EXCLUSIVE: MGM has landed another major project, acquiring North American rights to the George Miller-directed Three Thousand Years of Longing, starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton. Miller wrote the script and is producing with Doug Mitchell.
Said Miller: "This film has been simmering in the back of my mind for some…
Idris and Sabrina Dhowre Elba, who are recovering from mild cases of COVID-19, today helped launch a new global coronavirus relief fund on behalf of the United Nations' International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) designed to lessen economic shocks caused by the pandemic.
With $40M in seed money from IFAD…
The BBC has presented a message of hope from Idris Elba to the U.K. in its darkest hour, as coronavirus deaths mount and despair is taking over.
Elba read the poem Don’t Quit from American John Greenleaf Whittier, one of the so-called “Fireside Poets” whose accessible work was meant to be read aloud in homes. Whittier…
Idris Elba took to Twitter to alert everyone that his wife, Sabrina Dhowre, and him are “ok so far with no changes” after being diagnosed with coronavirus, and that the doctor informed them that “we will be immune for a certain time since our antibodies fought this.”
The actor also mentioned “at some point we’d like…
As coronavirus continues to spread across the globe, Oprah Winfrey has launched a new Apple TV+ series on the pandemic titled Oprah Talks COVID-19.
In the first episode, Winfrey speaks with actor Idris Elba and wife Sabrina Dhowre, via remote, about how they are coping after Elba tested positive for the virus.
Winfrey…
UPDATE: Responding to skeptics who wondered whether celebrity status enabled him to jump the line for coronavirus testing, Idris Elba said, “My job made me test immediately.”
Many in the US have complained that getting a test is difficult. “I’m on location, about to start a film, and the news breaks that this person…
EXCLUSIVE:George Miller has gotten his green light and a March production start in Australia on Three Thousand Years of Longing, with Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton now locked to star. That Miller is making this film isn't a surprise: independent distributors rarely get a shot at a big-ticket film from a commercially…
Idris Elba's production company Green Door Pictures is to adapt Derek Owusu's Teaching My Brother To Read, published by Stormzy's publishing imprint, for television.
The Luther star’s firm has optioned Owusu's forthcoming book, which comes from #Merky Books, the Penguin Random House-backed imprint launched by the…
Idris Elba is saddling up to join Jonathan Majors in The Harder They Fall, an all-black Western feature for Netflix. Jeymes Samuel is making his feature directorial debut on the project.
Samuel, also known as The Bullitts, is producing the project with Jay-Z, James Lassiter and Lawrence Bender. Samuel and Jay-Z, who…
Starz has acquired and set premieres for a half-dozen titles including Geena Davis’ documentary This Changes Everything, two seasons of Idris Elba’s semi-autobiographical family comedy In the Long Runand its holiday special, and the Mel Gibson-Sean Penn movie The Professor and the Madman.
The premium cabler also…
Awesome Media & Entertainment, the Kew Media-backed IP and production company run by writer-producer Jeff Norton, has optioned a contemporary detective novel in the hope of creating a female Luther.
Awesome has secured the rights to New York Times best-selling author Caroline Mitchell’s Truth and Lies, the first…
Idris Elba, Rosario Dawson and Thomas Middleditch have teamed up for a project. However, slightly unusually, it's a story for a basketball video game rather than a feature film.
The Luther star, Luke Cage star and Silicon Valley star appear in the When The Lights Are Brightest trailer, which was directed by Sheldon Can…
