before the Academy announces the nominees for the...
Dave McNary | Variety The Directors Guild of America has nominated Guillermo del Toro (“The Shape of Water”), Greta Gerwig (“Lady Bird”), Martin McDonaugh (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”), Christopher Nolan (“Dunkirk”), and Jordan Peele (“Get Out”) for its...
Tambay Obenson | Shadow and Act The 2018 Film Independent Spirit Award Nominees were announced earlier today, and, as we expected, Jordan Peele’s Get Out is well represented, with nominations in 5 different categories, including Best Feature, Best Director,...
Dino-Ray Ramos | Deadline Hollywood When the teaser trailers for Jordan Peele’s Get Out first came out, question marks hovered over its mysterious plot points. Fortunately, keeping the narrative about the stylized take on the victimization of black people and “the...
Gordon Cox | Variety “Get Out,” writer-director Jordan Peele’s surprise smash of a scary movie, led the pack of nominations for the 2017 Gotham Awards, Independent Filmmaker Project’s annual ceremony honoring indie film. “Get Out” scored a nod for best feature, along...
Director: David Soren Writer(s): Nicholas Stoller, Dav Pilkey, David Soren Starring: Kevin Hart, Ed Helms, Nick Kroll, Thomas Middleditch, Jordan Peele, Kristen Schaal, DeeDee Rescher, Brian Posehn, David Soren, Mel Rodriguez, Susan Fitzer, Lynnanne Zager, Tiffany...
Shadow and Act | Tambay Obenson A project that’s long been in the works, it was in 2010 when it was first revealed that the Hughes brothers (Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes) of “Menace to Society,” “Dead Presidents,” “The Book of Eli” and more, had been tapped by...
Director: Nicholas Stoller, Doug Sweetland Writer(s): Nicholas Stoller Starring: Andy Samberg, Katie Crown, Kelsey Grammer, Jennifer Aniston, Ty Burrell, Anton Starkman, Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Danny Trejo, Stephen Kramer Glickman, Christopher Nicholas...
Director: Peter Atencio Writer(s): Jordan Peele, Alex Rubens Starring: Jordan Peele, Keegan-Michael Key, Tiffany Haddish, Method Man, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Jason Mitchell, Jamar Malachi Neighbors, Luis Guzmán, Will Forte, Nia Long, Rob Huebel, Madison Wolfe, Jordyn A....
By Daniel Johnson | ScreenRant [This is a review of the Key & Peele series finale. There will be SPOILERS.] After reflecting back on its hundreds of sketches, more than 50 episodes and five strong seasons, many words come to mind when attempting to describe Comedy...
By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act Courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter, here’s the 4th part of its annual Emmy season roundtable chats that we all love so much, released leading up to the September 20 Primetime Emmys this fall. Today’s hour-long...
by Greg Evans | Deadline Hollywood Fans of Key and Peele might need an anger translator after today’s news: Comedy Central’s Peabody-Award winning, Emmy-nominated sketch series will end a five-season run with its final episodes in September. “Don’t miss the last 8...
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...
