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EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is in talks to add a diverse coterie of talent to Top Gun: Maverick. Thomasin McKenzie (Jojo Rabbit), Charles Parnell (A Million Little Pieces), Jay Ellis (Insecure), Bashir Salahuddin (GLOW), Danny Ramirez (Assassination Nation), and Monica Barbaro (The Good Cop) are being set to join…

EXCLUSIVE: Tyler Labine, Jay Ellis, and Nik Dodani have enlisted in Sony’s The Maze, the psychological thriller about six strangers who find themselves in circumstances beyond their control and must use their wits to survive. The trio joins previously announced cast Deborah Ann Woll, Logan Miller and Taylor Russell in…

Urban Movie Channel, a subscription-based streaming service created by Robert L. Johnson, is teaming with Insecure star Jay Ellis to premiere his latest project Hard Medicine, a web comedy series produced by Ellis and producing partner Paula Bryant-Ellis. Created by Melissa Eno Effa, the eight-episode project centers…

The Game‘s Jay Ellis and Yvonne Orji (Basketball Wife) have been cast opposite Issa Rae in HBO's comedy pilot Insecure. Co-written by Rae and Larry Wilmore and directed by music video director Melina Matsoukas, Insecure focuses on the awkward experiences and racy tribulations of a modern day African-American woman…

Newcomer Jay Ellis has landed a new series regular role on the BET comedy series The Game. He will play Blue, a running back and the No.1 draft pick from an Ivy League school who is highly educated and often the smartest person in the room. But even though he is bright, he is still a young man who has a lot to learn…