Here’s our very first episode of Humor Mill @ The Movies, and first up is Warner Bros. remake of the smash video game hit of Tomb Raider! (Yeah, we know the review is a little bit late, but give us some time, they are about to start coming out much faster!)
The fate of humanity rests in her hands. Alicia Vikander is Lara Croft. #TombRaider
Check out our review below;
Actress-comedian Jessica “Jess Hilarious” Moore has been cast as the female lead opposite Lil Rel Howery in the Fox comedy pilot Rel, executive produced by Jerrod Carmichael and Mike Scully.
She replaces Angel Laketa Moore, who had been originally cast in the role. The recasting decision was made after the pilot’s table read.
Written/executive produced by Josh Rabinowitz & Kevin Barnett and Howery, and inspired by Howery’s real life, Rel, from 20th Century Fox TV, centers on Lil Rel (Howery), a prideful, self-made success who lives by the code to “always believe in yourself and great things will come.” Rel finds that attitude put to the test when he learns his wife is having an affair with his own barber. He tries to rebuild his life post-divorce as a long-distance single father on the West Side of Chicago who’s on a quest for love, respect and a new barber.
Moore will play Tiffany, Rel’s supportive, kind and driven best friend.
Moore has appeared on Wild ‘n Out and All Def Comedy. She found popularity with her comedic online videos and became an Instagram star with her comedy skits, including the hit “Jess with the Mess” segment.
Moore is repped by ICM Partners and Gary Abdo.
Source: Deadline
In Fox pilot castings news, The Mayor’s Bernard David Jones has been cast opposite Beth Behrs in Fox’s Our People, the single-camera comedy exec produced by Lee Daniels.
Based on Endemol’s Israeli format, the comedy revolves around a man (Jones) from a bombastic African family who doesn’t have a word in their native language for “privacy” and his fiancée (Behrs) from a Midwestern family try to build a normal life together. Though nobody can agree what that “normal” means.
Vali Chandrasekaran penned the 20th TV pilot.
Sinbad is returning to Fox.
The actor/stand-up comedian has been tapped to co-star in Fox comedy pilot Rel, marking his first series regular role in more than two decades.
Inspired by Lil Rel’s life, he stars as a prideful, self-made success who lives by the code to “always believe in yourself and great things will come,” finds that attitude put to the test when he learns his wife is having an affair with his own barber. He tries to rebuild his life post-divorce as a long-distance single father on the South Side of Chicago who is on a quest for love, respect and a new barber.
Sinbad will play Rel’s dad, and the father to Nat (Jordan L. Jones), who seems to care more about his reputation in the community than he does about the happiness of his sons.
Written by Kevin Barnett and Josh Rabinowitz, the duo exec produce alongside their The Carmichael Show collaborators Mike Scully and Jerrod Carmichael. Scully is set as showrunner. Gerry Cohen directs the multicamera comedy from 20th TV. Angel Laketa Moore co-stars.
Rel is Sinbad’s first series regular role since he starred on since The Sinbad Show, which aired on Fox for one season in the 1993-94 season. His live-action roles include A Different World and The Redd Foxx Show. He’s repped by CAA and Root Sacharow.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Martin Lawrence is the latest guest on Snoop Dogg’s GGN show. The two longtime friends enjoy a half-hour discussion about The Mack and the African American College Alliance clothing brand while revisiting some of Lawrence’s films. A majority of the chat is devoted to Martin, Lawrence’s 1990s FOX series.
Kumail Nanjiani, who was nominated for a best original screenplay Oscar for his romantic comedy The Big Sick, will star opposite Dave Bautista in Stuber, an action comedy from Fox.
Michael Dowse, who helmed the hockey movie Goon, is directing the feature that is being produced by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley.
Nanjiani will play a mild-mannered Uber driver named Stu that picks up a grizzled cop (Bautista) who is hot on the trail of a brutal killer. The driver finds himself thrust into a harrowing ordeal where he has to keep his wits, his life and his five-star rating.
Tripper Clancy wrote the script.
Jake Wagner and Nick Thomas are executive producing. Jeremy Kramer is overseeing for the studio.
Nanjiani is one of the stars of HBO’s acclaimed comedy Silicon Valley, which is returning for its fifth season March 25. His last big-screen feature was The Big Sick, which he starred in and co-wrote with his wife Emily V. Gordon. Based on their life, the movie became a sleeper hit when it was released last year and put the couple in the awards race, with the movie netting an Oscar nomination for best original screenplay, among other accolades.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Ving Rhames has joined the cast of CBS’ pilot for the reboot of Cagney and Lacey.
Rhames will portray Police Capt. Stark, “the LAPD homicide coordinator who is unflappable and a leader who inspires loyalty in everyone around him.”
He joins soon-to-be-former Grey’s Anatomy actress Sarah Drew as Cagney and Law and Order: SVU and Blindspot alum Michelle Hurd as Lacey.
