Frank Masi/Universal Pictures(NEW YORK) — Idris Elba is weighing on the recent report that Captain Marvel star Lashana Lynch will become the new 007. According to the report, Daniel Craig will return as Bond in next year’s Bond 25, but retired from the spy game. Lynch, who will play Nomi in the film, is reported to …
Shannen Doherty says ‘BH90210’ felt like “the right thing to do” after Luke Perry’s death
Brian Bowen Smith/FOX(NEW YORK) — Shannen Doherty once vowed never to return to her Beverly Hills 90210 role of Brenda Walsh, but that decision changed with the sudden passing of her close friend and co-star Luke Perry this past March. The actress and cancer survivor now says she agreed to star in the BH90210 revival in Perry’s …
Tiffany Haddish, Blair Underwood and more tapped to star in Octavia Spencer’s ‘Madam C.J. Walker’ series
Netlfix/Adam Rose(LOS ANGELES) — Octavia Spencer’s forthcoming Madam C.J. Walker Netflix series has found its starting lineup. According to Deadline, Tiffany Haddish, Carmen Ejogo, Blair Underwood, Garrett Morris and Kevin Carroll have signed on for principal roles in the series about the legendary entrepreneur and philanthropist. They join Spencer, who has already been cast as …
‘Thor: Ragnarok’ director Taika Waititi to receive the first Ebert Director Award at Toronto Film Festival
Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney(TORONTO) — New Zealand-born director Taika Waititi will be honored with the inaugural Ebert Director Award at this year’s inaugural Toronto Film Festival, named after late, legendary movie critic Roger Ebert. Organizers of the event, which runs from September 5 to September 15, have previously honored filmmakers — including …
For ‘Hobbs & Shaw’ star Vanessa Kirby, working with Helen Mirren was a big draw
Photo Credit: Daniel Smith/Universal Pictures(NEW YORK) — While Fast and the Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw is built around the two titular tough guys — played by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Jason Statham — there’s a pair of very strong women at its core: Helen Mirren and Vanessa Kirby. Oscar-winner Mirren plays tough-as-nails matriarch …
Tyrese Gibson shades The Rock’s ‘Fast & Furious’ spinoff box office numbers
ABC/Paula Lobo(LOS ANGELES) — Tyrese Gibson has a clear message for Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s Fast & Furious spinoff Hobbs & Shaw: Your film’s “NOT a win.” In a now-deleted Instagram post captured by The Shade Room, Gibson shared a screenshot of a headline that read, “Hobbs and Shaw Has Lowest Fast & Furious Box Office Opening Since Tokyo …
ABC TV head teases female-led Marvel series
Marvel Studios(LOS ANGELES) — Prior to this year’s big-screen blockbuster Captain Marvel, female superheroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe had been relegated to supporting roles, but ABC Entertainment president Karey Burke told Deadline on Monday that the network and the studio are in “active talks” to develop a female-led series to fill the void left …
Toni Morrison, Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize-winning author of ‘Beloved’, dead at 88
Photo: © Michael Lionstar(NEW YORK) — Toni Morrison, the famed author whose book Beloved won her the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, died on Monday night at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. She was 88. In a statement, her family said, “It is with profound sadness we share that, following a short illness, our adored …
‘The Rookie’ star Afton Williamson identifies people she claims sexually assaulted, bullied her
ABC/Ed Herrera(LOS ANGELES) — The Rookie‘s Afton Williamson, who announced on Sunday that she was leaving the show after she was allegedly subjected to sexual harassment and racial discrimination, has revealed the names of the alleged perpetrators. “This season on The Rookie, I was sexually harassed by fellow actor Demetrius Grosse. I was Racially Bullied …
Former ‘Simpsons’ scorer sues for alleged age discrimination
THE SIMPSONS ™ and © 2017 TCFFC ALL RIGHTS RESERVE(LOS ANGELES) — Alf Clausen, who wrote and conducted music for The Simpsons for 27 years, is suing Disney, 20th Century Fox Television and James L. Brooks’ Gracie Films, the animated sitcom’s production company, for alleged age discrimination, according to Deadline. Clausen, 78, was given his …