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…
EXCLUSIVE: Production is now underway on Concrete Cowboys, with Idris Elba starring with Stranger Things‘ Caleb McLaughlin. Also starring is Jharrel Jerome, who is freshly Emmy nominated for Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us; Lorraine Toussaint (The Village); and Byron Bowers (The Chi). Elba is coming off a strong…
If it is known for anything, the Fast & Furious franchise has always been state-of-the-art in terms of stunt work, and now with a detour to a spinoff featuring the characters played by Dwayne Johnson as Luke Hobbs and Jason Statham as Deckard Shaw, that is more true than ever.
The lumberingly titled Fast & Furious Pres…
Universal has released the first trailer for Cats, its adaptation of the long-running Broadway musical. The Working Title's pic is helmed by Les Miserables‘ Tom Hooper and has a December 20, 2019 release date.
Playing out – or dancing through – the familiar tune of “Memory,” the trailer answers at least one question…
Idris Elba has responded to accusations of plagiarism and discrimination by two writers who worked on his new stage play Tree, which premiered today at the Manchester International Festival in the UK.
The two female writers, Tori Allen-Martin and Sarah Henley, claimed in a blog post earlier this week that they were…
Idris Elba has been in the James Bond conversation for years, but the actor says he’s bothered by some of the racial references that pop up when he’s mentioned as the next 007.
In fact, the Luther star finds it troubling that some people don’t think he could play the suave super spy because he’s black.
"You just get…
A little over ten weeks after Deadline broke the stunning news in April that Disney had canceled his epic $170 million animated film Mouse Guard two weeks before production began, director Wes Ball this week seemed to reconcile that his dream project was really over, at least for now.
He has been fighting over two…
