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After being leaked online for a moment (Amazon promptly took it down), the first trailer for the second season of Eric Kripke’s The Boys officially premiered at CCXP in Sao Paulo during the Amazon Prime Video panel that featured series stars Erin Moriarty who plays Starlight; Karen Fukuhara who plays the Female…

Before moderator Aisha Tyler kicked things off for Amazon’s The Boys panel she called out anyone who brought their kids to Ballroom 20 for the panel because it is a very “adult” anti-hero superhero series — and she dropped an F-bomb for good measure. The series is based on the comic by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson…

With a couple of sitcom writers handling the scripting chores, the 2019 Shaft naturally leans on the lighter side. It goes as much for laughs it seems as it does for the kind of violent action we associate with the iconic character who first breathed cinematic life nearly a half-century ago with Richard Roundtree…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has added a bevy of actors to the Michael Scott-directed original feature thriller Windfall including Jessie T. Usher (Independence Day: Resurgence, Shaft), Jamie Chung (The Gifted, Big Hero 6), Cam Gigandet (Ice, Twilight, The Magnificent Seven) with Sasha Alexander (Shameless, Bernard and Huey)…

There’s a new trailer for the next chapter in the Shaft film franchise and includes three generations of the coolest private eye of New York City…can ya dig it? In the trailer for the New Line Cinema action comedy we are re-introduced to John Shaft II (Samuel L. Jackson), who was in the movie from 2000. We are also…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Harney (Orange Is The New Black, A Star Is Born), Colm Meaney (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Paul Ben-Victor (The Wire), and Jessie T. Usher (Independence Day: Resurgence) have been added to the cast of the George Nolfi-directed fact-based thriller, The Banker. Hailing from Romulus Entertainment…

RLJE Films and UMC have acquired the North American rights to the Jeremy Ungar-directed thriller Ride starring Bella Thorne (Famous in Love), Jessie T. Usher (Shaft), and Will Brill (The OA). Ride is the feature debut for Ungar, who also wrote the script. The film is set to open nationwide in theaters and will also be…

Antony Starr (American Gothic), Dominique McElligott (The Last Tycoon), Chace Crawford (Gossip Girl), Jessie T. Usher (Survivor’s Remorse) and Nathan Mitchell (iZombie) have joined Erin Moriarty as leads in Amazon's straight-to-series drama The Boys, Deadline has learned. Amazon Studios Based on the comic book by…

It’s game over for Survivor’s Remorse. Starz is letting the clock run out on its basketball comedy after the current season, which wraps October 15 with back-to-back. The planned season ender, titled “Answers and Questions,” now will be the series finale. The series follows the life of Cam Calloway (Jessie T. Usher)…

EXCLUSIVE: Leave it to the franchise featuring the coolest private eye to come up with an inventive way of potentially changing the model for how certain urban-themed movie get financed and distributed. Sources say that New Line and Netflix are nearly closed on the untitled Shaft reboot. Netflix will pay more than…

EXCLUSIVE: New Line and director Tim Story have chosen Jessie T. Usher to play the progeny of detective John Shaft in Son of Shaft, which is gearing up to begin production later this fall. Samuel L. Jackson is negotiating a deal to return to reprise the role he played in the John Singleton-directed reboot of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Months after starting a slate financing fund to coin big pictures, indie company Unified Pictures has secured a second fund for genre films, in partnership with Look to the Sky Films and The Fyzz Facility. It kicks off with Ride, a thriller that marks the directorial debut of Jeremy Ungar and will star Bella…