EXCLUSIVE: With Sony Pictures‘ Bad Boys: Ride or Die passing the $100 million domestic box office mark this past weekend, the studio and Will Smith are already looking to the future as he is attached to star in Sony’s Resistor.
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Pam Grier was a guest this week on The Jennifer Hudson Show, and revealed there are big plans afoot for her legendary 1974 Blaxploitation classic, Foxy Brown.
“We’re going to be doing Foxy Brown also as a musical,” Grier announced, but didn’t provide many details. She also shared that a studio is producing a seven-episode limited series based on her 2010 memoir, Foxy: My Life in Three Acts.
The series will detail her relationships with basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and the comedians Freddie Prinze and Richard Pryor.
“It can’t be a seven-hour movie, but it’s going to be a [limited] series like the series I’m promoting today, Them, so it’ll be seven episodes, shot like a film,” the actress said.
Foxy Brown was part of a Blaxploitation trilogy, sandwiched between Coffy and Jackie Brown.
“Foxy was strategically more radical and aggressive,” Grier said earlier to EW. “I wanted to show that side of womanhood. My aunt basically was a Foxy Brown — she rode a Harley, she wanted to be an architect, and she was beautiful. She was way ahead of her time.”
Grier was an advocate for female stunt performers.
“It was very important to be authentic, because now I’m responsible for teaching a patriarchal society that a woman could be a martial artist, that could stand up to aggression,” Grier told Hudson. Authenticity came at a price that Grier was unwilling to pay, so she demanded a stunt double. That was J.D. Davis.
“She made me look good,” Grier added, “To this day, all of the women have a stunt double. So they’re not injured, so they can do the work, do the acting, and let the stunt double do the professional moves and you can go back and no one’s injured. You don’t want to get injured for what? A movie? We’re more
EXCLUSIVE: With Sony Pictures‘ Bad Boys: Ride or Die passing the $100 million domestic box office mark this past weekend, the studio and Will Smith are already looking to the future as he is attached to star in Sony’s Resistor.
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Neil Berkley’s Group Therapy is a poignant, hilarious, and moving exploration of the intersections between comedy, grief, and mental illness. Starring a stellar cast of comedians, including Neil Patrick Harris, Gary Gulman, Nicole Byer, Mike Birbiglia, London Hughes, Tig Notaro, and Atsuko Okatsuka, the film delves into the ways these performers use humor as a coping mechanism and a form of catharsis.
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The best in daytime television, including soap operas and talk shows, will be honored at the 2024 Daytime Emmy Awards.
For the last three decades, the multi-hyphenate Lisa Ann Walter, who began her career in stand-up comedy, made her mark as a character actor in films such as Bruce Almighty, Eddie and Shall We Dance? However, for most millennials, Walter is best known for playing Chessy, the beloved nanny in Nancy Meyer’s The Parent Trap. These days, nearly a quarter of a century later, Walter has emerged in the spotlight on ABC’s award-winning mockumentary Abbott Elementary, where she plays the Italian-American spitfire Melissa Schemmenti, a second and third-grade teacher at an underfunded Philadelphia public school. Here, she discusses the joys of playing the elementary school teacher and her own educational upbringing.
Slingo.Calling Harry a “destructive” person to have close to the Firm, Burrell added that the royals are always guessing as to “what he is going to do next.”Since stepping away from the royal spotlight, Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, have built a life of their own in sunny Montecito, Calif.Despite being 5,459 miles from London, the Sussexes have remained close to Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice — a friendship that has reportedly rubbed Kate Middleton the wrong way.According to a royal expert, the Princess of Wales, 42, is reportedly “worried” by the “alliance” the daughters of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson have formed with Harry and the “Suits” alum.“For William and Kate, an alliance between Harry and Meghan and Beatrice and Eugenie is a huge worry,” royal expert and author Tom Quinn told the Mirror.“Although Harry and Meghan have little sympathy for Prince Andrew, they’ve kept in regular contact with Beatrice and Eugenie, who have always been free of any associations with Meghan’s angry, bitter time in the UK.”“The situation is made worse by the fact that the senior royals’ main asset — Kate herself — is effectively out of action while she continues her treatment for cancer,” he added.Eugenie has even visited the Sussexes in the US, with the pair seen watching the Super Bowl together back in 2022.She was also the only figure from the royal family to make an appearance in his Netflix docuseries “Harry & Meghan.”
Zack Sharf Digital News Director “Mrs. Doubtfire” teen star Lisa Jakub marked the Memorial Day holiday by talking to Fox News Digital about her nonprofit organization Mission Flexible, which she founded two years ago to help support veterans suffering from anxiety, depression and more. She linked her work with veterans back to her most famous co-star, the late Robin Williams, revealing she was told after “Mrs.
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The Weakest Link legend Anne Robinson has disclosed that she's distributed her wealth to avoid it falling into the hands of the taxman upon her death. The 79 year old broadcaster, who is believed to have accumulated a whopping £50 million from her extensive career, stated that she's "given it away" to her daughter and grandchildren to dodge substantial taxes. Anne has expressed that she's "spread" her money around to spare her family from having to pay tax when she passes away.The standard Inheritance Tax rate stands at 40% over the value of £325,000, although there are some exceptions.
Zayn Malik has announced that he is the latest celebrity to settle down in a comfy chair and read a bedtime story on kids TV series CBeebies Bedtime Story.The former One Direction singer, who is dad to three year old daughter Khai, will read from Music is in Everything on Wednesday 22 May, a book about the power and beauty of song written by reggae musician Ziggy Marley. From the sound of ocean waves to banging pots and pans in the kitchen, from a loved one's laughter to the ‘river's latest tune’, Ziggy’s story tells children that you don't need an instrument to create a beautiful song. It is one of a series of books for children that Ziggy, the son of legendary musician Bob Marley, has written – he is also the author of A Kids Book About Love, I Love You Too and My Dog Romeo.