EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is setting Craig Brewer to direct Coming To America 2, finally bringing to the starting gate the sequel to the 1988 blockbuster comedy. Eddie Murphy is poised to reprise his role as Akeem, the pampered African prince who became bored of potential marriage partners in the kingdom too in…

UPDATED: In addition to Benedict Cumberbatch, the first-ever Letters Live in New York has added a second wave of performers for the event which takes place on May 18 and 20 at the town hall. Joining Cumberbatch will be Cynthia Erivo, Edie Falco, Ian McShane, James Earl Jones, Katie Holmes, Kyle MacLachlan, Laurence Fis…

Here’s the teaser trailer for Warning Shot, a dramatic indie that marks the feature directorial debut of Dustin Fairbanks (no, not that family) and stars David Spade, with the script by 2011 Nicholl fellowship quarterfinalist Breanne Mattson. Not a remake of the 1967 film, Warning Shot stars Bruce Dern, James Earl Jone…

The Tony Awards Administration Committee announced today that two-time Tony Award winner and icon of stage and screen James Earl Jones will be this year's recipient of the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre. Jones made his Broadway debut in 1958’s Sunrise At Campobello and would win two Tony…

Jon Favreau, the director of Disney’s live-action hit The Jungle Book, is starting to put together cast for his next project: the photorealistic live-action The Lion King. Favreau just tweeted that Atlanta star Donald Glover will voice Simba (the adult version, Disney says) and James Earl Jones will be Mufasa in the…

Stage and screen actress Cecilia Hart, a frequent television player of the 1970s and wife of James Earl Jones for 34 years died October 16 following a battle with ovarian cancer. She was 68. The news was made public by the Westport, Connecticut-focused website WestportNow. Originally from Cheyenne, Wyoming, Hart…

Disney Channel's premiere of The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar last week drew the biggest primetime cable numbers of 2015 in the kids 2-5 demo. The 44-minute pilot episode of the Lion King spinoff series set to premiere next year also was the No. 2 show overall in the target demo and the most-watched animated program…

Cicely Tyson turns 91 in December and there’s a moment in the uneven Broadway revival of The Gin Game when the years fall away, when she is evanescent, transformed for a quickly passing instant into a delighted, girlish young woman. The source of this glinting good cheer is some offstage band music and the reluctant…

The hourlong animated movie that launched the Star Wars Rebels series last week is set to air on ABC at 7 PM October 26 — and it will include an evil visitor with a chillingly familiar voice. Darth Vader himself will have a cameo during an added scene in Star Wars Rebels: Spark Of Rebellion. His voice will be supplied…

What becomes a legendary comedy most? Laughs, of course. Oscar Madison saying “F.U. Took me three hours to figure out F.U. was Felix Ungar!” — why, I’ll bet you laughed just remembering the first time you heard that line from The Odd Couple. Did any writers understand more perfectly how to extract laughs from an…

Stage and screen veterans Elizabeth Ashley and Byron Jennings have joined the ever-expanding cast of the upcoming Broadway revival of You Can’t Take It With You, already set to star James Earl Jones, Rose Byrne, Annaleigh Ashford and Mark-Linn Baker, among others. The show begins previews August 26 at the Longacre…

The constellation of stars signing on for the late-summer revival of You Can’t Take It With You starring James Earl Jones just expanded by two: Rose Byrne (Neighbors, Damages), in her Broadway debut, and Annaleigh Ashford (Masters Of Sex, Broadway’s Kinky Boots) will appear, along with Kristine Nielsen (Vanya And Sonia…