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SPOILER ALERT: This article and interview with Sarah Treem contains details about tonight’s episode of The Affair. Back for its fifth and final season, Showtime's The Affair returns with some real surprises. The show was modeled on the varying viewpoints of four main characters: Noah and Helen Solloway, and Alison and…

Sanaa Lathan (The Affair) is set to star in the first season of The Twilight Zone in the episode titled “Rewind”, joining previously announced host and narrator Jordan Peele. The CBS All Access series will be a modern reimagining of the original, which premiered in 1959 and continued through 1964. CBS announced last…

EXCLUSIVE: Sanaa Lathan has joined the cast of Native Son, the big-screen adaptation of Richard Wright’s iconic book in the works at A24, which made a worldwide rights deal last month for the project. Ashton Sanders, Margaret Qualley, Nick Robinson and Bill Camp are already aboard the pic, which has a screenplay…

Shots Fired star Sanaa Lathan is set for a recurring role opposite Dominic West on the upcoming fourth season of Showtime’s The Affair. Winner of three Golden Globes, including best drama series, The Affair explores the emotional and psychological effects of an affair that destroyed two marriages and the crime that…

American Assassin doesn’t rewrite the book as far as action thrillers go, but in this first of a hoped-for many installments it meets the test of what audiences expect from this genre — and does it with dynamite edge-of-your-seat style excitement and a very game cast. The first screen adaptation of one of the late…

EXCLUSIVE: Lyriq Bent and Netflix are doubling down on their relationship with the Rookie Blue alum joining the streaming service's Nappily Ever After. This final piece of the core roles for the Sanaa Lathan-starring movie based on Trisha R. Thomas' 2000 novel follows Bent's casting last October as one of the male…

EXCLUSIVE:  The cast of Nappily Ever After just got a little bit more divine with American Gods star Ricky Whittle joining the cast of Netflix’s Haifaa Al-Mansour-directed movie. With production on Season 2 of the Starz series gearing up, Whittle is already on the Atlanta set of Nappily, I hear. Filming actually…

Sanaa Lathan has been tapped to star in the Netflix original film Nappily Ever After, with Wadjda helm Haifaa Al-Mansour attached to direct. Ernie Hudson also has been cast of the pic, which is based on the book by Trisha R. Thomas. Tina Chism drafted the script with rewrites from Lisa Loomer, Adam Brooks and most…

It was the Ferguson riots and the not-guilty verdict in the George Zimmerman trial that inspired co-creators/executive producers Gina Prince-Bythewood and Reggie Rock Bythewood to heed the call of the Fox network and Imagine Entertainment in doing the 10-part series Shots Fired, which is just about as timely and…

“What is it you think we do here?” the jaded Cold War vet asks the angry recruit. “Kill people who deserve to be killed.” Yeah, pretty much. Here is the first trailer for American Assassin, starring Dylan O’Brien as Mitch Rapp, a burgeoning CIA “ghost” whose parents died when he was 14 and whose new fiancee is wiped…

Shots Fired, the 10-hour event series that bows tonight on Fox, first premiered in January at the Sundance Film Festival and could not feel more of the moment. From creators Gina Prince-Bythewood and Reggie Rock Bythewood and featuring a stellar ensemble including Sanaa Lathan, Stephan James and Tristan Mack Wilds…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS Films and Lionsgate have set Sanaa Lathan to play the role of CIA Deputy director Irene Kennedy in American Assassin, the Michael Cuesta-directed adaptation of the bestselling Vince Flynn thriller novel series. She joins Dylan O'Brien, who plays CIA black ops agent Mitch Rapp, Michael Keaton and Taylor…