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EXCLUSIVE: Taylour Paige has landed the female lead opposite Peter Dinklage and Jacob Tremblay in Legendary's new Toxic Avenger movie. Macon Blair is on board to direct. A contemporary reimagining of Troma Entertainment's successful 1984 low-budget action comedy hit, The Toxic Avenger is steeped in environmental…

Teasing a theatrical release with an energy reminiscent of previous A24 releases like Spring Breakers and Uncut Gems (with a dash of The Florida Project), the specialty distributor has uncorked the trailer for Zola. The 2020 Sundance competition title, which was originally slated for a summer 2020 debut before…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s an independent romantic comedy we hear is coming together: Oscar winner Diane Keaton and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom star Taylour Paige are set to star in Mack and Rita which will be produced by Alex Saks. Katie Aselton is directing, we hear. The comedy is billed as being in the spirit of Big. Mackenzie…

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom entered the awards race with impressive credentials. One of two films last year featuring the late Chadwick Boseman, George C. Wolfe's Netflix film also reunites star Viola Davis with the work of playwright August Wilson, a winning combination that landed her the Best Supporting Actress Oscar…

As mentioned in the new trailer for Eddie Huang’s Boogie, the forthcoming Focus Features pic is a coming-of-age story — with lots of nuance of family expectations, cultural identity, basketball and a little bit of romance to warm things up. Huang is best known for writing the best-selling Fresh Off the Boat: A…

In 2015, a 148-word Twitter thread took the internet by storm. The tweets hailed from A’ziah King, a then 20-year Hooters waitress who had a chance encounter with a stripper named Jessica led to a wild 2-day Flordia trip that included prostitution, murder, and a violent pimp, who went by Z. “What drew me most was her…

EXCLUSIVE: Mike Moh, Dave East, Perry Yung, Alexa Mareka and Taylour Paige are ready to Boogie. The quintet of actors are the latest to join Eddie Huang’s coming-of-age pic at Focus Features which is currently filming in New York City. The actors round out the cast which includes previously announced newcomer Taylor…

EXCLUSIVE: Taylour Paige (Zola, Jean of the Joneses, White Boy Rick), Jonny Coyne (The Nun, Nightcrawler), Jeremy Shamos (Birdman, The Big Sick), and Dusan Brown (The Lion Guard, 42) have been added to the cast of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, the Denzel Washington-produced Netflix adaptation of August Wilson’s 1982…