Jonathan Majors continues to work and represent as he is looking to go toe-to-toe with Michael B. Jordan in Creed III.Deadlinereports that the Lovecraft Country actor will be the titular boxer’s nemesis.
In The Heights and Vida star Melissa Barrera is set to take the lead role in the forthcoming Netflix drama Breathe. She will play Liv, who is described as “a razor-sharp Manhattan attorney who finds herself profoundly out of her comfort zone when her small plane crashes in the Canadian wilderness and she must battle for survival.”
The seeds that Nickelodeon star Michael D. Cohen planted with the Trans Youth Acting Challenge are starting to bloom. The initiative, which helps trans and nonbinary youth break into the biz, has tapped 13-year-old trans actor Sasha A. Cohen (nope, they are not related) to joinDanger Force along with his twin sister Natalie R Cohen, according to Variety.
John Wick 4 just got more Asian. Legend Donnie Yen is set to join Keanu Reeves in the sequel to the actioner.
NBC is developing the comedy pilot for Leftover Daughtersfrom Finding Ohana‘s Jude Weng. Leftover Daughters chronicles the lives of a single Chinese-American woman and her circle of unmarried family and friends as they struggle to find love and happiness amidst the pressure of strict cultural traditions.
Screen Media has acquired the rights to heist thriller Naked Singularity starring John Boyega and Olivia Cooke.
We are about to see Tiffany Haddish in a whole new light. Looks like the actress and comedian is ready to take a big dramatic swing with her thespian chops which is reminiscent of when Jim Carrey took on Man on the Moon. She is set to star and produce a biopic about Olympian legend Florence Griffith Joyner. Haddish has already began training to transform into Flo-Jo.
Phllipa Soo and Simu Liu have joined the adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s One True Love. The film tells a moving love story about a woman unexpectedly forced to choose between the husband she has long thought dead and the fiancé who finally has brought her back to life.
As Pose comes to an end this weekend, Emmy winner Billy Porter will step into the role of writer and producer alongside Greg Berlanti for Fruits of Thy Laborat Peacock. The family drama written by Porter and Dan McCabe follows three generations of an African American showbiz dynasty navigating their way through life, love, politics and career.
Gloria Calderón Kellett has a whole bunch of things goin’ on at Amazon, but in the forefront is her rom-com series With Love has tapped its leads with Emeraude Toubia and Mark Indelicato.
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Dwayne Johnson have joined the Warner Bros. project Emergency Contact which is being described as a high-concept, high-octane action film set amid the underground music scene in Austin.
We Are Who We Are‘s Spence Moore II has joined the dark action comedy Going Places.
No surprise here: George Washington and his boo Martha owned 300 enslaved people. Now, Antoine Fuqua is shopping a series about the contradictions in all of Washington’s first term as a president. I’m guessing there are going to be a lot them.
Barack and Michelle Obama (aka America’s favorite uncle and auntie) are reteaming with Doc McStuffins creator Chris Nee on We the People, a series of animated music videos that contain lessons in U.S. civics, which will hit Netflix on July 4, appropriately. The series includes original songs performed by artists including Lin-Manuel Miranda, H.E.R., Janelle Monáe, Brandi Carlile, Adam Lambert, Cordae, Bebe Rexha, KYLE, Andra Day and Amanda Gorman.
A person of color is joining a Noah Baumbach project! Queen & Slim‘s Jodie Turner-Smith is in talks to join Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig in Baumbach’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s White Noise at Netflix.
Another Jodie, JodieFoster, is set to receive the Honorary Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, which announced its lineup earlier this week and yes, it is very male and white.
Alice Braga is set to join Robert Rodriguez‘s thriller Hypnoticwhich is set to star production in September in — you guessed it — Austin, Texas. The action thriller will follow a detective who becomes entangled in a mystery involving his missing daughter and a secret government program while investigating a string of high-end crimes.
Stephanie Hsu talks about the joy of playing a non-stereotypical Asian in TheMarvelous Mrs. Maisel but also talks encounters with racists. “It’s a confusing time to be Asian. Each success arrives alongside a heartbreak and oftentimes even anger.”
Kal Penn is set to host Money Hungry, a contest that requires the abilities of a super taster combined with a wide-reaching culinary knowledge to complete a series of increasingly difficult taste tests encompassing the entire world of flavors.
Billy Porter, Sterling K. Brown and Whoopi Goldberg are set to read tributes for the Los Angeles AIDS Monument on June 5, which marks the 40th anniversary of the first CDC report related to HIV/AIDS.
Katie Leung — who is known by many as Cho Chang in the Harry Potter franchise — is set to join the Amazon series The Peripheralas a series regular. The series based on the bestselling novel by William Gibson is described as a dazzling, hallucinatory glimpse into the fate of mankind — and what lies beyond.
Mason Gooding will join Lana Condor in New Line’s Max Original sci-fi rom-com Moonshot. Set in a future where Mars is terraformed and colonized by the best humanity has to offer. Two very different college students end up joining forces and sneak onboard a space shuttle to the red planet in order to be united with their significant others.
Sutton Foster told Varietythat she did not feel comfortable continuing with her role in the Broadway musical The Music Man. I mean, who wouldn’t? The producer of the musical Scott Rudin is trash.
