Deon Taylor and 50 Cent team up for sports heist film Free Agents. Free Agents, described as a high-concept sports action heist thriller, tells of a group of professional football players who come together to steal from the team owners who are exploiting them. Taylor will direct the film based on a script he co-wrote […]
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Antoine Fuqua is Directing & Producing the Film Adaptation of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof With All-Black Cast
Antoine Fuqua is directing and producing the film adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ classic Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with an all-black cast. Fuqua is teaming up with producers Stephen C. Byrd and Alia Jones-Harvey for the adaptation. Byrd and Jones-Harvey backed the 2008 revival of the show that made history with a sold-out […]
Michael Hyatt, Sterling Macer Jr to Star in Where The Crawdads Sing
Michael Hyatt, Sterling Macer Jr., Garret Dillahunt, Ahna O’Reilly, and newcomer Jojo Regina join the cast of Where The Crawdads Sing. They join previously cast Diasy Edgar-Jones. Where The Crawdads Sing is a film adaptation based on Delia Owens’ 2018 NYT best-selling novel of the same age. The book follows two intertwining storylines. One explores […]
April Parker Jones, Celeste O’Connor, and Donna Biscoe Join The In Between
April Parker Jones, Celeste O’Connor, and Donna Biscoe round out the cast of Paramount Players film The In Between. They join previously cast Joey King, Kyle Allen, John Ortiz, and Kim Dickens. Arie Posin is directing the supernatural thriller film based on an idea by Marc Klein, who also penned the script. READ: Will Smith […]
Deborah Cox to Recur in HBO Max’s Limited Series Station Eleven
Deborah Cox joins HBO Max’s limited series Station Eleven in a recurring capacity. It is a 10-episode post-apocalyptic saga about survivors of a devastating flu as they attempt to rebuild. They also are reimagining the world anew while holding on to the best of what’s been lost. Cox will play Wendy, a musician looking for […]
RJ Cyler, Donald Watkins Tapped to Star in Comedy Thriller Emergency From Writer KD Dávila
RJ Cyler, Donald Watkins, Sabrina Carpenter, and Sebastian Chacon are all starring in the comedy thriller Emergency from Amazon Studios and Temple Hill. Maddie Nichols, Madison Thompson, Diego Abraham, and Melanie Jeffcoat round out the cast. Carey Williams is directing the film from the screenplay by KD Dávila. Emergency is a story punctuating the […]
Anika Noni Rose Cast in Showtime’s Vampire Pilot Let the Right One In
Anika Noni Rose to lead Let the Right One In, the Showtime vampire drama pilot. She will star opposite Demián Bichir. Let the Right One In is inspired by John Ajvide Lindqvist’s best-selling novel of the same name. It was also adapted in 2008 into a Swedish film. It is described as an elevated genre […]
Aja Naomi King joins QCode Podcast Blackout for its Second Season
How To Get Away With Murder alum Aja Naomi King joins QCode podcast Blackout for its second season. She will star opposite returning cast Rami Malek. The series centers on Simon Itani (Malek) a small-town New Hampshire radio DJ who fights to protect his family and community after the power grid goes down nationwide, upending […]
Lamorne Morris to Star in the Horror Film Night Shift
Lamorne Morris to star in the horror film Night Shift alongside Phoebe Tonkin, Madison Hu, Patrick Fischler, Lauren Bowles, and Christopher Denham. Paul and Benjamin China are writing and directing. The horror-thriller follows a young woman (Tonkin) working her first night shift at a remote motel as she begins to suspect that she is being […]
Meagan Good, Snoop Dogg Join Jamie Foxx in Netflix’s Day Shift
Meagan Good and Snoop Dogg join Jamie Foxx in Neflix’s Vampire movie Day Shift. Also, cast are Karla Souza, Scott Adkins, Eric Lange, Zion Broadnax, Dave Franco, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Oliver Masucci, Steve Howey, and C.S. Lee. Day Shift follows Foxx as a hard-working blue-collar dad who just wants to provide a good life for […]