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EXCLUSIVE: Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired U.S. rights to Art of Love, the romantic drama from writer-director Betty Kaplan that stars Esai Morales and Tigertail‘s Kunjue Li. It will now be released in domestic theaters and on digital July 22. The film was originally titled Simone, which is the name of the 2013…

EXCLUSIVE: Ming-Na Wen (The Book of Boba Fett) and Esai Morales (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning – Part One) have signed on to star alongside Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool) in the long-gestating sci-fi thriller Persephone, from director Jeffrey Morris (Oceanus: Act One). Morris’ first feature follows refugees from…

Cast has been finalized for Paul Schrader's Master Gardener, which is now shooting in Louisiana. Deadline broke the news that Joel Edgerton and Sigourney Weaver were both attached to the movie back in September. Joining them is Quintessa Swindell (Black Adam), who will play Maya, the wayward and troubled great-niece…

EXCLUSIVE: When Mission: Impossible 7 starts production in late summer or early fall, I expect that you will see that Esai Morales has joined the cast. In place of Nicholas Hoult, who was cast in a villain role earlier this year. The Paramount and Skydance co-production was close to starting production in Italy when…

EXCLUSIVE: In the midst of Hispanic Heritage Month, The National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts has teamed with the ArcFord Foundation for the inaugural Latinx Story Arc Writer’s Room Program, which will help create a strong television and film Latinx writer pipeline. In a time when representation in front of and…

The DC Universe series Titans returns to the subscription streaming service with its Season 2  premiere on Sept. 6 and the just-released trailer gives viewers a good look at some incoming cast regulars, which include a powerful new ally (Superboy/Connor Kent, as portrayed by Joshua Orpin), a ruthless old foe…

EXCLUSIVE: The Titans just made a killer cast addition: Esai Morales will portray Deathstroke, the fan-favorite assassin and archenemy of Teen Titans leader Dick Grayson. The Titans, the first original programming franchise for the DC Universe subscription steaming site, launched in September and finished its first…

Esai Morales (Superfly) is set for a recurring role on the upcoming tenth season of CBS’ NCIS: Los Angeles. Morales will play Deputy Director Louis Ochoa. Smart, authoritative, polished and trustworthy, Ochoa accompanies a special prosecutor from the Department of Defense who is investigating the NCIS office and its…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details about tonight's How to Get Away With Murder Season 4 finale "Nobody Else is Dying" on ABC. A car crash, a stolen baby, a long-lost son, a break-up, deportation, criminal justice reform, and, obviously, murder – the Season 4 finale of How to Get Away With Murder had it all…

EXCLUSIVE: Twilight alum Jackson Rathbone, Esai Morales (How To Get Away With Murder), and Alex Meneses (Everybody Loves Raymond) have been cast in the indie film, The Wall Of Mexico, along with Marisol Sacramento, Moises Arias, and Rosanna Arquette. The political comedic drama is being co-directed by Magdalena Zyzak…

Esai Morales is urging his fellow Academy members to watch One on One, a short documentary about a school in rural Puerto Rico that turned around its dropout rate thanks to the tireless work of local activist Nilda Prieto. "This is a school in crisis," he said in a trailer for the film, which he hopes will get some…

It's politics as usual at SAG-AFTRA in the wake of the union's recent election, with several top vote-getters stepping down from their national and local board seats and handing them over to members of their own political faction. What's not usual, however, is that this year a complaint has been filed alleging…