WATCH: New Trailer Of ‘Bad Trip’ Featuring Lil Rel Howery And Tiffany Haddish
Go on a BAD TRIPwith Eric Andre, Lil Rel Howery and Tiffany Haddish in the new NSFW trailer from Orion Pictures’ upcoming hidden camera comedy! The comedian-actors star in the wildly inventive film as best friends embarking on an unexpected road trip filled with crazy hijinks all while pulling a real-life audience into their comical world.
See BAD TRIP, from the producing minds that brought you Jackass and Bad Grandpa, crashing into theaters nationwide this fall on October 25th!
From a producer of JACKASS and BAD GRANDPA, this hidden camera comedy follows two best friends go on a cross-country road trip full of hilarious, inventive pranks, pulling its real-life audience into the mayhem.
Bad Trip is directed by Kitao Sakurai (“The Eric Andre Show”) from the minds of Dan Curry, Kitao Sakurai, and Eric Andre – and produced by Jeff Tremaine, Dave Bernad, and Ruben Fleischer. The film stars Eric Andre (“The Eric Andre Show,” THE LION KING), Lil Rel Howery (UNCLE DREW, GET OUT) and Tiffany Haddish (GIRLS TRIP, NIGHT SCHOOL).
DL Hughley, Kenan Thompson, Jay Pharoah, Join Samuel L. Jackson In New Film ‘Spinning Gold’
In a Hollywood moment where Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman became hits fueled by the music of single acts, what better time to tell the long-gestating movie story of Neil Bogart, complete with the music of the iconic artists who flourished on his Casablanca Records label in the ’70s including Donna Summer, KISS, Parliament, Village People, The Isley Brothers, Gladys Knight, Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield?
Production will begin July 16 in Montreal on Spinning Gold, a film written and to be directed by Timothy Scott Bogart, son of the late musical idolmaker who died in 1982 of cancer and lymphoma at age 39.
Bogart’s Boardwalk Entertainment has fully financed the picture with Jessica Martins’ Hero Entertainment, and here is the cast: Samuel L. Jackson plays Parliament leader George Clinton (the Godfather of Funk), Kenan Thompson plays Motown’s Berry Gordy, Jason Isaacs plays Al Bogart (the record producer’s father), Jason Derulo plays Ron Isley of the Isley Brothers, Jay Pharoah plays WBLS radio DJ Frankie Crocker, D.L. Hughley plays Parliament’s Bootsy Collins, 11-time Grammy nominee Jazmine Sullivan plays Gladys Knight, Steven Strait and X Ambassadors’ Sam Harris play respective KISS leaders Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, Neil Patrick Harris plays KISS co-manager Bill Aucoin, and a top young singer is about to be set to play Donna Summer.
Playing Bogart will be Tony-nominated Broadway actor Jeremy Jordan, with Michelle Monaghan set to play his wife, Beth. Caitlin Fitzgerald will play Joyce Biawitz, Bogart’s second wife and co-manager of KISS and Donna Summer. Dan Fogler, SNL‘s Chris Redd, and James Wolk also have key roles.
The film is being produced by Laurence Mark, whose musicals include The Greatest Showman and Dreamgirls, Bogart and Martins. Harvey Mason Jr., Evan “Kidd” Bogart, Gary Randall and Wei Zheng are also in producing capacities.
Bogart told Deadline that, with the exception of a three-month option to Sherry Lansing at Paramount in the 1990s, he has resisted numerous overtures for the rights to frame a drama around the life of his father, including one where a producer sent two different scripts and a huge check. Bogart said he didn’t read the scripts or cash the check. While he and his brother rebuilt the Boardwalk brand his father started post-Casablanca into a successful business, and as he cut his teeth writing and producing TV and films, Bogart eventually came around to the feeling he was the one to tell his father’s story. His father had the reputation of a master promoter and showman who broke a swarm of acts that defined the ’70s disco era, but Bogart also was a man who would spend $4 to earn $3, and he didn’t leave much behind for his sons.
“My father was making $100 million a year, at the height of Casablanca, but he quote-unquote ‘forgot’ to pay his taxes, and my inheritance amounted to three years at NYU, a Dodge Daytona and the rights to this story,” he said. “I was going to protect this with all I had.”
