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Kendrick Lamar on Thursday dropped a short film inspired by his single "We Cry Together" that stars him and Zola star Taylour Paige. The intense, raw short clocks in at 5 minutes and 30 seconds and features Lamar and Paige as a couple who start out arguing via lyrics from the song — both Lamar and Paige rap them. No…

EXCLUSIVE: The long-awaited sequel to the classic comedy franchise is a go as sources tell Deadline that Taylour Paige and Joseph Gordon-Levitt have joined series star Eddie Murphy in Netflix’s newly titled Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Foley. Production on the sequel is underway with Mark Molloy directing. Murphy is back…

EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Zola Independent Spirit Award winner Taylour Paige and Cyrano actress Haley Bennett are boarding Magazine Dreams opposite Jonathan Majors. The film follows an amateur bodybuilder (Majors) who struggles to find human connection in the exploration of celebrity and violence. The script was on the…

EXCLUSIVE: Taylour Paige (Zola) has signed on to star alongside Vito Schnabel in The Trainer, the upcoming dark comedy, which Tony Kaye (American History X) is directing from a script by Schnabel and Jeff Solomon. The film, which has been in development for nearly a decade, is based on an original story by Schnabel…

Over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, filmmaker Lena Dunham threw herself back into watching movies, including “the female-led films of the ’70s” that she’d spent ample time focusing on in college, finding within their depictions of female sexuality the seed of the idea for her next film, Sharp Stick, which…

EXCLUSIVE: What better to liven up a quite Toronto Film Market than a package for a movie set in the rap arena, that has stars and a slam dunk a top-selling soundtrack? Justice Smith, Idris Elba and Taylour Paige will star in We All Die Young, a drama that Hamilton star Daveed Diggs has scripted for Jake Schreier to…

EXCLUSIVE:  Deadline has learned that NAACP Image Award nominated actress Taylour Paige has closed a deal to star in Legendary Entertainment’s comedy feature Brothers alongside previously announced Josh Brolin, Peter Dinklage, Glenn Close and Brendan Fraser. Brothers reteams the Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom actress with…

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…