Leah McSweeney are joined by newcomer Eboni K. Williams, the NY franchise’s first black cast member.
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In director Shaka King's Judas and the Black Messiah, Dominique Fishback plays Deborah Johnson, the fiancee of Illinois Black Panther Party chairman Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya) and mother to his son, who was born just weeks after the activist was assassinated in Chicago in 1969 at age 21.
The 29-year-old actress, writer and poet, who first earned attention for supporting roles in two David Simon projects, HBO's Show Me a Hero (about the fight over desegregating housing in Yonkers, New York)
.Leah McSweeney are joined by newcomer Eboni K. Williams, the NY franchise’s first black cast member.
If The Trial of the Chicago 7 wins the SAG Award for Best Ensemble, it would mark a precedent-setting third time that Michael Keaton has been in the winners circle, previously in eventual Best Picture winners Spotlight and Birdman. Deadline caught up with an actor willing to share the spotlight, hang onto certain things — a Batman reprise in The Flash — and try his first TV series for Hulu, in Dopesick, a drama about the insidious rise of addictive prescription Opioid pain killers.
Showtime has announced May 23 premiere dates for acclaimed returning series, The Chi and Black Monday, and new half-hour comedy Flatbush Misdemeanors.
True Thompson, 2, and Chicago West, 3, just had the most fun cousin day ever! The duo threw on their favorite princess gowns as they attempted to do each others’ makeup in Kim Kardashian‘s glam room in new videos posted to Khloe Kardashian‘s Instagram on Saturday, March 20. True, wearing a two piece turquoise outfit just like Aladdin‘s Princess Jasmine, hilariously asked her cousin to “please put it on me” — referring to her aunt’s KKW Beauty lipsticks.
FX has handed a pilot order to half-hour The Bear, from Ramy executive producer/director Christopher Storer, Hiro Murai’s (Atlanta) Super Frog, Joanna Calo (Bojack Horseman, Undone) and FX Productions.
Joe Otterson TV ReporterFX has ordered a half-hour pilot from Christopher Storer, Variety has learned.“The Bear,” as the show is called, is about a young chef who returns to Chicago to run the family restaurant. Storer will write, direct, and executive produce the pilot.
Reality star Tinsley Mortimer, 45, quit The Real Housewives Of New York City midway through season 12 to pack up and move to Chicago to be with her fiance Scott Kluth. Now the 40-year-old Coupon Cabin CEO has announced that the pair is kaput! “After fourteen months of engagement, Tinsley and I have ended our relationship, and we have been living independently for the last few months,” Scott told PEOPLE in a Mar. 18 statement.
Two months later than usual, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the 93rd Oscars. The honorees were revealed by Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Nick Jonas in a virtual broadcast which had actually become the norm for The Academy even before the pandemic began a little over a year ago.
Leo Barraclough International Features EditorCanada-based actor Colm Feore, whose credits include Netflix’s “The Umbrella Academy,” “My Salinger Year,” “The Amazing Spiderman 2” and multiple Oscar winner “Chicago,” is to star in post-apocalyptic Western “Six Guns for Hire,” which has just started principal photography in Toronto, Canada.
season 5 star Molly's first night with her new boyfriend, Kelly, definitely didn't leave her disappointed in this exclusive clip from Sunday's new Molly has a new man now after cameras captured her failed marriage to Luis, whom she met in the Dominican Republic before bringing him to Georgia on a K-1 visa. Molly is now dating Kelly, a cop from Brooklyn, New York, whom she connected with online, and cameras documented his first time visiting her.
Billie Lourd just landed a major role.
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaNamir Smallwood and Sidney Flanigan will star in “Rounding,” a new dramatic thriller from “Saint Frances” director Alex Thompson. “Rounding” follows a driven young medical resident (Smallwood) who transfers to a rural hospital for a fresh start.
EXCLUSIVE: Billie Lourd is in talks to star with George Clooney and Julia Roberts in Ticket To Paradise, which Ol Parker is directing this fall for Universal Pictures.
The Night Shift star Eoin Macken has been tapped as the male lead opposite Natalie Zea in NBC’s drama pilot La Brea. Another NBC series star, Chicago P.D.‘s Jon Seda, is one of two actors, originally cast in the project a year ago and released in June, who have been brought back to reprise their role, along with Chiké Okonkwo.
One of the most distressing scenes in Aaron Sorkin's The Trial of the Chicago 7 is when Judge Julius Hoffman orders that Black Panther Bobby Seale be gagged and shackled during the 1969 proceedings. Seale's inhumane treatment — captured by a sketch artist at the time — has inspired a new exhibit by artist Karon Davis at Jeffrey Deitch gallery in New York (March 6 to April 24).
Joe Otterson TV ReporterWagner Moura has signed on to star opposite Elisabeth Moss in the Apple series “Shining Girls,” Variety has learned.The series is an adaptation of the 2013 Lauren Beukes novel of the same name. Moss plays a Chicago reporter who survived a brutal assault only to find her reality shifting as she hunts down her attacker.
Bobby Shmurda‘s music have increased by over 600 per cent following the rapper’s release from prison this week.Shmurda, real name Ackquille Jean Pollard, was sentenced to seven years in prison in October 2016 after pleading guilty to conspiracy and weapons possession as part of a plea deal.Confirming his release on Tuesday (February 23) in a statement, the New York State Department of Corrections and Community said: “At approximately 8:30 this morning, Ackquille Pollard was conditionally