Douglas Turner Ward, a Tony-winning playwright, director and actor who co-founded New York's trailblazing Negro Ensemble Company, has died. He was 90.
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Deadline has confirmed that playwright Stacy Osei-Kuffour has signed on to pen the Blade reboot from Disney and Marvel. Two-time Oscar-winning actor Mahershala Ali will be stepping into the role of the titular character, the half-vampire, half-mortal hero. No director has been announced.
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Osei-Kuffour becomes the first Black woman to pen a Marvel movie, following the news of Nia DaCosta being tapped to helm Captain Marvel 2, making her the studios’ first Black woman director.
Douglas Turner Ward, a Tony-winning playwright, director and actor who co-founded New York's trailblazing Negro Ensemble Company, has died. He was 90.
Douglas Turner Ward, the director, actor and playwright who co-founded the landmark, influential Off Broadway Black theater group the Negro Ensemble Company, died Saturday, Feb. 20, at his home in New York City. He was 90.
Douglas Turner Ward was an actor, playwright, and director who co-founded New York’s Negro Ensemble Company.Ward began his acting career in the 1950s, appearing in stage productions including “A Raisin in the Sun” on Broadway.
Dawn Ward is overjoyed with the news that she will be becoming a grandmother after her daughter Darby revealed she is pregnant with her fiance Michael Jackson. While the reality star, 47, has been inundated with lovely messages from her loyal fans following on from their happy news, she received a negative comment from one of her followers.
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Real Housewives Of Cheshire star Dawn Ward has revealed the exciting news that she is set to become a grandmother.The 47 year old TV star’s daughter Darby, 24, is expecting her first child. Darby announced her pregnancy news on Friday, 19 February, with an excited Dawn later taking to her own Instagram to share a snap of Darby and her fiancé Michael Jackson beaming as they held up an ultrasound of their unborn baby.
direct to your inboxReality TV star Dawn Ward has spoken of her excitement at becoming a grandmother for the first time.Dawn and her husband Ashley's eldest daughter Darby, 24, is expecting a baby with her fiance Michael Corrado Jackson.Dawn, 47, announced the news on her Instagram, saying Darby and Michael will make 'the best parents ever.'And she revealed that she will be known as 'Nanna Dawn.'Sharing a photo of an overjoyed Darby sitting on her husband-to-be's lap with their pet dogs and baby
Real Housewives Of Cheshire star Dawn Ward has revealed the exciting news that she is set to become a grandmother.The 47 year old TV star’s daughter Darby, 24, is expecting her first child. Darby announced her pregnancy news on Friday, 19 February, with an excited Dawn later taking to her own Instagram to share a snap of Darby and her fiancé Michael Jackson beaming as they held up an ultrasound of their unborn baby.
Vampires are immortal, unless a Slayer sticks a stake in them. But the actors who portray them are all-too-human, and thus, age in the way we all do.
Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterThe Barack and Michelle Obama-led shingle Higher Ground has acquired the Michael Keaton film “Worth,” in partnership with their distributor Netflix.Directed by Sara Colangelo (“The Kindergarten Teacher”), the film is adapted from the Kenneth Feinberg memoir “What Is Life Worth?” and follows the lawyer’s process in awarding the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund.Netflix will stream the film in the U.S., Canada, Latin America, Australia, the UK, France, Turkey and
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direct to your inboxDawn Ward had fans gasping in amazement as she shared a photo of herself as a bride. Fans said it looked nothing like The Real Housewives of Cheshire star as she posted the throwback photo on her Instagram showing her with dark hair.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Donald Glover are rebooting feature film Mr. & Mrs. Smith as a television series for Amazon.
Watchmen writer Stacy Osei-Kuffour has been recruited by Marvel to pen the script for the studio’s forthcoming Blade reboot.The reboot will see Mahershala Ali follow in the footsteps of Wesley Snipes, who starred as Blade in the original trilogy of vampire hunter movies between 1998 and 2004.The movies also starred Kris Kristofferson, Stephen Dorff, Sanaa Lathan, Jessica Biel and Ryan Reynolds.Now, according to The Hollywood Reporter, the new film – which is yet to receive a firm release date –