Jessica Williams, CP Powell, Janet Hubert, Jordan Rock and Maya Kazan join Season 2 of HBO Max’s romantic comedy anthology series Love Life. They will all star alongside previously cast series lead William Jackson Harper, who will also executive produce. Williams and Powell join as series regulars while Hubert, Rock, and Kazan will guest star. […]
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Taylour Paige Lands Female Lead Role in Toxic Avenger Remake Opposite Peter Dinklage
Taylour Paige is cast as the female lead in the Toxic Avenger remake opposite Peter Dinklage and Jacob Tremblay. Macon Blair is directing the reboot of Troma Entertainment’s 1984 low-budget action-comedy franchise. The film centered on Melvin, a social misfit who works as a janitor at the Tromaville Health Club. However, one day the mayor’s […]
Blair Underwood to Direct, Produce, and Star in Indie Thriller Viral
Blair Underwood is directing, producing, and starring in the indie thriller, Viral, from Your films. Joe McClean wrote the film which is about a man dealing with his wife’s disappearance. Underwood and McClean are producing alongside Daniel Cypress and York Films’ John Kalafatis, Joanna Kalafatis, and Andreas Ignatiou. READ: Blair Underwood to Reprise Role in L.A. […]
Natasha Rothwell Inks Overall Deal With ABC Signature
Congrats are in order for Insecure actress Natasha Rothwell. The actress/comedian inked a multi-year overall deal at ABC Signature. Under the deal, Rothwell will develop new television projects via her Big Hattie Productions. The deal is also in conjunction with Disney General Entertainment’s BIPOC Creator Initiative led by Tara Duncan. “Natasha is the real deal […]
The Garcias: HBO Max is Re-imagining Nickelodeon’s The Brothers Garcia As a Sequel
Talk about a blast from the past of how-did-we-forget-about-this-show. HBO Max is giving Nickelodeon’s sitcom The Brothers Garcia, a sequel entitled The Garcias. If you don’t remember, The Brother’s Garcia aired on Nick for four seasons from 2000 to 2004. It was an original series that was billed as the first English-language sitcom to have […]
Ephraim Sykes Joins Season 2 of Russian Doll
Season 2 of Netflix’s Russian Doll is coming together and adds Ephraim Sykes (Hamilton) to the cast. Russian Doll follows Nadia (Natasha Lyonne) who is caught in a time loop as the guest of honor at a seemingly inescapable party one night in New York City. She dies repeatedly, always restarting at the same moment […]
Annelle Olayele Joins Showtime’s Limited Series The Man Who Fell To Earth
Annelle Olayele to star as a series regulars in Showtime’s sci-fi limited series The Man Who Fell to Earth. She will star opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor and Naomie Harris. Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet are writing the series based on Walter Tevis’ novel of the same name. Kurtzman is also directing multiple episodes. READ: Jamie Foxx, […]
Ihuoma Ofordire to Pen Cleopatra Jones Remake For Macro, Warner Bros.
Lovecraft County and Snowfall writer Ihuoma Ofordire is penning the remake of the 1973 Blaxploitation film, Cleopatra Jones for Warner Bros and Charles D. King’s Macro. The original film centered on Cleopatra Jones, played by Tamara Dobson, who is an undercover government agent who uses the day job of supermodel as her cover and an […]
Charles Babalola joins Kevin Hart and More in Borderlands
Charles Babalola joins the cast of Lionsgate’s adaptation of the hit video game Borderlands. Bablola helps round out the cast that includes Kevin Hart, Cate Blanchett, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu, Edgar Ramirez, Haley Bennett, Olivier Richters, and Jack Black. Also recently cast aside Babalola are Gina Gershon, Cheyenne Jackson, Benjamin Byron Davis, […]
Dominique Fishback, Anthony Ramos to Lead in New Transformers Movie — Steven Caple Jr, is Directing
Dominique Fishback and Anthony Ramos to co-lead the latest installment of Hollywood’s biggest franchise, Transformers. Creed II helmer Steven Caple Jr. is directing the film for Paramount, eOne and Hasbro as they talk final negotiations with Fishback to confirm her spot. While Ramos was always a frontrunner for the lead role, the role of Fishback’s […]