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Damson Idris reflected on his early days working on FX’s Snowfall, and the words of inspiration he received from series creator John Singleton. Singleton died in 2019 at the age of 51. “In essence, that symbol implanted in me was to just be truthful,” Idris said during the show’s CTAM panel on Thursday. “To just stay…

Today is the first day of winter, and there’s Snowfall in the forecast. FX has set Wednesday, February 23, for the Season 5 premiere of its hit drama series co-created by the late John Singleton. The reveal comes after its fourth season was the cable net’s most-watched series of 2021. Set in the summer of 1986, Snowfal…

Actress Taryn Manning is suing a production company formed by the late director John Singleton, saying she is owed contingent compensation from Hustle & Flow, the 2005 film she appeared in. Singleton co-produced the picture. Manning’s Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit against Singleton’s Crunk Pictures LLC alleges…

EDITOR’S NOTE: Much was written about maverick Boyz N The Hood director John Singleton when he died early last year. In the wake of the George Floyd murder, there are several treatments of the Black Wall Street atrocity in the offing, but Singleton and Gregory Poirier had the field all to themselves when they…

"If you want to make consistently lousy decisions, hire a consultant." That was the defiant dictum that Ted Turner barked at me a few years ago when I was doing a column about his latest financial crisis. I had told him that one of his outside advisers had decreed that his decision-making process was "off the wall,"…

Amid the chaos that was 2019, the show business industry lost some major players. There were icons of the big screen (Peter Fonda, Doris Day) and TV (Valerie Harper, Rip Torn, Tim Conway), along with such legends as Broadway director Harold Prince and actress Carol Channing; singers Eddie Money, Ric Ocasek and José…

Ava DuVernay continues to champion inclusivity and global film perspectives with ARRAY 360 film series to mark the completion of the ARRAY Creative Campus and the brand-spankin’ new, state-of-the-art Amanda Theater. The series will kick off September 27 and continue through November 2. Located in the Historic…

Several of John Singleton’s friends and former colleagues have agreed to help judge a short film contest created to honor the late filmmaker. Among the judges and advisers are Hustle & Flow producer Stephanie Allain, The Best Man casting director Robi Reed, Shaft (2000) executive producer Paul Hall, and Little…

The TCA panel for the third season of FX drama Snowfall reflected on series co-creator John Singleton in the wake of his death in April at 51 and how they’re continuing to tell the story of his hometown South Central LA. “He told truthful stories about people who had been ignored, who had been depicted in a negative…

Morris Chestnut and Damson Idris, two actors representing either end of the too-brief career of late director John Singleton, presented a heartfelt BET Awards tribute last night to the man they called not only their director, but a sensei, a big brother, a mentor, friend and visionary. Watch the tribute…

Sony Pictures said Friday that is renaming on of the biggest theaters on its Culver City lot after John Singleton. The director-writer-producer, who died in April at age 51 after suffering a stroke, made his feature debut with Sony and Columbia Pictures’ Boyz N the Hood, which led to him becoming the youngest person…

“Something’s happening in my neighborhood. Something’s changing in a big way.” That would be the rock. Here is the first trailer for Season 3 of Snowfall, FX’s gritty drama series about the early days of the crack cocaine epidemic/empire. It’s set in the summer of 1984 as rock is spreading like wildfire through Los…