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Disney confirmed today Delroy Lindo is joining the cast of the upcoming Blade reboot. He’ll co-star opposite two-time Oscar-winning actor Mahershala Ali, who is stepping into the role of the titular character, a half-vampire, half-mortal hero. While Ali’s casting was announced at Comic-Con in 2019, Lindo is the only…

The Good Fight star Delroy Lindo has been set as a lead in Amazon's adaptation of Anansi Boys. Lindo, who also recently starred in Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods, will star as Mr. Nancy aka Anansi. It comes a week after the streamer revealed it had ordered the adaptation of Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel to series. Gaiman, who…

Original The Good Fight cast members Cush Jumbo and Delroy Lindo, who announced last year that they would not return for Season 5 of the Paramount+ legal drama, will return as guest stars in the season premiere to wrap up their characters’ storylines, Deadline has confirmed. The fourth season was cut short by three…

UPDATED with latest: Oscar-nominated directors Chloé Zhao, David Fincher, Lee Isaac Chung and Thomas Vinterberg are the recipients of this year’s Santa Barbara Film Festival Director of the Year Award. They will be honored during a ceremony April 6 at the festival, which this year runs March 31-April 10. Earlier this…

“Chadwick Bosman was an amazing artist. We’ve all been thrilled, and excited, and overwhelmed by the depth of his work,” said Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom director George C. Wolfe who presented the late actor Chadwick Bosman with Performance of the Year Award at Critics' Choice Association’s virtual annual celebration Of…

For Deadline’s Contenders Film awards-season event Netflix brought Da 5 Bloods director Spike Lee and the cast that joined him in Vietnam and Thailand. The group had lost none of the rapport that distinguishes Da 5 Boods, about a group of vets returning for the first time since the Vietnam War. They are there…

Spike Lee’s 1995 thriller Clockers, based on the novel by Richard Price, drew some of the best reviews of Delroy Lindo's career, but astonishingly, it has taken 25 years for the duo to reunite, for the Netflix streaming hit Da 5 Bloods, and the results are just as incendiary. Cast against type, and almost over the…

EXCLUSIVE: Delroy Lindo plays a three-tour Vietnam veteran in Spike Lee’s adventure drama Da 5 Bloods, with the role building momentum for him as an Oscar Best Actor frontrunner. He already has won best actor prizes from the New York Film Critics Circle, the National Society of Film Critics and the Critics Choice…

Leading the list of honorees for the Critics Choice Association’s third annual Celebration of Black Cinema are Delroy Lindo receiving the Career Achievement Award, John Legend and Mike Jackson as Producers of the Year, Tessa Thompson winning the Actors Award, recent Emmy winner Yahya Abdul-Mateen II for the…

Although it wasn’t intended this way, the timing of the release of Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods is right on. Lee has directed and co-written a film that speaks to this moment in extraordinary ways, even though its main focus is on events that happened a half-century ago but unfortunately still reverberate. The iconic…

The Good Fight co-star Delroy Lindo has closed a deal to play the lead in Harlem's Kitchen, ABC's Harlem family restaurant drama pilot from Zahir McGhee, Mandeville Television and ABC Studios. As Deadline revealed last month when Lindo started negotiations for the role, his interest in the ABC pilot led to his…

EXCLUSIVE: The Good Fight co-star Delroy Lindo is in negotiations to headline Harlem's Kitchen, ABC’s Harlem family restaurant drama pilot from writer Zahir McGhee, Mandeville Television and ABC Studios. As a result, he will be leaving the CBS All Access legal drama The Good Fight as a series regular after the…