Halle Berry and Glenn Close are set to star alongside Kim Kardashian in an upcoming Hulu legal drama that hails from Ryan Murphy, Variety has learned.
The series was first announced in December 2023 and is currently titled “All’s Fair.” As reported at that time, Kardashian will play a successful divorce lawyer who leads an all-female law firm in Los Angeles. Exact details for Berry and Close’s characters are being kept under wraps. Both women will also serve as executive producers on “All’s Fair,” as will Kardashian. Close will produce under her Trillium Productions banner.
The role marks a return to television legal dramas for Close, who famously starred in the FX series “Damages” as notorious lawyer Patty Hewes. Close earned two of her three Emmy Awards as well as a Golden Globe for her work on the show. Close is a 14-time Emmy nominee and won her other statuette...
The series was first announced in December 2023 and is currently titled “All’s Fair.” As reported at that time, Kardashian will play a successful divorce lawyer who leads an all-female law firm in Los Angeles. Exact details for Berry and Close’s characters are being kept under wraps. Both women will also serve as executive producers on “All’s Fair,” as will Kardashian. Close will produce under her Trillium Productions banner.
The role marks a return to television legal dramas for Close, who famously starred in the FX series “Damages” as notorious lawyer Patty Hewes. Close earned two of her three Emmy Awards as well as a Golden Globe for her work on the show. Close is a 14-time Emmy nominee and won her other statuette...
- 7/8/2024
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Halle Berry and Glenn Close have joined the ensemble cast of Hulu’s All’s Fair, a new legal series from Ryan Murphy and Kim Kardashian. All four serve as executive producers.
The series is described by Murphy as “a high-end, glossy and sexy adult procedural.” Berry and Close will star opposite Kardashian who work together at an all-female law firm in the legal drama, penned by Jon Robin Baitz (Brothers & Sisters), writer of Murphy’s Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans and Joe Baken. Information regarding Berry and Close’s roles is under wraps.
All’s Fair marks the first series for Murphy under his new deal at Disney, with 20th Television, part of Disney TV Studios, producing in association with Ryan Murphy Television. Jon Robin Baitz, Joe Baken, Jamie Pachino, Laura Greene and Richard Levine executive produce alongside Murphy, Kardashian, Berry alongside her producing...
The series is described by Murphy as “a high-end, glossy and sexy adult procedural.” Berry and Close will star opposite Kardashian who work together at an all-female law firm in the legal drama, penned by Jon Robin Baitz (Brothers & Sisters), writer of Murphy’s Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans and Joe Baken. Information regarding Berry and Close’s roles is under wraps.
All’s Fair marks the first series for Murphy under his new deal at Disney, with 20th Television, part of Disney TV Studios, producing in association with Ryan Murphy Television. Jon Robin Baitz, Joe Baken, Jamie Pachino, Laura Greene and Richard Levine executive produce alongside Murphy, Kardashian, Berry alongside her producing...
- 7/8/2024
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
In the 54 years since Diahann Carroll (“Julia”) blazed a trail as the first Black female recipient of a TV Golden Globe, the list of small screen Black actresses who have won the favor of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has grown to include 12 more names, including 2023 comedic and dramatic champs Quinta Brunson (“Abbott Elementary”) and Zendaya (“Euphoria”). While this roster has long since covered TV movies and both continuing program genres, no Black woman has yet been awarded a Golden Globe for a limited series performance. There is a decent chance of that soon changing, however, given the winning potential of possible 2024 Best TV Movie/Limited Series Actress contenders Uzo Aduba (“Painkiller”) and Dominique Fishback (“Swarm”).
Possible Golden Globes newcomer Fishback stars on Amazon Prime Video’s “Swarm” as Dre Greene, a mentally unstable young woman whose unhealthy obsession with a Beyoncé-esque pop star drives a wedge between her and her foster sister,...
Possible Golden Globes newcomer Fishback stars on Amazon Prime Video’s “Swarm” as Dre Greene, a mentally unstable young woman whose unhealthy obsession with a Beyoncé-esque pop star drives a wedge between her and her foster sister,...
- 10/4/2023
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
Oprah Winfrey and X-Men star Halle Berry have both been close with each other over the years. But Winfrey became hesitant to approach the actor for a future film project after Berry’s Oscar win.
Oprah Winfrey was scared of approaching Halle Berry after she won an Oscar for ‘Monster’s Ball’ Oprah Winfrey | Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
Berry made history when she won an Oscar for Best Lead Actress for her 2001 film Monster’s Ball. Apart from it being her first win, Berry also became the first black woman to win a best actor award at the prestigious ceremony. But Berry asserted that winning the Oscar, although life-changing, initally had little affect on her film career. She was surprised she wasn’t offered other film opportunities afterwards.
“Because I thought they were going to just back up the truck and drop them off at my house, right? When you have a historic win like that,...
Oprah Winfrey was scared of approaching Halle Berry after she won an Oscar for ‘Monster’s Ball’ Oprah Winfrey | Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
Berry made history when she won an Oscar for Best Lead Actress for her 2001 film Monster’s Ball. Apart from it being her first win, Berry also became the first black woman to win a best actor award at the prestigious ceremony. But Berry asserted that winning the Oscar, although life-changing, initally had little affect on her film career. She was surprised she wasn’t offered other film opportunities afterwards.
“Because I thought they were going to just back up the truck and drop them off at my house, right? When you have a historic win like that,...
- 6/29/2023
- by Antonio Stallings
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Benjamin Caron’s Sharper, Apple TV+’s sleek but unsatisfying new thriller, needed to be a little smarter to work. It’s more plain than titillating, more predictable than mysterious. But its opening stretch is pleasurably deceptive. Sandra (Briana Middleton) is a grad student at NYU who walks into a humble indie bookstore on the hunt for a copy of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. Tom (Justice Smith), who owns the store, is a depressive bookworm who isn’t looking for love only because he seems...
- 2/17/2023
- by K. Austin Collins
- Rollingstone.com
The double and triple-crosses pile up to preposterous heights in “Sharper,” a drama about con artists and the people they’re playing that takes the hoary adage “nothing is as it seems” to contrived extremes. A deep ensemble cast is game for this ambitiously overwrought material, but no amount of committed acting can overcome the movie’s manipulative artifice.
Things begin simply, with a title card introducing the first of the ensemble’s characters, “Tom.” Played by the likable Justice Smith (“Jurassic World: Dominion”), Tom owns a small bookshop in lower Manhattan, where Sandra (Briana Middleton), a graduate college student working on her thesis, comes looking for a copy of Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God.”
The couple hit it off and go out on a date, which soon leads to an intimate relationship. They bond over their mutual love of Fellini and their shared fluency in Italian.
Things begin simply, with a title card introducing the first of the ensemble’s characters, “Tom.” Played by the likable Justice Smith (“Jurassic World: Dominion”), Tom owns a small bookshop in lower Manhattan, where Sandra (Briana Middleton), a graduate college student working on her thesis, comes looking for a copy of Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God.”
The couple hit it off and go out on a date, which soon leads to an intimate relationship. They bond over their mutual love of Fellini and their shared fluency in Italian.
