FX Orders Pilot Based on Octavia E. Butler Novel ‘Kindred’ From Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, ‘Americans’ Duo

Also Read: Queen Latifah to Star in Netflix Action Thriller 'End of the Road' From 'Black-ish' Director“Insecure” won for best comedy series, and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” won for best motion picture. Chadwick Boseman, a posthumous Oscar nominee for his work in “Ma Rainey’s,” won for outstanding supporting actor for his work in Spike Lee’s “Da 5 Bloods.”Some other notable winners, “Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey” picked up acting prizes for both Phylicia Rashad and Madalen Mills.

As fandom prepares for the March 18 unveiling on HBO Max of Zack Snyder's Justice League, Snyder's first comic-book movie star, Gerard Butler, looks back fondly on his breakout role in 2007's 300. "I met him for coffee in the valley," recalls Butler, now 51, of his first encounter with the director, now 55, to discuss playing King Leonidas, the musclebound alpha warrior who leads an army of 300 Spartans into battle with Xerxes.

True Lies, a TV series adaptation of James Cameron’s hit 1994 action comedy movie, has hit the pause button. CBS, which ordered a pilot for the project last month, is rolling the pilot to off-cycle. It is now targeting a summer shoot.

Disney+ has greenlighted The Crossover, a drama pilot based on the bestselling, Newberry Award winning novel-in-verse by author, poet and educator Kwame Alexander.

Dennis Harvey Film CriticStriking a middle ground between teen fantasy “The Craft” and deadly serious political allegory “The Handmaid’s Tale” is “Witch Hunt,” writer-director Elle Callahan’s second feature. Her first, the 2019 “Head Count,” was a strikingly assured supernatural mind-bender, albeit one a little too understated for some genre fans.

Leigh Centurions are set to sign State of Origin representative Nathan Peats.

Haley Bosselman editorIn today’s TV news roundup, HBO Max ordered a new streetwear competition series, and Variety has an exclusive first look at Carey Mulligan in “My Grandparents’ War.”Angela Bassett will narrate Fox’s “Malika the Lion Queen,” a two-hour wildlife documentary that will air April 4 and be available on Tubi beginning April 18. Bassett will guide viewers through an educational exploration of the true queens and leaders in the lion kingdom.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterAnthony Boyle has signed on to star in in Apple’s World War II drama “Masters of the Air,” a continuation of the “Band of Brothers”/”The Pacific” franchise from Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks.Boyle joins previously announced cast members Callum Turner and Austin Butler. Based on the book of the same name by Donald L.

On the evening of March 12, 2020, Grey’s Anatomy executive producers Krista Vernoff, Debbie Allen and James Williams sent out note to the series’ cast and crew, informing them that “Out of an abundance of caution, production is postponed effective immediately.

She added: “The people in Nepal are so friendly and welcoming. They really want to get to know you and whatever little you can do for them really makes a big difference to their lives.“I am just an ordinary person – nothing special – but my experience and what I can teach them is going to help them for the future.

Kate Aurthur editorNetflix has renewed its popular docusoaps “Selling Sunset” and “Bling Empire,” and has ordered two new series from the creators of both shows. In a blog post on Wednesday morning, Brandon Riegg, the streamer’s vice president of unscripted and documentary series, announced the renewals and series orders.

FX has given a pilot order to Kindred, an adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s influential novel, from writer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Watchmen, An Octoroon), Courtney Lee-Mitchell (The Reluctant Fundamentalist), Darren Aronofsky and his Protozoa Pictures (Black Swan, The Wrestler), Joe Weisberg (The Americans), and Joel Fields (Fosse/Verdon, The Americans). FX Productions, where Weisberg and Fields are under an overall deal, is the studio.

We haven’t had a good superhero lampooning in quite some time, and that’s exactly what we’re hoping to get in “Thunder Force,” an upcoming action-comedy movie featuring Melissa McCarthy.

Melissa McCarthy face is filled with boils after accidentally getting injected with super powers in the first trailer for Thunder Force.

saturated–by superhero flicks for the past decade, so it makes sense that comedians are trying to put their own spin on the genre. Enter Thunder Force, a new Netflix movie starring and as their own kind of suited super.From the opening moments of the trailer, you can tell this isn't your typical caped crusader joint.

Antonio Ferme editorNetflix released the official trailer for “Thunder Force,” which stars Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer as two best friends with newly acquired superpowers.

We haven’t had a good superhero lampooning in quite some time, and that’s exactly what we’re hoping to get in “Thunder Force,” an upcoming action-comedy movie featuring Melissa McCarthy.

Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer are #BestFriendGoals.