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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 Pos…

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…

Actor/rapper Ice Cube (O’Shea Jackson) has released a Twitter video manifesto, But what's in it for us? The video and its attached three-age "Contract with Black America" asks for specifics commitments in such areas as bank lending, prison reform, and mandatory licensing of black content for the airwaves. Politicians…

Actor/rapper Ice Cube has spoken out via Twitter about his anger over the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, an incident that sparked a freeway protest in Los Angeles and two nights of violence in Minnesota. Ice Cube seemingly took things a step further in one tweet, asking the question, “How…

Director Nisha Ganatra scored points with me for delivering a smart, female-driven comedy last year in Late Night with Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling. It was set in the showbiz sector of late-night television talk shows but focused on two women, very different yet striving for similar professional goals in a…

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…