British television and commercials director Otto Bathurst makes his feature debut with a new version of the Robin Hood legend. The November 21 release, titled Robin Hood, stars British actor Taron Egerton (from the Kingsman franchise) as the charismatic outlaw who takes on the corrupt Sheriff of Nottingham along with his group Merry Men and Oscar winner R&B singer, and now TV host, Jamie Foxx.
Foxx plays Robin Hood’s brother in arms Little John, Ben Mendelsohn has been cast as the sheriff, Eve Hewson is Maid Marian, Jamie Dornan plays Marian’s husband Little Scarlet, and Tim Minchin is Friar Tuck.
Bathurst has previously directed episodes of Black Mirror and the popular period crime show Peaky Blinders. Characterised by stylised archery sequences, laconic British humor and a kinetic pace, the trailer indicates that the latest adaptation of thirteenth-century British folklore will be anything but staid. The movie has been shot in Croatia, Hungary, and France.
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The 11th Annual George Lopez Celebrity Golf Classic presented by Michael G. Wilson of Healthcare Highways and Mark Enlow of Enlow & Associates will benefit the George Lopez Foundation. Hosted by King of Comedy George Lopez, the ‘sold-out’ tournament will kick off Sunday, May 6th with a Celebration Pre-Party sponsored by Stacey and Larry Kohl at Baltaire Restaurant. Then Monday, May 7th your favorite celebrities will tee off for a good cause: George Lopez, Eva Longoria, Andy Garcia, Anthony Anderson, Andy Buckley, Yasiel Puig, Eddie Van Halen, Luke Wilson, Don Cheadle, David Arquette, Adam Rodriguez, Cedric The Entertainer, Joe Mantegna, Dean Geyer, Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Alfonso Ribeiro, Dennis Haysbert, Tim Allen, Oscar De La Hoya,Sheryl Underwood, Joe Regalbuto, Joe Pesci, Billy Dawson, Esai Morales, Bruce McGill, D.L. Hughley, Emilio Rivera, Frank Buckley, Dr. Jason Diamond, John Brotherton, John Pyper-Ferguson, Johnathan Fernandez, Ken Corday, Kevin Rahm, Kyle Lowder, Jonathan Antin, Lizzy Small, Mark Rolston, Mauricio Umansky, Norman Nixon, Pat Monahan, Patrika Darbo, Paula Trickey, Richard Karn, Roland Martin, Steven Michael Quezada, Yancey Arias, Vinnie Jones, Gary Valentine, Phillip Palmer and more.
The sponsors committed to raising awareness about kidney disease include Century Healthcare, 3 Arts Entertainment, AfterShokz, Allen & Anita Kohl, Alveo Technologies, Axis Capital, Baltaire Restaurant, Beer Pong Golf, Boulevard Management, Bunnin Chevrolet Cadillac, The Gilbert and Jacki Cisneros Foundation, City National Bank, CoachLabs, Coca-Cola, Combi Charitable Foundation, Committed U, Companion Life, Curtis & Co. Watches, El Chicano Productions, Endemol Shine Group, Fifty150 Brand, Glenmorangie, HBO, Healthcare Highways Rx, Ken Corday of Days of Our Lives, King Taco, MGO Wealth Advisors, Moët Hennessy USA, Municipal Packaging, OnCore Golf, PXG, Santo Mezquila, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, Snoop’s Premium Nutrients, Stacey & Larry Kohl, Sultana Distribution Services, UTA, Vektor Vodka, Vino Latino USA, WebTPA, WBBO, Sheryl Underwood Radio, ZORIZ Golf and more. Doris Bergman’sAnnual “Gratitude Lounge” featuring an assortment of luxury gifting.
Visit www.georgelopezfoundation.org and make a donation to help us continue our mission of creating positive, permanent change for underprivileged children, adults and military families confronting challenges in education and health, as well as increasing community awareness about kidney disease and organ donation.
In case you missed it, check out one of the latest battles on TBS‘ hit TV show, Drop The Mic. This episode features comedians Marlon Wayans VS Jay Pharoah, and its one for the ages! Check out the battle below;
On this day in comedy on April 22, 1961, Comedian, Producer, Byron Allen Folks, better known professionally as just Byron Allen was born on this date in Detroit, Michigan
Allen began doing stand-up comedy as a teenager. His interest in show business began during his childhood when he would accompany his mother to NBC studios in Burbank where she worked as a publicist. At age 14, Allen put together his first stand-up routine and began appearing on amateur night at comedy clubs throughout the Los Angeles area. Comedian Jimmie Walker saw Allen’s stand-up act and was so impressed that he invited the 14 year-old comedian to join his comedy writing team alongside promising young comedians Jay Leno and David Letterman. At age 18, Allen made his television debut on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Allen holds the distinction of being the youngest standup comedian ever to have performed on the show.
Watching Allen’s network television debut were the producers of NBC’s Real People, who were so taken with his comfortable, relaxed style that they made him an offer the very next day to co-host the show.
