Lifetime has greenlit Double Double Trouble 2, a sequel to the network’s highest-rated original movie of 2026. Tami Roman returns to executive produce and reprise her dual roles as identical twins Drea and Ali, starring alongside Roger Cross. The original Double Double Trouble, directed by Gabriel Correa from a script by Sa’Rah L. Jones, premiered […]
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Cash and Bird: Omari Hardwick and Dana Gourrier on Raising the Greatest
The actors behind Ali’s parents on filling history’s blank pages, and how a cast of Southern kids became a real family History remembers Muhammad Ali in staggering detail. It barely remembers the two people who raised him. Cassius “Cash” Clay Sr. and Odessa “Bird” Clay are mostly footnotes in Ali biographies, which left Omari Hardwick […]
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Charles F. Porter, ‘Finding Faith’ Producer and ‘Wendell Scott: A Race Story’ Actor, Dies at 47
Charles F. Porter, the actor and producer known for starring as pioneering NASCAR driver Wendell Scott in ESPN’s Wendell Scott: A Race Story and producing Lifetime’s Finding Faith, died Monday at his home in Calabasas after an 17½-year battle with Hodgkin lymphoma. He was 47. His death was confirmed by his wife, Candice Tab-Porter. Born […]
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Snoop Dogg Biopic Adds Cynthia Erivo as Tupac’s Mother and Activist Afeni Shakur
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 […]