The film will recapture the highs and lows, the extravagant parties and decadence, as Bogart says he won’t sugarcoat the excesses of sex and drugs that were prevalent in the music business during his father’s heyday. But he also won’t judge the people depicted in that world. As he spoke to Deadline, Bogart was sitting among sets that re-created his father’s office and the home he grew up in. The director sees the movie in the style of films like Boogie Nights and All The Jazz.
“There were many parts to Neil Bogart, including gambling, womanizing, drugs, but for my father, they were his superpowers,” Bogart said. “If he wasn’t a gambler like his own father, he wouldn’t have been able to run to Vegas to come back and make payroll. He was a functioning Quaalude user who would operate under the influence in the office or at my Little League games. But when Frankie Crocker scared the shit out of J. Edgar Hoover and every record exec turned his back on him after Frankie was arrested in the payola scandal, my father created a fake album to give him an advance that paid his legal fees. It would be wrong for me or the film to judge these people, though the audience certainly can.”
Said Bogart: “When I ask people who were around my father what it was like, they inevitably say a variation of the same thing. That is, ‘I don’t know how I survived it or if I would do it again, but I had the greatest f*cking time of my life.’ That is the compass of the movie — a story of an enormously tightknit group that made magic happen, who believed in their dreams and made them come true.”
The son, who at 49 said he is a teetotaler who has been monogamous and with the same woman he met at age 18, did get one quality from his father: a willingness to bet big, which he is doing by co-financing the under-$30 million film.
There is a lot of goodwill among the Casablanca alums. KISS frontmen Simmons and Stanley will give the actors playing them something similar to when Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga sang their A Star Is Born songs unannounced at music festivals. KISS has invited their doppelgangers to be their opening act during some upcoming tour stops, so that the scenes can be filmed with a packed house.
Among the songs that Bogart has rights to that will be featured in the film — and its soundtrack — are Summers’ “Last Dance“ and “I Feel Love,” Parliament’s “Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)” the Isleys’ “Fight the Power” and “It’s Your Thing,” Knight’s “Midnight Train to Georgia,” Withers’ “Lean on Me,” Mayfield’s “Freddie’s Dead” and “Superfly,” Kiss’ “Rock and Roll All Nite,” Village People’s “YMCA” and “In the Navy,” “Oh Happy Day” by the Edwin Hawkins Singers, and numerous others.
“I’m self-financing, we put this together ourselves and only answer to ourselves,” Bogart said. “And after it’s done, I will take it to studios are are right now looking at the returns on Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman,’” he said. “These are great stories of artists finding themselves, set to an entire soundtrack of our lives.”
ICM Partners is repping worldwide distribution rights on the picture and the soundtrack is being released through Boardwalk Record.
Source: Deadline
Forest Whitaker And Usher New Film ‘Burden’ In Which Black Congregation Takes In KKK Runaway Gets Release Date
Over a year after it first debuted at Sundance, the film Burden has been picked up by 101 Studios. The studio has pegged the Ku Klux Klan drama for a November release.
Starring Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker, Garrett Hedlund and Grammy Award-winning R&B singer Usher Raymond, the film is set in the South during the 1990s. Based on a true story, Burden follows Mike Burden, an orphan raised by the Ku Klux Klan, who eventually falls in love with a single mother who convinces him to leave the organization behind.
Whitaker will portray Reverend Kennedy, an African American pastor who takes in Burden once the Klan pursues him. Usher portrays a character named Clarence Brooks. The film also stars Andrea Riseborough, Dexter Darden, Crystal R. Fox, Tess Harper and Tom Wilkinson.
The script for Burden, was written by Andrew Heckler, who also directed the film. “Even though it was written over 20 years ago, unfortunately, Burden is more timely than ever. Now in a time when the world has become so polarized and divided by ethnicity, race and religion, Burden can deliver a powerful message of how extremes can join together to overcome and resolve our differences and hatred through love and tolerance,” said Heckler said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, who first broke this news.
Burden is set to have a limited release in theaters on November 1 before continuing to roll out widely.
Source: Shadow & Act
Eddie Murphy, Jamie Foxx Set For ‘Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee’ Season 11
Eddie Murphy will make a relatively rare TV appearance in the upcoming season of Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.
The 11th season of the show debuts July 19 on Netflix. Murphy — who also stars in Netflix’s movie Dolemite Is My Name, due later in the year — is among the biggest names sitting in the passenger seat with Seinfeld. The 11-episode season features a mix of A-listers, veteran comics and friends of Seinfeld, several of whom are making return appearances on the show.
