Chris Rock And Adam Sandler To Star In New Netflix Film Titled ‘The Week Of’
Adam Sandler and Chris Rock get considerable mileage out of a hot car in this new trailer for The Week Of, a Netflix original movie bowing April 27.
The comedy reteams the old Saturday Night Live buddies, along with SNL vet Robert Smigel, who directs, in a tale of two polar opposite dads forced to spend a week together for the wedding of their children.
The trailer is built around Sandler, as father of the bride, and Rock, the groom’s dad, enduring a road trip in a stuffy car, with Sandler reluctant to engage the air conditioner, despite a boiling Rock.
The Week Of also stars former SNLer Rachel Dratch and Steve Buscemi. Smigel directs from the script he co-wrote with Sandler. The film was announced last year as part of Sandler’s first pact with Netflix, and also marks a co-starring role for one of the streaming services biggest stand-up stars in Rock.
The comedy is produced by Happy Madison Productions with Sandler and Allen Covert serving as producers and Barry Bernardi and Tim Herlihy serving as executive producers.
The Week Of premieres globally on Netflix April 27. Catch the trailer above.
‘Men In Black’ Spinoff COming To Be Directed By F. Gary Gray
F. Gary Gray is the choice to direct the Men In Black film that will relaunch the franchise for Sony and Amblin. Negotiations are underway toward a deal. Gray is enjoying a mid-career trajectory that began with Straight Outta Compton, and then extended most recently to the third highest global grossing film of 2017, The Fate Of The Furious. The film grossed $1.2 billion. Men in Black has a script by Iron Man scribes Matt Holloway & Art Marcum and the studio green lit the picture on their draft.
Sony, which is coming off a big hit in reviving the Jumanji franchise, is hungry for more and the studio has set a June 14, 2019 release date. Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald are back as producers and Steven Spielberg is exec producing.
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Sony and Amblin have been trying to figure out the best way to relaunch the series, after the original pairing of Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith ran its course in the 2012 third installment. The attempts included a spinoff film that would meld Sony’s 21 Jump Street cast members Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill into an extraterrestrial spinoff. This film isn’t that one. Rather, it is a spinoff grounded in the original premise, of a covert force policing the alien population hiding in plain sight, the premise of the comic book series by Lowell Cunningham and Sandy Carruthers.
Neither Jones nor Smith are expected to be back. They’ll relaunch the franchise with a new cast, much the way that Spielberg did with Jurassic World.
Sony and Amblin are giving the keys to the big budget extravaganza to Gray at a good time for the filmmaker; after the sleeper hit Straight Outta Compton grossed over $200 million on a $28 million budget, he took on the $250 million budget The Fate of the Furious, and delivered a crowd-pleasing film that became the 12th highest global grossing pic of all time for Universal. This film mixes action with comedy, and Gray has a broad background in both; he launched the Friday franchise and has helmed Set If Off, The Negotiator, Law Abiding Citizen and The Italian Job.
David Beaubaire is overseeing for Sony. Gray is repped by UTA, Principato-Young and attorney Nina Shaw.
Source: Deadline
Dulé Hill Promoted To Series Regular On ‘Suits’
While Meghan Markle is off to “queener” pastures, Dulé Hill has been upped to a series regular on Suits.
The show’s Season 8 was made official today by USA Network, along with the announcement of Hill’s promotion.
He began recurring in Season 7 as Alex Williams, a new senior partner at Pearson Spencer Litt.
The back half of Suits’ Season 7 will premiere on Wednesday, March 28 at 9/8c, culminating in a 2-hour season finale on Wednesday, April 25 – an arc in which the show says goodbye to characters Mike Ross (Patrick J. Adams) and Rachel Zane (Markle).
A Suits spinoff, focusing on Gina Torres’ Jessica Pearson is also in the works at USA Network.
Source: Shadow & Act
WATCH: The Black Panther Premiere Featuring Chadwick Boseman And More On The Purple Carpet
Thanks to our friends at Blacktree TV, we are able to show you the Purple Carpet premiere of the upcoming Marvel Studios film Black Panther featuring Chadwick Boseman and more.
Black Panther is a film about a young African prince who takes on the mantle of King and Superhero, and the centuries-old legacy that comes with it.
Watch the feature below;
Tisha Campbell-Martin Confirms ‘Martin’ Reboot, Her Involvement
Rumors have been circulating for a few weeks about a potential reboot of Martin.
Now in a recent interview, one of the show’s leads, Tisha-Campbell-Martin is confirming the news — and says she is involved with it.
She said, “I can’t tell you…It has been an honor to be Gina all these years. So….I can’t tell you guys anything. But it’s very exciting.”
A lot has happened since Martin was on air last. Recently, cast member Thomas “Tommy” Mikal Ford passed away. Then, we can’t forget that the show ended on a sour note behind-the-scenes as Tisha Campbell-Martin sued both Martin Lawrence and the show’s producers for sexual harrassment and verbal and physical assaults, which led to her not appearing in most of the show’s final season. The lawsuit was settled and the actress appeared in the last episodes, but in scenes without Lawrence.