- 2/8/2023
- by Rene Rodriguez
- Variety Film + TV
Sharper, an A24 and Apple TV+ psychological thriller starring Julianne Moore and Sebastian Stan, opens with a love story. A graduate student named Sandra (Briana Middleton) walks into a used bookstore in New York searching for a first edition copy of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. The man working the counter, Tom (Justice Smith), is immediately smitten. He clumsily asks her on a date. She rejects him. Later that evening, Sandra returns to the store and timidly announces she’s changed her mind.
They fall into an easy romance: Mornings at the bookstore in Soho, afternoon walks in Washington Square Park, evenings spent cooking in Sandra’s apartment somewhere downtown. Tom and Sandra are a perfect match — a couple whose story would make for a great season of HBO’s Love Life. When Sandra vanishes, both Tom and the viewer are left to ask: What went wrong?...
They fall into an easy romance: Mornings at the bookstore in Soho, afternoon walks in Washington Square Park, evenings spent cooking in Sandra’s apartment somewhere downtown. Tom and Sandra are a perfect match — a couple whose story would make for a great season of HBO’s Love Life. When Sandra vanishes, both Tom and the viewer are left to ask: What went wrong?...
- 2/7/2023
- by Lovia Gyarkye
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Sharper” opens with a fake out—in its own title. A dictionary definition fades up on the screen, declaring “sharper” as a noun that means “one who lives by their wits.” This little bit of cheeky word play is a harbinger for the never-ending rug pulls and elaborate deceptions to come in this con artist thriller, directed by longtime TV director Benjamin Caron and written by the team of Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka. Things are never what they seem in “Sharper.”
The film is a slickly-executed piece, an enjoyable but almost unbearably twisty puzzle box of narrative fun, but once everything slots together the box is unfortunately empty. Just like the characters in the film who seem to con, grift, and scam just because they can, it feels a bit like the filmmakers tied the narrative up in knots just so they could untangle it in front of us with a flourish,...
The film is a slickly-executed piece, an enjoyable but almost unbearably twisty puzzle box of narrative fun, but once everything slots together the box is unfortunately empty. Just like the characters in the film who seem to con, grift, and scam just because they can, it feels a bit like the filmmakers tied the narrative up in knots just so they could untangle it in front of us with a flourish,...
- 2/7/2023
- by Katie Walsh
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Range Media Partners has signed iconic actress, producer and director Halle Berry, who to this day, remains the only Black winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress.
The trailblazer won the prize for her performance opposite Billy Bob Thornton in the 2001 Marc Forster drama Monster’s Ball, with her role also garnering her Best Actress awards from the Berlin Film Festival, the Screen Actors Guild and the National Board of Review.
Over the course of her more than three decades in Hollywood, Berry has featured in such major franchises as X-Men, Kingsman, John Wick and James Bond, working with a who’s who of talent while appearing in films of every imaginable genre — from thrillers like Gothika, Perfect Stranger and The Call, to dramas like Things We Lpost in the Fire, sci-fi epics like the Wachowskis’ Cloud Atlas, action-comedies including The Last Boy Scout, and rom-coms like Boomerang with Eddie Murphy.
The trailblazer won the prize for her performance opposite Billy Bob Thornton in the 2001 Marc Forster drama Monster’s Ball, with her role also garnering her Best Actress awards from the Berlin Film Festival, the Screen Actors Guild and the National Board of Review.
Over the course of her more than three decades in Hollywood, Berry has featured in such major franchises as X-Men, Kingsman, John Wick and James Bond, working with a who’s who of talent while appearing in films of every imaginable genre — from thrillers like Gothika, Perfect Stranger and The Call, to dramas like Things We Lpost in the Fire, sci-fi epics like the Wachowskis’ Cloud Atlas, action-comedies including The Last Boy Scout, and rom-coms like Boomerang with Eddie Murphy.
- 1/31/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
It takes a genius to know one. So, it only makes sense that the creators behind Nat Geo’s Genius series would tap Suzan-Lori Parks to showrun, executive-produce and write Season 3, Genius: Aretha.
One of the most heralded playwrights of our time, Parks was the first African American woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize in Drama, which she earned for her 2001 play Topdog/Underdog. Parks is also a Tony Award winner and a MacArthur “Genius” grant recipient. But it’s the time she spent as a student of author, activist and playwright James Baldwin at Hampshire College that she holds most dear.
One of the most heralded playwrights of our time, Parks was the first African American woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize in Drama, which she earned for her 2001 play Topdog/Underdog. Parks is also a Tony Award winner and a MacArthur “Genius” grant recipient. But it’s the time she spent as a student of author, activist and playwright James Baldwin at Hampshire College that she holds most dear.
- 2/19/2021
- by Mekeisha Madden Toby
- TVLine.com
7 random things that happened on this day, January 7th, in showbiz history
1891 Best-selling author Zora Neale Hurston is born in Alabama. Where's her biopic? Hell, where are the movies based on her books and plentiful short stories? The only movie length adaptation has been the TV movie Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005).
1971 Today is the big "5-0" for Jeremy Renner, twice Oscar nominated, but whose promising gifts were completely swallowed up by a desire to become a franchise star which was both successful in a supporting sense (9 years and counting as Hawkeye in the McU) and not in the headliner sense...
1891 Best-selling author Zora Neale Hurston is born in Alabama. Where's her biopic? Hell, where are the movies based on her books and plentiful short stories? The only movie length adaptation has been the TV movie Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005).
1971 Today is the big "5-0" for Jeremy Renner, twice Oscar nominated, but whose promising gifts were completely swallowed up by a desire to become a franchise star which was both successful in a supporting sense (9 years and counting as Hawkeye in the McU) and not in the headliner sense...
- 1/7/2021
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Famed casting directors Robi Reed and Tara Rubin will be honored along with The Actors Fund at the Casting Society of America’s 36th annual Artios Awards, which will be held virtually on April 15, 2021. Reed and Rubin will receive the Hoyt Bowers Award, given for excellence in casting and honoring their body of work and outstanding contributions to the casting profession. The Actors Fund will receive the Rosalie Joseph Humanitarian Award – named after the famed casting director and philanthropist.
“At the age of 15,” Reed said, “what I knew is that I wanted to be a casting director, and receiving the Hoyt Bowers Award is not only an honor, it is a testament to what can happen when you believe in yourself and find your purpose.”
Reed, whose career has spanned over 30 years and more than 70 films, has long been Hollywood’s leading casting director for Black-themed projects. Her first studio...
“At the age of 15,” Reed said, “what I knew is that I wanted to be a casting director, and receiving the Hoyt Bowers Award is not only an honor, it is a testament to what can happen when you believe in yourself and find your purpose.”
Reed, whose career has spanned over 30 years and more than 70 films, has long been Hollywood’s leading casting director for Black-themed projects. Her first studio...
- 11/19/2020
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Bobby Smith Jr and his production company, Bobby Smith Jr. Productions, have signed with management and production outfit The Cartel for representation in all areas.
Smith Jr recently sold Disney+ a pitch for Inner City Symphony, a live-action movie on the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles and its founder, artistic director, and longtime conductor Charles Dickerson III.
He launched Bobby Smith Jr. Productions earlier this month, teaming with bestselling Black romance author Brenda Jackson to run the film and television company.
Smith Jr is also currently writing Burst, a sci-fi thriller that has secured finance from Acj Films and Sobini Films. The script sees a military transport aircraft carrying seven soldiers caught in a massive gamma-ray burst which sends the plane and the soldiers careening simultaneously into the future and the past.
