‘Equalizer’ Reboot Starring Queen Latifah Ordered to Pilot at CBS

Ahead of the 2020 NBA All-Star Game this weekend, Queen Latifah appeared as one of the special guests during Saturday night's (Feb. 15) events at Chicago's United Center.

Queen Latifah is showing the late Kobe Bryant some love. The Grammy winner performed at the 2020 NBA All-Star Saturday Night event, singing Stevie Wonder's "Love's in Need of Love Today," but with a twist.

Queen Latifah is showing the late Kobe Bryant some love.

Queen Latifah proves why she's... well, the queen.

The morning after the Academy Awards, Taika Waititi — the winner of the adapted screenplay Oscar for “Jojo Rabbit” — is drinking a Pedialyte. But however hungover the filmmaker might be, it does not stop him from hamming it up for a photo shoot. He writhes on a hotel room couch, folds himself into an armoire and holds out his Oscar with a look of mock terror on his face, as if he’s warding off a vampire with a cross.

The morning after the Academy Awards, Taika Waititi — the winner of the adapted screenplay Oscar for “Jojo Rabbit” — is drinking a Pedialyte. But however hungover the filmmaker might be, it does not stop him from hamming it up for a photo shoot. He writhes on a hotel room couch, folds himself into an armoire and holds out his Oscar with a look of mock terror on his face, as if he’s warding off a vampire with a cross.

By Anthony D'Alessandro

“Look at me,” Taika Waititi exclaimed during an early afternoon interview at the Toronto Film Festival last fall, “it’s like asking you to play Adolf Hitler.”

The Oscars are just a few days away, which means it's officially time to reflect on all the and channel your inner movie critic to decide who you'd chose to win if you were an Academy member. For your consideration, just spoke with tree actress about how being a mother inspired her performance in Jojo Rabbit.

Taika Waititi owes a lot of this awards season to his mother, Robin Cohen. She’s the one who first told him that he should think about adapting Christine Leunens’ novel “Caging Skies” for the big screen.

The CW has ordered pilots for the dramas “Kung Fu” and “The Republic of Sarah.” Both projects were previously set up at different networks prior to coming to CW.

Three aspiring filmmakers couldn’t contain their enthusiasm when Queen Latifah entered Tribeca Studios in lower Manhattan on Wednesday to mark the kickoff of talent development initiative The Queen Collective. When Latifah greeted the trio, they jumped from their seats to give her hugs.

At the Jan. 3 AFI Awards, Mel Brooks interrupted his speech about the American Film Institute’s women directors program to praise Taika Waititi for Searchlight’s “Jojo Rabbit.” However, he joked, the filmmaker “did not ask my permission to use Hitler!”

By Matt Grobar

Queen Latifah is coming back to TV and while we mostly know her for her comedic roles on tv shows, she’s about to bring that action. Queen Latifah will be the new “Equalizer” on the small screen. If y’all didn’t know, the Equalizer was actually a TV series years ago before the character was turned into a movie franchise starring Denzel Washington. 

By Nellie Andreeva

Chuck Lorre is working on yet another project at CBS.