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WATCH: Marlon Wayans Talks To The Breakfast Club About His Family And Career

Marlon Wayans was on a brief stint in New York last week and he got a chance to stop by and talk to The Breakfast Club. Wayans discussed his family, his career, and his upcoming TV show titled Marlon.

Watch the interview below;

WATCH: New Trailer Debut Of Comedy ‘The Hitman’s Bodyguard’ Starring Samuel L. Jackson And Ryan Reynolds

The world’s top protection agent [Ryan Reynolds] is called upon to guard the life of his mortal enemy, one of the world’s most notorious hitmen [Samuel L. Jackson]. The relentless bodyguard and manipulative assassin have been on the opposite end of the bullet for years and are thrown together for a wildly outrageous 24 hours. During their raucous and hilarious adventure from England to the Hague, they encounter high-speed car chases, outlandish boat escapades and a merciless Eastern European dictator [Gary Oldman] who is out for blood. Salma Hayek joins the mayhem as Jackson’s equally notorious wife. 

The film will be “hitting” your theatres on August 18. Watch the trailer below;

Tyler Perry Moves Forward With ‘Boo 2! A Madea Halloween’ This October!

Tyler Perry’s Madea is coming back on Oct. 20 for Boo 2! A Madea Halloween. The first Boo! marked Perry’s return to the screen as star-writer-director after a two year absence and he came back strong, beating Tom Cruise’s Jack Reacher: Never Go Back on opening weekend, $28.5M to $22.9M. Boo! A Madea Halloween continued to play even after the holiday was over, grossing $75M worldwide off a $20M negative cost.

On Oct. 20, Boo 2! is currently against six other wide releases, but as is common as we get closer to the date, some of these will movie. Currently booked is Warner Bros./Skydance’s Geostorm, 20th Century Fox’s The Mountain Between Us, Universal’s The Snowman, Weinstein Co.’s The War With Grandpa, Pure Flix’s Same Kind of Different as Me, and Sony’s Granite Mountain Hotshots.  Perry writes, directs and stars in Boo 2! alongside Cassi Davis and Patrice Lovely.

Source: Deadline

Kevin Hart Teams Up With Drake For The 6ixth Annual OVO Fest

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Canada’s front runner Drake has announced the dates and performers for his 6ixth Annual OVO Fest which will be taking place August 1-3 Air Canada Centre and the Molson Canadian Amphitheater. This two day festival will be packed with some of todays biggest stars such as YG, J.Cole, Jeremih, Big Sean and plenty more surprise guest. This year comedian Kevin Hart has extended OVO Fest an extra day by attaching his upcoming ‘What Now’ Tour to Drake’s already crazy weekend. Hart will kick off OVO Weekend August 1st and Drizzy will close it out August 3rd. Tickets will go on sale March 20th; this will be an event you done want to miss.

WATCH: Jamie Foxx Singing “Bitch Better Have My Money” As An Opera On ‘The Tonight Show’

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It’s no question that Jamie Foxx is talented, but this performance just took things to a new level.

The Oscar winner joined Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show Thursday night for a new round of the show’s signature Musical Genre Challenge. As is customary of the game, each player hits a button and is given a musical prompt containing a song and the style they have to sing it in. Let’s just say this was no easy round.

First up, Fallon had to take on The Weeknd‘s hit track, “Can’t Feel My Face” as a 50s crooner. Honestly, we’d put it on our iPhone.

It only got better from there as Foxx then had to turn the 2000 classic, “Who Let the Dogs Out?” by Baha Men into a Broadway tune. “Jamie, I don’t know how you’re going to do this,” Fallon quipped. Not to fret—the singer handled it like a pro, complete with a monologue and plot surprise.

Switching gears, the host channeled the greats to pull off Migos‘ “Bad and Boujee” with a ’60s rock backdrop with backup vocals from his guest.

As the grand finale, the Robin Hood actor turned Rihanna‘s “Bitch Better Have My Money” into an opera performance.

Source: E!

Comedic Actress Eva Longoria Lands In New ‘Overboard’ Comedy Remake

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Eva Longoria has joined the cast of the “Overboard” remake at MGM, sources have confirmed.

The film stars Anna Faris and Eugenio Derbez and is based on the 1987 romantic comedy starring Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn.

