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Ice Cube is fighting Warner Bros. for the Friday franchise rights and he is not willing to pay for the movie he created. In a new interview on Mike Tyson’s Hotboxin’ podcast, the actor and rapper revealed Warner Bros. has been holding up the process of continuing the franchise despite several scripts…

Ice Cube has confirmed that he exited Oh Hell No, a Sony comedy in which he would have starred opposite Jack Black, after refusing to comply with a requirement that he be vaccinated against Covid-19. “I turned down a movie because I didn’t want to get the motherf-cking jab. I turned down $9 million…

Celebrities have taken to social media to pay tribute to Coolio after it was announced that the rapper had died at the age of 59. No cause of death was given by his manager Jarez Posey, who confirmed the news to Deadline. Coolio achieved worldwide success in the 1990s with “Gangsta’s Paradise,” which was used in the…

Rapper and actor Ice Cube's Cube Vision has signed a multi-picture production deal with Back on the Strip firm Luminosity Entertainment, in association with 5120 Entertainment and SmokeyScreen. The pair will co-produce feature films and TV series and the first is comedy Cube in My Head. This follows a hapless white…

Tonight on SNL, Weekend Update‘s anchors welcomed Ice Cube (Kenan Thompson) to the desk to discuss reports that he’d exited Sony comedy Oh Hell No after declining to get the Covid-19 vaccine. Cube sported a full beard, noting that he’s going through “a gangster lumberjack phase,” only to have his feet held to the fire…

Jack Black is in talks to star with Ice Cube in Sony Pictures' comedy Oh Hell No, to be directed by cutting-edge comedy director Kitao Sakurai. Matt Tolmach is producing through Matt Tolmach Productions with Black and Roz Music. Story follows Sherman (Black), who falls in love with Will (Cube) mom, who has only…

Tommy “Tiny” Lister Jr., who played the memorable thug Deebo in the Friday and Next Friday films with Ice Cube, has died. He was 62. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department confirmed the death, but no cause has been determined. Deputies went to Listers’ home in Marina del Rey, CA, shortly before 3 p.m. Thursday on…

Ice Cube, working with the Trump administration ahead of the 2020 presidential race, continues to face criticism. After Jim Carrey’s Joe Biden poked fun at the actor-rapper during the most recent Saturday Night Live cold open, Ice Cube fired back. “F**ck you SNL…trying to reduce me to greed,” he tweeted on Sunday. The…

Will.i.am debuted a new pro-Joe Biden video this week along with Jennifer Hudson that has an uplifting message, but he also was sharply critical of President Donald Trump. In a conversation with The Washington Post Live, the Black Eyed Peas singer took issue with Trump’s claim that he has done more for the Black…

EXCLUSIVE: Eva Longoria is set to join Ice Cube in the untitled grounded sci-fi movie for the studio with Patrick Aiello and Timur Bekmambetov producing. Rich Lee will direct from a script by Kenneth Golde. Plot details are vague other then it being described as a grounded sci-fi film in the vein of District 9already…

When a senior adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign thanked Ice Cube for working with the White House on a plan for Black America, it immediately triggered questions of who Ice Cube was supporting in 2020. Ice Cube explained shortly afterward on Twitter that he was contacted by both parties about his…

EXCLUSIVE: Following the successful Ride Along films and upcoming Flint Strong biopic, Ice Cube and Universal appear to have found their next high-profile project as Cube is set to star in the untitled grounded sci-fi movie for the studio with Patrick Aiello and Timur Bekmambetov producing. Rich Lee will direct from a…