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Director Says Adele Wanted to Cast Black Actor in ‘Hello’ Music Video to Address Police Brutality
4 hours ago | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »
Adele was very intentional with her casting of Tristan Wilds for her now-famous “Hello” music video.
In an interview with Xavier Dolan, the video’s director shed light on the events leading up to Wilds’ casting.
“It was her desire that we wouldn’t cast a Caucasian male in this, which I thought was great,” he told Vulture in an interview published on Thursday. “She called me and said, ‘This is what I think we should do,’ and if my memory serves me right … I’m going to be honest, it’s tragic not to be able to remember what »
- Blake Bakkila
Clarke Peters: 'I was 15 when I first stuck out my thumb and ran away from home'
6 December 2016 12:00 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
He has starred in The Wire and sung with the Stones. As Clarke Peters returns to crooning, he talks about hating pop, playing pimps and making his first recording – at the age of four
A few minutes after I ring the bell at Clarke Peters’ home in a tranquil corner of north-west London, he materialises behind me, padding up the path with his wife, Penny. “Sorry, mate,” he says, the British colloquialism sounding odd in his deep, soothing east coast tones. “We were getting coffee. I don’t get to spend too much time with my wife.” Their youngest son recently left for university and Penny tells me she’s feeling “the empty nest thing”. Does he call? “Sometimes too much!” Peters says with a toot of brassy laughter.
He and I wander into the living room where a piano is covered in hats from some of the 64-year-old actor’s roles. »
- Ryan Gilbey
First Footage From David Simon’s ‘The Deuce’ With James Franco, ‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 7 & More In HBO 2017 Preview
5 December 2016 8:37 AM, PST | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
You might still be recovering from the fantastic season finale of “Westworld” last night, and I don’t mean to bring you down, but season two likely won’t be arriving until 2018. However, the silver lining is that there will be plenty on HBO in 2017 to keep you occupied.
Read More: HBO Says “Preliminary Ongoing Talks” Still Happening For ‘Game Of Thrones’ Prequel Series
Over the weekend, the network unveiled a tease of its 2017 slate, and some of it you’ll have already seen footage from including “The Young Pope,” “Big Little Lies,” and “Girls.” However, there’s much more to come, and one show that’s near the top of our must-see list is “The Wire” mastermind David Simon‘s “The Deuce.” Starring James Franco in dual roles, and Maggie Gyllenhaal, the drama will track the rise and legalization of pornography, from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Showtime Re-Shooting Lena Waithe Pilot With New Director, Project Heating Up
30 November 2016 5:36 PM, PST | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
The long-gestating Lena Waithe pilot is finally seeing some movement over at Showtime — though not without some changes.
The pilot will be re-shot, and some re-casting is currently under way, Variety has learned.
Rick Famuyiwa will direct the new pilot, replacing Clark Johnson (“Homeland,” “The Wire”). Johnson helmed the original pilot, which was picked up in August 2015 and shot this October in Chicago.
With the new changes in motion, the project is heating up. Insiders say the cabler has ordered additional scripts, and are hopeful for a series order.
The pilot marks Famuyiwa’s first TV series project, though he directed HBO’s Kerry Washington pic “Confirmation.” The “Dope” director was also attached to “The Flash” movie, but dropped out. (Famuyiwa’s involvement on the Showtime project was first reported by Deadline.)
The Chicago-set pilot is described as a relevant, timely, and distinctive coming-of-age story, which revolves around a young African-American man in Chicago’s South Side »
- Elizabeth Wagmeister
'The Wire' Star Lance Reddick Joins Kate Bosworth, Tyler Hoechlin in 'The Domestics' (Exclusive)
30 November 2016 2:42 PM, PST | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
Lance Reddick, best known for his work on Fringe and The Wire, has joined Kate Bosworth and Tyler Hoechlin in The Domestics, a post-apocalyptic thriller set up at MGM.
Mike P. Nelson wrote the script and is directing the project, which is in preproduction and is being produced by Hollywood Gang.
Set in the harrowing future, Domestics tells of a young couple, played by Bosworth and Hoechlin, who have to travel through a dangerously gang-infested countryside in order to make it home.
