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Tommy Lane, an actor and stuntman who appeared in such classic films as Shaft and Live and Let Die, died Monday at Fort Lauderdale’s Florida Medical Center after a long battle with COPD. He was 83. His daughter, Kamala Lane, confirming his passing to Deadline. Born on December 17, 1937, in Miami, Lane primarily was…

4th Update Sunday AM writethru, after Friday midday and Saturday AM updates If you’re a rival major studio in the Disney-Fox era and you want to continue to play around with franchises, you have to make a movie that’s so outstanding, there’s no question in any person’s mind that they should go to the cinema. The…

With a couple of sitcom writers handling the scripting chores, the 2019 Shaft naturally leans on the lighter side. It goes as much for laughs it seems as it does for the kind of violent action we associate with the iconic character who first breathed cinematic life nearly a half-century ago with Richard Roundtree…

With sequelitis in full swing at the domestic box office before Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 4 changes that course, Sony is plotting for its responsibly-budgeted reboot of Men in Black: International to carry the load exactly there — overseas.  Currently, industry estimates are now at $30M in U.S. Canada at 4,200 theaters…

Men in Black: International, Sony’s reboot of Men in Black with Thor: Ragnarok thespians Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson, arrived on tracking this morning with a $40 million start. The pic opens June 14. While lower than the $50M-plus three-day total of the previous Will Smith-Tommy Lee Jones movies, Men in Black: I…

There’s a new trailer for the next chapter in the Shaft film franchise and includes three generations of the coolest private eye of New York City…can ya dig it? In the trailer for the New Line Cinema action comedy we are re-introduced to John Shaft II (Samuel L. Jackson), who was in the movie from 2000. We are also…

Ahead of its June 14 wide theatrical release, New Line Cinema's Shaft reboot will serve as the opening night film for the 2019 American Black Film Festival (ABFF) which kicks-off in Miami June 12 and runs through June 16. Directed by Ride Along helmer Tim Story, the pic has Richard Roundtree and Samuel L. Jackson…

It might appear at first glance that Regina Hall's wheelhouse is mostly comedy. There's Girls Trip, Black-ish, Insecure and Black Monday coming up on Showtime, and now the latest incarnation of Shaft in the offing, but Hall's sleeper hit feature Support the Girls is a stark reminder that she can do pretty much…

Actor Robbie Jones (One Tree Hill, Necessary Roughness) has come aboard New Line’s Tim Story-directed Shaft sequel, which stars past Shaft actors Samuel L. Jackson and and Richard Roundtree as well as new comers Jessie T. Usher, Regina Hall, Alexandra Shipp, Cliff "Method Man" Smith and Matt Lauria. The pic, which…

Friday Night Lights and Parenthood alum Matt Lauria has been cast in New Line's Shaft, joining stars Samuel L. Jackson, Jessie T. Usher, Regina Hall, Alexandra Shipp, Cliff "Method Man" Smith and Richard Roundtree. The Tim Story-directed flick follows John Shaft Jr. who, working for the FBI, reluctantly enlists his…

EXCLUSIVE: Can you dig it? Victorious alum Avan Jogia has been cast in New Line’s reboot of Shaft. He joins previously announced cast members Samuel L. Jackson, Jessie T. Usher, Regina Hall, Alexandra Shipp and Richard Roundtree. Details about Jogia’s role have been kept under wraps, but Tim Story will direct a script…

Warner Bros. is moving the New Line Cinema Jeremy Renner-Ed Helms-Rashida Jones-Annabelle Wallis comedy Tag up from June 29 next year to June 15.  That’s where Disney’s Pixar The Incredibles 2 is, so Tag will counterprogram that film. We heard Incredibles 2 tested last night to great results. Tag runs away from the…