Literary manager Ryan Saul said: “Bobby transcends just being a writer and comes armed with...
Smith Jr recently sold Disney+ a pitch for Inner City Symphony, a live-action movie on the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles and its founder, artistic director, and longtime conductor Charles Dickerson III.
He launched Bobby Smith Jr. Productions earlier this month, teaming with bestselling Black romance author Brenda Jackson to run the film and television company.
Smith Jr is also currently writing Burst, a sci-fi thriller that has secured finance from Acj Films and Sobini Films. The script sees a military transport aircraft carrying seven soldiers caught in a massive gamma-ray burst which sends the plane and the soldiers careening simultaneously into the future and the past.
Literary manager Ryan Saul said: “Bobby transcends just being a writer and comes armed with...
- 10/30/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
TV and film producer Bobby Smith Jr. and romance novelist Brenda Jackson are teaming up.
The two have formed a production company that will develop and produce projects based on Jackson’s large catalog of romance titles. Smith (Jason’s Lyric, Their Eyes Were Watching God) will overseeing and writing adaptations of the books.
“I am so excited to be joining forces with the great Brenda Jackson to celebrate and bring black romance and black love stories to the television screens of the world through the launching of this endeavor,” said Smith. “It’s about time that black love and black romance truly received the ...
The two have formed a production company that will develop and produce projects based on Jackson’s large catalog of romance titles. Smith (Jason’s Lyric, Their Eyes Were Watching God) will overseeing and writing adaptations of the books.
“I am so excited to be joining forces with the great Brenda Jackson to celebrate and bring black romance and black love stories to the television screens of the world through the launching of this endeavor,” said Smith. “It’s about time that black love and black romance truly received the ...
- 10/14/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
TV and film producer Bobby Smith Jr. and romance novelist Brenda Jackson are teaming up.
The two have formed a production company that will develop and produce projects based on Jackson’s large catalog of romance titles. Smith (Jason’s Lyric, Their Eyes Were Watching God) will overseeing and writing adaptations of the books.
“I am so excited to be joining forces with the great Brenda Jackson to celebrate and bring black romance and black love stories to the television screens of the world through the launching of this endeavor,” said Smith. “It’s about time that black love and black romance truly received the ...
The two have formed a production company that will develop and produce projects based on Jackson’s large catalog of romance titles. Smith (Jason’s Lyric, Their Eyes Were Watching God) will overseeing and writing adaptations of the books.
“I am so excited to be joining forces with the great Brenda Jackson to celebrate and bring black romance and black love stories to the television screens of the world through the launching of this endeavor,” said Smith. “It’s about time that black love and black romance truly received the ...
- 10/14/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Empire Star” Terrence Howard may be quitting acting for good.
In an interview with Extra on the set of the Fox drama, Howard told correspondent and current Miss USA Cheslie Kryst that he’s “done with acting” after “Empire” wraps production.
“Oh, I’m done with acting. I’m done pretending,” Howard told Kryst in response to a question about his next moves post-“Empire.”
When asked whether he would instead focus on philanthropic efforts, he replied, “No, not philanthropy; I’m just focusing on bringing truth to the world.”
Reps for Howard did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment Thursday.
Fox will air the sixth and final season of “Empire” on Sept. 24. But even after Howard is done playing Lucious, he still has two other projects in the works, according to his IMDb page — “Cut Throat City,” an action-drama feature directed by RZA, and an action-comedy film called “Selfie,...
In an interview with Extra on the set of the Fox drama, Howard told correspondent and current Miss USA Cheslie Kryst that he’s “done with acting” after “Empire” wraps production.
“Oh, I’m done with acting. I’m done pretending,” Howard told Kryst in response to a question about his next moves post-“Empire.”
When asked whether he would instead focus on philanthropic efforts, he replied, “No, not philanthropy; I’m just focusing on bringing truth to the world.”
Reps for Howard did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment Thursday.
Fox will air the sixth and final season of “Empire” on Sept. 24. But even after Howard is done playing Lucious, he still has two other projects in the works, according to his IMDb page — “Cut Throat City,” an action-drama feature directed by RZA, and an action-comedy film called “Selfie,...
- 9/12/2019
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
Lionsgate and Common’s Freedom Road Productions have acquired the rights to Barracoon: The Story of the Last ‘Black Cargo’, the critically praised, recently discovered book by 20th century writer Zora Neale Hurston, to develop as a limited television event series.
Barracoon centers on 86-year-old Cudjo Lewis, the last known survivor of the Middle Passage who was brought to America in 1927. The book, which was unpublished until earlier this year, chronicles Cudjo’s time of slavery and the profound complexities of reconstruction and freedom after the Atlantic slave trade was abolished.
This is the second project coming out of Lionsgate and Freedom Road’s TV deal. Lionsgate and Freedom Road are already developing the Saturday Night Knife and Gun Club TV adaptation starring and produced by Common.
Hurston also is the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Barracoon centers on 86-year-old Cudjo Lewis, the last known survivor of the Middle Passage who was brought to America in 1927. The book, which was unpublished until earlier this year, chronicles Cudjo’s time of slavery and the profound complexities of reconstruction and freedom after the Atlantic slave trade was abolished.
This is the second project coming out of Lionsgate and Freedom Road’s TV deal. Lionsgate and Freedom Road are already developing the Saturday Night Knife and Gun Club TV adaptation starring and produced by Common.
Hurston also is the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God.
- 11/27/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Rapper/actor Common's overall deal with Lionsgate TV is bearing more fruit in the form of an adaptation of a recently discovered Zora Neale Hurston book.
The studio and Common's Freedom Road Productions have acquired rights to Barracoon, a posthumous, previously unpublished work by Hurston, the renowned anthropologist and author of Their Eyes Were Watching God. Barracoon will be developed as a limited series.
The nonfiction book tells the story of Cudjo Lewis (born Oluale Kossola), the last known survivor of the Middle Passage who was brought to the United States in 1860, half a century after the transatlantic slave trade was ...
The studio and Common's Freedom Road Productions have acquired rights to Barracoon, a posthumous, previously unpublished work by Hurston, the renowned anthropologist and author of Their Eyes Were Watching God. Barracoon will be developed as a limited series.
The nonfiction book tells the story of Cudjo Lewis (born Oluale Kossola), the last known survivor of the Middle Passage who was brought to the United States in 1860, half a century after the transatlantic slave trade was ...
- 11/27/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Oprah Winfrey just made Tiffany Haddish’s dreams come true, and in return, the media mogul got a cooking lesson.
On Thursday’s episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, it was revealed that The Last Black Unicorn author may just be Winfrey’s biggest fan ever. While sitting with DeGeneres, Haddish shared that she met Winfrey 15 years back while working as an extra on the set her movie Their Eyes Were Watching God.
The Girls Trip star continued that Winfrey noticed her sense of humor on set. DeGeneres, seizing the moment, then brought out Winfrey, who had been waiting backstage.
On Thursday’s episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, it was revealed that The Last Black Unicorn author may just be Winfrey’s biggest fan ever. While sitting with DeGeneres, Haddish shared that she met Winfrey 15 years back while working as an extra on the set her movie Their Eyes Were Watching God.
