‘When They See Us’ Creator Ava DuVernay & Cast Seek “Restorative Justice” In Central Park Five Series
With 16 Emmy nominations, the Netflix program gives the young men who were cleared of the high-profile crime the voices they always deserved. It also is one of the streamer’s most-watched shows this year. Here’s some background on how the show came about.
Refresh for updates from awards … The 2019 Disney Legends Awards opened this year’s edition of the D23 Expo in Anaheim with a vivid and evocative stage tribute to this year’s class, which is led by Robert Downey Jr., James Earl Jones, Jon Favreau, Christina Aguilera, Kenny Ortega, and Bette Midler.
In all, a dozen new…
EXCLUSIVE: Tran Quoc Bao’s ThePaper Tigershas set its cast with Alain Uy (The Morning Show, The Passage, True Detective Season 2), Ron Yuan (Marco Polo, forthcoming live-action Mulan), and Mykel Shannon Jenkins (Undisputed 3: Redemption, The Gods) toplining the kung fu action comedy and Jae Suh Park (Friends from Col…
A sneak preview screening of Joker, the Todd Phillips-directed Batman villain story starring Joaquin Phoenix, will be held at this fall’s New York Film Festival.
Organizers also announced Friday that Frances Ford Coppola’s The Cotton Club Encore will screen. Coppola recovered lost negatives to render the film…
USA Network has set premiere dates for a pair of action-drama series based on movie franshises. The Season 2 bow of The Purge is set for 9 p.m. Tuesday, October 15, followed at 10 p.m. by the series debut of Treadstone.
Watch sneak peek/featurettes for the legalized-crime thriller above and the CIA black ops drama…
Comedian Dave Chappelle will host a special “pop-up party and benefit concert” Sunday, Aug. 25, in Dayton, Ohio’s Oregon District, site of a mass shooting earlier this month that left nine people dead and 27 injured.
Chappelle is a longtime resident of nearby Yellow Springs, Ohio. His benefit appearance arrives the…
Few documentaries have triggered a real-world impact on the order of Surviving R. Kelly.
Before the six-part series aired on Lifetime, the titular R&B singer-songwriter had managed to avoid significant harm to his recording career, despite allegations going back decades that he had sexually abused numerous teenage…
Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road) has signed on to a key role in HBO’s pilot about the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers. Shannon will play Jerry Buss, the majority owner of the Lakers during a period highlighted by the team’s Showtime era during the 1980s. The Untitled Showtime Lakers Project (fka Showtime) is set to start…
Disney and Sinclair Broadcast Group have formally closed their $9.6 billion transfer of 21 regional sports networks once owned by 21st Century Fox.
In order to close its $71.3 billion acquisition of most of Fox, Disney agreed to sell off the RSNs so as to avoid monopoly issues given the scope of its ESPN holdings. The…
Andrew Koji is set to play Storm Shadow in Paramount’s G.I. Joe: Snake Eyes, joining Henry Golding who will take on the title character. Snake Eyes is a special mercenary on the G.I. Joe armed forces, specifically a ninja commando. His body was burned, hence the reason why he's clad in black. In the comic-book (a…
Already set for an arraignment on August 26 on a new indictment in his criminal case, Harvey Weinstein has hit a hard wall with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office on his desire to take his upcoming rape trial out of the NYC media spotlight.
Long story short, Cyrus Vance Jr’s crew says…
EXCLUSIVE: Cliff “Method Man” Smith has added two high-profile features to his resume. The rapper-turned-actor recently wrapped Tim Kirkby’s forthcoming action-thriller Waldoand is set for the Ricky Staub-directed Concrete Cowboysstarring Idris Elba and Caleb McLaughlin.
In Waldo, Smith will appear opposite Mel…
The accolades came almost instantly. Within weeks of their series being released on Amazon Prime Video in November 2017, the team behind The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel were clutching Golden Globes for Best Musical or Comedy Television Series and Best Performance by an Actress for their lead Rachel Brosnahan.
"Nobody really…