The potential series is a reboot of the 80s police procedural of the same name.
The logline and descriptions: “Cagney & Lacey will follow the two female police detectives and friends who keep the streets of Los Angeles safe. Drew will play LAPD Detective Cagney, Lacey’s nimble and easygoing partner and protégée. Hurd’s Lacey is athletic, polished, a former high school track and field champion. Empathetic and straightforward, she’s the more experienced partner.”
The original roles were played by Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless.
The drug war gets a lot more out of control in Sony’s new trailer for “Sicario: Day of the Soldado” with Benicio Del Toro returning as undercover operative Alejandro Gillick and Josh Brolin back as CIA agent Matt Graver
Early in the bleak trailer, Del Toro’s character — whose family was murdered by a cartel kingpin — guns down a cartel operative in broad daylight on a street after pulling off his mask and saying “Adios” to the victim.
The pair, who starred with Emily Blunt in 2015’s “Sicario,” finds themselves back in the middle of the violent war against drugs along the United States-Mexico border. With the drug cartels now smuggling terrorists across the U.S. border, they decide to pit the cartels against each other.
“You want to see this thing through? I’m going to have to get …. dirty,” Brolin tells a roomful of government officials.
Brolin’s character tells Del Toro’s that he’s going to start a war. Asked “Against who,” he replies, “Everyone. No rules this time.”
The trailer includes choppers swooping through the desert, plenty of gunfire, and multiple vehicle explosions, including one that appears to be from a guided missile. At one point, Brolin tells a colleague on a phone call, eliciting the response “Luck doesn’t live on this side of the border.”
The cast includes Matthew Modine, Catherine Keener, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, and Jeffrey Donovan. Blunt and director Denis Villeneuve opted not to return.
Italian filmmaker Stefano Sollima helms the movie, written again by Taylor Sheridan.
“Sicario” was released by Lionsgate and grossed $84.9 million worldwide. Lionsgate and production company Black Label Media agreed in April to have Sony Pictures release the sequel domestically, with Lionsgate retaining the international rights.
“Sicario: Day of the Soldado” opens on June 29.
Source: Variety
Coming off the comedy Game Night, which just crossed the $100 million mark this past weekend, New Line Cinema is going to keep the adult games going with the first trailer for TAG.
Starring Ed Helms, Jake Johnson, Annabelle Wallis, Rashida Jones, Isla Fisher, Leslie Bibb, Hannibal Buress with Jon Hamm and Jeremy Renner, the comedy will open on June 15.
It’s based on the true story (really?!?) of a group of adults who have been keeping their childhood game of tag going into adulthood, the film is directed by Jeff Tomsic, making his feature film debut after mainly directing television and a bunch of shorts, including one called I’m Having a Difficult Time Killing My Parents.
The screenplay was written by Rob McKittrick (Waiting…) and Mark Steilen, based on Russell Adams’ Wall Street Journal article “It Takes Planning, Caution to Avoid Being It.”
Todd Garner and Steilen produced the film with Hans Ritter, Richard Brener, Walter Hamada and Dave Neustadter exec. producing.
The official synopsis is:
One month every year, five highly competitive friends hit the ground running in a no-holds-barred game of tag they’ve been playing since the first grade—risking their necks, their jobs and their relationships to take each other down with the battle cry “You’re It!” This year, the game coincides with the wedding of their only undefeated player, which should finally make him an easy target. But he knows they’re coming…and he’s ready. Based on a true story, “Tag” shows how far some guys will go to be the last man standing.
Watch the official trailer below;
Hot off Black Panther, Michael B. Jordan has signed on to produce Warner Bros.’ World War II drama THE LIBERATORS through his Outlier Society Productions banner, the Tracking Board has confirmed.
Warner Bros. recently acquired Madison Turner’s spec script, which tells the story of an entirely African-American combat unit whose heroism during WWII led to the desegregation of the armed forces.
Jordan and his Outlier Society partner Alana Mayo will produce with Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell of Safehouse Pictures, whose Matt Schwartz will serve as an executive producer.
Jordan hasn’t signed on to star yet, but that’s a distinct possibility should the project move forward at Warners, whose Niija Kuykendall will oversee the project for the studio.
Jordan recently announced that Outlier Society would adopt an inclusion rider on all of its projects going forward, and the Tracking Board is waiting to hear back from Warner Bros. regarding its implementation on The Liberators.
Jordan, who is currently filming Creed II, will soon be seen in the HBO movie Fahrenheit 451 opposite Michael Shannon. As a producer, he’s also developing the Netflix series Raising Dion; MGM’s remake of The Thomas Crown Affair; an untitled project for OWN with Moonlight playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney; and an adaptation of the bestselling YA novel The Stars Beneath Our Feet that will serve as his directorial debut.