Jamie Foxx Impersonates Stephan A. Smith For His Directorial Debut!
In case you hadn’t heard, Jamie Foxx is directing his first film titled All Star Weekend, which is about two friends all star, one who loves Stephan Curry the other one loves LeBron James and all they’re trying to do is get to the All-Star game!
With that being said, the comedy ensues!
Anyway, while on set, Foxx impersonates Stephan A Smith for a character that is set to be in the film. Watch from behind the scenes below;
A new stream of celebrity support for victims of Hurricane Harvey opened Wednesday, as Jamie Foxx announced that a telethon fundraiser is in the works.
In an Instagram post where the actor revealed his own donation of $25,000 to GlobalGiving, Foxx also shared preliminary plans for the upcoming benefit.
“From a fellow Texan, my heart goes out. My prayers go out,” Foxx, from Terrell east of Dallas, said. “September 12 we have a telethon that we’re doing. We’ll give you more details, so we can raise as much money as we can for everybody down there.”
The relief special is set to be broadcast Sept 12th.
Marlon Wayans Reveals Details Of His New Comedy Special And Updates Us On ‘White Chicks’ Sequel In New Digital Issue!
In our new DIGITAL issue, comedian and actor Marlon Wayans discusses with us about his new NBC show titled Marlon, plus his new Netflix film titled Naked. We also ask him about his new projects and he informs us about his new comedy special and he tells us where the White Chicks sequel stands.
Also in the new issue, we have articles on Dick Gregory, Lil Rel Howery, the latest movie review of Logan Lucky, and info on the Def Comedy Jam25 Anniversary and reunion special!
Open up the issue below;
‘True Detective’ Season 3 Officially A Go At HBO With Mahershala Ali
It’s official: HBO is moving forward with a third season of anthology True Detective.
Nic Pizzolatto will serve as the lone writer on the season save for David Milch, who will direct the fourth episode. (An episode count has not yet been revealed.)
Pizzolatto, who created the series, will serve as showrunner and direct alongside relative newcomer Jeremy Saulnier. Exec producers include Pizzolatto, Saulnier, Scott Stephens, season one stars Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey as well as original director Cary Joji Fukunaga. Steve Golin, Bard Dorros and Richard Brown will also be credited as EPs.
Season three tells the story of a macabre crime in the heart of the Ozarks, and a mystery that deepens over decades and plays out in three separate time periods.
As previously announced, Moonlight Oscar winner Mahershala Ali will topline season three as Wayne Hays, a state police detective from Northwest Arkansas.
“I’m tremendously thrilled to be working with artists at the level of Mahershala and Jeremy. I hope the material can do justice to their talents, and we’re all very excited to tell this story,” said Pizzolatto, who has an overall deal with HBO.
HBO would not officially confirm that they were moving forward with a third season of True Detective until they found a director who would work with Pizzolatto on the series, which broke out after its freshman run but failed to win over critics with its polarizing second star-studded season.
“Nic has written truly remarkable scripts. With his ambitious vision and Mahershala Ali and Jeremy Saulnier aboard, we are excited to embark on the next installment of True Detective,” HBO programming president Casey Bloys said.
Rumors have swirled for months about the future of True Detective. News leaked in March that Deadwood creator Milch was teaming with Pizzolatto on season three.
A premiere date has not yet been determined. Bloys said in July that Pizzolatto had almost the entirety of True Detective season three written — “I’ve read five scripts on the new season and I think they’re terrific,” he told reporters at TCA.
The True Detective revival comes as HBO is heading into 2018 likely without its highest-rated show in Game of Thrones (which likely won’t be back until 2019), though Westworld — which wrapped in late 2016 — is set to be back next year. HBO’s drama lineup also consists of David Simon’s The Deuce as well as the forthcoming Sharp Objects adapation.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Ice T Lands On A Special Edition Of ‘Unsung: Hollywood’ On TV One!
TV One presents a special edition of Unsung: Hollywood on rapper and actor Ice-T, one of the most prolific personalities on modern prime time television, airing Sunday, September 3 at 10 p.m. ET. Ice-T is the only entertainer that has been profiled in both an Unsung and Unsung Hollywood episode, focused on his music and acting career respectively.
“I was fortunate because TV One did two Unsung shows on me,” says Ice-T. “They did a great job and I hope people enjoy it and get an understanding of me. If you didn’t know me before, it’s going to bring you up to speed.”
Ice-T, one of the founders of gangster rap, began acting in small film roles before his breakout performance in the 1991 film New Jack City. He continued building his onscreen presence with more realistic, unfiltered film roles in movies such as Ricochet, Trespass and Surviving The Game. In 1995, he crossed over onto the small screen in New York Undercover and in 2000, he landed his most notable television role as Detective Odafin “Fin” Tutuola in Law And Order: Special Victims Unit. He has been on the series for 17 years, making him the longest-running black actor on television.
“I think this is a brother who found a way to do him and to do it his way,” says Mario Van Peebles, who directed Ice in New Jack City. “Each one of these roles, you can see he infused it in his way. He never played a role that was not something he could bring some of his credibility to.”
Insights are provided from family and friends, including Van Peebles, Ice Cube, Dick Wolf, Vanessa Williams Fab 5 Freddy, Malik Yoba, and Keith Murphy.
For more information on Unsung, visit TV One’s YouTube Channeland catch full the full episodes the day after premiere on www.tvone.tv/unsung. Viewers can also join the conversation by connecting via social media onTV One’sTwitter,Instagramand Facebook(@tvonetv) and the UnsungFacebook(@tvoneunsung) using the hashtag #UNSUNGHOLLYWOOD.
