Photo Credit: Ariel Nava(NEW YORK) — Real-life friends and Oakland natives Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal have teamed up for their Oakland based drama, Blindspotting. The film centers on Diggs’ character, Collin, and the complicated relationship he has with his best friend, Miles. Casal, who plays Miles, says they wanted to make the film to …
Mark Hamill, Billy Dee Williams & the late Carrie Fisher will all appear in “Star Wars: Episode IX”
Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney(HOLLYWOOD) — Carrie Fisher may have left us, but General Leia Organa lives on. Despite denials last year that the late actress would appear in Star Wars: Episode IX, Disney announced Friday that Fisher’s Leia Organa will indeed be present in the film, “using previously unreleased footage shot for Star Wars: …
Anthony Mackie swoops into the lead role for season two of ‘Altered Carbon’
Netflix(LOS ANGELES) — Marvel movie star Anthony Mackie will be the new face — and body — of Takeshi Kovacs for season two of Netflix’s Altered Carbon. The sci-fi series, based on the science fiction novels written by Richard K. Morgan, centers on far-future tech that lets people transfer their consciousness into new bodies. This …
Superman himself, Henry Cavill, on fighting as a mere mortal in ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’
© 2018 Paramount PicturesSuperman himself, Henry Cavill, gets to show his fighting chops without the benefit of any superpowers in the explosive new Mission: Impossible – Fallout. One of the movie’s setpieces is a bruising bathroom fight in which his CIA assassin character, August Walker, helps Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt tackle a baddie played by …
Michelle Williams marries in ultra-secret wedding: ‘I never gave up on love’
Photo by Laurent KOFFEL/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Surprise! Actress Michelle Williams is married. The four-time Oscar nominee revealed in a new interview with Vanity Fair that by the time the magazine went to print, she would have wed singer-songwriter Phil Elverum in a secret ceremony in the Adirondacks. A representative for the actress …
‘Charlie’s Angels’ is getting a reboot with added female power, thanks to Elizabeth Banks
ANGELA WEISS/AFP/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — Actresses Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, and Ella Balinska are set to answer the call from Charlie, in a “modern and global” retelling of Charlie’s Angels directed by Pitch Perfect‘s Elizabeth Banks. The Sony Pictures project, set for a September 27, 2019 release, will also be co-written by Banks, who directed …
From pop princess to Diana Prince — Halsey lends her “weird voice” to play Wonder Woman in “Teen Titans Go! to the Movies”
Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures(NEW YORK) — Halsey is known for her unique singing voice, but her speaking voice is also getting her some pretty cool side gigs. The singer voices Wonder Woman in the animated superhero flick Teen Titans Go! to the Movies, in theaters today. She tells ABC Radio it was a dream …
From pop princess to Diana Prince — Halsey using her “weird voice” to play Wonder Woman in “Teen Titans Go! to the Movies”
Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures(NEW YORK) — Halsey is known for her unique singing voice, but her speaking voice is also getting her some pretty cool side gigs. The singer voices Wonder Woman in the animated superhero flick Teen Titans Go! to the Movies, in theaters today. She tells ABC Radio it was a dream …
Toga! Toga! Toga! ‘Animal House’ turns 40 Saturday
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment(LOS ANGELES) — Forty years since its release on July 28, 1978, the iconic comedy National Lampoon’s Animal House continues to endure. Set in the 1960s, the film follows the escalating rivalry between the down-and-dirty Delta Tau Chi fraternity and the spoiled, stuck-up Omega Theta Pi fraternity at fictional Faber College. The cast …
‘Mission: Impossible — Fallout’ leads this week’s new movie releases
L-R: Henry Cavill, Tom Cruise and Rebecca Ferguson in “Mission: Impossible — Fallout”; Chiabella James/© 2018 Paramount Pictures(NEW YORK) — Here are the movies opening nationwide Friday: * Mission: Impossible — Fallout — The sixth installment in the Mission: Impossible franchise reunites Tom Cruise with his super-spy team, including Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames and Rebecca …