As the third lead of the movie, Reddick will play a man who invites the duo into his »
- Borys Kit
Modern tribes: the box set bore
26 November 2016 12:00 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Why don’t you start with The Crown? All I’ll say is, it’s about the Queen, I can’t wait to see how it turns out
God I’m exhausted, are you watching The Crown? It’s amazing, you’ve got such a treat in store, I wasn’t going to, because I’m still finishing season four of Orange Is The New Black, can you believe? I think it’s definitely the best, I heard five is out next June – you know who Piper Chapman is, right? But I thought I’d look and Matt Smith is so brilliant. You completely get that Prince Philip was actually incredibly good-looking, there was this real attraction, then we binge-watched the rest, totally addictive. Don’t talk to me about Matt Smith’s bum, you know his, I mean Prince Philip’s, mother was actually this nun, well, do have a look. »
- Catherine Bennett
Idris Elba Bio: In His Own Words
19 November 2016 5:48 PM, PST | Uinterview | See recent Uinterview news »
Idris Elba is an English actor, musician, and DJ. He is best known for his roles as Russell “Stringer” Bell on The Wire, Detective John Luther on Luther and Nelson Mandela in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. His popularity and proliferation as an actor are steadily on the rise, having just completed work in Avengers franchise […]
The post Idris Elba Bio: In His Own Words appeared first on uInterview. »
- Travis Jeffrey Gonzalez
The Take Review
17 November 2016 5:49 PM, PST | We Got This Covered | See recent We Got This Covered news »
These days, it seems you can’t go to a film, turn on your television or surf the net without coming across Idris Elba and the army of adoring fans he’s amassed over the years. The English actor has been working overseas since the mid-1990s but really broke through in North America as Russell “Stringer” Bell on the critically acclaimed HBO drama The Wire.
Since then, Elba has headlined the popular BBC crime drama Luther and appeared in countless films, including the Thor series, Netflix drama Beasts of No Nation and this summer’s Star Trek Beyond. Next, he’ll lead the much-anticipated film adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower. But with such a versatile resume, how does Elba’s newest film, The Take, measure up?
Previously titled Bastille Day, the movie sees Elba play CIA Agent Sean Briar, who’s charged with foiling a terrorist »
- Robert Yaniz Jr.
Love & Hip Hop: New York: Season Seven Starts Next Week on VH1
16 November 2016 2:26 PM, PST | TVSeriesFinale.com | See recent TVSeriesFinale news »
Are you ready to return to the Big Apple? Below, watch a preview for the seventh season of Love & Hip Hop: New York (formerly Love & Hip Hop). Season seven premieres on VH1, Monday, November 21, 2016 at 8:00pm Et/Pt.Felicia Pearson, aka "Snoop" from The Wire, joins the cast in season seven. Also, Kimbella Vanderhee is returning with rapper Juelz Santana. Check out the press release after the jump, to see who else is on board for Love & Hip Hop: New York, season seven.Read More… »
- TVSeriesFinale.com
‘Hunter Gatherer’ Review: Andre Royo Shines in a Comedy That Laughs at Trump’s Idea of Black America
16 November 2016 1:27 PM, PST | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Josh Locy’s “Hunter Gatherer” is an innocent and eccentric debut, an off-kilter comedy that dipsy-doodles through a minefield of problematic ideas with the oblivious grace of Charlie Chaplin rollerskating from one potential disaster to another. A young white filmmaker from Virginia telling a heartwarming magical-realist story about a poor, earnestly simple black man in south Los Angeles… what could go wrong? The answer, of course, is “thank god that’s a rhetorical question.” But viewers who felt that fare like “Beasts of the Southern Wild” was exploitative or condescending are unlikely to be rankled in the same way by “Hunter Gatherer,” a warm-hearted movie which follows a diehard romantic but refuses to romanticize his plight.
As the film begins, a manic middle-aged man named Ashley Douglas (Andre Royo, famous for playing everyone’s favorite heroin-addicted informer on “The Wire”) is running around his mom’s house in a bathrobe »
- David Ehrlich
Jim True-Frost, Alicia Sixtos & Efren Ramirez Join Rod Lurie’s TNT Drama Pilot ‘Monsters Of God’
16 November 2016 10:20 AM, PST | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
The Wire alum Jim True-Frost, Alicia Sixtos (East Los High) and Efren Ramirez (Middle School: The Worst Years Of My Life) have signed on as series regulars opposite Garret Dillahunt in Rod Lurie's post-Civil War drama pilot Monsters of God for TNT, from Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment. In Monsters of God, written and to be directed by Lurie, savagery and violence are the cornerstones of Colonel "Terrible" Bill Lancaster (Dillahunt)'s holy war against the Comanche in… »
What Is the Most Shocking TV Twist of the 21st Century, So Far? — IndieWire Critics Survey
15 November 2016 4:29 PM, PST | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »
Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Tuesday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best show currently on TV?” can be found at the end of this post.)