EXCLUSIVE-Steve Wilson, Guy Torry, Claudia Jordan And Mike Hill Launch New Podcast And Possible Comedy Tour
According to our sources, Steve Wilson (formerly of The DL Hughley Show), Guy Torry, Claudia Jordan, and Mike Hill (of ESPN fame) have launched a new podcast and we hear that the new podcast is also leading up to a possible comedy tour titled UnStable’d.
Guy Torry
The amazing news about this was that we discovered the news that Jordan was on stage too, but according to our sources, Jordan was not doing a designed comedy routine, she was just hosting.
Claudia Jordan and Mike Hill
Word is the tour is set now for four cities, and we hear that if the tour and podcast are successful, there are major plans to ramp up the tour and the podcast. As of this writing, the tour is set for Nashville, Birmingham, Huntsville (AL), and Atlanta.
Stay tuned as this story is developing.
Steve Harvey To Appear On ‘Oprah’s Master Class’!
The acclaimed, Emmy-nominated series “Oprah’s Master Class” featuring an unprecedented first–person insight into the brilliant minds of entertainers and public figures we love, respect and admire, is in its sixth season, with a new episode on Saturday, September 2 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network featuring Original King of Comedy and television personality Steve Harvey.
Erica Ash Joins Lil Rel Howery In ‘Uncle Drew’ — A Film Based On Kyrie Irving’s Pepsi Commercials
Erica Ash has joined the cast of the upcoming film, Uncle Drew.
The film Uncle Drew, from Lionsgate’s Summitt Entertainment, is based on a series of Pepsi commercials starring NBA player Kyrie Irving.
It also stars Lil Rel Howery, Nick Kroll and Irving, with appearances by professional basketball players Lisa Leslie, Shaquille O’Neal, Chris Webber, Reggie Miller, Nate Robinson.
The film’s description: “Dax (Howery) who, after draining his life savings to enter a team in the Rucker Classic street ball tournament, is dealt some unfortunate setbacks, including losing his team to his longtime rival (Kroll). Dax stumbles upon the man, the myth, the legend Uncle Drew (Irving) and convinces him to return to the court one more time.”
Ash, who currently stars in Starz’s Survivor’s Remorse, will portray Robinson’s niece.
Source: Shadow & Act
Baron Davis Teams Up With Issa Rae For Upcoming Comedic Movie Projects
Former National Basketball Assn. star Baron Davis launched No Label Productions and is developing movie projects with Issa Rae and Amy Pascal.
Davis has teamed with Hollywood veterans Bryan Smiley, who worked at Fox Digital and New Regency, and Zennen Clifton, whose resume includes Yahoo and WME. Their focus is music and urban-driven films across linear and digital platforms aimed at younger audiences.
“We picked the name No Label because we wanted to emphasize that we’re looking for diverse content and we’re nimble,” Davis said.
No Label has teamed with Rae, co-creator and star of HBO’s “Insecure,” on the movie project “Feud.” The story centers on a dysfunctional African-American family going on a road trip to play for a game show in order to win enough money to keep their struggling restaurant afloat.
Rae is producing through her Color Creative banner. She is not attached to star or write.
No Label is partnered with Pascal, the former Sony Pictures chief who segued into a producing deal, on the drama “Ghost,” centered on a young black American male juggling life between his home neighborhood that is stricken with violence and gang activity, and the private school that he attends with affluent people blind to the realities of his home life. The young man’s journey in learning to deal in both worlds takes a toll on his psychological advancement when he meets a mysterious man, Ghost, which changes his life.
Pascal told Variety that she’s known Davis since he was a student at Crossroads School in Santa Monica, Calif.
“I’m doing this because I love Baron Davis and just believe in the guy,” she added. “He’s very committed to making this work.”
Davis retired from the NBA in 2012 and has been active since in producing documentaries including the documentary “The Drew: No Excuse, Just Produce”; the Emmy-nominated documentary “Crips and Bloods: Made in America,” an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival and the Los Angeles Film Festival, and “Sole Man,” an installment of “30 for 30” for ESPN.
Source: Variety
‘Black Panther’ Star Letitia Wright Added To Cast Of ‘Avengers: Infinity War’
The rumor mill has been spinning for a while that Letitia Wright would appear in Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War, and now the actress has confirmed the news herself!
Back in July, Internet sleuths noticed that Wright’s stunt double in Black Panther is listed in the Avengers credits, suggesting she will reprise her role as Shuri.
Marvel is quite consistent with its castings when it comes to the merging of its superhero character worlds, as will be the case in Avengers: Infinity War, which will see the Avengers join forces with the Guardians of the Galaxy to take on Thanos. Almost every Marvel superhero who’s seen screen time (minus those in the TV series) thus far will be in this movie.
We already know that Chadwick Boseman (T’Challa/Black Panther) will have an integral role in the film, and Danai Gurira (Okoye) will be alongside him. IMDB also reported a few months ago that Winston Duke (M’baku/Man-Ape) would appear in Avengers.
As for Gurira, before Black Panther‘s release in February 2018, she can be seen as Afeni Shakur in the Tupac biopic, All Eyez on Me.
Avengers: Infinity War will follow Black Panther in theaters in May 2018. Intended to be the sequel to 2012’s Marvel’s The Avengers and 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, the movie is directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, with a screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely, and features an ensemble cast that includes Robert Downey Jr., Josh Brolin, Mark Ruffalo, Tom Hiddleston, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Jeremy Renner, Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Olsen, Sebastian Stan, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Bettany, Samuel L. Jackson, Cobie Smulders, Benedict Wong, Zoe Saldana, Karen Gillan, Vin Diesel, Dave Bautista, Pom Klementieff, Scarlett Johansson, Benicio del Toro, Tom Holland, Anthony Mackie, Chadwick Boseman, Danai Gurira and Letitia Wright.
super excited to be apart of this.