EXCLUSIVE: Sinqua Walls (Nanny) has been tapped for a lead role opposite rapper Jack Harlow in 20th Century Studios’ reboot of White Men Can’t Jump.
The film will offer a new take on Ron Shelton’s 1992 sports comedy, starring Woody Harrelson, Wesley Snipes and Rosie Perez, which saw Black and white basketball hustlers…
When Anna Diop first read Nikyatu Jusu’s script for Nanny, she was “blown away” by the story at hand and the way in which Jusu told it.
“I was familiar with Nikyatu’s work because of a short she did called Suicide by [Sunlight] that everyone had seen, it seemed like, and was in love with,” the actress said recently an…
EXCLUSIVE: Brian Cox and Sinqua Walls have signed on to star and exec produce Mending the Line. The drama will be helmed by Joshua Caldwell (Infamous), which begins production later this month in Montana. Stephen Camelio penned the script.
The story follows a young soldier (Walls), injured in Afghanistan, who arrives…
EXCLUSIVE:Sinqua Walls (American Soul) is set as a series regular in At That Age,NBC's ensemble drama pilot from Carla Banks-Waddles, Malcolm D. Lee, Debra Martin Chase and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.
Created, directed and based on an original idea by Lee and written by Banks-Waddles,…
EXCLUSIVE: Multiple Grammy award-winning recording artist Alicia Keys is attached to produce a currently untitled Netlfix romantic comedy that explores the bonds of love and family. Christina Milian, Saturday Night Live alum Jay Pharoah, and Sinqua Walls will star in the film, which is being directed by Steven…
EXCLUSIVE: Sinqua Walls, who currently toplines the BET series American Soul, has been added to the cast of the Krystin Ver Linden-helmed indie thriller, Alice, joining Keke Palmer, who stars in the title role, Common and Jonny Lee Miller.
The pic, which is being financed by Steel Springs Pictures, is inspired by the…
EXCLUSIVE: We’ll be seeing a slew of music industry icons and visionaries portrayed in the upcoming second season of American Soul, the Don Cornelius-infused period drama, set for premiere on BET in 2020.
American Soul takes an unflinching look at the entrepreneur, his Soul Train dancers, crew and musicians in an…
EXCLUSIVE: Former The Breaks star Sinqua Walls is set as the lead in American Soul,BET’s upcoming drama series based on the life and career of Soul Train creator Don Cornelius, from Jesse Collins Entertainment(The New Edition Story, The Bobby Brown Story).
Walls will play a young Cornelius in the 10-episode series…
Sinqua Walls (Once Upon A Time, Power) has come aboard the Netflix film, Otherhood, which has Angela Bassett and Patricia Arquette attached as leads. Cindy Chupack is directing the romantic comedy about three Moms who leave their suburban life to reconnect with their estranged sons in NYC. Walls will play Matt Walker…
In the inaugural episode of Deadline’s New Hollywood podcast, we welcome actor Sinqua Walls, who has been seen in Power, Once Upon a Timeand Friday Night Lights. On the film side, he appears in the upcoming Clint Eastwood-directed The15:17 To Paris. In addition to talking about his mellow experience working with the…
EXCLUSIVE: Sinqua Walls has been cast in Client Eastwood’s upcoming biopic The 15:17 To Parisfrom Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow. It’s based on the novel The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and Three American Heroes by Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, Spencer Stone and Jeffrey E. Stern about…
VH1 has set the full cast forThe Breaks, its new scripted series based on its critically praised hit film that aired earlier this year.
Melonie Diaz (Fruitvale Station), Sinqua Walls (Power) and Ali Ahn (Billions) are joining the movie's original cast including previously announced Afton Willamson, Wood Harris, Mack…