EXCLUSIVE: Widows and Bad Times At The El Royale star Cynthia Erivo is to lead voice cast on, and co-produce, the upcoming podcast Carrier from burgeoning LA audio firm QCode, which recently launched with hit Rami Malek pod Blackout. Erivo stars in the scripted thriller with Lamorne Morris (New Girl), Martin Starr (Sil…

Black Panther star Letitia Wright, Widows star Cynthia Erivo, Sorry To Bother You‘s Lakeith Stanfield, American Animals actor Barry Keoghan and Wild Rose lead Jessie Buckley have been nominated for BAFTA’s EE Rising Star Award. The nominees, revealed this morning at BAFTA’s London headquarters, were selected…

Don't call Steve McQueen predictable. The British artist and director may have made three previous films that steered closer to the arthouse end of the market—Hunger, Shame and 12 Years a Slave—but Widows, an expansive heist movie he co-wrote with Gillian Flynn based on the 1980s TV show created by Lynda La Plante…

Steve McQueen's female-centric heist movie Widows might be packed with familiar and accomplished women like Viola Davis, Elizabeth Debicki and Michelle Rodriguez, but magnetic breakout Cynthia Erivo still jumped off the screen in her first ever feature. Erivo is a storied stage actress, and has already won an Emmy, a…

EXCLUSIVE: Vanessa Bell Calloway (Coming To America, Shameless), Zackary Momoh (Seven Seconds, A United Kingdom), Deborah Ayorinde (Girls Trip), and Vondie Curtis-Hall (ABC’s For The People) have come aboard the Harriet Tubman biopic from Focus Features. Directed by Eve’s Bayou helmer Kasi Lemmons, the film will be…

Focus Features has set production on Harriet, which tells the story of heroic abolitionist Harriet Tubman, directed by Kasi Lemmons from a screenplay she co-wrote with Gregory Allen Howard. Tony, Emmy and Grammy Award-winner Cynthia Erivo, who recently stars in Steve McQueen’s Widows which made its TIFF premiere last…

EXCLUSIVE: Leslie Odom Jr., Freida Pinto, Cynthia Erivo, and Orlando Bloom have signed on to star in Needle In A Timestack, the latest film from John Ridley.  In addition, BRON Studios has boarded the project as a producer taking over after Miramax was originally attached. Oscar-winning Ridley is directing the pic…

UPDATED: In addition to Benedict Cumberbatch, the first-ever Letters Live in New York has added a second wave of performers for the event which takes place on May 18 and 20 at the town hall. Joining Cumberbatch will be Cynthia Erivo, Edie Falco, Ian McShane, James Earl Jones, Katie Holmes, Kyle MacLachlan, Laurence Fis…

EXCLUSIVE: Tony award winning actress Cynthia Erivo has been tapped as the title character in Macro/New Balloon’s film Harriet, the biopic on famous abolitionist and warrior Harriet Tubman. Seith Mann attached to direct from a script by Gregory Allen Howard. Tubman is an American hero who escaped the shackles of…

Producers this evening informed the cast of The Color Purple that the show, which won the 2016 Tony Award for best musical revival, will play its final performance on January 8 after 449 regular and 33 preview performances at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. A North American tour of the production is set to go out in…

Here is one of the great triumphal surprises in a Broadway season that has had its share of them: A revival of The Color Purple that lifts an already formidable musical into greatness just seven years after its initial run closed. Propelled by a pair of knockout performances from Jennifer Hudson and Cynthia Erivo…