Latest in Tika Sumpter

EXCLUSIVE: The MGM Snoop Dogg sports comedy The Underdoggs has added Tika Sumpter, Mike Epps, Andrew Schulz and George Lopez while casting the kid team of actors which includes Jonigan Booth, Adan James Carrillo, Kylah Davila, Caleb Dixon, Alexander Michael Gordon and Shamori Washington. Billed as The…

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed actor, producer, and podcast host Tika Sumpter (Sonic the Hedgehog, Mixed-ish) in all areas. In film, Sumpter will next be seen in Paramount Pictures' Sonic the Hedgehog 2 reprising the role of Maddie Wachowski alongside James Marsden and Jim Carrey later this year. Previously, she starred…

Was it only two years ago, a month before lockdown, that Sonic the Hedgehog was riding high in theaters, only to be curtailed when most of them had to close? Who knows how high it could have flown, but it remains a record holder for this kind of video game movie adaptation. Paramount obviously could sense that the…

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details about the Mixed-Ish series finale, “Forever Young.” Childhood doesn’t last forever, but according to Mixed-Ish’s Bow Johnson, it paves the way for the adults we’re meant to be. Mixed-Ish, just days after ABC shared that it has cancelled the Black-ish spinoff, wrapped its…

The actresses behind Mixed-ish‘s Johnson family broke their silence on social media after ABC announced that it will not renew the comedy for a third season. Arica Himmel, who stars as the younger version of Tracee Ellis Ross’ Rainbow “Bow” Johnson, first posted her reaction to the news on Instagram. She reminisced on…

Black-ish spinoff Mixed-ish is not returning to ABC for a third season. The Disney-owned network has canceled the series, which comes from Peter Saji, Black-ish creator Kenya Barris and Tracee Ellis Ross, after two seasons. The comedy, which was a promising newcomer last season, had found itself on the bubble this…

When Tika Sumpter sat in the virtual guest seat for Deadline’s New Hollywood Podcast, the news had just dropped that ABC renewed Mixed-ish for a second season so she was definitely in good spirits as we celebrated the news. Prior to Mixed-ish, Sumpter starred in multiple TV series including One Life to Live, Gossip Gir…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max has won a spec auction for The Ancestor, a psychological thriller script by Kay Oyegun that will be developed as a star vehicle for Tika Sumpter, produced by Michael B. Jordan and Alana Mayo’s Outlier Society. I’ve heard the deal was high six figures. Several suitors were in the mix for the spec…

OK, so I confess I wouldn’t know Sonic the Hedgehog from Sonic the Hedgefund. Nor do I really care about a film version about a 1990s video game sensation and a speed demon character that hits 265 mph while basically taking a stroll. So take this all with a grain of salt: Sonic the Hedgehog  isn’t my thing, but it coul…

HBO is developing drama series Trader, with Tika Sumpter (Southside With You) set to executive produce and intended to star. Written by Sonya Winton and Jonathan Kidd (Lovecraft Country), Trader is a contemporary re-imagining of the Robin Hood saga told through the perspective of a half-Nigerian and half-Black…

Old Man & The Gun has been slated for a fall, Oct. 5 release date by Fox Searchlight. The ensemble heist thriller led by Robert Redford and written and directed by David Lowery also stars Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover, Tom Waits, and Tika Sumpter. It will have a platform release as it is clearly being…

EXCLUSIVE: Tiffany Haddish has signed on to star alongside Tika Sumpter and Omari Hardwick in Tyler Perry's The List, Perry’s next film which is in the works at Paramount Players. Perry wrote and is directing and producing, and the Paramount label has already set a November 2, 2018 release date. The pic’s logline…