The lineup for season 11 also includes Seth Rogen, Ricky Gervais, Matthew Broderick, Jamie Foxx, Sebastian Maniscalco, Martin Short, Mario Joyner, Melissa Villaseñor, Bridget Everett and Barry Marder. Gervais, Maniscalco, Joyner and Marder have all appeared on the show before. Broderick hasn’t been a guest but did help Seinfeld promote the 10th season in 2018.
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee begins its new season as Seinfeld is involved with a lawsuit over the origins of the show. Christian Charles, who directed the pilot episode of the series, sued Seinfeld in 2018, alleging Charles was the one who conceived of the show.
Seinfeld’s lawyer has argued that the suit should be dismissed as it was filed after the statute of limitations had expired.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Comedian DJ Pryor, Known As The Dad Who Went Viral for Chatting It Up With Baby Son, Lands Denny’s Ad
Weeks after going viral with his baby for chatting him up in casual conversation, DJ Pryor and 19-month-old Kingston Jierre have scored an ad with Denny’s.
The diner chain unveiled the promotional clip on Father’s Day, Sunday, June 16. In it, Pryor is seen rekindling the same magic captured on the viral video his wife, Shanieke Pryor, captured and uploaded to Facebook on June 4.
“Booth chat, just amongst father and son, right?” DJ tells his babbling baby as they sit in a big booth at Denny’s.
“Well, I brought you here to find out what’s going on in your life,” DJ replies. “What’s going on in your life?”
The two continue to chat back and forth, with Kingston playing with straws and continuing to babble in between feeding his dad a piece of bacon with a plate of pancakes and eggs in front of them.
The clip concludes with DJ embracing his son
“Is that your grand finale? Because if so, you buttered me up!” DJ tells the baby. “You got me. You buttered me up. You won me over.”
The video has since collected more than 2,000 retweets and over 7,000 likes from Twitter users who appreciated the heartwarming father-son footage.
“This is the cutest thing I’ve seen all day, thank you for this wholesome video.”
“🥰 I love this father’s way of communicating with his son!🤗😘”
“Now THIS is America’s dad.”
“The hug at the end.”
“I love them.”
Pryor, a 30-year-old standup comedian residing in Clarksville, Tennessee, went viral earlier this month when his wife posted a video of him speaking casually with Kingston as the two watched the finale of Fox’s “Empire.”
“I was making them for, like, a home movie type deal for him and my older son,” Pryor said on CNN June 7 during an interview with his son accompanying him. “But when we did it, I figured, maybe I’ll post it and maybe I’ll get a couple of likes from my family and my friends and maybe some of their family and friends. But I had no idea it was gonna do what it did. It wasn’t the intent at all, no.”
Pryor explained he only knew it started to go viral when friends continued to text him and he discovered the video got up to 500,000 views in two hours. Then the clip reached 1 million sets of eyeballs an hour and a half later.
It’s huge. I don’t think it’s all hit yet, I don’t think it’s all registered yet. It’s still hitting,” he said at the time. Later, Pryor added that he’ll continue to “do what we’ve been doing” and keep recording, but he’s not pushing to create viral moments.
“Just be who we are, the Pryors,” he said.
Source: Atlanta Black Star
Jermaine Fowler Lands Lead Opposite Eddie Murphy In ‘Coming To America 2’
Jermaine Fowler is set to play one of the leads opposite Eddie Murphy in Paramount’s sequel “Coming 2 America,” according to sources.
“Hustle & Flow” helmer Craig Brewer is on board to direct the pic with the studio planning an August 7, 2020 release.
Plot details of “Coming 2 America” are unknown, as are the details of Fowler’s character.
Kenya Barris, who is executive producing, has been attached since 2017 to rewrite a script by original “Coming to America” writers Barry Blaustein and David Sheffield. Murphy is producing alongside Kevin Misher.
The original movie starred Murphy as a charming African prince who traveled to New York City to escape an arranged marriage. Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones, Shari Headley, and John Amos co-starred in the pic, which was a major hit, grossing nearly $300 million at the worldwide box office.
Fowler stars as Franco Wicks on “Superior Donuts” for CBS alongside Judd Hirsch and Katey Sagal. Most recently he starred opposite Zoey Deutch in “Buffaloed,” which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April. He also appeared in the critically-acclaimed film “Sorry to Bother You” and on the HBO comedy series “Crashing.” He’s currently developing and executive producing a television series with Larry Wilmore and Quinta Bronson for CBS, and is in development on an original story, titled “The Come Up,” with New Line.
