Songs for Screens: Inside Def Jam Africa’s ‘Rhythms of Zamunda: Music Inspired By Coming 2 America’ Album (EXCLUSIVE)

ATLANTA -- An Alabama rapper was arrested in connection to a shooting at music video set in downtown Atlanta, authorities said.OMB Peezy was arrested Monday and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, news outlets reported.The shooting happened on Feb. 21 at a scrap yard where rappers Roddy Ricch and 42 Dugg were filming a music video.

While there is no African country of Zamunda, from which Coming to America's Prince Akeem hails, the movie had an impact on the continent when it was released in 1988 — particularly in South Africa, home to Nomzamo Mbatha, who makes her big studio debut in the sequel, premiering on Amazon on March 5.

Jamie Lang For the third year in a row, Netflix has a film in the main competition at the Berlin Film Festival. This year, Alonso Ruizpalacios’ “A Cop Movie” follows the path first blazed by Isabel Coixet’s “Elisa Y Marcela,” which at the time was met with a letter from 160 German independent exhibitors demanding the film be removed from competition.

engaged to her boyfriend, Alvin Lozano, ET exclusively confirms.«Alvin and I are so excited to share the news of our engagement,» the interior designer and TV host tells ET.

The Datsuns have released their first new music in seven years, sharing the single ‘Brain To Brain’.The group have also dropped the track’s non-album B-Side, ‘Waking Up Slow’.The tracks are the first new music from The Datsuns since their 2014 record, ‘Deep Sleep’.

 America Ferrera  is already an Emmy and Golden Globe winner, but she’s about to add another accomplishment to her growing resume. The actress is set to make her feature directorial debut with an adaptation of the New York Times bestselling novel, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter.

Arsenio Hall and Eddie Murphy made a pact some 30 years ago to never make a Coming to America sequel — but relentless fandom changed their minds. Dropping byThe Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Wednesday, Hall explained what finally sparked Murphy's idea for a follow-up to the classic 1988 film about a wealthy African prince who comes to America looking for true love.

Disney‘s dedication to showing a diverse, inclusive world is a real thing; just look at Marvel and the rest of their casting. And slowly, but surely, others under the main umbrella are getting with that program.

America Ferrara is set to make her feature directorial debut with an adaptation of the young adultnovel I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter for Netflix. The New York Times bestseller from Erika L.

Emmy and Golden Globe winner America Ferrera is set to make her feature directorial debut with an adaptation of the New York Times bestselling novel, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by author Erika Sánchez, who will serve as a co-producer on the film. Anonymous Content and MACRO are producing the pic, which will be released on Netflix.

Ashley Judd is back home and doing better.

Manori Ravindran International EditorNBC comedy “Superstore” is getting a Spanish-language adaptation.NBCUniversal Formats has partnered with Mexican production outfit Dopamine (“Hernán,” “Amarres”) to co-produce the first international version of the hit workplace comedy. A Spanish-language remake of the America Ferrera-fronted show — which follows a group of employees at a fictional big-box store called Cloud 9 in St.

Ivy Agregan, the visual effects producer whose credits include Academy Award winners The Revenant and Birdman (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), is set to make her directorial debut with the adaptation of female revenge thriller Tuesday Falling. Matthew George's Savvy Media Holdings acquired rights to the S.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorMarisa Lauro-Norris, a 15-year veteran of Def Jam Recordings and its parent company, Universal Music, has been promoted to senior vice president of international marketing, it was announced today by interim chairman/CEO Jeff Harleston.  In her new role, Lauro-Norris will lead all inter­national marketing activities at the Def Jam label.