Jamie Foxx Executive Produces New Musical Album For New Artist J Young MDK!
According to several reports, we heard that Jamie Foxx was behind the scenes executive producing a new musical album. At the time we thought it was for himself, but it was revealed on Instagram that the album was for a new artist named J Young MDK.
The title of the album is Now Or Never and is available everywhere. Check out the post below;
Netflix’s ‘She’s Gotta Have It’ Season 2 Debuts New Trailer!
Netflix has dropped the trailer for She’s Gotta Have It season 2.
The Netflix series reboot, which stars DeWanda Wise is a contemporary update of Spike Lee’s revolutionary debut independent film from 1986. She’s Gotta Have It centers on Nola Darling, a Brooklyn-based artist in her late twenties struggling to define herself and divide her time amongst her friends, her job and her three lovers: the cultured model, Greer Childs, the protective investment banker, Jamie Overstreet and da original B-Boy sneakerhead, Mars Blackmon.
The official description of Season 2: Season 2 offers a timely and topical portrait of rising talents, with free-spirited artist Nola Darling (Wise) at the center. Struggling with newfound success this season, against a backdrop of Black art and culture, Nola must decide if she will remain true to her creative ideals or give in to the corporate world. Her journey of self-discovery helps transform the lives of those around her, including friend and sometimes lover Mars Blackmon (Anthony Ramos), who sets out to pursue his true passion of music as well as her inner circle of Opal (Ilfenesh Hadera), Greer Childs (Cleo Anthony), Jamie Overstreet (Lyriq Bent), Clorinda Bradford (Margot Bingham), Shemekka Epps (Chyna Layne) and Winnie Win (Fat Joe). Their journey expands to new destinations this season beyond their home base of Fort Greene, the vibrant Brooklyn enclave, that continues to evolve and change as gentrification remakes the neighborhood.
Source: Shadow & Act
New Michael Ealy Untitled P.I. Drama Ordered For Upcoming Season On ABC
ABC has made its first move ahead of upfronts. It has given out a series order to what’s now known as Untitled Cobie Smulders Drama (fka Stumptown).
The series, led by Smulders, had commonly appeared in the trades as a sure bet to get a pickup at the network, along with the 50 Cent-produced legal drama, which is still awaiting word.
It’s actually an adaptation, based on the graphic novel, Stumptown. The description: A drama based on the Oni Press comic series which follows Dex Parios, a strong, assertive, and unapologetically sharp-witted Army veteran working as a P.I. in Portland, OR; with a complicated personal history and only herself to rely on, she solves other people’s messes with a blind eye toward her own.
From ABC Studios, the series will also star Michael Ealy as Detective Miles Hoffman, as well as Adrian Martinez as Tookie, Camryn Manheim as Lieutenant Cosgrove, Cole Sibus as Ansel Parios and Tantoo Cardinal as Sue Lynn Blackbird. The pilot is directed by James Griffiths.
The series will mark Ealy’s return to a broadcast network television show. From 2013-2016 he had a string of roles, including the short-lived Almost Human, the third season of The Following and the second season of Secrets and Lies.
Source: Shadow & Act
Leslie Jones Joins Kristen Bell In New Comedy Coupon Cartel Saga Titled ‘Queenpins’
On the eve of the Cannes market, Rocket Science has come on board to finance and handle international sales on dark comedy package Queenpins, starring Leslie Jones (Ghostbusters) and Kristen Bell (The Good Place).
CAA Media Finance arranged the financing and is handling U.S. rights. Linda McDonough (Drive) is producing.
Written and to be directed by husband and wife team Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly (Beneath The Harvest Sky), the film is inspired by the true story of the largest counterfeit coupon caper in history. It centers on two Phoenix best-friends who create a scheme to counterfeit coupons and soon find themselves running a $40M scam.
Saturday Night Live alum Jones has The Angry Birds Movie 2 upcoming. Veronica Mars and Forgetting Sarah Marshall star Bell is in production on Frozen 2.