The remake will be co-directed and written by Rob Greenberg (“How I Met Your Mother”) and Bob Fisher (“We’re the Millers”). Ben Odell and Derbez will produce through their 3Pas Studios.

MGM partnered with Pantelion Films to co-produce, co-finance, and co-distribute the film, with Lionsgate handling domestic theatrical distribution. Production stars this May in Vancouver.

The original movie will be re-imagined with a reversal of the leading roles. The story will focus on a spoiled playboy from one of Mexico’s wealthiest families, portrayed by Derbez, who falls overboard off his yacht. He’s then convinced by Faris’ single, working-class mom that he’s her husband.

She is best known for playing Gabrielle in ABC’s “Desperate Housewives.”

Longoria is repped by CAA and Brillstein Entertainment. Deadline Hollywood first reported the news.

Source: Variety

WATCH: New Trailer For Comedy Central’s ‘Hood Adjacent with James Davis’!

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James Davis welcomes you to his neighborhood with new Comedy Central series “Hood Adjacent with James Davis,” debuting Wednesday, June 28 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT.

Born and raised in South Central Los Angeles, one block away from where “shit goes down,” James Davis shares his perspective on the world he grew up in and the world he grew up next to. “Hood Adjacent with James Davis” explores contemporary topics through a hybrid style of comedy.

The premiere episode follows James as he explores the “Hood,” what defines “Hood,” and why it’s only glamorized or villainized by the media. He takes us on a journey to the “Hood” with his friend Stevie J to earn his “Hood Pass” and introduces us to a “Trap Kitchen.”

Episodes will launch day of air on cc.com and the Comedy Central app as well as the day after air on iTunes, Amazon Video, VUDU, Microsoft Movies & TV, Google Play, Verizon Multi-Screen and Frontier Communications.

“Hood Adjacent with James Davis” was originated by Davis and Doug Karo and is executive produced by Davis, Brillstein Entertainment Partners’ Alex Murray and Shawna Wexler, Rikki Hughes, Troy Miller, Sean O’Connor, and showrunner Jim Margolis. Tara Schuster and Kelci Parker are the Executives in Charge of Production for Comedy Central.

James is a writer and comedian based in Los Angeles. Previously, James has written on “The Late Late Show with James Corden” and appeared as a regular roundtable guest on “Chelsea Lately.” James’ parody Baracka Flacka Flames – Head of the State was named the #2 viral video of 2010 by AOL and has over 11 million views on the web leading to notoriety. James’ monthly stand up show “Urban Dictionary” at the Nerdmelt Showroom in Los Angeles was featured at the 2015 New York Comedy Festival and later inspired the series called “Swagasaurus” which lived on Comedy Central’s Snapchat Channel.

The network has premiered a first trailer for “Hood Adjacent” below:

Source: Shadow & Act

‘Spider-Man’ Spinoff: Silver Sable, Black Cat Movie Finds Director With Gina Prince-Bythewood

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Gina Prince-Bythewood, who wrote and directed The Secret Life of Bees, will direct Silver & Black, Sony’s Spider-Man offshoot that centers on characters Silver Sable and the Black Cat.

Matt Tolmach and Amy Pascal are producing the project, which is planning for a fall start.

Chris Yost, who worked on the upcoming Marvel movie Thor: Ragnarok, is writing the most recent draft. Lisa Joy, the co-creator of HBO’s Westworld, also worked on the script.

Silver Sable, created by Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz in 1985, is a mercenary who runs a company that hunts war criminals. The character has been both antagonist and ally to Spider-Man.

Black Cat, an acrobatic cat burglar whose real name is Felicia Hardy, has a long and tangled romantic history with Spider-Man in the comics. The character was cut from scripts for the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy, and a “Felicia Hardy” (played by Felicity Jones) briefly appeared in Amazing Spider-Man 2, though no Black Cat connection was ever made explicit.

Sony is rebooting Spider-Man this summer with Spider-Man: Homecoming and hopes to launch a slate of Spider-Man-related movies. The first project, Venom, is already off and running, having snagged Tom Hardy as star and Ruben Fleischer as director. While Spider-Man is firmly in Marvel’s cinematic universe, Sony’s offshoots will stand apart.