The Girls Trip star continued that Winfrey noticed her sense of humor on set. DeGeneres, seizing the moment, then brought out Winfrey, who had been waiting backstage.
- 2/22/2018
- by Collier Sutter
- PEOPLE.com
Tiffany Haddish has met her idol and she almost couldn’t handle it.
The Girls Trip actress, 38, reposted a photo shared by none other than Oprah Winfrey on Wednesday. But she was so excited, that she reported it not just once, but three times.
“So Just So Yall Know I Posted It Three Times Because I Am That Damn Happy! Yes! Yes! Yes I Cried And Yes I Asked Her To Be My Auntie! So All Thanks Be To God For Always Coming Thru You Hear My Prays And Answer Accordingly Amen!” she wrote in the caption.
Winfrey, 64, surprised Haddish on The Ellen DeGeneres Show,...
The Girls Trip actress, 38, reposted a photo shared by none other than Oprah Winfrey on Wednesday. But she was so excited, that she reported it not just once, but three times.
“So Just So Yall Know I Posted It Three Times Because I Am That Damn Happy! Yes! Yes! Yes I Cried And Yes I Asked Her To Be My Auntie! So All Thanks Be To God For Always Coming Thru You Hear My Prays And Answer Accordingly Amen!” she wrote in the caption.
Winfrey, 64, surprised Haddish on The Ellen DeGeneres Show,...
- 2/22/2018
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
Zora Neale Hurston’s “The Gilded Six Bits” is a short story that was published in 1933, when she was a relative newcomer on the literary scene. The story goes that a well-known publisher named Bertram Lippincott read the "The Gilded Six Bits" and was so impressed by it that it led to Hurston getting a book deal, and her first novel, "Jonah’s Gourd Vine." Of course it was the publication of her second novel, "Their Eyes Were Watching God," in 1937, that brought her great success and a lasting legacy. Though it was pivotal to her career, “The Gilded Six Bits” was not reprinted until renewed scholarly interest in Hurston led to the publication of a...
- 3/25/2016
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Exclusive: Golden Globe-nominated Michael Ealy (Think Like A Man Too, Sleeper Cell) will star as civil rights activist Dr. Gilbert Mason in biopic A Civil Right, the first feature from Michael Benaroya and Darryl Taja’s new Revolution Media shingle. The film tells the story of the Biloxi physician who led nonviolent “wade-ins” against segregation on Gulf Coast beaches between 1959 and 1963, protests that sparked violence from whites and resulted in the first successful anti-discrimination suit against the state of Mississippi. Mason’s activism landed him at #3 on the FBI’s civil rights agitators most-watched list, and he went on to successfully fight for school desegregation in the state and help form the Council of Federated Organizations (Cofo). He served as President of the Mississippi NAACP for three decades before his death in 2006.
Salvatore Stabile will direct from his own script. “Sal wrote an amazing script that I’ve wanted to make for two years,...
Salvatore Stabile will direct from his own script. “Sal wrote an amazing script that I’ve wanted to make for two years,...
- 9/12/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
The 48-year-old star looked absolutely amazing in her long, purple gown.
Halle Berry, who is currently starring on the small screen in the sci-fi thriller Extant, brought all the grace, poise, and stunning beauty of a old-school Hollywood megastar to the 2014 Emmys.
At an event that is already as black-tie as it gets, the 48-year-old Oscar-winner's beautiful light-purple gown with a thigh-high slit and wide belt managed the near-impossible task of classing the place up even more.
Pics: 2014 Emmys Fashion Trend: Ladies in Red
Berry's short pixie-cut hair, muted heels and colorful jewelry all worked together to create an indelible style that was definitely one of the highlights of the night, and possibly her red carpet career.
Berry took the stage at the 2014 Primetime Emmy Awards to present the award for Outstanding Drama Series.
Berry herself has been nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries twice, most recently in 2005 for Their Eyes Were Watching God and in...
Halle Berry, who is currently starring on the small screen in the sci-fi thriller Extant, brought all the grace, poise, and stunning beauty of a old-school Hollywood megastar to the 2014 Emmys.
At an event that is already as black-tie as it gets, the 48-year-old Oscar-winner's beautiful light-purple gown with a thigh-high slit and wide belt managed the near-impossible task of classing the place up even more.
Pics: 2014 Emmys Fashion Trend: Ladies in Red
Berry's short pixie-cut hair, muted heels and colorful jewelry all worked together to create an indelible style that was definitely one of the highlights of the night, and possibly her red carpet career.
Berry took the stage at the 2014 Primetime Emmy Awards to present the award for Outstanding Drama Series.
Berry herself has been nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries twice, most recently in 2005 for Their Eyes Were Watching God and in...
- 8/26/2014
- Entertainment Tonight
But Your Picture On My Wall: Asante’s Sophomore Feature Revisits Compelling Historical Episode
A decade after her 2004 directorial debut, A Way of Life, director Amma Asante returns with compelling follow-up, Belle, an account of Dido Elizabeth Belle, who in 1769 was an absolute rarity as a mixed race heiress more or less allowed to mingle with the rigid aristocracy. A captivating chronicle related to us with fascinating and melodramatic aplomb, you’ll most likely want to research the eponymous woman at the center of Asante’s tale and be disappointed that there’s actually very little known about her. We can assume that many liberties were taken in the rendering of Asante’s film, though despite some heavy handed clichés here and there, screenwriter Misan Sagay, who previously adapted Zora Neale Thurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, writes a superbly plum role inhabited gloriously by Gugu Mbatha-Raw. You may...
A decade after her 2004 directorial debut, A Way of Life, director Amma Asante returns with compelling follow-up, Belle, an account of Dido Elizabeth Belle, who in 1769 was an absolute rarity as a mixed race heiress more or less allowed to mingle with the rigid aristocracy. A captivating chronicle related to us with fascinating and melodramatic aplomb, you’ll most likely want to research the eponymous woman at the center of Asante’s tale and be disappointed that there’s actually very little known about her. We can assume that many liberties were taken in the rendering of Asante’s film, though despite some heavy handed clichés here and there, screenwriter Misan Sagay, who previously adapted Zora Neale Thurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, writes a superbly plum role inhabited gloriously by Gugu Mbatha-Raw. You may...
- 4/28/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Chicago – The path to this year’s remake of the 1986 film “About Last Night” starts right here in Chicago, based on the original 1974 stage version, “Sexual Perversity in Chicago” by David Mamet. Two co-stars in the remake – Michael Ealy and Regina Hall – visited the source city to talk about their version.
After working mostly on stage in the late 1990s, Michael Ealy broke out in a big way (see the story below) in the popular “Barbershop” (2002). This led to steady work with roles in “2 Fast 2 Furious” (2003), “Never Die Alone” (2004) and the pivotal part as “Tea Cake” in the Oprah Winfrey produced 2005 TV movie of the classic novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neal Hurston. Recently, he was featured in “Think Like a Man” (2012) and “Last Vegas” (2013). Ealy takes on the role of Danny in “About Last Night,” played in the 1986 version by Rob Lowe.
Michael Ealy on the Red Carpet in Chicago,...
