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EXCLUSIVE: Djimon Hounsou is replacing Brian Tyree Henry in a starring role in A Quiet Place Part II, the Paramount and Platinum Dunes followup to the sleeper genre hit. John Krasinski is directing his script and Platinum Dunes partners Andrew Form and Brad Fuller produce with Michael Bay. Source said that Henry (Atlan…

Melissa McCarthy and Brian Tyree Henry stole the show as presenters for the Best Costume Design award tonight at the Academy Awards. In a parody mash-up of two Oscar-nominated films based on British royal history, McCarthy, donning the red hair of Mary Queen of Scots‘ Margot Robbie, flowed onto the Dolby Theatre stage…

Last year was the 30th anniversary of the original Child’s Play, which effectively melded the slasher terror of Halloween with the equally scary Cabbage Patch Dolls fad to deliver historic Hollywood horror results. This summer Chucky gets all dolled up again in a remake from Orion Pictures and KatzSmith Productions…

For 12 minutes in Barry Jenkins’s adaptation of James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk, Brian Tyree Henry appears as a character by the name of Daniel Carty. His character is fresh out of jail and runs into his good friend Fonny (Stephan James) on the streets of New York. The two go back to Fonny’s apartment and…

Brian Tyree Henry, nominated for Emmys this year for FX’s Atlanta and NBC’s This Is Us as well as a Tony for Lobby Hero, has closed a deal to join Legendary and Warner Bros’ Godzilla vs Kong. He joins Millie Bobby Brown, Danai Gurira and Julian Dennison to help lead the ensemble cast. Adam Wingard directs the fourth…

Young actor Gabriel Bateman (Lights Out, American Gothic), Parks and Rec alum Aubrey Plaza, and Atlanta star Brian Tyree Henry are set to star in MGM’s Child’s Play remake for Orion Pictures. Bateman will take on the role as Andy, Plaza will play Andy’s mom Karen, and  Henry is Mike. Those characters originated in the…

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy nominated Atlanta star Brian Tyree Henry has been tapped to star in The Outside Story, a Brooklyn-based indie feature from first-time writer/director Casimir Nozkowski. The pic, which will begin filming on location in mid-November, is being produced by Sub Genre and Greenmachine Film. Henry stars as…

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Emmy nominee Brian Tyree Henry has joined Amy Adams in Fox 2000’s Hitchcockian thriller, The Woman In The Window, directed by Joe Wright and based on A.J. Finn's NYT best-selling novel. Tracy Letts adapted the script which has Adams starring as Anna Fox, an agoraphobic child psychologist who lives…

Coming as absolutely no surprise to anyone who likes quality TV, FX is bringing the Emmy-winning Atlanta back for third season, the cabler announced today. Whether it gets a retitling like Season 2 did as Atlanta Robbin’ Season, the third season of the series created by and starring Donald Glover is aiming to be back…

Sony released the first full trailer for their forthcoming animated feature Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse starring Shameik Moore (Dope, The Get Down) in a different take on your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. The studio also announced an all-star cast joining Moore lending their voice to the series. In the…

Last week, Brian Tyree Henry was having the sort of moment his Atlanta character – the reluctant, verge-of-success rapper Alfred “Paper Boi” Miles – might observe with both envy and fear. That night’s episode of the FX hit, titled “Woods,” would lean almost entirely on Henry’s performance, a Season 2 showcase both the…

EXCLUSIVE: If you need to up the stakes in your comedy film, send in the clowns. With Family, Laura’s Steinel puts a different spin on mother-daughter big screen angst. If you thought Holly Hunter and Evan Rachel Wood had it bad in their tug-of-war in Thirteen, Taylor Schilling’s workaholic Kate Stone is tasked with…