Refresh for updates Tributes to John Witherspoon continued throughout the night after news broke that the actor and comedian had passed. “RIP my brother,” tweeted David Alan Grier. “You will be missed.” Chance the Rapper called him “the definition of an icon.”
“The world is a little less funny today,” wrote Samuel L…
EXCLUSIVE: Ice Cube is in the midst of making deals to star in a pair of movies. He has just closed with Focus Features to join the cast of the Working Title-produced film Covers, directed by Late Night helmer Nisha Ganatra. Production is just getting underway and he is starring alongside Tracee Ellis Ross and Dakota…
CBS Sports and Big3, the professional 3-on-3 basketball league founded by Ice Cube and Jeff Kwatinetz, have agreed to an exclusive deal for live broadcasts of Big3’s 2019 season.
Games will be shown on CBS and CBS Sports Network, with more than 20 hours throughout the season on the former and more than 25 hours on the…
MTV Studios is reviving another classic MTV series, Celebrity Deathmatch. The recently launched studio is developing a reimagined version of the cult-favorite claymation stop-motion satire that skewered celebrities, politicians and everyone in between during its famed original 1998-2002 run. Ice Cube is attached to…
Fox has given a script commitment plus penalty to an hour-long faith-based police procedural drama from The Chi co-executive producer Joseph C. Wilson, Ice Cube’s CubeVision and 20th Century Fox TV, where CubeVision and Wilson are under overall deals.
Written by Wilson, the police procedural infuses contemporary…
Count Ice Cube among those who won’t criticize Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott for not supporting the National Football League national anthem protests.
Last month, the Dallas Cowboy quarterback said that staging protests during games are inappropriate, and it robs people of enjoying the game. He drew…
EXCLUSIVE: Excessive Force, a story about racism and corruption based on a story and script written by Jeff Kwatinetz and Ice Cube, is planning to go into production this fall with Carl Franklin (Devil In The Blue Dress, One False Move) at the helm.
Excessive Force, to be produced by Joe Roth and CubeVision, will star…
UPDATED to include comment from the Qatar government’s communications office.
Big3 basketball league founders Ice Cube and Jeff Kwatinetz are suing a group of Qatari nationals for $1.2 billion, claiming the investors boasted of connections to the royal family and its riches, but paid little more than half of the money…
Fox Sports just gave a vote of confidence to Big3, the new 3-on-3 professional basketball league co-founded by Ice Cube and entertainment exec Jeff Kwatinetz.
The sports broadcaster says that it added a year to its agreement to offer matches. Big3 was introduced in January, and its first Championship airs this…
A group of Hollywood filmmakers, sports teams and Deadline’s parent company Penske Media Corp are among those teaming to support the launch of this country’s first annual National Heroes Day today. The Day is designed as a celebration of every day Americans who perform courageous and selfless acts of heroism.
National…
EXCLUSIVE: Forty-seven years ago today, one of the most important moments in baseball history was made: Pirates’ player Dock Ellis took to the mound and pitched a no-hitter against the San Diego Padres. Ten years later it was revealed that Ellis accomplished that feat while high on LSD. Now the story of Dock Ellis is…
Update, with videos “It’s like a knife, man,” actor-musician Ice Cube told Bill Maher about the host’s use last week of the N-word. “When I hear my homies say it, it don't feel like venom. When I hear a white person say it, it's like a knife."
“That’s our word now,” he continued, “and you can’t have it back.” (See…
