‘Black-ish,’ Octavia Spencer’s ‘Self Made’ Dominate NAACP Image Awards for TV

The Casting Society of America is handing out its 36th annual Artios Awards in a virtual ceremony tonight, and Deadline is updating the winners as they are announced. Check out the list below.

If Thunder Force will be remembered for anything, it might be this bizarro footnote: The movie marks the second time, after The Shape of Water, that a character played by Octavia Spencer learns her best friend has had life-changing sex with a fish-man. Which makes it sound a lot more interesting than it is.

The word “Miscreants” is uttered nearly a dozen times within the first fifteen minutes of “Thunder Force,” Netflix’s new superhero comedy starring Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer. It’s an absurd word to say repeatedly and an even more absurd way for writer-director Ben Falcone to drive home the point that his superhero world is filled with only super-powered “bad guys” (yes, known as Miscreants) and they’re terrible.

Melissa McCarthy and her husband, filmmaker Ben Falcone, have managed to put out not one but two movies during this global pandemic.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticThe “Airplane!” school of chock-full-of-jokes conceptual parody, with its fourth-wall-smashing stupido-smart goofiness, had a pretty impressive run.

Ben Falcone called me to say, 'Hey, do you wanna be in a superhero movie and play a supervillain,' what's the first question you ask?" Bobby Cannavale posits, then answers his own question: «What's my power? You gotta know what your power is.»Falcone has directed wife Melissa McCarthy as a reformed white-collar criminal, a middle-aged co-ed and the savior of all humanity from an apocalyptic A.I. Now, they're adding superhero to that list.

After being completely snubbed by the 2021 Golden Globes, Da 5 Bloods made a comeback with the 2021 SAG Awards when nominations were announced two months ago, scoring three nods, including for stunt ensemble, making it one of the most-nominated movies at the SAG Awards this year. But the Spike Lee-directed film, which has since only earned one Oscar nomination, for best score, failed to win any of the SAG awards for which it was nominated.

The 27th Screen Actors Guild Awards honours the year's best achievements in film and television performances. The one-hour, pre-taped show which is being held virtually does not have a host this year, nor the usual banquet or red carpet.

Move over Michael Strahan, as Taraji P. Henson pulled off a hilarious April Fools Day prank on Octavia Spencer!

Taraji P. Henson played quite the April Fools’ Day prank on Octavia Spencer! Spencer took to Instagram on Thursday to share a screenshot of a text she received from Henson that left her feeling like her “heart dropped.”

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Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer love goofing on each other.

The video software company Vimeo has named its slate of board of directors ahead of its planned spinoff from IAC. Among the board members: Film directors Spike Lee (Da 5 Bloods) and George C.

Octavia Spencer is showing fans the text message that she received from longtime friend Taraji P. Henson on April Fools’ Day!

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorVimeo announced the expected 11 members of its board of directors ahead of the video-hosting platform’s spinoff from IAC — a group that includes noted filmmakers Spike Lee and George C.

The cast of “Thunder Force” is opening up about a quarantine tradition.

Marsai Martin took home two prizes from the 2021 NAACP Image Awards: outstanding performance by a youth (series, special, television movie or limited series) and outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series for her role in Black-ish.