This week’s question: What is the most shocking TV twist of the 21st century and why? (Warning: Here be spoilers. Lots of them.)
Damian Holbrook (@damianholbrook ), TV Guide Magazine
The saintly Teri Bauer dying at Nina’s hands in the “24” first-season finale. That twofold trauma of loss and betrayal has given me such trust issues that I now suspect every person around Kiefer Sutherland’s President Tom Kirkman on “Designated Survivor” of being a mole. Except for the awful son who is too stupid to be evil. The most shockingly bad twist that still makes me want to burn my “Sandcastles in the Sand” cassingle was the reveal at »
- Hanh Nguyen
What Is the Most Shocking TV Twist of the 21st Century, So Far? — IndieWire Critics Survey
15 November 2016 4:29 PM, PST | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Tuesday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best show currently on TV?” can be found at the end of this post.)
This week’s question: What is the most shocking TV twist of the 21st century and why? (Warning: Here be spoilers. Lots of them.)
Damian Holbrook (@damianholbrook ), TV Guide Magazine
The saintly Teri Bauer dying at Nina’s hands in the “24” first-season finale. That twofold trauma of loss and betrayal has given me such trust issues that I now suspect every person around Kiefer Sutherland’s President Tom Kirkman on “Designated Survivor” of being a mole. Except for the awful son who is too stupid to be evil. The most shockingly bad twist that still makes me want to burn my “Sandcastles in the Sand” cassingle was the reveal at »
- Hanh Nguyen
‘100 Streets’ Trailer: Idris Elba Plays a Retired Rugby Player Who Spirals Out of Control
15 November 2016 10:23 AM, PST | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Idris Elba has spent most of 2016 lending his voice to animated projects, such as Chief Bogo in “Zootopia,” Shere Khan in “The Jungle Book” and Fluke in Pixar’s “Finding Dory.” But before the year is over, Elba also stars in the new film “100 Streets,” about three different stories in London. He plays Max Moore, a retired rugby player who struggles to adjust to his new life. He soon spirals out of control with alcohol, drugs and womanizing, losing his wife (Gemma Arterton) and kids in the process. Out of anger and frustration, he soon turns violent. Watch a trailer for the film below.
Read More: Idris Elba to Make Directorial Debut with ‘Yardie,’ an ’80s-set Cocaine Thriller
The film is directed by Jim O’Hanlon, who has mostly directed TV projects, including episodes of “A Touch of Cloth,” “Casualty” and “Coronation Street.” It co-stars Tom Cullen (“Weekend”), Franz Drameh »
- Vikram Murthi
Exclusive: Amy Ryan Indulges Her Funny Bone
14 November 2016 8:15 AM, PST | Entertainment Tonight | See recent Entertainment Tonight news »
A formidable character actress, Amy Ryan has built a career on dramatic supporting roles in everything from Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead to HBO’s The Wire, as well as Tony-nominated performances on Broadway. She is probably most famous for her Oscar-nominated turn as a distraught mother of a missing daughter in Ben Affleck’s Gone Baby Gone. "I'm not a glamour girl and that's Ok," Ryan tells Et by phone. Not confined to Hollywood's standards for leading ladies, she naturally gravitated toward these supporting roles. "It's what got me excited when reading scripts. The character parts are always so much fun."
While there’s no doubt that Ryan can deliver scathing, emotional performances, she has a serious funny bone that’s not often seen onscreen. “My mom always said to me, ‘Your career really surprised me,’” Ryan says. The 48-year-old actress, who is currently earning laughs in Roundabout Theatre Company’s limited run of »
USA Network gives pilot order to Biggie and Tupac crime drama Unsolved
12 November 2016 5:45 PM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Deadline is reporting that USA Network has placed a pilot order for Unsolved, a true crime serial from director and executive producer Anthony Hemingway (The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story).
The project has been written by Kyle Long (Suits) and is based upon former Lapd Detective Greg Kading’s book Murder Rap: The Untold Story of Biggie Smalls & Tupac Shakur Murder Investigations. As you’d expect from that title, the drama will explore the police investigations into the unsolved murders of the two rap stars, with Kading serving as as consultant on the script for the pilot, as well as co-executive producing.
