I directed Baps starring @HalleBerry and written by @Troybyer
With all the reboots going on,here’s the question of the day. Would you go see a sequel to Baps?
Peter Parker returns in Spider-Man™: Far From Home, the next chapter of the Spider-Man™: Homecoming series! Our friendly neighborhood Super Hero decides to join his best friends Ned, MJ, and the rest of the gang on a European vacation. However, Peter’s plan to leave super heroics behind for a few weeks are quickly scrapped when he begrudgingly agrees to help Nick Fury uncover the mystery of several elemental creature attacks, creating havoc across the continent!
Watch the new trailer below!
Paramount Pictures is setting Craig Brewer to direct Coming To America 2, finally bringing to the starting gate the sequel to the 1988 blockbuster comedy. Eddie Murphy is poised to reprise his role as Akeem, the pampered African prince who became bored of potential marriage partners in the kingdom too in awe of him, and who traveled to Queens to go undercover and find a woman with a strong will that he could respect.
Brewer just directed Murphy in Dolemite Is My Name, and the star was eager to work with him again. The female empowerment theme of the original seems timely in today’s climate.
Kenya Barris is rewriting a script by original Coming to America writers Barry Blaustein and David Sheffield. Murphy is producing with Kevin Misher and Barris is exec producer.
In the sequel, Akeem learns about a long lost son, and must return to America to meet his unlikely heir to the throne of Zamunda. The intention is to bring back the original cast which includes Arsenio Hall, who played the prince’s aide Semmi; Shari Headley, who was courted by the prince when he went undercover as a fast food worker; John Amos, who played her father; and James Earl Jones, who played the king.
There is no start date, but the hope is that production begins in 2019.
“After many years of anticipation, I’m thrilled that Coming to America 2 is officially moving forward,” Murphy said in a statement. “We’ve assembled a great team that will be led by Craig Brewer, who just did an amazing job on Dolemite, and I’m looking forward to bringing all these classic and beloved characters back to the big screen.”
Said Kenya Barris: “Craig’s ability to create a distinct cinematic world with each of his films is not only impressive, but also what made him exactly the voice and vision we needed to bring this story to life. From Hustle and Flow to his work with Eddie onDolemite Is My Name, he never fails to blow me away. He is a true auteur and we couldn’t be more thrilled to have him on board.”
My Name Is Dolemite is wrapped, with script by Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski, and Murphy playing the self-made blaxploitation film star alongside Wesley Snipes, Keegan-Michael Key, Chris Rock, Craig Robinson and T.I. The picture will be released by Netflix.
Brewer is repped by WME and attorney Carlos Goodman, and Murphy is WME, ML Management and Ziffren Brittenham’s Matt Johnson and Skip Brittenham; Barris is CAA, Artists First and attorney Gregg Gellman.
Source: Deadline
Girls Trip’s Regina Hall and Black-ish’s Marsai Martin both star as Jordan Sanders — Hall as the take-no-prisoners tech mogul adult version of Jordan and Martin as the 13-year-old version of her who wakes up in her adult self’s penthouse just before a do-or-die presentation.
Insecure’s Issa Rae plays Jordan’s long-suffering assistant April, the only one in on the secret that her daily tormentor is now trapped in an awkward tween body just as everything is on the line. Little is an irreverent new comedy about the price of success, the power of sisterhood and having a second chance to grow up — and glow up — right.
Will Packer, blockbuster producer of Girls Trip, the Ride Along franchise, and ten movies that have opened No. 1 at the U.S. box office, including Night School, No Good Deed and Think Like a Man, brings an all-new perspective to the body-swap comedy.
Little is directed by Tina Gordon (writer, Drumline) with a story by Tracy Oliver (Girls Trip) and a screenplay by Oliver and Gordon, based on an idea by teen actress Martin. The film is produced by Packer and his producing partner James Lopez and by Kenya Barris (Girls Trip, Black-ish), and is executive produced by Preston Holmes (Night School), Hall, Marsai Martin and Josh Martin.