After working mostly on stage in the late 1990s, Michael Ealy broke out in a big way (see the story below) in the popular “Barbershop” (2002). This led to steady work with roles in “2 Fast 2 Furious” (2003), “Never Die Alone” (2004) and the pivotal part as “Tea Cake” in the Oprah Winfrey produced 2005 TV movie of the classic novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neal Hurston. Recently, he was featured in “Think Like a Man” (2012) and “Last Vegas” (2013). Ealy takes on the role of Danny in “About Last Night,” played in the 1986 version by Rob Lowe.
Michael Ealy on the Red Carpet in Chicago,...
- 2/11/2014
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Google Doodle’s latest celebrates what would have been the 123rd birthday of anthropologist and author Zora Neale Hurston. A prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance and a Guggenheim Fellow, Hurston is probably best known as the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, which was turned into a 2005 movie starring Halle Berry.
The Google homepage drawing depicts a portrait of Hurston on top of what looks to be the setting of one of the many folklore tales she wrote. PBS has aired a few documentary retrospectives of her and her work; you can watch a clip from the most recent,...
The Google homepage drawing depicts a portrait of Hurston on top of what looks to be the setting of one of the many folklore tales she wrote. PBS has aired a few documentary retrospectives of her and her work; you can watch a clip from the most recent,...
- 1/7/2014
- by Erin Strecker
- EW.com - PopWatch
Looks like a Storm is heading our way next summer. Halle Berry, best known in Our World as Storm in the X-Men movies, will be playing the lead in Steven Spielberg‘s Extant, the 2014 summer series we told you back in August. She will be playing an astronaut returning home after a year in space, whose experiences will lead to events that will change human history(!).
Here are the details:
10.04.2013
Academy Award Winner Halle Berry To Star In “Extant” A New Drama Series From Steven Spielberg’S Amblin Television And CBS Television Studios For Broadcast In Summer 2014 On The CBS Television Network
Academy Award winner Halle Berry will star in Extant, a serialized drama from Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television and CBS Television Studios. In August, the CBS Television Network announced a straight-to-series order for Extant, to be broadcast in summer 2014.
In a thrilling drama, Berry will play an astronaut...
Here are the details:
10.04.2013
Academy Award Winner Halle Berry To Star In “Extant” A New Drama Series From Steven Spielberg’S Amblin Television And CBS Television Studios For Broadcast In Summer 2014 On The CBS Television Network
Academy Award winner Halle Berry will star in Extant, a serialized drama from Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television and CBS Television Studios. In August, the CBS Television Network announced a straight-to-series order for Extant, to be broadcast in summer 2014.
In a thrilling drama, Berry will play an astronaut...
- 10/8/2013
- by Erin Willard
- ScifiMafia
Halle Berry is making a big move to the small screen.
The Academy Award-winning actress has been tapped to star in Extant, a new sci-fi drama slated to bow on CBS in summer 2014.
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From Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television and CBS Television Studios, the 13-episode thriller centers on an astronaut (Berry) who, following a year-long solo mission, attempts to settle back in to her everyday life. Ultimately,...
The Academy Award-winning actress has been tapped to star in Extant, a new sci-fi drama slated to bow on CBS in summer 2014.
More from TVLineThe Equalizer Renewed for Season 5 at Cbsfbi: International Casts Colin Donnell in Season-Ending Arc That Will Follow Luke Kleintank's ExitRatings: NCIS, The Voice and Idol Lead Monday, All American Rebounds
From Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television and CBS Television Studios, the 13-episode thriller centers on an astronaut (Berry) who, following a year-long solo mission, attempts to settle back in to her everyday life. Ultimately,...
- 10/4/2013
- by Megan Masters
- TVLine.com
Halle Berry is making a big move to the small screen.
The Academy Award-winning actress has been tapped to star in Extant, a new sci-fi drama slated to bow on CBS in summer 2014.
From Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television and CBS Television Studios, the 13-episode thriller centers on an astronaut (Berry) who, following a year-long solo mission, attempts to settle back in to her everyday life. Ultimately, her experiences in both space and at home will lead to events that change the course of history.
Related | Vince Gilligan, David Shore Drama Greenlit at CBS
“There’s only one Halle Berry...
The Academy Award-winning actress has been tapped to star in Extant, a new sci-fi drama slated to bow on CBS in summer 2014.
From Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television and CBS Television Studios, the 13-episode thriller centers on an astronaut (Berry) who, following a year-long solo mission, attempts to settle back in to her everyday life. Ultimately, her experiences in both space and at home will lead to events that change the course of history.
Related | Vince Gilligan, David Shore Drama Greenlit at CBS
“There’s only one Halle Berry...
- 10/4/2013
- by Megan Masters
- TVLine.com
An attempt to ease the pain of those who feel Baz Luhrmann has not made a film of 'the Great American novel'
Baz Luhrmann's critically panned adaption of The Great Gatsby has generated renewed interest in F Scott Fitzgerald's famed novel, ahead of the film's premiere on Friday.
At the peak of Gatsby fever, though, the inevitable backlash has hit. Impassioned spiels from those who insist that this "Great American Novel" isn't all that great are being raised across the internet – most notably, New York magazine's Kathryn Schulz has written 2,000-word explanation of why she "despises" Fitzgerald's novel.
It is an impressive accomplishment. And yet, apart from the restrained, intelligent, beautifully constructed opening pages and a few stray passages thereafter – a melancholy twilight walk in Manhattan; some billowing curtains settling into place at the closing of a drawing-room door – Gatsby as a literary creation leaves me cold. Like...
Baz Luhrmann's critically panned adaption of The Great Gatsby has generated renewed interest in F Scott Fitzgerald's famed novel, ahead of the film's premiere on Friday.
At the peak of Gatsby fever, though, the inevitable backlash has hit. Impassioned spiels from those who insist that this "Great American Novel" isn't all that great are being raised across the internet – most notably, New York magazine's Kathryn Schulz has written 2,000-word explanation of why she "despises" Fitzgerald's novel.
It is an impressive accomplishment. And yet, apart from the restrained, intelligent, beautifully constructed opening pages and a few stray passages thereafter – a melancholy twilight walk in Manhattan; some billowing curtains settling into place at the closing of a drawing-room door – Gatsby as a literary creation leaves me cold. Like...
- 5/10/2013
- by Amanda Holpuch
- The Guardian - Film News
Fox is developing a very intriguing new drama series, which puts a futuristic spin on the classic buddy cop concept. There’s no word yet on the title of the new series, but it will follow a human police officer and his robot partner. J.J. Abrams is teaming with Fringe producer, J.H. Wyman to make this action fueled project a reality, and they’ve just made Common Law actor, Michael Ealy, one the show’s stars.
I must say, this one has me jumping up and down for joy. According to THR ,Ealy, who I’ve always said has very nice eyes, is the first person to be cast in the Fox show.
Ealy will play Dorian, the android partner of Lapd officer John Kennex. Dorian understands more about humanity than his human partner does. I’m quite sold on this idea. It sounds like a win to me.
In the reality of the show,...
I must say, this one has me jumping up and down for joy. According to THR ,Ealy, who I’ve always said has very nice eyes, is the first person to be cast in the Fox show.
Ealy will play Dorian, the android partner of Lapd officer John Kennex. Dorian understands more about humanity than his human partner does. I’m quite sold on this idea. It sounds like a win to me.
In the reality of the show,...