He is repped by WME, 3 Arts, Morris Yorn Barnes Levine and ID PR.
Source: Variety
Ice Cube Lands In New Comedy ‘Covers’ With Tracee Ellis Ross
Focus Features announced today that Ice Cube will join the cast of Covers, their new film with Working Title. Set among the talent, fame, and fast-paced world of Hollywood’s music scene, which Ice Cube knows of first-hand, Covers is directed by Late Night director Nisha Ganatra with a screenplay by Flora Greeson. Ice Cube will star alongside the previously announced Tracee Ellis Ross and Dakota Johnson in the upcoming comedy. Production is currently underway.
A multifaceted rapper, songwriter, performer, actor, producer and founder of his own production company, Cube Vision, Ice Cube’s notable acting credits include the Friday franchise, 21 Jump Street, Boyz n the Hood, and the Ride Along series.
He is represented by WME, Prospect Park, Geragos & Geragos and Ziffren Brittenham.
Niecy Nash To Star In New Drama ‘Kidnapped: The Kamiyah Mobley Story’ Lifetime Movie From Robin Roberts
Emmy winner Niecy Nash (When They See Us, Claws) is set to star in Kidnapped: The Kamiyah Mobley Story, the first movie greenlit by Lifetime under the Robin Roberts Presents movie and documentary banner, from Rock’n Robin and Lincoln Square Productions. Production is currently underway on the movie, executive produced by award-winning journalist Roberts, and is slated for premiere in 2020.
Also starring Rayven Symone Ferrell (The Hate U Give) and Ta’Rhonda Jones (Empire), Kidnapped: The Kamiyah Mobley Story is the true story of a young woman who discovers at age 18, she was abducted as a baby and the family she knew to be hers, wasn’t hers at all. The film will be followed by a companion documentary featuring the real-life people depicted in the movie.
“I’m thrilled to share this young woman’s story and produce something so poignant for the Lifetime audience,” said Roberts, President of Rock’n Roberts Productions. “I can’t imagine anyone else tackling the complex role of Gloria than Niecy Nash. She’s a talented and versatile actress and I can’t wait to see it all come together.”
In the summer of 1998, Gloria Williams (Nash), reeling from a recent miscarriage, drove from her home in South Carolina and walked into a Jacksonville, Florida hospital posing as a nurse and took newborn Kamiyah Mobley (Ferrell) out of her mother Shanara Mobley’s (Jones) arms. By the time police were alerted, Gloria was long gone. Renaming the baby Alexis, Gloria raised her as her own, providing her with unconditional love and nurturing.
It wasn’t until years later, when Alexis applied for her first job and couldn’t provide a social security card or a birth certificate, that she realized something was wrong. After confronting Gloria, Alexis learned the truth, that she was really Kamiyah Mobley and abducted as a baby. Despite discovering the mother she knew was really her kidnapper, Alexis kept the secret as long as she could, until an anonymous tip soon led to Gloria’s arrest and their world came tumbling down.
Kidnapped: The Kamiyah Mobley Story is executive produced by Roberts, Linda Berman, Michele Samit, Richard Kletter and Gary Randall. Jeffrey Byrd (Jasper, Texas, Black Lightning) directs from a script written by Samit and Kletter.
Nash is an Emmy-winning producer and actress whose career includes roles in HBO’s Getting On, which earned her two Emmy nominations, Fox’s Scream Queens, Showtime’s Masters of Sex, Comedy Central’s Reno 911 and TV Land’s The Soul Man. Nash currently stars in the lead role of Desna in TNT’s drama,Claws. She also costars in Netflix’s mini-series When They See Us, directed by Ava Duvernay and based on the true story of the Central Park Five teenagers who were wrongfully accused and convicted of rape. Nash was the host and producer of the Style Network’s home makeover show, Clean House, for which she won a Daytime Emmy.
Ferrell recently guest starred on Chicago PD and also has appeared on Star, Greenleaf and Complications. She played Tupac’s sister in the Lionsgate feature All Eyez on Me and had supporting roles in The Hate U Give and BET’s The Bobby Brown Story. She just wrapped the feature The Violent Heart with Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Lukas Haas, Jovan Adepo, and Mary J. Blige. Ferrell is repped by Pantheon and J. Pervis Talent Agency.
