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Lil Rel Howery and Ego Nwodim are set to star in the indie comedy Spin Me Round opposite Alison Brie, Aubrey Plaza, Alessandro Nivola, and Molly Shannon. Tim Heidecker, Ben Sinclair, Fred Armisen, Ayden Mayeri, Debby Ryan, Zach Woods, Lauren Weedman, and Jake Picking round out the cast. READ: Matthew A. Cherry To Direct Comedy […]
The holidays are getting some action from Idris Elba. Idris Elba is set to star in the holiday action flick Stay Frosty for Warner Bros, which just shelled out more than $1 million for the rights to the film. Sam Hargrave is attached to direct based on Tyler Marceca’s script. READ: Regina King, Zazie Beetz, Lakeith […]
Sam Richardson and Zoë Chao are joining Rebel Wilson in the high school comedy Senior Year. Justin Hartley, Angourie Rice, Mary Holland and Chris Parnell will also star. Alex Hardcastle are directing the comedy based on a spec from Andrew Knauer and Arthur Pielli. The story follows a cheerleader who wakes up after a 20-year […]
Yaya DaCosta is departing her longtime role in Chicago med ahead of its seventh season to lead the upcoming Fox drama series Our Kind Of People. She is the first cast member announced to join the Lee Daniels and Karen Gist project they have with 20th Television and Fox Entertainment. Tasha Smith is also attached […]
Erika Alexander and Derek Luke are teaming back up with Blumhouse for its second television with Epix, entitled American Refugee. Sam Trammell, Peyton Jackson, Zamani Wilder, Jessi Case, and Vince Mattis are also cast. American Refugee tells the story of a family seeking shelter in a neighbor’s bunker (Trammell), while the American economy is in […]
Ant-Man and the Wasp star Hannah John-Kamen is taking up another comic book story. Kamen is cast as the title role in the adaptation of the sword-wielding comic book fantasy hero Red Sonja for Millennium Films. Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith created Sonya in the early 1970s by for Marvel’s “Conan the Barbarian” comics. She […]
Gabourey Sidibe is making her feature directorial debut with the psychological thriller Pale Horse for Gamechanger Films. Pale Horse is based on a story by Chris Courtney Martin and Asabi Lee and Paul Hart-Wilden is penning the script. Set in the Pacific Northwest, the thriller follows Naia, a celebrated yet reclusive author living with multiple […]
Manboy may be gone from Snowfall but Melvin Gregg is entering the sci-fi-world of Share. Melvin Gregg is executive producing and starring in the sci-fi pic Share alongside Bradley Whitford, Alice Braga, and Danielle Campbell. Ira Rosensweig will make her directorial debut with this film. She’s is directing based on Benjamin Sutor’s script. Share follows […]
Issa Rae’s HBO Max comedy, tentatively titled Rap Shit, has added three to its cast. Crooked Media Podcast Keep It’s writer Aida Osman, rapper KaMillion, and comedian Jonica Booth have been cast as the leads of Rap Sh*t (WT). The HBO Max’s half-hour comedy series from Insecure co-creator Rae and her Hoorae Productions. Rae will […]
Harold Perrineau is set to lead Epix’s contemporary sci-fi horror series From. John Griffin created the series which unravels the mystery of a nightmarish town. It is located in the middle of America and it traps all those who enter. As the unwilling residents fight to keep a sense of normalcy and search for a […]