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Spoiler Alert! This review contains spoilers for West Coast viewers of The Little Mermaid Live! Disney’s library will never be short on projects to adapt, but of all things Mouse The Little Mermaid must be one of the most challenging to turn live-action because of all that water. On Tuesday night, Disney took the sea…

CBS has given a pilot production commitment to The Equalizer, a reimagining of the classic series with Queen Latifah set to star and executive produce. The project hails from Take Two creators Andrew Marlowe & Terri Miller, Davis Entertainment, Flavor Unit, Martin Chase Productions, Universal Television and CBS TV…

ABC went “Under the Sea” on Sunday night as they gave us the first look at the cast of The Wonderful World of Disney presents The Little Mermaid Live! with a promo during Kids Say the Darndest Things. Set to the tune of Ariel’s lyrical signature, the 30-second spot gives us a glimpse of Auli'i Cravalho as the titular…

“All these people who think they’ve seen everything before, but have they seen this?” AMC is dropping its documentary series Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America next month, and now we have our first look and listen at what’s on tap. Sample the new trailer above and the key art below. Spanning three decades of…

Dennis Quaid and newcomer Madalen Mills are set to co-star opposite Queen Latifah in The Tiger Rising, a film adaptation to Kate DiCamillo's 2001 New York Times Bestselling children's book. The pic will be presented at the Toronto Film Festival via Highland Film Group, who is managing worldwide sales. Ray Giarratana…

This year’s MTV Video Music Awards are going heavily hip-hop. The network will close out the kudofest with a New Jersey-themed performance featuring rap pioneers hailing from the Garden State. Among the all-star roster are Naughty By Nature, Queen Latifah, Redman and Wyclef Jean, who moved to Newark from Haiti and…

ABC’s The Little Mermaid live special is back on, and it has set most of its core cast with Moana star Auli'i Cravalho as Ariel, Queen Latifah as Ursula and Shaggy as Sebastian. The Wonderful World of Disney Presents The Little Mermaid Live!, featuring a mix of live action, animation and puppetry, will air Nov. 5 to…

BET has unveiled its lineup of guests and participants for the inaugural social impact conference, META (Media, Entertainment and Technology Alliance) Convened by BET Networks. The two-day invitation-only event takes place June 20-21 in Los Angeles and serves as a lead-up to BET's annual BET Experience and BET…

A week ago, Lee Daniels admitted a revival of Star "ain't happening," but today the co-creator of the now canceled music drama offered hope to fans pounding Fox for pink slipping the series. "We will have something with some closure," Daniels announced on social media Friday afternoon for the Jude Demorest, Ryan…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Queen Latifah is in place to star in and serve as an executive producer on a film adaptation to Kate DiCamillo's 2001 New York Times Bestselling children’s book, The Tiger Rising. The deal for the film rights was finalized at Cannes. GG Filmz and Thomasville Pictures will be producing, while…

Queen Latifah and Shakim Compere’s Flavor Unit production company is teaming with Gunpowder & Sky for the teen comedy Paper Chase, in which the Oscar-nominated actress also will appear. The comedy follows Alicia, an ideal-driven, well-meaning New Orleans teenager ready to reinvent herself at the fictional Kensington…

UTA has signed Queen Latifah and her production company Flavor Unit Entertainment. The Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning actor-musician-producer is coming off Universal’s big hit comedy Girls Trip, which made more than $140 million worldwide; the cast has a deal to return for a sequel but no greenlight yet from the…