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.
Hannibal Buress had his mic cut off recently while performing at a university. Saturday night, the 35-year-old comedian was only on stage performing for a few minutes when officials at Catholic University abruptly cut his set short. Apparently, he was making a joke about the church’s history of child molestation.
Buress began his set by explaining that he received an email from the university with content that he could include in his set. Restrictions included the use of foul language and topics regarding rape, sexual assault, race and sexual orientation.
Minutes into his set he referenced molestation of children, and his microphone was cut off. The crowd booed at first, then quieted so he could be heard without a mic. But the background music volume raised until he stepped off the stage.
Loyola’s Department of Programming (DOP) assistant director, Leslie Watland, told the university’s newspaper,
“DOP students did not make any day-of decisions for Hannibal Buress’ show. Student Development Administrators made the decisions.”
Buress embarked on a comedy career in late 2009, gaining recognition after being featured in Comedy Central’s The Awkward Comedy Show. This enabled him to release his first comedy album, My Name is Hannibal. He has co-starred on Adult Swim’s The Eric Andre Show since 2012 and featured on Comedy Central’s Broad City since 2014.
Some suggest he is responsible for bringing Bill Cosby’s rape allegations to the public’s attention. On October 16, 2014, at the Philadelphia club The Trocadero, Buress was video recorded doing an extended bit about existing rape allegations against Cosby. Buress addressed Cosby’s legacy of “talk[ing] down” to young black men about their mode of dress and lifestyle. Buress criticized the actor’s public moralizing by saying,
“Yeah, but you raped women, Bill Cosby, so that kind of brings you down a couple notches.”
The audience appeared to respond to Buress’s accusation as an incredulous joke before he encouraged everyone to “Google ‘Bill Cosby rape’” when they got home. Buress had been using the same Cosby routine for the previous six months with little response, but the October performance went viral after being posted on Philadelphia magazine’s website. A media firestorm ensued, with numerous publications tackling the question of how Cosby had managed to maintain, as Buress called it in his set, a “teflon image” despite more than a decade of public sex abuse accusations.
Source: The Jasmine Brand
We just discovered the news that actor Chadwick Boseman, star of Black Panther and Thurgood Marshall, has signed on to host NBC’s ‘Saturday Night Live‘!
Boseman is set to appear on the show on April 7th, when he’ll be joined by musical guest Cardi B. Our sources told us that we should expect at least 2 Black Panther sketches as they are already in the early stages of pre-planning.
Meanwhile, the Disney/Marvel film Black Panther recently continued to make history as Black Panther’s $1.182.5 billion global total makes it the 14th highest-grossing movie ever. And it’s clearly not finished, with perhaps another $100m or so left in the tank (it made $57m worldwide just this past weekend).
Actor-comedian James Davis, star, creator and executive producer of Comedy Central’s series Hood Adjacent With James Davis, has been cast as the co-lead of NBC’s comedy pilot Friends-In-Law, from The McCarthys creator Brian Gallivan and Warner Bros TV.
Written by Gallivan, Friends-In-Law centers on Brian (Devere Rogers) and Jake (Davis) who are polar opposites and must quickly figure out how to coexist when their respective best friends, Margaret (Nicole Parker) and Randy (John Gemberling), decide to get married. Gallivan and Tom Werner executive produce.
Davis’ Jake is described as handsome and a little too arrogant.
Davis’ Hood Adjacent had a run as a limited series on Comedy Central earlier this year, receiving solid reviews. He has written for Late Late Show With James Corden and was recurring on Kevin Hart’s Real Husbands of Hollywood. He can be seen performing on Kevin Hart Presents: The Next Level on Comedy Central.
Source: Deadline
According to reports, we hear news that actor and comedian Wanda Sykes (of ABC’s black-ish fame ) is set to host the 29th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles on Thursday, April 12 at the Beverly Hilton.
“Wanda Sykes’ humor, wit and status as one of the most visible out women in Hollywood make her the perfect host for the 29th Annual GLAAD Media Awards,” said Sarah Kate Ellis, GLAAD President and CEO.
More details soon.