Rocket Science’s Cannes slate also includes Ana Lily Amirpour’s female-led reboot of survival blockbuster Cliffhanger; Azazel Jacobs’ French Exit starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges and Tracy Letts; Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 starring Eddie Redmayne, Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Sacha Baron Cohen and Jonathan Majors; Amirpour’s Blood Moon starring Kate Hudson; Gary Shore’s Queen Mary; and Jonathan Jakubowicz’s Resistance starring Jesse Eisenberg.
Source: Deadline
‘Coming To America 2’ Release Date Pushed Back!
According to reports, it seems that Paramount Studios has set dated Antoine Fuqua’s next film Infinite,a feature adaptation of the D. Eric Maikranz novel The Reincarnationist Papers, for August 7, 2020.
With that move, it seems the new release-date move pushes the studio’s anticipated Eddie Murphy-Arsenio Hall Coming to America 2 from that date to December 18, 2020 — which is the old Avatar 2 spot. Coming to America 2 –which is still untitled– will join Disney/Fox/Amblin’s West Side Story on that date.
It was reported that actor Chris Evans (of Captain America fame) is in talks to join Infinite, which revolves around Evan Michaels, a man who was haunted by memories of two past lives and stumbles upon a centuries-old secret society of similar individuals who make up the Cognomina, made up of those who possess total recall of their past lives and whose members have been agents of change throughout history. He seeks to join their ranks.
Infinite will square off against an untitled WB event film on August 7 next year.
Paramount also announced that its untitled Paramount Animation pic on the schedule for July 17, 2020, is now titled Rumble, and it has been pushed back to July 31 next year.
‘Power’ To End With Season 6 On Starz, While Also Making Plans To Expand Franchise
The end of the road for Starz’s Power has arrived.
The premium cable network announced Thursday that the upcoming sixth season would be Power‘s last. The final season will return Aug. 25 for a supersized farewell consisting of 15 episodes (up from its standard run of 10). Meanwhile, Power creator and showrunner Courtney A. Kemp is prepping potential spinoffs of the franchise under her most recent overall deal with Starz corporate parent Lionsgate TV.
“Season six brings us to the end of what we know is just the first chapter of the Power story. However, as one chapter comes to an end, another will begin,” Starz programming president Carmi Zlotnik said. “Courtney Kemp and 50 Cent have created a world rich with complex and dynamic characters, and there are a number of stories we plan to tell as we continue to explore and expand the Power universe.”
Power ranks as Starz’s most watched original series since it launched in 2014. The series, a two-time NAACP Image Award winner, averaged 10 million multiplatform viewers in its fifth season last year. The drama starring Omari Hardwick airs in more than 120 countries around the world.
“We will follow some of your beloved Power characters beyond the scope of the initial series,” Kemp said. “But we will play with your expectations of which characters, where and the master timeline of it all, creating a Power universe as unpredictable as the original.”
Season six will feature the directorial debut of exec producer Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, who will helm the third installment. Anthony Hemingway — who directed the first two episodes of the series — will return to helm the series finale.
“The last five seasons of Power have been an incredible ride for me and all of our supportive fans. We are far from over, and I am excited to bring you more from the Power brand,” Jackson said. “I am proud that I was able to put a lasting stamp on this chapter with my directorial debut in an episode that features one of the wildest scenes ever on the show.”
Power wraps as Starz continues to further integrate with new corporate parent Lionsgate and at a time when the cabler has yet to replace CEO Chris Albrecht, who departed amid a turf war with Lionsgate’s Jon Feltheimer.
Starz’s scripted roster includes Outlander, Vida, Sweetbitter, The Rook, The Spanish Princess, Now Apocalypse and American Gods,among others.
The push to build a franchise out of Power arrives as broadcast, cable and streaming outlets alike look to proven IP in a bid to cut through a cluttered landscape expected to top 500 scripted originals in 2019.
