HBO on Martin Luther King Day today released its trailer for We Are the Dream, its documentary highlighting the annual Martin Luther King Oratorical Festival in Oakland. The feature doc, directed by Amy Schatz (Songs of Parkland) and executive produced by Oscar winner and Oakland native Mahershala Ali, premieres on…
Always a prestigious category, actors better known for their big screen work often find a place here, and that's the case again this year, as half the nominees are past Supporting Actor Oscar winners. In fact, one of them actually won two Academy Awards. All three have succumbed to the allure of a Limited Series…
Green Book and Moonlight star Mahershala Ali is set to join the second season of Hulu comedy Ramy as a guest star.
Ali, a two-time Academy Award and Golden Globe winner who played Remy Danton in House of Cards, will appear in the second series of the Ramy Youssef-fronted show. The show was renewed by the digital…
When Kevin Feige dropped the news at Comic-Con that Oscar-winning actor Mahershala Ali will be taking the lead in Marvel Studios’ forthcoming Bladereboot, the crowd in Hall H lost their minds. But since we live in a Twitter age of trolls and naysayers, some didn’t like the news — and Wesley Snipes, who played the…
The cherry on top of the MarvelComic-Con session Saturday was news that two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali is set to play Blade in a reboot from Kevin Feige’s MCU. No other details were revealed.
The original from New Line Cinema starred Wesley Snipes. It was an R-rated film, so it will be interesting to see if…
For John Blake, Brian Badie and Mike Marino, three newcomers to the world of True Detective, the anthology series' third season was a huge undertaking, in terms of demands that were placed on the makeup and hair departments.
Starring Mahershala Ali, Stephen Dorff and Carmen Ejogo, the latest installment of the HBO…
Batman, Julia Roberts and Mahershala Ali are among the 2020 class of honorees for the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In all, 35 people were chosen from hundreds of nominees during a selection meeting in June. In feature film, stars will be unveiled for Mahershala Ali, Batman, Ruth E. Carter, Laurence Fishburne, Chris…
The limited run of the gripping documentary Emanuelfrom Steph Curry and Viola Davis ends today (which is June 19 aka Juneteenth) and celebrities are doing their part to support, advocate and spread the message about the feature that focuses on the tragedy that struck the Emanuel A.M.E. church on June 17, 2015. Actors…
EXCLUSIVE: Fox Searchlight is making a deal to acquire Solitary, a memoir that Albert Woodfox wrote about the 43 years he spent in solitary confinement in Louisiana’s Angola Prison.
That is the longest stretch in the U.S. for a kind of incarceration that has roundly been denounced as being inhumane. It amounted to 23…
When Mahershala Ali approached Nic Pizzolatto about headlining the third season of his HBO crime anthology series True Detective, it was seemingly a no-brainer. “I thought right away that I’d be really really lucky to have an artist of his caliber driving this thing,” said Pizzolatto during his stop at Deadline’s The…
So, the Upfronts are thankfully over and part of the takeaway has to be that there are going to be a lot of legal dramas on the air next season, wall of superheroes and all of the Big 4 and the CW are trying to be a bit different as well as emphasizing stability (which is a word I don't want to hear for a while after…
“To ask somebody to make that significant of a shift and totally rethink your story was the first thing to accomplish,” Oscar winner Mahershala Ali said when he pitched himself to True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto about taking on the lead role for Season 3 of the HBO anthology series.
“My only insecurity was if…
