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 […]
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Sam Richardson, Zoë Chao to Star in Comedy Senior Year
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 to Lead Fox Drama Our Kind of People — Tasha Smith to Direct
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, Derek Luke Cast as Leads in American Refugee
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 […]
Hannah John-Kamen Lands Title Role in Adaptation of Comic Red Sonja
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 to Make Feature Directorial Debut With Psychological Thriller Pale Horse
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 […]
Melvin Gregg to Executive Produce and Star in Sci-Fi Film Share
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 […]
Aida Osman, KaMillion, Jonica Booth Cast as Leads in Comedy Rap Shit (WT) From Issa Rae
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 Will Lead Cast of Epix’s Sci-Fi Horror Series From
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 […]
50 Cent’s True Crime Anthology Series Confessions of a Crime Queen Heads to Discovery+
50 Cent’s TV career continues to flourish with a new series Confessions of a Crime Queen heading to Discovery+. The network gave a straight-to-series order to Confessions of a Crime Queen, a true-crime anthology series. 50 is developing the project through his G-Unit Film & Television banner, Rich Bye and his Goodbye Pictures and Lionsgate […]