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The second season of Amazon drama Homecoming will be more expansive than the first with much of the action taking place outside of the Homecoming Transitional Support Center. The cast and crew of the psychological thriller, including new star Janelle Monáe, talked up the differences between season one of the show…

After months of project secrecy, Lionsgate has just released a teaser trailer for Janelle Monáe’s upcoming screen project: Antebellum, an eerie thriller rooted in the Deep South and chained to the region’s plantation past. Details are scant but the single-sentence synopsis describes Monáe character as “successful…

Harriet Tubman, the much admired African American abolitionist, Civil War spy, philanthropist and just about everything else she could pack into 91 years, died in 1913 just as the movie industry was in its infancy. Now more than a century later this true hero is finally, finally, getting her own motion picture. Even Ha…

Hidden Figures and Moonlight star Janelle Monáe is set to headline the second season of Amazon’s psychological thriller drama series Homecoming, from Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail. The description of her character provides some clues about the premise of Season 2. The actress/musician plays a tenacious woman who finds…

Cast is rounding out on Lionsgate’s recently announced untitled race relations feature with Janelle Monáe. Joining Monáe are Eric Lange (Escape At Dannemora), Jena Malone (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Pt 2), Jack Huston (American Hustle), Kiersey Clemons (Dope), Tongayi Chirisa (American Horror Story), Gabourey Sidibe…

EXCLUSIVE: Janelle Monáe is set to star in an upcoming Lionsgate movie project from filmmaking duo Gerard Bush + Christopher Renz. Details of the feature are being cloaked in secrecy, but it will rep Bush + Renz’s feature film writing and directing debut. Bush + Renz are known for their deep creative layers…

EXCLUSIVE: Janelle Monáe has come aboard The Glorias: A Life on the Road, the Gloria Steinem biopic that has Julianne Moore and Alicia Vikander playing the feminist and social-political activist at various stages of her life. Julie Taymor is directing the film which is based on Steinem's memoir. This seems like a…

Universal Pictures today announced that the studio has entered into a first-look production agreement with Janelle Monáe's Wondaland Pictures, the film division of her multimedia company Wondaland. Alongside its creative in-house team of executives including CEO ‪Monáe, Managing Partner Mikael Moore, Creative Director…

Singer and actress Janelle Monáe is joining the voice cast of Disney’s upcoming reboot of Lady And The Tramp, I understand. Hidden Figures and Moonlight star Monáe will voice the role of Peg, the wise-cracking friend of Lady, who is being played by Monae’s close friend Tessa Thompson. Peggy Lee voiced Peg in the 1955…

EXCLUSIVE: Film Independent has announced the final batch of presenters set to take the stage at the 33rd edition of the Independent Spirit Awards, which IFC will air live Saturday at 2 PM PT/5 PM ET. Joining the roster of presenters are Call Me by Your Name‘s Timothée Chalamet (who’s up for Best Male Lead and also…

Recording artist, producer and actress Janelle Monae sounded the first notes of protest at tonight’s 60th Grammy Awards. In her introduction to a performance by Kesha – who had a high-profile court case involving sexual assault at the hands of her producer and was performing a song about the ordeal, called Praying…

Juno Temple (Vinyl, The Dark Knight Rises) and Janelle Monae (Hidden Figures, Moonlight) are set for lead roles in an episode of Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams sci-fi anthology series from Ronald D. Moore, Michael Dinner, Bryan Cranston and Sony Pictures TV. The show, based on short stories by the award-winning…