- 2/28/2013
- by Sasha Nova
- Boomtron
Whether it's Clair Huxtable on The Cosby Show or Lena Younger in A Raisin in the Sun, Phylicia Rashad has built her career on playing strong women. Rashad continues that tradition by stepping into the role of Wilimena Deeds in Tyler Perry's new film, Good Deeds. It's the actress' second appearance in a Perry film. In 2010, she appeared in For Colored Girls.
Growing up in Houston, Rashad was surrounded by literature. Her mother, Vivian Ayers, was once nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Rashad says even today when you are in her mother's home, you are surrounded by art and "you understand you are in the environs of a creative thinker."
Rashad's childhood paved the way for her future. When you spend time talking with her, you realize that like the characters she plays, she too is strong and isn't afraid to speak out on controversial issues. While Good Deeds...
Growing up in Houston, Rashad was surrounded by literature. Her mother, Vivian Ayers, was once nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Rashad says even today when you are in her mother's home, you are surrounded by art and "you understand you are in the environs of a creative thinker."
Rashad's childhood paved the way for her future. When you spend time talking with her, you realize that like the characters she plays, she too is strong and isn't afraid to speak out on controversial issues. While Good Deeds...
- 2/24/2012
- by Dustin Fitzharris
- Aol TV.
Michael J. Lutch Audra McDonald, Norm Lewis in “Porgy and Bess” at Art in Boston.
It was about a year and a half ago when playwright Suzan-Lori Parks first received a call from director Diane Paulus about a new musical version of the Gershwin and Heyward classic, “Porgy and Bess.”
“She said hey, the Gershwin estate has approached me, they are interested in taking their brilliant opera, ‘Porgy and Bess,’ and creating a musical that’s viable for the Broadway stage,...
It was about a year and a half ago when playwright Suzan-Lori Parks first received a call from director Diane Paulus about a new musical version of the Gershwin and Heyward classic, “Porgy and Bess.”
“She said hey, the Gershwin estate has approached me, they are interested in taking their brilliant opera, ‘Porgy and Bess,’ and creating a musical that’s viable for the Broadway stage,...
- 12/27/2011
- by Barbara Chai
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
For her next big role, Halle Berry will be getting small.
Berry, already an Oscar and Emmy winner, seems poised to hit the small screen this year, as she's attached to star in a hot spec script titled, "Higher Learning." Deadline reports that the Dreamworks-produced series is a hot commodity and is being pitched to subscription nets HBO and Showtime, with a pilot pickup imminent.
The show would feature Berry as a college professor, with few details beyond that available at the moment. Recently cast in the big screen adaptation of the book "Cloud Atlas," and scheduled to feature in the upcoming group rom-com "New Year's Eve," Berry has done limited television work in the last 20 years.
She had a breakout with 21 episodes of the drama "Knott's Landing" in the early 90's, but since then, has nearly nothing when it comes to series: her only experience since then came when...
Berry, already an Oscar and Emmy winner, seems poised to hit the small screen this year, as she's attached to star in a hot spec script titled, "Higher Learning." Deadline reports that the Dreamworks-produced series is a hot commodity and is being pitched to subscription nets HBO and Showtime, with a pilot pickup imminent.
The show would feature Berry as a college professor, with few details beyond that available at the moment. Recently cast in the big screen adaptation of the book "Cloud Atlas," and scheduled to feature in the upcoming group rom-com "New Year's Eve," Berry has done limited television work in the last 20 years.
She had a breakout with 21 episodes of the drama "Knott's Landing" in the early 90's, but since then, has nearly nothing when it comes to series: her only experience since then came when...
- 6/1/2011
- by Jordan Zakarin
- Huffington Post
Halle Berry may be heading to small screen. The Hollywood beauty, who won an Academy Award for Best Actress through her role in "Monster's Ball", is said to be attached to a new drama series titled "Higher Learning".
According to Deadline, the Storm depicter in "X-Men" trilogy will star as a college professor on the show which script is written by 30-year industry veteran Lee Rose. The project is reportedly being shopped to cable networks, with HBO and Showtime among those targeted.
Halle Berry previously graced small screen through 1998's miniseries "The Wedding" and 2005's TV movie "Their Eyes Were Watching God" among others. She has wrapped production for upcoming movie "Dark Tide" and is currently attached to big screen adaptation of "Cloud Atlas".
According to Deadline, the Storm depicter in "X-Men" trilogy will star as a college professor on the show which script is written by 30-year industry veteran Lee Rose. The project is reportedly being shopped to cable networks, with HBO and Showtime among those targeted.
Halle Berry previously graced small screen through 1998's miniseries "The Wedding" and 2005's TV movie "Their Eyes Were Watching God" among others. She has wrapped production for upcoming movie "Dark Tide" and is currently attached to big screen adaptation of "Cloud Atlas".
- 6/1/2011
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
It's been a hell of a long time since we heard anything about the George Lucas produced World War II film Red Tails. The film is still obviously in the process of being complete, it's been about a year since our last report. Today we can report that legendary Jazz musician Terence Blanchard will provide the musical score for the film, which is pretty damn cool, especially if you're into jazz.
The film was directed by The Wire's Anthony Hemingway (The Wire), and stars Terrence Howard, Cuba Gooding Jr., Bryan Cranston, David Oyelowo, Method Man, Tristan Wilds, Michael B. Jordan, Andre Royo and several more.
Red Tails is based on the legendary African-American WWII pilots named The Tuskegee Airmen. During the war this squadron not only had to fight in their planes, but also against racism in the strictly segregated troops at that time. The African-American pilots had to...
The film was directed by The Wire's Anthony Hemingway (The Wire), and stars Terrence Howard, Cuba Gooding Jr., Bryan Cranston, David Oyelowo, Method Man, Tristan Wilds, Michael B. Jordan, Andre Royo and several more.
Red Tails is based on the legendary African-American WWII pilots named The Tuskegee Airmen. During the war this squadron not only had to fight in their planes, but also against racism in the strictly segregated troops at that time. The African-American pilots had to...
- 5/27/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
One year has passed since we heard anything about [1] Red Tails, the first Lucasfilm movie in almost two decades without the words "Star Wars" or "Indiana Jones" in the title. The World War II film about the legendary African-American pilots named The Tuskegee Airmen stars Terrence Howard, Cuba Gooding Jr., Bryan Cranston, David Oyelowo, Method Man, Tristan Wilds, Michael B. Jordan, Andre Royo and many more. George Lucas is a producer, as he's been wanting to make the movie for 20 years, but it's directed by Anthony Hemingway (The Wire). Last May, we got a brief glimpse of the movie [2] but, since then, a full calendar year has passed with no updates. In the meantime, Hemingway has directed several episodes of Treme, Community, but now, finally, there's some actual news on the film. They've just signed Jazz legend Terence Blanchard to record the score in Prague this June. The news of...
- 5/27/2011
- by Germain Lussier
- Slash Film
Box Office Magazine reports that in a recent interview, Tyler Perry, who had commented on the subject a few times before, was prompted to share a few more words about Spike Lee and his “coonery” comments. And he wants us to know, it’s not off the record:
“I’m so sick of hearing about damn Spike Lee,” Perry said during a press conference Tuesday in Beverly Hills, Calif. “Spike can go straight to hell! You can print that. I am sick of him talking about me, I am sick of him saying, ‘this is a coon, this is a buffoon.’ I am sick of him talking about black people going to see movies. This is what he said: ‘you vote by what you see,’ as if black people don’t know what they want to see.”
