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Joe Otterson TV ReporterFX has ordered a limited series based on the ESPN 30 for 30 podcast “The Sterling Affairs” with Laurence Fishburne and Jacki Weaver attached to star, Variety has learned.The six-episode series tells the behind the scenes story of Doc Rivers (Fishburne) and the Los Angeles Clippers’ quest to bring a championship to one of the historically worst franchises in all of sports during the impending downfall of the team’s owner, Donald Sterling, whose notoriously racist behavior is brought to light amid the power struggle between his wife of 60+ years, Shelly Sterling (Weaver), and his mistress, V. Stiviano.Gina Welch serve as writer and executive producer on the series.

Funny Girl arrived on Broadway to a full house last week, selling out its first preview at the August Wilson Theatre.

Graduation means it’s time to move on. For six members of the cast at grown-ish, the season finale means just that.

Emily Longeretta Morris Chestnut doesn’t have a “secret” to success, per se, but there is one thing he wishes he’d done when he started working in the industry three decades ago: study.“If I knew when I was first starting out that I would still be here, I would have focused more on the craft — I would have studied like crazy in the beginning,” he tells Variety. “When I got into this, I got a big break early. I was always trying to look for the next job.

Chris Pine and Thandiwe Newton step out for the premiere of their new movie, All The Old Knives, held at The London West Hollywood at Beverly Hills on Wednesday night (March 9) in West Hollywood, Calif.

Gordon Cox Theater EditorNow that omicron is in decline, Broadway optimism is on the rise.After a bumpy holiday season rife with performance disruptions, show closures and hiatuses due to the highly contagious COVID variant, there are signs of recovery in the New York theater industry — and producers are becoming increasingly bullish about a busy spring season.“When there was a bump in the road, people stopped and regrouped, but then we safely went on,” says James L. Nederlander of the Nederlander Organization, which owns nine Broadway theaters and also produces the new musical starring Billy Crystal, “Mr.

, and Freeform has officially renewed the Emmy-nominated series for a fifth season! Along with the renewal news, the network announced that  star Marcus Scribner will join his TV sister, Yara Shahidi, on the spinoff, reprising his role as Andre Johnson Jr. as he embarks on his own journey to being «grown.»Scribner has portrayed the eldest Johnson son throughout the show's seven-season run, which will wrap with the currently airing final season.

Grown-ish will return to Freeform for Season 5 with a familiar face and two new showrunners at the helm.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large“Black-ish” may be ending, but the series’ creative universe continues: Freeform has ordered a fifth season of spinoff “Grown-ish.” And as “Black-ish” concludes, another one of that long-running series’ cast members is now set to segue over to “Grown-ish”: Marcrus Scribner has officially been added to the show’s cast.Scribner will reprise his role as Andre Johnson Jr., and as the network explains, “he embarks on his own journey to being ‘grown.'” In moving to “Grown-ish,” Scribner joins his TV sister, Yara Shahidi (who plays Zoey), on the show.Also, as part of the Season 5 pickup, playwright/producer Zakiyyah Alexander (“Russian Doll,” “La Brea”) and “Black-ish” executive producer/showrunner Courtney Lilly will take over as co-showrunners. Season 4 showrunner Julie Bean and executive producer Jenifer Rice-Genzuk Henry are departing the show.

Serena Williams is speaking out after a new article published by The New York Times, used a photo of her sister Venus Williams, with a story that only referenced Serena, titled “Tennis Star’s Venture Firm Has Raised $111 Million.”And while The Times has apologized since the incident and the correct photo was used in the digital version, the article was published in the print version with an incorrect photo of the Tennis star.Serena took to Twitter to share her thoughts after reading a copy of the article accompanied with the photo, stating, “No matter how far we come, we get reminded that it’s not enough,” receiving over 37.000 likes and over 8,000 retweets.She continued, “This is why I raised $111M for @serenaventures. To support the founders who are overlooked by engrained systems woefully unaware of their biases.

Chris Pine is taking a starring role in the new modern-day espionage thriller, “All The Old Knives”.

It remains to be seen if Chris Pine & Co. will indeed return for another “Star Trek” film.

There were big at the 22nd Annual Black Reel Awards presented by idobi. Featuring 12 live awards and 5 honorees, along with the unveiling of a new statuette, and tributes to Black Cinema History.

EXCLUSIVE: French American actor Saïd Taghmaoui (Wonder Woman, The Forgiven) has signed with Buchwald for representation.

Amazon Prime, Banijay & Others Boarded For UK Apprentice Scheme

In recognition of their contributions to the world of entertainment, the executive committee of the Black Reel Awards is pleased to announce the recipients for honorary awards this year.

 is ending this year after a seven-season run, and for Marcus Scribner, who stars as Andre Jr. Johnson in the series, he hopes that fans will remember the show for years to come.“I feel like for me, shows like,, I would see reflections of myself on TV,” he told ET on Tuesday while serving as guest host.  «And I hope they can take that away and remember fondly, ‘Oh, I love Jr.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorLaurence Fishburne and Daniel Dae Kim will star alongside Kerry Washington in the upcoming Audible original podcast drama series “Prophecy.”Washington is also executive producing under her Simpson Street banner, along with head of development Pilar Savone, marking its first Audible original production.Washington announced the casting of Fishburne and Kim in a Variety Streaming Room session Monday (available at this link) providing a behind-the-scenes discussion about the upcoming podcast drama, presented by Audible. Washington was joined by “Prophecy” creator, writer and director Randy McKinnon, executive producer Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, and Audible Studios head Zola Mashariki.