Kevin Hart says he’s not hosting the Oscars.
When asked if he would emcee the high-profile awards show, which has been a rumored possibility in recent days, Hart told Good Morning America‘s Michael Strahan, “no,” and that it’s too late to prepare.
“It’s hard to predict what can happen. I don’t want people to think there’s a thing about me and the Academy,” he added.
As for the controversy over past homophobic jokes and tweets, which ultimately led him to step down as Oscars host in December, Hart said he’s “done.”
“I’m over it,” Hart said multiple times when asked about the situation, adding that he apologized back in the late 2000s and multiple times since. “There’s no more conversation about it…I’m over that, I’m over the moment.”
“I’m not giving no more explanation of who I am,” he said in the interview to promote his upcoming film, The Upside. “I’m just done.”
“If you didn’t [hear the apology], I don’t know what you’re looking for,” he said. “I’m a good person, I love to love, if you don’t see that then it’s a problem with you.”
Hart’s comments on ABC, the same network that airs the Oscars, come after he has addressed the controversy multiple times in recent days, most notably on an interview with Ellen DeGeneres, which came roughly a month after Hart was announced as Oscars host and then stepped down just days later after his resurfaced remarks sparked controversy.
On Ellen, DeGeneres encouraged him to reconsider hosting and said she’d spoken to the Academy and claimed they would happily have him return if he wanted to host. Hart said he would “assess” whether he was interested in reclaiming the role.
“Leaving here, I promise you, I’m evaluating this conversation,” Hart said on Ellen. “This is a conversation I needed to have, I’m glad that I had it here, and I’m glad that it was as authentic and real as I could have hoped that it would be. So let me assess, just to sit in this space and really think, and you and I will talk before anything else.”
The interview was met with swift backlash on social media after clips were released late Thursday night. A number of people felt DeGeneres was giving Hart a pass for his past behavior. Several journalists, including CNN anchor Don Lemon, chastised Hart for his response to the controversy.
Later on Wednesday, Hart shared that he had had an off-the-record conversation with Lemon about the segment, which Hart said he had found “upsetting,” on Andy Cohen’s SiriusXM program Radio Andy. “Me and Don had an off-the-record conversation. We both made valid points, he made one real strong point and when he made that point, I said I get it. I get that part,” Hart said. “And I rebuttaled [sic] with an amazing point and when I gave my rebuttal, he said, ‘Fuck, I get it. I get that, Kevin.’ I said, look that means you have to meet halfway. Let’s understand that, let’s move on.”
On Monday he apologized again to the LGBTQ community for past homophobic remarks on his SiriusXM show, Straight From the Hart.
“Once again, Kevin Hart apologizes for his remarks that hurt members of the LGBTQ community. I apologize,” he said on the show. “We thought it was OK to talk like that, because that’s how we talked to one another…. This is wrong now. Now we’re in a space where I’m around people of the LGBTQ community, and I’m now aware of how these words make them feel, and why they say ‘That shit hurt because of what I’ve been through.’”
“The fight is the will and want for equality. I’m riding with you guys. I understand you,” he added, saying he hopes the LGBTQ community can accept that he’s a different person.
“In the fight for equality, that means that there has to be an acceptance for change,” Hart said. “If you don’t want to accept people for their change, then where are you trying to get to the equal part? Where does the equality part come in?”
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
This is Us just tapped a Black Hollywood power player for a major role!
Phylicia Rashad will join the acclaimed show’s Season 3 as the mother of Beth (Susan Kelechi Watson). NBC announced the news on Tuesday.
Her character, Carol, will debut in a Season 3 episode that will focus on the backstory of Beth. On the hour-long episode that will center Beth entirely, Watson told TV Line, “We have a really great new writer Eboni Freeman, [who is] the main writer on it, and some of it is her story, very personal to her. They found a way to create this really beautiful backstory, and a beginning of a resolution of Beth starting to get back on her footing again. And then we have some amazing surprises in it. It’s going to be a really powerful episode.”
