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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…

Leslie Mann and Janelle Monáe are set to star opposite Steve Carell in the Untitled Robert Zemeckis Project at Universal Pictures. The project, written by Zemeckis from a screenplay he penned with Caroline Thompson, is about is based on a 2010 documentary called Marwncol. That film follows a man by the name of Mark…

Taraji P. Henson, Sterling K. Brown, Octavia Spencer, Trevor Noah, Janelle Monae, Issa Rae, Mike Colter and Mykelti Williamson are set as presenters for the 48th NAACP Image Awards, to be hosted by Anthony Anderson. The two-hour awards ceremony will be broadcast live from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium at 9 pm ET on…

There were nearly 300 feature films on the schedule at the Toronto Film Festival this year, but that didn’t stop Fox from making a big splash with a film that wasn’t even screened in its entirety at TIFF. Last weekend, Hidden Figures came to the Canadian city to show off 20 minutes of footage, followed by an open air…