Jones is known for her role as Pasha on Fox’s Empire. She was most recently seen on the big screen in Captive State.
Source: Deadline
Nick Cannon To Host Morning Show On LA Radio Station Power 106
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nick Cannon is coming to radio.
Meruelo Media on Friday announced the rapper, comedian and actor is joining Los Angeles hip-hop radio station Power 106 as host of its morning show. “Nick Cannon Mornings” launches Monday from 5 to 10 a.m.
In a statement, Cannon says he’s honored for the opportunity to “make our community and culture proud.”
Cannon hosts Fox’s “The Masked Singer” and MTV’s “Wild ’N Out.”
Meruelo Media president and COO Otto Padron says Cannon’s “tremendous success across television, film and music is a testimony of his unique talent, work ethic and impeccable reputation.”
BET Networks And Irv ‘Gotti’ Lorenzo Announce The Season Two Premiere Of ‘Tales’
BET Networks in conjunction with Irv ‘Gotti’ Lorenzo announce the season two global premiere of hit original series, TALES. The series will make a global return, with a two-hour premiere. The debut episode, “Brothers,” brings a new and exciting twist for the series, by serving as the launchpad for an unreleased Kanye West song exclusive to the show’s soundtrack. Fans can tune-in to BET and MTV channels globally and on VH1’s international channels on Tuesday, July 2. BET and the international channels will air the first look at 9:00 PM E.T., with MTV airing in a later timeslot.
“I am beyond excited for the return of TALES. Producing this new record with my production partner Seven and working with Kanye for a song exclusively for the TALES series, has been one of the highlights of my music and TV career. I did it for my Hip Hop Culture. I wanted to give the fans something to listen to and enjoy as well as visually enjoy, and “Brothers,” the song in conjunction with this global TV premiere is precisely that moment. TALES IS BACK!!,” the hip-hop mogul announced. Contrary to previous episodes that feature a catalog of previously released music, this season’s premiere will feature a new song, “Brothers” by Kanye West featuring Charlie Wilson. “Brothers” is produced by Irv “Gotti” Lorenzo and his production partner, Seven.
Each week, TALES transforms the lyrics of hip-hop’s greatest hits into captivating visual narratives through the eyes of Irv “Gotti’” Lorenzo. To bring the “Brothers” story to life, Lorenzo has cast a variety of TV and Film veterans including Elijah Kelley (The New Edition Story, Star, The Bobby Brown Story), Draya Michele (Real Husbands of Hollywood), Isaiah Washington (Grey’s Anatomy, The 100),Thomas Q. Jones (Being Mary Jane, Luke Cage), LisaRaye McCoy (All of Us, Single Ladies), and Cynthia Bailey (Real Housewives of Atlanta, How High 2).
The scripted anthology series will include nine additional episodes that will feature timeless hits including Geto Boys’“Mind Playing Tricks on Me,” Migos’ “Slippery,” Nas’ “I Gave You Power,” Mary J. Blige’s “My Life,” Lil Uzi Vert’s “XO Tour Life,” Cardi B’s “Bodak Yellow,” Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg’s “Deep Cover,” Lauryn Hill’s “Ex-Factor,” and XXXtentacion’s“Moonlight.”
Love, murder and a whole lot of hip-hop will bring new life to songs in this season, created and executive produced by pioneering hip-hop hitmaker, Irving “Irv Gotti” Lorenzo and his Visionary Ideas production company alongside executive producers Ron Robinson and Robert Munic, producers Darcell Lawrence, John Bryant, James Seppelfrick, Keith Neal and Eric Tomosunas, and co-producers Sonny Lorenzo, JJ Lorenzo and Darien Baldwin. The series has enlisted Tasha Smith (Why Did I Get Married, Daddies Little Girls, Star, Power), Robert Munic (Empire), Joshua Butler (Pretty Little Liars, The Vampire Diaries, The Magicians, Shadowhunters), Erik White (Tales S:1), Benny Boom (NCIS: Los Angeles, Black Lighting, The Quad), Bryan Barber (Idlewild, Instant Mom), and first-time directors Ellie Foumbi and Nefertite Nguvu to direct episodes throughout the series. Writers will include Robert Munic, Leah Keith, Adam Wiesen, Patrick Coker, John Barcheski, Michael Cobian, Leah Benavides, Larry “Legend” Spivey, Marcus J. Guillory and Trevor Vandelac.