While Allen was getting his feet wet as a television personality, he was also learning the ins and outs of television production. The business of advertising and syndication, he learned in the trenches by personally calling station owners, programming directors and advertisers, one-by-one and market-by-market from his dining room table.
Mr. Allen’s foray into television production began in Los Angeles in 1993 when he founded Entertainment Studios with the launch of his first series — Entertainers with Byron Allen—a weekly, one-hour series profiling the current stars of film and television.
Entertainment Studios produces, distributes, and sells advertising for 32 television series, making it the largest independent producer/distributor of first-run syndicated programming for broadcast television globally.
Among the company’s top programs are: Emmy-winning Cars.TV, Emmy-nominated America’s Court with Judge Ross and We the People With Gloria Allred, Comics Unleashed, Comedy.TV, Beautiful Homes & Great Estates, Pets.TV, Recipe.TV, Career Day and The Young Icons. His company also made its first foray into scripted programming, producing two weekly primetime sitcoms that are slated to debut in September 2012: The First Family and Mr. Box Office.
In 2009, Allen became the first television entrepreneur to own and launch a portfolio of six 24-hour HD television networks simultaneously. The six networks include Pets.TV, Comedy.TV, Recipe.TV, Cars.TV, ES.TV, and MyDestination.TV.
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On this day in comedy on May 3, 1977, Comedian, Actor, Voice-Over Artist, Jeffrey “Jeff” Garcia was born in LaPuente, California
Garcia got started in comedy early – age 15. A few years later he was working steadily in clubs and bars on the Latin circuit in Southern California such as The Wild Coyote. He became a popular club host and in-demand headliner. Known as a quick wit with a strong stage persona, he soon got the attention of mainstream establishments and the industry. Garcia performed on televised standup showcases and toured nationally as well as overseas.
The masses got the biggest Jeff Garcia impact through his voice. Garcia was the voice of Buster the Dog in 1999’s Toy Story 2. Then he got the role that gained him fame – Sheen Estevez in Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. The film was nominated for an Academy Award and when it crossovered to television he remained in the Neutron world through its various phases and specials. He also did Planet Sheen on Nickelodeon. Garcia has played Pip the Mouse in Barnyard, Rinaldo in Happy Feet and the Baby Fish in Finding Nemo. He was Tipa Bat in Rio and a spoonbill in Rio 2. He’s also voiced numerous video games for Nicktoons including one for Happy Feet and SpongeBob SquarePants
However, Jeff Garcia’s more than just a funny voice. His face is too and has been seen in 3 Strikes, Caroline in the City, Dangerous Minds, Something to Sing About, Mr. Box Office, Transformers: Robots in Disguise and Clone High.
Garcia has done radio with the KMRK-FM 96.1 Wild Wake Up Crew. He performed a half-hour special on Comedy Central Presents and hosted Latin Comedy Fiesta Volume 1. In 2004 he won the Annie Award for Outstanding Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production.
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On this day in comedy on May 2, 1986, Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling released by Columbia Pictures
Richard Pryor stars in and directed this take on his own life. Starting once he’s set himself on fire freebasing cocaine, his spirit leaves his hospital bed-confined smoldering body to relive his existence and see where he went wrong. Up from his youth raised in a brothel to his early struggling stand up days on the chitlin circuit, the film hits all the major beats of the legendary entertainer’s true story.
Jo Jo overindulges once he makes it. Sound familiar? Then again, it’s hard to overindulge before you make it because – how? Anyway, Pryor’s character overdoes it with women, drugs and his own ego. After he’s made his journey through his life, Jo Jo returns to the hospital and climbs back into himself; hopefully a better and more enlightened man.
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling is the only film Richard Pryor ever directed. It co-starred Paula Kelly, Carmen McRae, Billy Eckstine, Debbie Allen, Art Evans, Diahnne Abbott, Barbara Williams. Michael Ironside and Wings Hauser. The film was written by Paul Mooney, Rocco Urbisci and Pryor with music by Herbie Hancock. It made $18,034,150 at the box office.
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“Everybody talking about Luke Cage like he’s Jesus,” says the new trailer for the second season of the Netflix and Marvel series about Harlem’s resident hero. However, as you can see in the video above, talk means little compared to action in Marvel’s Luke Cage and there is a ton of that in the June 22 launching series.
Amidst explosions, some very 1970s style swagger, street fights, a powerful new arm for Misty Knight (Simone Missick), a well curated hip hop soundtrack, a lot of bullets hitting the bulletproof Cage, a glimpse of Gary C. Clark onstage plus some new and old enemies, Season 2 of the Mike Colter led series looks to have cranked it up from Season 1 – and that was pretty intense itself.
Or as Colter’s Cage darkly puts it at one point in the new trailer: “Sometimes brutality gets shit done.” As you can also see from the key art here, The Defenders alum is caught in a conflict of who he is, who people want him to be and what a hero truly is.
