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Two days after an alleged racial and homophobic assault on the Empire star in Chicago, Jussie Smollett's family has hit back at the attack, the as yet unknown individuals who perpetrated it and similar "hate crimes" against "our sisters, brothers and our gender non-conforming siblings." "Oftentimes ending fatally…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. has made their decision on the roles of Huntress and Black Canary in their next anticipated DC movie Birds of Prey, coming out on Feb. 7, 2020: Fargo and 10 Cloverfield Lane actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead has won the role of Huntress while Underground actress Jurnee Smollett-Bell will play…

Former Underground star Jurnee Smollett-Bell is set as the female lead in HBO's high-profile straight-to-series drama Lovecraft Country, from Oscar winner Jordan Peele and his Monkeypaw Productions, J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot and Warner Bros Television. The project reunites Smollett-Bell with Underground co-creator Misha…

Ever since Time’s Up was launched at the Golden Globes, it has proven to be a movement that is more than wearing all-black on the red carpet and an accessory you pin to the lapel of your tuxedo jacket. At only two months old, the movement and legal defense fund continues to spread its message at SXSW with the “TIME'S…

"We see over the course of Season 1 this inner strength come out in Rosalee, and by the beginning of Season 2, she becomes a solider and she become so determined to go back and get her family back, out of this bondage," Underground star Jurnee Smollett-Bell says of her character during our sit-down for Deadline’s Next…

“We do so much research, and our problem is we find so many great things,” Underground co-creator Joe Pokaski said last night, discussing the second season of the WGN America series. “As we read about Harriet [Tubman] and started to understand her, we all know she's a superhero; it's about understanding her as a…

With Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport scheduled to open Monday post-Hurricane Matthew, Underground executive producer and director Anthony Hemingway is cautiously optimistic that the WGN America breakout series can resume production on Season 2 this week. "They're not allowing people back into the city yet,"…

Wendell Pierce (The Odd Couple, Tremé) and Jurnee Smollett-Bell (Underground, True Blood) are set to star in One Last Thing, an indie drama from writer-director Tim Rouhana. The pic from Beech Hill Films and Low Profile Films follows a lonely Florida dentist (Pierce) whose days are filled by work and his solo daily…

WGN America’s upcoming series about the underground railroad used by escaping slaves is headed to Washington. The White House will screen Underground on Monday as part of a Black History Month event, and a source tells Deadline that President Obama and the first lady are “very likely” to attend. There will be a panel…

We’re getting a first look at Underground, WGN America’s upcoming pre-Civil War series about the Underground Railroad, via six character posters featuring stars Aldis Hodge, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Christopher Meloni, Alano Miller, Jessica de Gouw and Amirah Vann. Underground’s story is told through a group of…