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This week, Deadline’s New Hollywood Podcast entered the 36 chambers with Wu Tang: An American Saga star Shameik Moore. In the series, which launches on Hulu September 4, Moore plays Raekwon of the iconic hip hop collective — a genre of music that hits very close to home in and outside his work on the screen. In…

Ashton Sanders (Moonlight), Shameik Moore (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Get Down), Siddiq Saunderson (Messiah), Marcus Callender (Power), Zolee Griggs (Ballers) and Erika Alexander (Get Out, Black Lightning) are set to star in Hulu’s Wu-Tang: An American Saga, a 10-episode drama from Wu-Tang Clan frontman…

Netflix has assembled a solid group of young actors to star in Let It Snow, a YA film based on the 2008 NYT bestselling book by The Fault In Our Stars author John Green, as well as Lauren Myracle and Maureen Johnson. Kiernan Shipka, star of Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina series, Isabela Moner, who toplines…

Wu-tang Clan member turned filmmaker RZA is known for his affinity for anything and everything in the martial arts ilk, but as seen in the first trailer of Cut Throat City, he is going a different route. He took the Comic-Con stage in Hall H  to wax poetic about how he relates to martial arts and how he honors it…

Comic-Con fans were caught in a Hall H web when Sony swung into the confab with Venom and Spider-man: Into The Spider-Verse with mind-blowing footage. The Spidey extravaganza was moderated by the Nerdist’s Jessica Chobot with the first half of the panel included Phil Lord & Christopher Miller’s Into the…

Emily Ratajkowski, The Get Down alum Shameik Moore, American Vandal‘s Calum Worthy and Jimmy Tatro and YouTube star Lilly Singh and are set to star in Bright Futures, NBC’s single-camera comedy from Black-ish creator Kenya Barris and spinoff Grown-ish writers Hale Rothstein, Danny Segal and Isaac Schamis…

"We tell reality through fictional characters," The Get Down's Shameik Moore says by way of summarizing the Netflix series set in the early early days of what we now know as hip-hop. The Dope alum discussed the now-shuttered series created by Baz Luhrmann and Stephen Adly Guirgis, and much more, in a sit-d0wn for…

A sensation at the Sundance Film Festival where it was picked up by Open Road, writer-director Rick Famuyiwa’s Dope might seem on the surface to be another knockoff of a typical urban-themed teen movie infused with drugs, rap, gangs, etc. Even though those elements are present here, you would be sooooooooo wrong…

In case you missed it the other day, prepare to have a much happier Memorial Day off. Sundance hit Dope has a new red band trailer. It’s similar to the previous trailer released in April, but with more details about the problem the film’s three young protagonists find themselves stuck with, and of course far more…

Rick Famuyiwa is one of the most profitable voices in African American cinema at the box office with such titles as The Wood ($6M cost, $25M domestic) and Brown Sugar ($8M cost, $27.4M domestic). However, when he went to shop his comedy Dope about a high school senior's zany mission to escape the confines of his…

Four teenagers are set to lead The Get Down, Baz Luhrmann’s longtime passion project that Netflix ordered to series in February. The music-driven drama revolves around a ragtag crew of South Bronx teenagers who are wild in the streets — nothings and nobodies with no one to shelter them, except one another. TJ Brown is…

EXCLUSIVE: ICM Partners has signed Shameik Moore, the 19-year-old star of the Sundance Film Festival pic Dope, which sold to Open Road and Sony Pictures in one of the fest’s biggest deals: $7 million in minimum guarantee with a $15 million P&A. Moore was on the radar of pretty much every agency after the pic premiered…