Rashad, who was recently seen on the big screen in Creed II, also stars in the upcoming Michael B. Jordan–exec produced OWN series, David Makes Man. She also has a recurring role on Empire as Diana DuBois.
Source: Shadow & Act, TV line
It’s full steam ahead for the first of multiple Game of Thrones spinoffs that are set up at HBO.
The first one, which is untitled as of now, has finalized its series regular cast. We don’t know a lot so far about the series, but we do know that it is a prequel set thousands of years before the events of Game of Thrones.
Tuesday, HBO announced the rest of the main cast who’ll join series topliner, Naomi Watts, who will portray a “charismatic socialite hiding a dark secret.” Unlike its parent series, this untitled spinoff (which has just a pilot order right now) will have a more diverse cast.
Three Black actors make up the main casst, including Naomi Ackie, who will also star in the upcoming Star Wars. Sheila Atim and Ivanno Jeremiah have also been cast as regulars.
Josh Whitehouse, Denise Gough, Jamie Campbell Bower, Alex Sharp, Georgie Henley and Toby Regbo round out the main cast.
Since we don’t know much about the series as a whole, no other character descriptions are known right now either.
Here’s the logline for the potential series: “Only one thing is for sure: From the horrifying secrets of Westeros’ history to the true origin of the White Walkers, the mysteries of the East to the Starks of legend — it’s not the story we think we know.”
Atim won an Olivier Award for her role in Girl From the North Country and Jeremiah as appeared in Humans and Black Mirror.
Source: Shadow & Act
With each passing day, it seems like remakes of old properties are materializing out of the ether like clockwork and taking over our television screens and movie theaters. So, what about a sequel to the 1997 comedy B*A*P*S?
This is the question The Five Heartbeats director Robert Townsend posed to Twitter users on Tuesday.
Robert Townsend✔@Robert_Townsend
I directed Baps starring @HalleBerry and written by @Troybyer
With all the reboots going on,here’s the question of the day. Would you go see a sequel to Baps?
For those unfamiliar, the film starred Halle Berry and Natalie Desselle Reid as Nisi and Mickey, two waitresses in a Decatur soul food joint, who find themselves on the estate of a wealthy billionaire after flying out to Los Angeles for a music video audition. B*A*P*S received overwhelmingly negative reviews upon its initial release, with revered critic Roger Ebert calling it “jaw-droppingly bad.” But over the past two decades, it has since gone on to became a cult classic among Black audiences.
Overall, by the looks of things, the response to Townsend’s Twitter question have been mixed. Some expressed enthusiasm at a B*A*P*S sequel:
Robert Townsend✔@Robert_Townsend
I directed Baps starring @HalleBerry and written by @Troybyer
With all the reboots going on,here’s the question of the day. Would you go see a sequel to Baps?
numa perrier✔@missnuma
BRING IT!!! YESSSS
Robert Townsend✔@Robert_Townsend
I directed Baps starring @HalleBerry and written by @Troybyer
With all the reboots going on,here’s the question of the day. Would you go see a sequel to Baps?
One of our favorite actresses even wants in!
Robert Townsend✔@Robert_Townsend
I directed Baps starring @HalleBerry and written by @Troybyer
With all the reboots going on,here’s the question of the day. Would you go see a sequel to Baps?
Danielle Brooks✔@thedanieb
Lock me in @Robert_Townsend , I’d play your Mickey any day!! #BAPSReboot pic.twitter.com/UGYuuhpEdO
Other users, on the other hand, offered an alternative:
moonflower / the iii.@AfroJediiinot a direct sequel but something like how DOPE is related to The Wood. give us new stories though: we know u got em
Robert Townsend✔@Robert_Townsend
I directed Baps starring @HalleBerry and written by @Troybyer
With all the reboots going on,here’s the question of the day. Would you go see a sequel to Baps?