And Perry is not just sticking up for himself, but for others in the business that,...
“I’m so sick of hearing about damn Spike Lee,” Perry said during a press conference Tuesday in Beverly Hills, Calif. “Spike can go straight to hell! You can print that. I am sick of him talking about me, I am sick of him saying, ‘this is a coon, this is a buffoon.’ I am sick of him talking about black people going to see movies. This is what he said: ‘you vote by what you see,’ as if black people don’t know what they want to see.”
And Perry is not just sticking up for himself, but for others in the business that,...
- 4/20/2011
- by Stephanie
- ShadowAndAct
Getty Tyler Perry
Tyler Perry’s films have often courted controversy with their subject matter, but with few exceptions, Perry himself has stayed out of the fray, letting his work do the talking. Until now: At the Los Angeles press day for his latest, “Madea’s Big Happy Family,” Perry offered a sharp rejoinder to Spike Lee, who has frequently criticized his films for supposedly pandering to stereotypes.
“I’m so sick of hearing about damn Spike Lee,” Perry said.
Tyler Perry’s films have often courted controversy with their subject matter, but with few exceptions, Perry himself has stayed out of the fray, letting his work do the talking. Until now: At the Los Angeles press day for his latest, “Madea’s Big Happy Family,” Perry offered a sharp rejoinder to Spike Lee, who has frequently criticized his films for supposedly pandering to stereotypes.
“I’m so sick of hearing about damn Spike Lee,” Perry said.
- 4/20/2011
- by Todd Gilchrist
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
The long-simmering war of words between Tyler Perry and Spike Lee is heating up again.
Perry, in both a message on his website and a press conference to promote "Madea's Big Happy Family," hit out against Lee, who in 2009 said, among other things, that Perry's films "harken back to 'Amos n' Andy'." While Perry's website message was vague and resilient, defending his work as both spiritually uplifting and fun, his words for Lee were blunt and harsh in the press conference.
"I'm so sick of hearing about damn Spike Lee," Perry said during the press conference (via Box Office Magazine). "Spike can go straight to hell! You can print that. I am sick of him talking about me, I am sick of him saying, 'this is a coon, this is a buffoon.' I am sick of him talking about black people going to see movies. This is what he...
Perry, in both a message on his website and a press conference to promote "Madea's Big Happy Family," hit out against Lee, who in 2009 said, among other things, that Perry's films "harken back to 'Amos n' Andy'." While Perry's website message was vague and resilient, defending his work as both spiritually uplifting and fun, his words for Lee were blunt and harsh in the press conference.
"I'm so sick of hearing about damn Spike Lee," Perry said during the press conference (via Box Office Magazine). "Spike can go straight to hell! You can print that. I am sick of him talking about me, I am sick of him saying, 'this is a coon, this is a buffoon.' I am sick of him talking about black people going to see movies. This is what he...
- 4/20/2011
- by Jordan Zakarin
- Huffington Post
Getty David Foster Wallace in New York September 27, 2002.
“I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies.”
That’s the first sentence of “Infinite Jest.” I’m only 11 words in, not counting the chapter title, and I fear that I’m not just in over my head, but that even if I were wearing an oversized Dr.Seuss-style top hat, I’d likely be in over that as well.
I went with my son to a local coffee...
“I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies.”
That’s the first sentence of “Infinite Jest.” I’m only 11 words in, not counting the chapter title, and I fear that I’m not just in over my head, but that even if I were wearing an oversized Dr.Seuss-style top hat, I’d likely be in over that as well.
I went with my son to a local coffee...
- 4/3/2011
- by Christopher John Farley
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Handsome, raspy-voiced actor Michael Ealy has been paired up with many onscreen honeys, including Kimberly Elise ("For Colored Girls"), Halle Berry ("Their Eyes Were Watching God"), even as the angelic presence in Beyoncé's life for her "Halo" music video. Now he's playing the male lead opposite Kate Beckinsale, but, unlike Beyoncé, she ain't takin' him to heaven…
According to Deadline, Ealy will join the original vampire vs. werewolf saga "Underworld" for its newest entry, last rumored to have the very "Twilight"-esque title "Underworld: New Dawn" but now going under the moniker of "Underworld 3D" and filming in Vancouver.
In the fourth installment of the series, Ealy will play a vampire hunting police detective who, of course, winds up joining forces with Beckinsale's death-dealing vampire warrior Selene. They're the original odd couple!
The rest of the plot concerns Selene waking up from a 15-year coma to find she has a...
According to Deadline, Ealy will join the original vampire vs. werewolf saga "Underworld" for its newest entry, last rumored to have the very "Twilight"-esque title "Underworld: New Dawn" but now going under the moniker of "Underworld 3D" and filming in Vancouver.
In the fourth installment of the series, Ealy will play a vampire hunting police detective who, of course, winds up joining forces with Beckinsale's death-dealing vampire warrior Selene. They're the original odd couple!
The rest of the plot concerns Selene waking up from a 15-year coma to find she has a...
- 3/15/2011
- by Max Evry
- NextMovie
I received another email from California Newsreel, alerting us that the full-length documentary, Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun, is available for free online viewing for the next 2 weeks, so you’re encouraged to head over there and watch it Asap!
In short, the 2008, 84-minute film is a portrait of the American folklorist and author, best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God which was made into a feature film in 2005, courtesy of one Oprah Winfrey.
The doc was directed by long-time Spike Lee editor, Sam Pollard.
Click Here (or the image above) to go to the California Newsreel page where you can watch the film in its entirety! But hurry, because, as I said, it’s available for the next 2 weeks only.
Also, while you’re there, you are encouraged to browse through the Newsreel’s library of films, and if you see any others that you’d like to view,...
In short, the 2008, 84-minute film is a portrait of the American folklorist and author, best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God which was made into a feature film in 2005, courtesy of one Oprah Winfrey.
The doc was directed by long-time Spike Lee editor, Sam Pollard.
Click Here (or the image above) to go to the California Newsreel page where you can watch the film in its entirety! But hurry, because, as I said, it’s available for the next 2 weeks only.
Also, while you’re there, you are encouraged to browse through the Newsreel’s library of films, and if you see any others that you’d like to view,...
- 1/6/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
When Halle Berry won Best Actress at the 2002 Academy Awards, we expected great parts to start rolling in for the brilliant and beautiful actress.
However, with the exception of a couple of TV movies — Lackawanna Blues and Their Eyes Were Watching God — and the under promoted Things We Lost in the Fire, Berry has been hanging out mostly with mutants and spies and superheroes. Not that we mind.
Her latest movie, Frankie and Alice, may finally be the film that propels her back in to Oscar contention.
Berry plays Frankie Murdoch, a stripper with multiple personality disorder in the early 70s. One of her alters is white — and extremely racist. Phylicia Rashad plays her mom and Chandra Wilson is her sister.
Here’s the trailer.
Frankie and Alice is based on a true story that Berry has been trying to get to the screen for a decade. She wants to...
However, with the exception of a couple of TV movies — Lackawanna Blues and Their Eyes Were Watching God — and the under promoted Things We Lost in the Fire, Berry has been hanging out mostly with mutants and spies and superheroes. Not that we mind.