Kicking off with its Lucy Liu helmed premiere, the 13-episode second season from executive producer and showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker, fellow EPs Jim Chory and Jeph Loeb sees not only Colter and Missick back but also Marvel small screen hallmark Rosario Dawson, Theo Rossi and Alfre Woodard as the ever-villainous Mariah Dillard. The Night Of’s Mustafa Shakir, Insecure’s Gabrielle Dennis plus The Sopranos alum Annabella Sciorra join Luke Cage this sophomore season as a trio of very different but very determined new enemies for the once reluctant hero.
Marvel’s Luke Cage is produced by Marvel Television in association with ABC Studios for Netflix.
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— Luke Cage (@LukeCage) May 6, 2018
With a tour, a new record deal, a new video and two brand-new songs performed on “Saturday Night Live,” it looks like Childish Gambino’s forthcoming fourth album may be arriving sooner than later. Gambino — a.k.a. Donald Glover — turned his appearance on the show into a multi-faceted promotional vehicle, serving as both host and musical guest and appearing in nearly every skit on the show (including a mock-horror sketch about Kanye West’s tweets and another in which a rap trio styled on Migos — who, in another connection, have appeared on Glover’s popular television show “Atlanta” — are in a therapy session.
The photo of Glover that appeared directly before he performed his new song “Saturday” was clearly styled on the cover of Stevie Wonder’s 1971 album “Music of My Mind,” and that reference was likely no accident: The combines a Caribbean feel with a strong early-‘70s vibe reminiscent of Wonder songs like “Boogie on Reggae Woman” and “Golden Lady.” He was introduced by Zoe Kravitz — Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet’s daughter — who then joined a group of partying people surrounding Glover and his band, who sipped drinks from red plastic cups, danced and played dominos. The song concluded with a heavy percussion breakdown while Glover danced.
Later in the show he performed another new song, “This Is America,” for which he dropped a politically-tinged new video directed by Hiro Murai (who has worked on previous Gambino videos and also directed several episodes of “Atlanta”). Filmed in a large warehouse, the video features a shirtless Glover dancing comically between scenes that alternate between humorous (his dancing and facial expressions) and disturbing (he pulls out an assault rifle and shoots both a hooded captive and, apparently, a gospel choir). In the video’s closing moments, SZA (or someone who looks an awful lot like her) makes an appearance, sitting on a car and looking briefly at the camera.
Glover recently left Glassnote Records for RCA and is expected to release a new album later this year. He will head out on tour in the fall with special guests Rae Sremmurd and Vince Staples; he is also performing at a new installment of his elaborate Pharos festival in New Zealand in November. Glover has said that the next Childish Gambino album he releases will be his last, explaining, “I think endings are good because they force things to get better.”
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AMC has ordered Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler, a companion talk show to its upcoming series Dietland set for premiere next month. Produced by Embassy Row (Talking Dead, Beyond Stranger Things, Watch What Happens Live), the unscripted series hosted by Tyler (Criminal Minds, Archer) will air on Monday, June 4 at 11 PM after two back-to-back episodes of Dietland, and will then move to its regular weekly timeslot of 10 pm ET the following week.
Unlike a conventional after show confined to the companion series itself, AMC says Unapologetic will feature Tyler leading a topical discussion around the broader, female-centric issues and themes that Dietland explores. She’ll talk with celebrity fans, series actors and producers, as well as relevant journalists, writers and comedians. Embassy Row’s Michael Davies and Amanda McPhillips serve as executive producers.
“Dietland is an incredibly well-timed series that focuses on a multitude of critical issues facing women today. We know Dietland will be a launchpad for conversation and this companion series makes room for these important discussions to happen,” said David Madden, president of original programming for AMC, SundanceTV and AMC Studios. “We couldn’t be happier to have the extraordinarily smart and talented Aisha Tyler leading the conversation for this series, which will be topical, issue-oriented, unfiltered and funny, just like its scripted sibling.”
“The issues of identity, sexuality, body image and self-actualization raised in Dietlandare more urgent than ever. Our dynamic, rapidly evolving cultural climate demands a frank, no-holds-barred exchange about the ideas and questions raised by the book and series, and the real-world events and issues women face every day. I’m looking forward to expanding the #metoo conversation in funny, honest and engaging ways. It’s about time,” said Tyler.
Starring Joy Nash and Julianna Margulies, the 10-episode satire from Marti Noxon (UnReal) follows Plum Kettle (Nash), a ghost-writer for the editor of one of New York’s hottest fashion magazines. Struggling with self-image and fed up with how she’s treated by her boss and society, Plum sets out on a wildly complicated road to self-awakening. At the same time, everyone is buzzing over news reports about men, accused of sexual abuse and assault, who are disappearing and meeting untimely, violent deaths. Plum also finds herself in the middle of two warring factions—one sisterhood who may be responsible for the attacks on male harassers, and the other which preaches female empowerment. She straddles these two groups, trying to make sense of the changing world and her part in it.
Based on Sarai Walker’s 2015 bestseller, the series will touch on hot-button issues facing women such as patriarchy, misogyny, rape culture and unrealistic beauty standards.
Noxon serves as executive producer, writer, showrunner and directs multiple episodes on the series.