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Terry Crew has been added to the cast of Tales of the Walking Dead, AMC’s new spinoff series set in The Walking Dead universe. Anthony Edwards, Parker Posey, Poppy Liu, and Jillian Bell will also star in the episodic anthology series. Each one-hour standalone episode of Tales of the Walking Dead will focus on both […]
Season 2 of P-Valley is coming and two new faces are joining the Pynk family. Snowfall’s Gail Bean and Psalms Salazar (Girl Lost: A Hollywood Thriller) have joined season 2 of Katori Hall hit starz series. They join returning cast members Brandee Evans, Shannon Thornton, Parker Sawyers, Nicco Annan, Elarica Johnson, Harriett D. Foy, Dan […]
Justin Simien is taking on another reboot. Simien who directing the Haunted Mansion reboot for Disney is now also attached to adapt and direct Paramount+’s forthcoming Flashdance reboot series. The now-series has been in the works for over a year and is based on the 1983 Jennifer Beals-led blockbuster hit romantic drama film. Adrian Lyne […]
Anthony Mackie and Pryianka Chopra Jonas are cast in Kevin Sullivan’s action film Ending Things. The film centers on a hit-woman (assuming it will be played by Jonas) who wants out of the assassin business. She tells her “business” partner (assuming it will be played by Mackie) that she’s quitting the business as well as […]
DB Woodside has been cast as series regulars opposite leads Gabriel Basso and Luciane Buchanan in Netflix’s political conspiracy thriller series The Night Agent. Hong Chau, Fola Evans-Akingbola, Eve Harlow, Phoenix Raei, Enrique Murciano, and Sarah Desjardins have also been cast in the series Shawn Ryan created the 10-episode series which is based on author […]
Brooklynn Mackenzie joins Asante Blackk and Tiffany Haddish in the sci-fi film adaptation of M.T. Anderson’s novel Landscape With Invisible Hand for MGM and Plan B. Clifton Collins Jr., Michael Gandolfini, Josh Hamilton, and Kylie Rogers have also been cast. READ: Janet Hubert, Lala, Aisha Hinds Joins Netflix Rom-Com The Perfect Find Cory Finley […]
Kat Graham will star in the thriller Collide opposite Ryan Phillippe and Jim Gaffigan. David Cade, Dylan Flashner, Drea de Matteo, Aisha Dee, David James Elliot, and Paul Ben-Victor round out Collide‘s cast. READ: Leave The World Behind: Myha’la Herrold Joins Mahershala Ali, Julia Roberts in Thriller For Netflix Written and directed by Mukunda Michael […]
Jada Pinkett Smith and Queen Latifah, who have shared the screen and stage on many occasions are reuniting in CBS’ The Equalizer. The series which is led by Latifah will see Smith guest star as Jessi Cook, a savant-level thief with a photographic memory. Though she’s brilliant and the best at what she does, she’s […]
Taraji P. Henson has joined H.E.R. and Corey Hawkins in Warner Bros.’s feature adaptation of the Broadway musical The Color Purple. Blitz Bazawule to helm The Color Purple adaptation. Marcus Gardley is penning the story that follows the lives of African-American women — namely Celie and Nettie Harris, Shug Avery and Miss Millie — in […]
Mamoudou Athie joins the cast of the legal drama The Burial for Amazon Studios. He joins Jamie Foxx, Tommy Lee Jones and Jurnee Smollett who were previously cast. The film is based on a true story, about a bankrupt funeral homeowner who decides to sue a rival businessman over a handshake deal gone wrong and […]