Hemingway was nominated for an Emmy for his directing work on The People v. O.J. Simpson, and also shared the Outstanding Limited Series Emmy. He has also worked on the likes of The Wire, CSI: NY, Criminal Minds, Treme and Empire. »
- Gary Collinson
‘Live Cargo’ Exclusive Clip: Dree Hemingway and Keith Stanfield Star in Logan Sandler’s Moody Bahamas Drama
11 November 2016 2:27 PM, PST | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Though Logan Sandler’s film “Live Cargo” is set in the Bahamas, it doesn’t reflect the archetypal tropical paradise, but instead a sharp look at the daily machinations of the island community. Filmed in black-and-white, the film stars Dree Hemingway (“Starlet”) and Keith Stanfield (“Atlanta”) as Nadine and Lewis, a couple who has recently experienced a devastating loss and travels to the island in order to restore their relationship. But when they arrive, they find that the island community is unraveling, with the island’s mayor squaring off against a human trafficker who manipulates an impressionable homeless teenager into assisting with his smuggling operation. Watch an exclusive clip from the film below.
Read More: Moody First Look at Logan Sandler’s Tribeca Premiere ‘Live Cargo’
The film is Sandler’s feature-length debut. It was co-written and produced by Thymaya Payne, who previously produced and directed the award-winning documentary “Stolen Seas. »
- Vikram Murthi
AFI Fest 2016: 14 Movies We Can’t Wait to See at the Festival
7 November 2016 10:17 AM, PST | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Los Angeles’ annual AFI Fest presented by Audi kicks off this week, and boasts a robust slate of some of the festival season’s most beloved offerings and a few highly anticipated new premieres. If you’ve missed out on the rest of the year’s big festivals, AFI Fest is a prime opportunity to catch up on the starriest titles before awards season really kicks into high gear, along with enough bonafide premieres to keep even the most ravenous movie-goer very happy indeed.
Ahead, we pick out 14 of our most anticipated films from the fest, including a handful of genuine classics, some big contenders and at least one very buzzy debut. Take a look and start filling up your schedule now.
“Jackie”
The hype is real. Pablo Larrain’s English-language debut features Natalie Portman in not just the best performance of her career, but what’s currently shaping up »
- Kate Erbland, Eric Kohn, David Ehrlich, Chris O'Falt, Graham Winfrey, Zack Sharf and Steve Greene
Trailer for David Gordon Green-Produced SXSW Winner ‘Hunter Gatherer’
7 November 2016 7:31 AM, PST | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
After his career-defining role in The Wire, Andre Royo‘s output has yet to slow down in front of the camera. His latest role, in Josh Locy‘s feature debut Hunter Gatherer, earned him a Best Actor award at South by Southwest Film Festival earlier this year, and it will arrive in theaters next week. Ahead of the debut, the first trailer has now debuted.
Executive produced by David Gordon Green, Variety said in their review it’s “a highly eccentric, funny-sad tale of friendship and failure that occupies a curious space between inner-city realism and almost childlike myth.” That certainly comes across in this trailer, which has a strong mix of comedy and drama, with a powerful-looking performance from Royo. Also starring George Sample III, Kellee Stewart and Ashley Wilkerson, check out the trailer below.
Ashley Douglas thinks everything should fall into place when he’s released after three years in prison. »
- Jordan Raup
‘Hunter Gatherer’ Trailer: Andre Royo is Making a Very Unexpected Living in SXSW Winner — Watch
31 October 2016 12:36 PM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Ashley Douglas is just making a living. Recently released from prison after three years, the one-time ex-con, played by “The Wire” favorite Andre Royo, is back on the streets and hopeful that his life is finally going to fall back into place. Despite his very best intentions — and a scrappy can-do attitude — that’s not exactly what happens in Josh Locy’s feature directorial debut.
Royo, who picked up a Special Jury Award for his performance at this year’s SXSW Film Festival, where the film made its bow, goes all out as the luckless Ashley, who emerges back into the “real world” to find that very little has waited for him, including his beloved girlfriend Linda. As Ashley sets out to make his way in a time and place he no longer recognizes, he takes up with a compelling loner named Jeremy (George Sample III), and the duo pull »
- Kate Erbland
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