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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 Run and 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…

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…

Idris Elba (Luther) is taking to the road with renowned rally car driver Ken Block in Elba vs. Block, a new car-stunt series for Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman's short-form video platform Quibi. In Elba vs. Block, the duo go head-to-head as they pit a variety of cars against each other through increasingly…

Sony’s Columbia Pictures has the most anticipated movie of the summer in Spider-Man: Far From Home, which picks up the story of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the wake of grim events depicted in the mega-hit Avengers: Endgame. That’s according to a new fan survey by Fandango that asked fans which films they planned…

EXCLUSIVE: Two weeks out from its production start, the Fox motion capture picture Mouse Guard has been mouse trapped by Disney. The project was developed by Fox with the adaptation of David Petersen’s Eisner-winning comic book series to be directed by Wes Ball. The film had set to star Idris Elba, Andy Serkis, Thomas…

Idris Elba, who had been in talks to take over Will Smith’s Deadshot role in Warner Bros’ Suicide Squad 2, instead will play a new character in the sequel to the DC movie. Deadline has confirmed that the character played by Smith will not be a part of the next pic, which James Gunn wrote and will direct. Smith had bowe…

Universal Studios Boss Donna Langley didn’t have any trailers for Cats, the studio’s feature take on the hit Andrew Lloyd Weber musical because as actor James Corden said in the reel “it’s a level of technology which hasn’t been used before.” So they tickled attendees this morning with a BTS look showing the dancers…