Prince-Bythewood won acclaim and awards with her feature debut, the 2000 drama Love and Basketball. The writer-director has had her feet mostly planted in the drama world and on top of helming Secret Life of Beesalso directed the romantic drama Beyond the Lights, which starred Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Nate Parker.

She co-created the crime drama Shots Fired, which is currently airing on Fox, and is due to direct the pilot for Cloak & Dagger, Freeform’s television series based on the Marvel Comics teen heroes.

Prince-Bythewood is repped by CAA and Del Shaw.

Updated May 25, 10:30AM: Silver & Black does not have a fall 2018 release date.

‘Legends Of Chamberlain Heights’ Returns For Season Two On Sunday June 18th!

NEW YORK, May 25, 2017 – Comedy Central shoots and scores! Your favorite benchwarmers from the coming-of-age animated series Legends of Chamberlain Heights return on Sunday, June 18 at 11:30 p.m. ET/PT, following the season premiere of Kevin Hart Presents: The Next Level.

Legends of Chamberlain Heights is an urban animated series mixing raucous comedy and social commentary that centers on three high school freshman basketball benchwarmers: Jamal, Grover, and Milk. The three friends tackle life with some wins and some losses, but failure doesn’t faze them since they’re legends…even if it’s just in their own minds.

This season, Grover, Milk, and Jamal are still stuck on the bench, but once the final buzzer sounds it’s back to conquering the concrete by any means. Squeenies, Trump supporters, and vegans don’t stand a chance as the trio gets slightly protested, largely detested and even wrongfully arrested. The hater’s finna hate, but a legend’s gotta do what a legend’s gotta do!

Episodes will launch day of air on cc.com and the Comedy Central app as well as the day after air on iTunes, Amazon Video, VUDU, Microsoft Movies & TV, Google Play, Verizon Multi-Screen, Frontier Communications, and Sony Interactive Entertainment. Legends fans can get in on the action by following the show on Facebook and Twitter.

Legends of Chamberlain Heights is executive produced by Bento Box Entertainment (Bob’s Burgers, Brickleberry, The Awesomes) co-founders Scott Greenberg and Joel Kuwahara, along with co-creator Brad Ableson (The Simpsons, Good Vibes) and showrunner Devon Shepard (Everybody Hates Chris, Being Mary Jane, House of Lies, Weeds), with co-creators Quinn Hawking (Fox Sports, NFL Network) and Josiah Johnson (Showtime, NFL Network) producing. Monika Zielinska, Kelci Parker and Saira Fazli are the Executives in Charge of Production for Comedy Central.

Jamie Foxx Compares New Robin Hood Film To Zero Dark Thirty

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Jamie Foxx definitely knows how to stay busy. This week sees the launch of his new Fox game show, Beat Shazam, in which contestants compete to see who can name songs quicker in exchange for prize money and the occasional impromptu Foxx performance. But Foxx has even more projects on the horizon, and in a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, the actor teased his upcoming roles in Baby Driver and Robin Hood.

First on the schedule is Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver, which comes out June 28 and features Foxx playing one of the criminals associated with Ansel Elgort’s title character. Because of the protagonist’s tinnitus, he always drives to music, and much of the movie is choreographed to explosive songs.

“It’s crazy,” Foxx says. “Edgar Wright, f—ing amazing. That motherf—er killed that sh–.”

Watch the Baby Driver trailer below.

 

2018 release from Lionsgate. Foxx plays Little John in the new reimagining, alongside Ben Mendelsohn as the villainous Sheriff of Nottingham and Taron Egerton as the iconic radical thief. Aside from the cast and crew, not much is known about the film so far, but Foxx told EW it would shatter expectations.

“It’s different,” Foxx says about the new version of the classic legend. “It was directed by Otto Bathurst, who shot Peaky Blinders. The way they shot it was crazy, it looks like you’re watching Zero Dark Thirty. We’re shooting with our bows, but they computer-generated it so it’s rapid-fire, almost like an AK. I saw that and was like ‘Oh, they ain’t ready for this.’”

Foxx also had plenty of good things to say about his costar Egerton, who also leads the Kingsman franchise.

“Taron Egerton, man. He kills this sh–,” Foxx says. “He looks so great as Robin Hood, that f—ing jawline. Good-looking motherf—er.”

Robin Hood is out next year; Baby Driver arrives next month.

Source: Entertainment Weekly

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