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Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff’s iconic song Summertime is getting a musical makeover. Westbrook Studios and Davis Entertainment are teaming up to develop a hip-hop musical based on the Grammy-winning song. READ: H.E.R. and Corey Hawkins Cast in The Color Purple Musical Film — Blitz Bazawule to Direct Details on Summertime’s plot are being […]
John Boyega has joined Viola Davis, Thuso Mbedu, and Lashawna Lynch in The Woman King for TriStar Pictures. Gina Prince Bythewood is directing and Dana Stevens wrote the original screenplay with the current draft being by Stevens and Prince-Bythewood. The film is a historical epic inspired by actual events that took place in The Kingdom […]
Ashton Sanders joins the cast of the Whitney Houston biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody for Sony and its TriStar division. Sanders will play Bobby Brown. He joins previously cast Moses Ingram and Naomi Ackie. Ackie will play Whitney Houston and Ingram is cast as Houston’s longtime assistant Robyn Crawford. Crawford later became Houston’s creative […]
LisaGay Hamilton, Bashir Salahuddin, Shaun J. Brown are cast in Hulu’s limited series The Dropout, which is based on the ABC News/ABC Radio podcast about the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos. Dylan Minnette, Alan Ruck, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Michaela Watkins, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Kevin Sussman, Sam Straley also star. READ: Pose’s MJ Rodriguez to […]
Another day, another remake, this time Hollywood is rebooting the 1996 action film, Eraser, titling it Eraser: Reborn. Dominic Sherwood stars as the lead in the Warner Bros remake, a role Arnold Schwarzenegger originally held. McKinley Belcher III, Jacky Lai, and Eddie Ramos also star in the film. READ: Brittany Daniel, Pooch Hall Reprising Roles […]
Giancarlo and Tati Gabrielle are among eight cast in Kaleidoscope, an action heist drama inspired by the seventy billion dollars that went missing during Hurricane Sandy. is Netflix’s new anthology series that will give viewers their own unique experience watching a team of skillful thieves attempt to pull off a robbery they’ve been planning for […]
Anthony Mackie is cast as the lead in the upcoming live-action series adaptation of Twisted Metal live-action series currently in the works at Sony Pictures Television. Sony Pictures Television and PlayStation Productions are developing the series, which is based on the “Twisted Metal” vehicular combat games, the first of which was released in 1995. The action-comedy […]
Because Hollywood refuses to leave classics alone, The Bodyguard remake is up next, almost three decades after its release. Tony-nominated The Inheritance playwright Matthew López is attached to pen the remake for Warner Bros. READ: Jada Pinkett Smith to Executive Produce Netflix Docu-Series About African Queens The 1992 blockbuster told the love story of R&B […]
Mahershala Ali is joining Julia Roberts in the thriller adaptation of Leave The World Behind for Netflix. Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail on board to direct and adapt Rumaan Alam’s novel of the same name. READ: Spinning Gold: Wiz Khalifa, Tayla Parx, Ledisi and More Cast in Biopic About Casablanca Records It follows a husband […]
33 years later, the comedy Twins starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito is getting a sequel, entitled Triplets. Director/producer Ivan Reitman is teaming back up with Schwarzenegger and DeVito who played brothers Julian and Vincent with the help of Tracy Morgan, who will play a third and long-lost sibling. Reitman will direct the sequel which […]