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EXCLUSIVE: John David Washington (BlacKkKlansman), Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl), Boyd Holbrook (Logan) and Vicky Krieps (The Phantom Thread) have been set to lead cast on hot project du jour Born To Be Murdered, which will be produced by Luca Guadagnino and much of the team behind his Oscar-winner Call Me By Your…

Golden Globe BlacKkKlansman nominee John David Washington is set to star in Christopher Nolan’s next event film which is rumored to be an action blockbuster. Plot details under serious wraps. Warners is opening the movie on July 17, 2020, which is when Nolan has launched the last two Dark Knight movies…

Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman premiered in August, on the one year anniversary of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. This was no accident. Lee's film, based on the memoir of black police officer Ron Stallworth, who successfully infiltrated the David Duke-run KKK in the 1970s, had so many rhetorical…

On Spike Lee's Golden Globe-nominated BlacKkKlansman, Marci Rodgers was presented with the unusual task of costuming the Ku Klux Klan. Premiering at Cannes, where Lee won the Grand Jury Prize, the director's latest tells the true story of Ron Stallworth, the first African-American police officer in the Colorado…

Nominations for the 76th annual Golden Globe Awards were announced this morning. Here are some key reactions from nominees. After the year off following his highly praised Moonlight, Barry Jenkins nabbed a Golden Globe nomination, his third overall, for his screenplay adaptation of If Beale Street Could…

This year alone, John David Washington had a full slate of films including Reinaldo Marcus Green’s Monsters and Men, where he played a conflicted police officer as well as the Anthony Mandler-directed drama Monster based on the novel by Walter Dean Myers. He also appears in Robert Redford’s (supposed) last acting…

The SAG-AFTRA Foundation announced their roster of presenters and performers for the 3rd annual Patron of the Artists Awards. Presenters for the evening will include Barry star Henry Winkler, BlacKkKlansman duo John David Washington & Adam Driver, This Is Us actress Chrissy Metz, and Geoffrey Owens, star of the…

Warner Bros’ romantic comedy blockbuster Crazy Rich Asians has been added to the list of honorees at the 22nd annual Hollywood Film Awards. The ceremony is November 4 at the Beverly Hilton. Jon M. Chu’s Crazy Rich Asians starring Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Awkwafina, Nico Santos, Gemma Chan, Jimmy O. Yang and a…

BlacKkKlansman is already being praised as one of Spike Lee’s best films and John David Washington, the film’s star, couldn’t agree more. He steps into the role of the real-life Ron Stallworth, the first black detective at the Colorado Springs Police Department that infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan. And although he was…

Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman made its Croisette debut last night to a rapturous welcome, complete with that most over-hyped of Cannes staples: the endless standing ovation. No surprise. Lee’s first movie in Cannes’ main competition since Jungle Fever in 1991 is a searing call-to-arms to a post-Charlottesville world, and…

They say that cat Stallworth is a bad mutha … shut your mouth! But I’m talkin’ ’bout BlacKkKlansman. Then we can dig it. Here is the first trailer for Spike Lee’s latest joint, which he produced along with the Get Out team that includes Jordan Peele and Jason Blum. The film is in competition at the Cannes Film…

Former American football running back — he was briefly with the then-St. Louis Rams as an undrafted free agent—John David Washington is breaking out on the big screen in a major way this year. The co-star of HBO's Ballers had two movies at Sundance and will be seen in Fox Searchlight's upcoming crime-drama Old Man and…