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EXCLUSIVE: Gabrielle Creevy (In My Skin) rounds out the lead cast, alongside Shailene Woodley, DeWanda Wise and Betty Gilpin, in upcoming Showtime drama Three Women, an hourlong series based on the nonfiction bestseller by Lisa Taddeo. Creevy is Maggie, the third of the Three Women in the title, a student in North…

GLOW alumna Betty Gilpin has been tapped as a co-lead opposite Shailene Woodley and DeWanda Wise in Showtime’s Three Women. The hourlong series is based on the nonfiction bestseller by Lisa Taddeo, who has adapted her book. Principal photography is set to begin in the coming months. In Three Women, a group of women…

She’s Gotta Have It alumna DeWanda Wise is set as a lead opposite Shailene Woodley in Three Women, a Showtime hourlong series based on the No. 1 nonfiction bestseller by Lisa Taddeo, who is adapting her book. Principal photography is set to begin in the fall. In Three Women, described as an intimate, haunting…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has set Winston Duke (Black Panther) to star as Marcus Garvey in Marked Man. Garvey was a political activist who was a key figure of Black nationalism in the 20th century. Andrew Dosunmu will direct the drama, and Jesse Williams (Little Fires Everywhere) and DeWanda Wise (She’s Gotta Have It)…

The She’s Gotta Have It Netflix series actress has scored a leading role in Universal/Amblin’s Jurassic World 3.  DeWanda Wise joins the already announced cast that includes Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Mamoudou Anthie and original franchise stars Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum. Deadline exclusively…

EXCLUSIVE: DeWanda Wise, who stars in the current Season 2 of the Netflix series She's Gotta Have It, is joining star Kevin Hart in Sony’s comedy-drama Fatherhood. The pic is based on Matthew Logelin's book Two Kisses for Maddy, the true story of a father forced to raise a child on his own who finds himself wholly…

Spike Lee’s had a pretty good couple of weeks — Green Book winning the Best Picture Oscar notwithstanding — and today Netflix has revealed the Season 2 premiere date for its series based on his first movie. The streamer said today that the updated take on She’s Gotta Have It, which the BlacKkKlansman filmmaker created…

Director Stella Meghie isn’t giving up on the romantic comedy genre, giving it a “fresh spin” with her latest film, The Weekend, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. “For a while, people were saying it was out of fashion but I’m like ‘how?'”  said Meghie about the debate over the status of the rom-com. “I…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a first look at Stella Meghie’s new film The Weekend, a romantic comedy that is prepping for its world premiere this week as a Special Presentation at the Toronto Film Festival. SNL alum Sasheer Zamata stars as Zadie, an acerbic stand-up comic who, still friendly with her ex Bradford (Tone Bell)…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed DeWanda Wise, star of Spike Lee’s Netflix series She’s Gotta Have It. Wise, who was at UTA, plays the lead, Nola Darling, on She's Gotta Have It, a reimagining of Lee’s influential 1986 movie, which has been renewed for a second season to premiere next year.  Her series credits also include Sh…

Before DeWanda Wise took the lead role of Nola Darling in Spike Lee’s Netflix revival of his 1986 film She’s Gotta Have It, she had a storied career which ranged from cutting her teeth on the theater scene in New York to auditioning for roles in Avatar and Children of Men. Wise stopped by the New Hollywood Podcast…

Making a name for herself over the last several years with films including How to Tell You’re a Douchebag and plays like LAByrinth Theater’s Sunset Baby, actress DeWanda Wise found she made a strong impression in particular with the executives at Netflix, who suggested her to Spike Lee for his television adaptation of…