Cynthia Erivo has joined the cast of Snoop, Universal Pictures’ biopic of Snoop Dogg, and will portray Afeni Shakur, the Black Panther activist, political prisoner, and mother of Tupac Shakur, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter both report exclusively. Jonathan Daviss, known for Netflix’s Outer Banks, leads the cast as Snoop Dogg, with production currently underway […]
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Netflix’s ‘One Last Order’ Trailer Celebrates a Drive-Thru Worker’s Final Shift After 37 Years
Netflix has released the first trailer for One Last Order, a short documentary centered on Sighle Williams’s final shift after 37 years at Mac’s Drive-Thru in Gainesville, Florida. The film begins streaming November 24. According to Netflix’s official synopsis, Williams, whose name is pronounced “Sheila,” expected a quiet farewell after decades of turning routine orders […]
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The Men Who Made Muhammad: Michael Ealy and Kai Parham on Malcolm, Rudy and the Ali We Never Saw
“This is not Malcolm’s story.” Ealy and Parham on brotherhood, mentorship and the self-doubt behind the swagger Before he was the Greatest, he was somebody’s little brother’s hero and somebody’s protégé. In The Greatest, those two relationships carry the story’s quietest weight. Kai Parham plays Rudy Clay, later Rahman Ali, the younger brother who sparred […]
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Lonnie Ali’s Blessing, Hana Ali’s Tears and a Three-Season Plan: Inside ‘The Greatest’ | Interview
Every Muhammad Ali story runs into the same problem: how do you play a man the whole world already knows by heart? The voice, the poetry, the tilt of the head before a punchline: Ali performed himself so completely that any imitation risks becoming a costume. Prime Video’s The Greatest, premiering November 4, takes on […]
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“I Let the Silence Speak”: Amin Joseph on Becoming Sonny Liston in ‘The Greatest’ | Interview
Joseph plays Liston in Prime Video’s The Greatest, the first authorized scripted series about Ali, premiering November 4. Created by Ben Watkins, the eight-episode first season traces Clay’s rise from his 1960 Olympic gold in Rome to the 1964 night he took Liston’s heavyweight title and shocked the world. Jaalen Best stars as Ali, alongside […]
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‘Trinity’ Trailer: Gugu Mbatha-Raw Uncovers a Dangerous Conspiracy After a Near-Nuclear Disaster
Netflix has released the first trailer for Trinity, an eight-episode political thriller starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Richard Madden, set to premiere Tuesday, December 1. The series comes from Jed Mercurio, creator of Line of Duty, who serves as writer, showrunner, and executive producer. Trinity follows Commander Katherine Decker, played by Mbatha-Raw, a naval officer who […]
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Dennis Williams II’s Experimental Romantic Thriller ‘Caterpillar’ Explores AI and Human Connection, Starring Geffri Maya, Angela Lewis and More
What happens when the thing you love most isn’t real, and then suddenly, briefly, it is? That’s the question driving Caterpillar, an experimental romantic thriller written and directed by Dennis Williams II, now in post-production after wrapping principal photography. Geffri Maya, Angela Lewis, Jamad Mays, and Jack Seavor McDonald lead the cast. The film follows […]
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 3 Trailer: “Victory Will Require Sacrifice”
The war between the Greek gods and the Titans is looming in the first full-length trailer for Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 3. The trailer makes clear that in order to save the world from that apocalyptic clash, Percy, played by Walker Scobell, will need all the help he can get, likely meaning he’ll […]
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‘Crooklyn’ Cast Reunites for Spike Lee’s New Two-Day Festival, Playback: The Brooklyn Watch Party
Spike Lee and Clara Wu Tsai are launching Playback: The Brooklyn Watch Party, a new two-day festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music running November 6-7, opening with a special screening and cast reunion for Lee’s 1994 film Crooklyn. Friday’s opening night at the Howard Gilman Opera House begins with a live pre-show performance directed […]
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From the First Muslim Senator to the First Black Woman Governor, 2026 Midterms Make History
Democrats won control of both the House and Senate in Tuesday’s midterm elections, flipping seven Senate seats and dozens of House districts in results CBS News, NBC News, and CNN all independently projected as a decisive night for the party. Beyond the shift in Congressional control, the election produced an unusually dense cluster of historic […]