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EXCLUSIVE: Coming off the second-biggest-grossing film of all time, Avengers: Endgame ($2.77 billion), Don Cheadle is joining LeBron James in Warner Bros.’ Space Jam 2, which is currently in production. Terence Nance is directing the follow-up to the 1996 movie which grossed over $230M at the global box office. The…

Don Cheadle (Avengers: Infinity War, Black Monday), Emily Mortimer (Mary Poppins Returns, Doll & Em) and Helena Howard (Madeline's Madeline, The Wilds) are set to star in Don’t Look Deeper, a sci-fi drama series for Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman's short-form video platform Quibi. The series is a co-production…

When Regina Hall read the pilot script for Black Monday, the '80s comedy from Jordan Cahan and David Caspe, she immediately fell for the character of Dawn. A leading trader at a second-rate Wall Street firm, Dawn operates within a toxic boy's club environment and gives as good as she gets. "I loved that she’s just as…

Universal Pictures has emerged as the victors for rights to Amari and the Night Brothers, an unpublished book by B.B. Alston, which is a starring vehicle for Black-ish star Marsai Martin, who is also a producer. Martin is coming off of the release of her Universal comedy, Little, which she served as the executive…

Following a week-long Las Vegas field trip, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live returns to Disney's El Capitan Theatre Monday night to begin a week-long promotion fest for Marvel Studios Avengers: Endgame. Monday night’s show features a reading about the latest iteration of the wildly popular franchise by the movie’s Mark…

Saturday Night Live host Don Cheadle used his clothes for political and social messaging this week as part of his duties (see the photo of his transgender support), and managed to sneak in a wry message about President Donald Trump into the closing segment. As the cast and guests lined up for the traditional farewell…

Don Cheadle made his debut as Saturday Night Live host last night. The episode, featuring Gary Clark Jr. as musical guest and Alec Baldwin’s return as Donald Trump declaring “fake border emergency, averaged a 4.3 Live+same day household rating in the metered markets and a 1.6 adults 18-49 rating in the markets with…

Alec Baldwin returned to Saturday Night Live this weekend to mock President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration a day earlier to pay for his border wall. “I’m here to declare a very urgent, important national emergency,” Baldwin said right after stepping in front of the podium and a gaggle of reporters at a…

Don Cheadle warms up for his Saturday Night Live hosting debut with some promo playacting alongside SNL‘s Alex Moffat. In a parody of ’70s buddy cop dramas, the Black Monday star and the SNL player don the blues, chomp some donuts, high-five and fire off a round or two, all without so much as a smidgen of real…

Don Cheadle will make his Saturday Night Live hosting debut on Feb. 16, SNL announced today. His musical guest will be Grammy Award winner Gary Clark Jr., also making his bow on the NBC show. The Cheadle episode follows SNL’s Halsey-hosted Feb. 9 episode (which itself follows this Saturday’s rerun with Jason Momoa and…

Showtime’s new halfhour Wall Street comedy series Black Monday is like a punk rock band messing with genres, series creator/showrunner Jordan Cahan told TV critics at TCA today. The series, which marks Don Cheadle's return to Showtime following House of Lies, begins with October 19, 1987, aka Black Monday, the worst…

Nothing like a good Twitter beef to liven up a rainy day. Kathy Griffin drew a “Huh?” reply from Don Cheadle when she called him out for not supporting her stunt that depicted her holding the fake severed head of President Donald Trump, ISIS-style. You know — the thing that happened 18 months ago. Here is what Griffin…