Her latest movie, Frankie and Alice, may finally be the film that propels her back in to Oscar contention.
Berry plays Frankie Murdoch, a stripper with multiple personality disorder in the early 70s. One of her alters is white — and extremely racist. Phylicia Rashad plays her mom and Chandra Wilson is her sister.
Here’s the trailer.
Frankie and Alice is based on a true story that Berry has been trying to get to the screen for a decade. She wants to...
- 12/6/2010
- by the linster
- AfterEllen.com
Late last week, after I saw For Colored Girls, I got into a conversation with Ms Cynthia (who works behind-the-scenes here at Shadow And Act) about the kinds of books written by black authors, that tell stories primarily about black people, that have been optioned and made (or will soon be made) into films.
We all know by now that Hollywood loves to adapt novels (amongst other kinds of original sources), and during our conversation I realized that there might indeed be a pattern or two worth noting, when one looks at the “black novels” that have been given big screen treatment.
One common complaint I’ve heard about the For Colored Girls adaptation is that the material is a yet another woman-centered black pathology tale, and a lot of you aren’t interested in that kind of narrative anymore, and understandably so. I think a lot of us feel the same way.
We all know by now that Hollywood loves to adapt novels (amongst other kinds of original sources), and during our conversation I realized that there might indeed be a pattern or two worth noting, when one looks at the “black novels” that have been given big screen treatment.
One common complaint I’ve heard about the For Colored Girls adaptation is that the material is a yet another woman-centered black pathology tale, and a lot of you aren’t interested in that kind of narrative anymore, and understandably so. I think a lot of us feel the same way.
- 11/2/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Halle Berry is on fire right now. Not only is the Oscar-winning actress one-half of the most dazzlingly photogenic mother/daughter duo on Earth, she just landed the lead in a buzzy romantic comedy, "Shoe Addicts Anonymous" -- a first for her. And even more importantly, she recently went back to the signature pixie cut that made her famous! From her 1980s pageant queen coif to her long, curly "Their Eyes Were Watching God" tresses, we take a look back at Berry's most memorable hair moments. Here's what you had to say: Amber commented via Facebook: It's Halle, she can rock anything. Selena wrote via Facebook: "It doesn't matter, she's gorgeous inside which exudes outside."...
- 8/31/2010
- Essence
This looks set to be an exciting year for feminism. Here Viv Groskop rounds up the books, films, theatre and marches that will inspire us all in the coming months
This is a big year for feminist anniversaries. It was 40 years ago that the first ever National Women's Liberation conference was held in the UK, that Germaine Greer published her groundbreaking book The Female Eunuch and Kate Millett published the life-changing work Sexual Politics. The year looks set to include a whole host of celebrations then, one of which is already underway – the Ms Understood exhibition at the Women's Library in London, which traces "the sisterhood and spirit of 1970s feminism" and runs until the end of March.
But this year's feminist calendar isn't solely historical. Three major new feminist books are to be published in Britain, the TV series Mad Men continues to explore the sexual politics of the 1960s,...
This is a big year for feminist anniversaries. It was 40 years ago that the first ever National Women's Liberation conference was held in the UK, that Germaine Greer published her groundbreaking book The Female Eunuch and Kate Millett published the life-changing work Sexual Politics. The year looks set to include a whole host of celebrations then, one of which is already underway – the Ms Understood exhibition at the Women's Library in London, which traces "the sisterhood and spirit of 1970s feminism" and runs until the end of March.
But this year's feminist calendar isn't solely historical. Three major new feminist books are to be published in Britain, the TV series Mad Men continues to explore the sexual politics of the 1960s,...
- 1/8/2010
- by Viv Groskop
- The Guardian - Film News
Two more names are brought in to the line-up of presenters for the 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards.
They are James Bond's girl in 2002 "Die Another Day" Halle Berry and the "S.W.A.T" actor Colin Farrell.
Halle Berry won a Golden Globe for her role in 1999 TV movie "Introducing Dorothy Dandridge". She was also nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture in 2001 movie "Monster's Ball", and was up for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television in 2005 TV movie "Their Eyes Were Watching God".
As for Colin Farrell, his portrayal as Ray in movie "In Bruges" earned him a trophy at 2008 Golden Globes. At that time, he took home Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) title.
Joining Halle and Colin to hand out awards at the annual event are previously-announced presenters Jennifer Aniston,...
They are James Bond's girl in 2002 "Die Another Day" Halle Berry and the "S.W.A.T" actor Colin Farrell.
Halle Berry won a Golden Globe for her role in 1999 TV movie "Introducing Dorothy Dandridge". She was also nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture in 2001 movie "Monster's Ball", and was up for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television in 2005 TV movie "Their Eyes Were Watching God".
As for Colin Farrell, his portrayal as Ray in movie "In Bruges" earned him a trophy at 2008 Golden Globes. At that time, he took home Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) title.
Joining Halle and Colin to hand out awards at the annual event are previously-announced presenters Jennifer Aniston,...
- 12/29/2009
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Halle Berry, Colin Farrell and Matthew Fox have been announced as three more presenters at the 2010 Golden Globe ceremony on Sunday, January 17. They join Jennifer Aniston, Mickey Rourke and Julia Roberts, in addition to Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, who will present the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Cecil B. DeMille Award to Martin Scorsese for his "outstanding contribution to the entertainment field." Halle Berry has been nominated for two Golden Globes: for Marc Forster’s 2001 drama Monster’s Ball, which earned her an Oscar, and the 2005 TV movie Their Eyes Were Watching God. Berry won one Globe for the 1999 TV production Introducing Dorothy Dandridge. Colin Farrell won a Best Actor (Comedy or Musical) Golden [...]...
- 12/28/2009
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
Lionsgate and Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Films are partnering to develop the comedy "Will You Be My Black Friend?" with Chris Rock starring.
The project stems from a November GQ magazine article written by senior correspondent Devin Friedman, who began a self-conscious search for black friends on Craigslist. The white, married Manhattan journalist then pursued his quixotic quest to expand his social circle, with unexpected results.
Winfrey, Kate Forte and Carla Gardini of Harpo are producing. Gardini brought the project to Harpo, and will supervise the production alongside Lionsgate's Mike Paseornek and Charisse Nesbit. Lionsgate will distribute the film worldwide.
"This is a story that takes on themes of race and friendship in a very modern and unexpected way," Forte said.
Winfrey is also a co-presenter and executive producer on the festival hit "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' By Sapphire," which Lionsgate is releasing in November.
The Icm-repped Rock most recently co-wrote,...
The project stems from a November GQ magazine article written by senior correspondent Devin Friedman, who began a self-conscious search for black friends on Craigslist. The white, married Manhattan journalist then pursued his quixotic quest to expand his social circle, with unexpected results.
Winfrey, Kate Forte and Carla Gardini of Harpo are producing. Gardini brought the project to Harpo, and will supervise the production alongside Lionsgate's Mike Paseornek and Charisse Nesbit. Lionsgate will distribute the film worldwide.
"This is a story that takes on themes of race and friendship in a very modern and unexpected way," Forte said.
Winfrey is also a co-presenter and executive producer on the festival hit "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' By Sapphire," which Lionsgate is releasing in November.
The Icm-repped Rock most recently co-wrote,...
- 10/5/2009
- by By Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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