Matrix and John Wick film series to gritty drama Deep Cover and HBCU pastiche School Daze. Whether he is the lead or a supporting player, the thespian has managed to keep viewers’ attention for more than five decades.

The Matrix Resurrections, has said to expect “something completely different” from the original character.Laurence Fishburne played the elusive leader in the original trilogy from the Wachowski siblings, but was replaced by the Candyman star for the fourth instalment.Fishburne said that he didn’t “have an answer” as to why he wasn’t invited back for the new film, but added in an interview with New York Magazine “I wish them well.

When “MacGruber” was released in theaters in 2010, the general critical response was that it had the same problem that so many films do that are based on sketches from “Saturday Night Live”: What works in the length of a sketch doesn’t click in the same way when it’s stretched to the length of a feature. However, history has been kind to Jorma Taccone’s film.

hilariously inept special operations agent MacGruber is returning for a new TV series on Peacock, and the stakes are higher than ever.Peacock released the first official teaser for the new series, starring Will Forte as the eponymous patriotic super agent who must, again, put his life on the line for the sake of the world.The season picks up 10 years after the 2010 film, during which time MacGruber has spent the last decade behind bars.

Casey Affleck hasn’t been completely missing from films over the past several years, but you would really have to hunt down his movies to see them. Since the controversy arose with allegations of inappropriate misconduct on the set of “I’m Still Here,” that (re)surfaced after the release of “Manchester By The Sea,” Affleck has taken on smaller roles in indie films and lower-profile features.

Casey Affleck is taking on a new role.

Cast has been set on sci-fi thriller Slingshot, with Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea), Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix) and Emily Beecham (Little Joe) leading the pic about an astronaut struggling to maintain his grip on reality aboard a possibly fatally compromised mission to Saturn’s moon, Titan.

Manori Ravindran International EditorCasey Affleck, Laurence Fishburne and Emily Beecham will star in the psychological sci-fi thriller “Slingshot” from Richard Saperstein’s Bluestone Entertainment.Mikael Håfström (“Outside the Wire,” “Escape Plan”) is attached to direct the movie, which turns on an astronaut struggling to maintain his grip on reality aboard a possibly fatally compromised mission to Saturn’s moon, Titan.Other cast members include Tomer Capone (“Fauda,” “The Boys”) and David

Peacock’s new MacGruber series is going to be released very soon and a new teaser has been released!

Angelique Jackson The voice cast of the animated movie “Sneaks” is shaping up, thanks to multi-platinum and Grammy-winning producer and artist Mustard.Mustard, who serves as executive music producer on the family film, has enlisted his frequent collaborators and fellow chart-topping and award-winning musicians Roddy Ricch, Ella Mai, Swae Lee to join Macy Gray and NBA superstar Chris Paul in the movie, produced by and starring Laurence Fishburne.“Sneaks” centers around a pair of misplaced

EXCLUSIVE: Grammy winners Roddy Ricch (“The Box”), Ella Mai (“Boo’d Up”) and Macy Gracy (“I Try”) have signed on to star in the animated feature, Sneaks, with five-time nominee Swae Lee (“Sunflower”) and NBA All-Star Chris Paul also joining the cast.

the first trailer for “The Matrix 4” was how “Watchmen” actor Yahya Abdul-Mateen II was playing Morpheus opposite Keanu Reeves. The film – officially titled “The Matrix Resurrections” – brings back Reeves as Neo and Carrie-Anne Moss as Trinity, but instead of Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus, Abdul-Mateen II is in the role.Warner Bros.

NEW YORK -- A revival of David Mamet’s “American Buffalo” with Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell and Darren Criss was in rehearsal when the pandemic closed Broadway theaters. Now it's planning a return back with the same starry cast.The Neil Pepe-directed production on Friday announced its intention to return to the Circle in the Square Theatre next year.

The Broadway revival of David Mamet’s American Buffalo starring Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell and Darren Criss – postponed from 2020 due to the Covid shutdown – will open at Circle in the Square Theatre on Wednesday, April 14, 2022, two years to the day after its original target.

Baratunde Thurston is adapting his memoir How To Be Black as an animated series for ABC.

fourth film of the franchise.Mateen, 35, shared a photo of himself as the character from “The Matrix Resurrections” via Instagram. Simply captioned, “MORPHEUS,” the pic shows the actor rocking a long leather coat, sunglasses and guns blazing.

The new trailer for The Matrix 4 finally debuted this week and fans are freaking out over one big detail in it.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterPeacock is listening to its friend Billy Zane (he’s a cool dude), adding him to the cast of the upcoming “MacGruber” series.Zane has joined the cast of the series along with Joseph Lee Anderson and Timothy V. Murphy.