Power becomes the latest high-profile, network-defining series to end in 2019, joining HBO’s Game of Thrones, Showtime’s Homeland, CBS’ Big Bang Theory, Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black and scores of others.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
R. Kelly Judgment Withdrawn After Lawyers Say He Can’t Read
CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly spent much of Wednesday in court, with his lawyer explaining to one judge that the singer didn’t respond to a lawsuit brought by one of his sexual abuse accusers because he is illiterate and with Kelly paying $62,000 in back child support during a second hearing.
At the first hearing, Judge Moira Johnson vacated a default judgment she made against Kelly after the singer failed to respond to a lawsuit brought by one of the four women he’s charged with sexually abusing. Johnson reinstated the lawsuit after one of Kelly’s attorneys explained that the singer was in jail when he was served with the lawsuit documents and that Kelly didn’t respond because he can’t read.
The second hearing, which pertained to child support, came weeks after the judge in that case ordered Kelly to jail after finding him in contempt of court for failing to pay $161,000 in back child support to his ex-wife, who is the mother of his three children. Kelly remained locked up for three days until he raised the back child support.
“He’s not a deadbeat dad,” Kelly’s attorney Lisa Damico told reporters after Wednesday’s hearing, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. “All he wants to do is do right by his kids.”
Kelly’s bookings for performances began drying up following the airing of a television documentary “Surviving R. Kelly.” That was weeks before his February arrest on charges accusing him of sexually abusing a woman and three girls over roughly a 10-year period starting in the late 1990s. But on Tuesday, one his attorneys told reporters that he was lining up performances for the Grammy award-winning R&B singer in Illinois and outside the state, and that he anticipated the judge approving requests to travel to make those appearances.
Kelly has pleaded not guilty to the sexual abuse charges and denied any wrongdoing.
ABC Studios has struck a multi-year overall deal with 2 Dope Queens co-creator Phoebe Robinson. Under the pact, the writer, stand-up comedian and actress will develop, write and act in new projects across multiple platforms for the studio.
It marks the latest overall deal for the studio, which has in recent weeks struck deals with the likes of John Legend, The Bold Type exec producer Joanna Coles, Iron Fist showrunner Raven Metzner and Stumptown creator Jason Richman.
Robinson is the co-creator and co-star of the hit podcast 2 Dope Queens, with Jessica Williams, which was turned into a series of specials for HBO. She also has a second podcast, Sooo Many White Guys, where she has interviewed the likes of Tom Hanks, Issa Rae and Reese Witherspoon, has been a moderator on Michelle Obama’s Becoming book tour and has authored two books: You Can’t Touch My Hair & Other Things I Still Have To Explain and Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay.
On screen, she made her feature film debut in the Netflix film Ibiza and starred in Paramount’s What Men Want and is set to go on her first solo stand-up tour, Sorry Harriet Tubman, this summer. She also starred in TBS’ Search Party, was a staff writer on the final season of Portlandia and a consultant on season three of Broad City.
“Ever since ABC Studios put a ring on it, I’ve been tastefully twerking with joy all over my neighborhood. In all seriousness, I couldn’t be happier teaming with a partner who knows my worth, gets my comedic vision, and is game to be a part of what I believe will be a beautiful relationship as well as a home for not only my ideas, but many future collaborations I intend on having with other dope queens and kings,” said Robinson.
“We’ve wanted to be in business with Phoebe since the very first time we heard the 2 Dope Queens podcast. Her humor, unique point of view and her incredibly fresh, authentic talent are huge assets for us; we couldn’t be more thrilled that she’s joining our studio,” added Patrick Moran, President, ABC Studios.
Source: Deadline
Anthony Anderson Lands In New Romantic Comedy Titled ‘Football Or Me’
Anthony Anderson, the star of ABC’s “Black-ish,” will star in “Football or Me,” a new romantic comedy. The film will be produced and fully financed by Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios.