Martin, which aired from 1992-1997, starred Lawrence, Campbell-Martin, Ford, Tichina Arnold and Carl Anthony Payne II.
Campbell-Martin and Arnold reunited in Everybody Hates Chris, in which Arnold starred and Campbell-Martin was a recurring cast member. Campbell-Maritn has been busy in recent years, starring in the recently-canceled ABC sitcom, Dr. Ken, and she starred in a film that recently bowed at Sundance, Blindspotting.
Source: Shadow & Act
‘Bad Boys 3’ Eyes New Directors And New Start Date
Is it time for Bad Boys to report for duty once more?
Sony is taking another shot at making a Bad Boys sequel and is in early negotiations with directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah to helm, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
The filmmakers would take on Bad Boys for Life, which would reunite Will Smith and Martin Lawrence for a third chapter in the buddy-cop film series. The duo played Miami police detectives in the first two installments, which were directed by Michael Bay. The pair of films, released in 1995 and 2003, took in a collective $414.7 million worldwide.
A third Bad Boys effort has been in development for years, with Joe Carnahan most recently attached to direct before exiting last March.
El Arbi and Fallah were born in Morocco and studied film in Belgium. They recently directed episodes of FX crime drama Snowfall and have their third feature Gangsta due out this year.
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Bilall Fallah (left) and Adil El Arbi
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Marlon Wayans’ New Stand Up Special Sets Its New Debut Date on Netflix!
Pull up a seat bon appetit. Sit back and laugh this month with our favorite Wayans brother (you know he is) first original stand up special, Marlon Wayans: Woke-ish.The 1-hour special won’t be featuring Pops but will definitely bring in the raw jokes as Wayans shows off his woke-ish side.
Wayans, Rick Alvarez, Steve Harris and Michael Rotenberg will produce the special taped in front of a live audience as the new special sets its debut date for Feb. 27th, only on Netflix.
Godfrey: “Steve Harvey Isn’t the Only Black Guy Who Can Host Game Shows”
Godfrey sat down a couple of days ago with VladTV and shared his thoughts on certain black actors getting roles in Hollywood, including Steve Harvey, who has played host to various shows over the years. Godfrey spoke about meeting Steve and hearing stories that he was mean, but added that Harvey has always been cool with him.
When it comes to seeing more black men hosting game shows, Godfrey pointed out that game shows used to be primarily hosted by white men, and he thinks that there should be more representation in that sector. To hear more, including how he thinks Sammy Davis Jr. changed things in Hollywood, hit the above clip.
Source: Vlad TV
Michael K. Williams Set To Co-Star In ‘Superfly’ Remake
EXCLUSIVE: The Wire alum Michael K. Williams has signed on to play Scatter in the Director X-helmed Superfly redo from Sony, which will bow in theaters June 15. Esai Morales has also come onboard to play Adalberto. The Alex Tse-penned script is based on the 1972 original blaxploitation crime drama, which followed African American cocaine dealer who tries to secure one more deal before getting out of the business.
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Williams and Morales joins Trevor Jackson, Jason Mitchell, Lex Scott Davis, Andrea Londo, Jacob Ming-Trent, Omar Chapparo, and Allen Maldonado.
Joel Silver is producing with rap star Future, who is also putting together the film’s soundtrack. Exec producers are Steven R. Shore, Matthew Hirsch, Hal Sadoff, and Aaron Auch.
Williams received back-to-back Emmy noms for his role in the HBO TV movies Bessie, and the premium cabler’s miniseries, The Night Of, respectively. He currently stars in the SundanceTV series, Hap & Leonard, which will return with its third season March 7, and co-stars in Emilio Estevez’s film, The Public, which will open the Santa Barbara Film Festival on January 31. Williams is repped by Silver Lining Entertainment and WME.
Morales, who currently stars on ABC’s How To Get Away With Murder, is repped by Innovative and LINK.
Source: Deadline
WATCH: New Trailer For ‘Ant-Man And The Wasp’
Evangeline Lilly’s superhero is front and center in the first trailer for “Ant-Man and the Wasp.”
Marvel Studios released the trailer on Tuesday, debuting the first footage of the film a day after the world premiere of another Marvel tentpole: “Black Panther.”
The trailer opens with Paul Rudd’s Scott Lang asking Lilly’s Hope van Dyne if she would have helped him, Captain America, and the Avengers crew, if he had asked for aid.
“I guess we’ll never know,” she responds. “But if you had, you’d have never been caught.”
Michael Douglas’ Hank Pym also returns for the sequel, which picks up after the events of 2016’s “Captain America: Civil War” and finds the trio on the run.
With the power to shrink and enlarge themselves and other objects, even a Hello Kitty Pez dispenser can be used as a deadly tool.
The film, directed by Peyton Reed, also stars Bobby Cannavale, Judy Greer, Abby Ryder Fortson, Tip “T.I.” Harris, David Dastmalchian, Walton Goggins, Randall Park, Laurence Fishburne, Hannah John-Kamen, and Michelle Pfeiffer.
Rudd told Variety at the Sundance Film Festival that it was a thrill to work with “legends” Pfeiffer and Douglas on the movie.
