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EXCLUSIVE: Power star and R&B crooner Rotimi is the latest to join the cast of Paramount Pictures' Coming 2 America sequel. He’ll be joining some of the original cast members including star Eddie Murphy (Prince Akeem) and Arsenio Hall (Semmi), James Earl Jones (King Jaffe Joffer), Paul Bates (Oha), John Amos (Cleo…

EXCLUSIVE: Sam Richardson, best known for his role as Richard Splett on HBO’s Emmy-winning series, Veep, has boarded the Skydance Media and Paramount sci-fi thriller, which is currently titled Ghost Draft (working title). Chris McKay is directing the pic which stars Chris Pratt and Yvonne Strahovski. J.K. Simmons and…

Deadline has confirmed that Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock alum Tracy Morgan is boarding Paramount’s Coming to America 2. He is one of the new castmembers in the return of the Eddie Murphy-Arsenio Hall comedy alongside Wesley Snipes, Lesley Jones, Rick Ross and Kiki Layne. In the sequel, Akeem (Murphy) is set to…

Crazy Rich Asians star Henry Golding is set to topline Paramount’s G.I. Joe spinoff Snake Eyes. Robert Schwentke is directing with Brian Goldner producing. Project is being written by Beauty and the Beast scribe Evan Spiliotopoulos. The most recent edition of G.I. Joe is inspired by the 1980s Hasbro toys which had an…

Investors long ago factored in the expected reunion of CBS and Viacom to their valuation of the companies’ stock prices, so Wall Street’s reaction to the confirmation of the merger was understandably muted. CBS gained a bit less than 2% to finish the day at $48.81, while Viacom also climbed nearly 2% to close at…

The introduction of Mr. Spock last season on the sleek CBS All Access series Star Trek: Discovery may be the first in many new frontiers for the fabled franchise now that the Paramount-owning Viacom and CBS are boldly going toward corporate reunification. Taking a page from the now Fox-expanded Disney book, new ViacomC…

Ahead of the CBS-Viacom merger, Viacom has re-upped Paramount Pictures Chairman and CEO Jim Gianopulos to a new, multi-year contract. In addition, Paramount's current production president Elizabeth Raposo has extended her contract. Gianopulos has been running the studio since 2017, following the tenure of the late…

Shari Headley rounds out core cast of the original Coming to America film set to return for Paramount’s sequel. She’ll reprise her role as Lisa McDowell, the love interest and eventual wife to Eddie Murphy’s Prince Akeem. Returning from the original in addition to Murphy and Headley are Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones…

John Amos is set to return as Cleo McDowell, the owner of McDowell’s, in Paramount Pictures' forthcoming Coming to America sequel starring Eddie Murphy. Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones, and Paul Bates are also reprising their roles from the 1988 original film with Wesley Snipes, Jermaine Fowler, Leslie Jones, and KiKi…

Wesley Snipes is the latest to join the cast of Paramount’s forthcoming Coming to America sequel, Deadline has confirmed. Craig Brewer is set to direct the follow-up to the 1988 comedy written by Kenya Barris. Eddie Murphy is set to reprise his role as Akeem, the pampered African prince who became bored of potential…

Deadline has confirmed that Paramount won’t be re-upping its deal with Robert Evans Productions, which has been in place since 1974 after Evans stepped down from running the studio. Evans began at Paramount in 1967, at the age of 36, the youngest studio production boss at the time. During his tenure he revitalized…

EXCLUSIVE: As Robert De Niro and director Martin Scorsese ready their splashy reunion mob drama The Irishman to world premiere at the New York Film Festival before Netflix releases its this fall, the actor and director are getting closer to jumping right back in with the Imperative Entertainment-produced Paramount…