It is inspired by the Argentinian comedy “Futbol y Yo,” the story of an obsessive soccer fan whose love of the sport causes him to lose his job and puts a strain on his marriage. This time the sport in question will be football. The film will follow Peter (Anderson), a lifelong American football addict, who falls for Veronica, a successful entrepreneur. Their relationship is tested by his need to follow the season’s every tackle, interception, and touchdown.
AGC has hired Robb Chavis (“Black-ish,” “Superior Donuts”) to adapt the screenplay. Badabing Pictures’ Tracey Bing and Benedict Carver will produce the film along with E. Brian Dobbins and Jose Levy. Ford and AGC’s head of film Greg Shapiro and head of urban Glendon Palmer will executive produce.
AGC is the independent content studio launched in 2018 by Ford, the sale agent and producer who previously headed IM Global. The company’s credits include the Gabrielle Union romantic comedy “The Perfect Find,” the Noomi Rapace revenge thriller “The Secrets We Keep,” and Roland Emmerich’s World War II epic “Midway.” At Cannes, AGC will be selling rights to Emmerich’s sci-fi adventure “Moonfall.”
The deal with Anderson was negotiated by AGC’s VP of Legal & Business Affairs Anant Tamirisa and Palmer on behalf of AGC; by UTA, Artists First, and Stone, Genow, Smelkinson, Binder & Christopher on behalf of Anderson, and by attorney Richard Rapkowski of Manis Rapkowski on behalf of Bing and Carver.
Source: Variety
WATCH: Check Out The New Trailer For HBO’s ‘Watchmen’ Starring Regina King!
Even as Game of Thrones winds down, HBO has been ramping up another sprawling adaptation of a genre epic that defies almost every traditional expectation about episodic television. It’s Watchmen, based on the namesake comic book epic by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons and published by DC Comics in the 1980s. HBO released the teaser today, you can watch it by clicking on the image above.
Set in an alternate history where superheroes are viewed as outlaws, the new drama from executive producer Damon Lindelof is rooted in the same universe as the source material but strikes out in new directions with unfamiliar characters and a different story to tell. The cast includes: Regina King, Jeremy Irons, Don Johnson, Jean Smart, Tim Blake Nelson, Louis Gossett Jr., Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Hong Chau, Andrew Howard, Tom Mison, Frances Fisher, Jacob Ming-Trent, Sara Vickers, Dylan Schombing, and James Wolk.
Watchmen is considered by many comics fans to be the masterpiece of its medium. Dark and disturbing, the original Moore and Gibbons epic showed the personal lives of the heroes veer into excess, corruption and madness even as their public exploits tilted historic events (such as the JFK assassination, Vietnam, and Watergate) in different directions.
The magnum opus was adapted as a feature film by Warner Bros and director Zack Snyder in 2009 with results that divided fans. The new Watchmen is neither a sequel nor a remake. That’s clear in the teaser which makes major use of a signature Watchmen visual — the ink-splotch mask of Rorschach — but has no correlation to any of the events depicted in the comics.
The visage of Rorschach is donned by dozens in the trailer, creating a faceless legion that is used to eerie effect and evokes a different Moore-authored comics classic of the 1980s: V for Vendetta. That same decade is also represented in the teaser by a voice and face — Don Johnson, of Miami Vice fame, whose gravelly voice closes out the preview montage. Asked what he’s discussing, his character answers with a conspiratorial grin. “Oh, nothing. Just the end of the world…tick, tock, tick, tock.”
The “tick, tock, tick, tock” chant in the teaser is an effectively unsettling way to introduce a show that may end up with a reputation for memorable sonic moments that get in the ear and stay in the head. That’s because Nine Inch Nails musicians Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (who first worked together as film composers on The Social Network) will be creating the original music for the series.
Produced for HBO by White Rabbit in association with Warner Bros. Television, based on characters from DC; executive producer/writer Damon Lindelof; executive producer/director, Nicole Kassell; executive producer, Tom Spezialy; executive producer/director, Stephen Williams; executive producer, Joseph Iberti. Watchmen will debut on HBO in the fall of 2019.