Robert Townsend✔@Robert_Townsend
I directed Baps starring @HalleBerry and written by @Troybyer
With all the reboots going on,here’s the question of the day. Would you go see a sequel to Baps?
Cooter Brown@New_JackLet’s use that budget for a new movie. Something new and fresh. Leave BAPS alone
Will Smith posted a photo of the Bad Boys for Life scripts late Sunday night. The actor simply captioned the photo with, “Day 1. I’ll keep y’all posted.” It had been previously reported that filming on the long-awaited sequel was going to start shooting next week, but it appears that they are getting an early start on the action. Filming is expected to last through April in Miami and Atlanta.
While teasing the production start of Bad Boys 3, Will Smith reveals that the official title (or at least working title) is Bad Boys for Lif3 by showing off a stack of scripts. The news comes after the synopsis for the sequel was released over the weekend, which puts Will Smith and Martin Lawrence’s Mike Lowery and Marcus Burnett up against a new drug cartel led by Armando Armas, who is played by Jacob Scipio. The synopsis reveals that Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, and Charles Melton are a part of the elite squad, AMMO, that will be helping out Lowery and Burnett.
Fans have been waiting over fifteen years for Bad Boys 3 to happen, so excitement is high at the moment. Martin Lawrence and Will Smith released a video on social media back in November to confirm that the sequel was officially happening, which received over 10 million views and thousands of comments on Smith’s Instagram account. Bad Boys 3 has been talked about for years, so it was nice of the actors to come forward and reveal that everything was running smoothly, especially since Lawrence had recently doubted that the movie was ever going to happen.
Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah are all set to direct Bad Boys 3 from a script written by Chris Bremmer, with earlier drafts by Peter Craig and Joe Carnahan. Carnahan left the project in 2017, which was a major setback for the sequel. It was also around this time that Martin Lawrence expressed doubt about the movie ever hitting the big screen. The actor appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and announced that production was expected to start in March of 2017. However, that obviously did not end up happening.
Thankfully, it looks like the cameras are all ready to go for Bad Boys 3. Will Smith and Martin Lawrence will offer up some updates from the set as the production rolls along, and there will undoubtedly be some leaked set photos coming our way in the near future. For now, it’s just cool to know that after all of these years, Bad Boys 3 is actually happening with Smith and Lawrence as the stars. There is no word on if Gabrielle Union will be involved in the sequel, even though she has expressed interest on social media. Union is currently starring in the upcoming Bad Boys spin-off TV series, L.A.’s Finest. You can check out the Bad Boys 3production start tease below, thanks to Will Smith’s Instagram account.
With just six weeks until the big night, the Oscars have yet to find a suitable host—or any host, really. While the search continues, at least one person has taken himself out of the running: Chris Rock. As Variety reports, the comedian appeared at last night’s New York Film Critics Circle Awards dinner, where he briefly joked about the Oscars shenanigans before presenting Bo Burnham with the award for best first film for Eighth Grade. Looking out in the audience, Rock spotted his pal Steve Martin and said, “You should host the Oscars. You’re the best. Steve Martin should host the Oscars! Because I’m not doing it, goddammit! You’re not getting me.”
Rock has hosted the Oscars twice, first in 2005, and again in 2016. As far as hosts go, he’s definitely one of the better ones in recent memory, along with Martin, who hosted three ceremonies; Jon Stewart, who sadly only hosted one; and Billy Crystal, who hosted nine. (If you think that’s a lot, Bob Hope hosted a record 19 times like some kind of masochist.) As of now, it’s looking more and more like this year’s Oscars won’t be hosted by anyone at all, which might not be the worst case scenario. Honestly, they should just toss an Echo Dot up there and call it a day.
Source: AV Club
