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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…

Fox Broadcasting Co. has officially ordered an event series from Love & Basketball filmmaker Gina Prince-Bythewood and Empire executive producer Brian Grazer for a 2016 premiere. The project, which has had a blinking green lights since Love & Basketball star Sanaa Lathan was cast as the lead in October. Titled Shots Fi…

Fox Broadcasting Co. is prepping an event series from Love & Basketball filmmaker Gina Prince-Bythewood and Empire executive producer Brian Grazer. Love & Basketball star Sanaa Lathan has been cast as the lead in the project, which examines the dangerous aftermath of a police shooting when an African-American cop…

Lionsgate label Codeblack Films is partnering with Sanaa Lathan to executive produce and star in a film based on Omar Tyree’s bestselling book trilogy Flyy Girl, which it acquired in July 2013 with Dear White People producer Effie Brown aboard. Now Lathan will star as Flyy Girl protagonist Tracy Ellison, a beautiful…

Tony-nominated actress Sanaa Lathan has signed on to play FBI agent Natalie Austin in the magician caper sequel Now You See Me 2. Lathan joins the film’s original castmembers Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, as well as newcomers Lizzy Caplan, Jay Chou and…