Jordan Peele Showbiz and Celebrity Breaking News

We are forever sad to know the days of Comedy Central’s “Key & Peele” are long gone and both Keegan Michael-Key and Jordan Peele are off doing bigger, better projects. However, Netflix is getting the duo back together for a new film, “Wendell & Wild.” And since the film isn’t scheduled to arrive until 2022, the streaming service has decided to tease “Wendell & WIld” in a pretty unique way.

Keke Palmer, 28, seemed to manifest the role in her latest upcoming flick and it all happened through a direct message. The talented actress revealed she actually contacted director Jordan Peele, 42, “a year or two” before she was cast in his horror film Nope, which is expected to be released in 2022.

made history this weekend when her film took the No. 1 spot at the box office, grossing $22.3 million in its opening weekend.The horror flick is a big milestone for the 31-year-old filmmaker: She’s the first black female filmmaker to achieve this feat.“Candyman” is a sequel to the 1992 horror classic of the same name.

Candyman (★★☆☆☆) don’t have to wait long before the mythical boogeyman materializes to dig his hook into whomever should be so bold as to summon him.Historically speaking, and as one character aptly puts it, “Black people don’t need to be summoning shit.” As the film asserts, Black folks have suffered enough pain and degradation over centuries without conjuring up a phantom murderer just for kicks.

With “Candyman” arriving this week, and already receiving critical acclaim (including from us), all eyes are on filmmaker Nia DaCosta. After breaking out with her festival standout drama, “Little Woods,” the new horror film marks DaCosta’s first major studio work.

is a name audiences are going to want to say again and again after it debuts in theaters.

Director Bernard Rose’s 1992 horror, “Candyman,” still feels somewhat like an oddity of its era. A grim poetic tome that feels neither at home with the schlocky ’80s slashers before it or post-modern “Scream” appearing several years later.

Jordan Peele has the perfect title for his upcoming horror film: .The Academy Award-winning director revealed the title for his mysterious new project on Thursday, unveiling the film's official poster in a tweet with the caption of nothing but an ominous cloud emoji. The poster features a large, menacing storm cloud looming above a mountainside town with lights serving as the only indicator of its possible inhabitants.

Yesterday, there was finally an official announcement concerning the fate of the HBO genre hybrid series “Lovecraft Country” based on the novel by Matt Ruff and brought to the small screen by showrunner Misha Green. “Lovecraft Country” mixed the H.P.

Say his name five times in a mirror, and you’re going to have a bad time. Nia DaCosta‘s “Candyman,” the sequel/update to Bernard Rose‘s 1992 modern horror classic, finally hits theaters at the end of the summer after being delayed three times thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic.

said in an interview that “this film will be less focused on violence and gore.” How is that possible? In “Saw III,” a man was drowned in liquified rotted pig carcasses.  Where George A. Romero was trying to reflect social ills in “Night of the Living Dead,” “Saw” was putting Porky in a blender.However, save for some on-brand icky scenes (a dude’s tongue is ripped out before he’s hit by a subway), “Spiral” is indeed more restrained and considerate than previous installments.

It’s definitely not a requirement to be a well-versed cinephile to become a great filmmaker. However, you can’t imagine that it hurts to have a knowledge of some of the best directors around when trying to craft your own art.

2019 film, , and is now the star of creator Little Marvin and executive producer Lena Waithe’s terror anthology series, , which is now streaming on Amazon.

Steven Yeun had gone from being one of the original stars of “The Walking Dead,” when it was the biggest thing on the planet, to starring in a series of acclaimed films including “Burning,” “Sorry to Bother You,” and of course, “Minari.” But it doesn’t look like his string of hits is going to end anytime soon, as it appears that Jordan Peele has his eyes on Yeun for an upcoming film.

Daniel Kaluuya is making a big revelation about .In a recent appearance on, Kaluuya says despite getting an Oscar nomination for the Jordan Peele directed film, he never got an invite to the film's world premiere.«They didn't invite me, bro,» Kaluuya told the host.The actor explained that he was never actually asked to attend the movie's first screening at the Sundance Film Festival. «I was in Atlanta shooting []. I was chilling, I cleared my schedule.

After the critically acclaimed horror films, “Get Out,” and “Us,” writer/director Jordan Peele is getting his next feature film in order. The leads, Keke Palmer (“Scream,” and from Ryan Murphy’s “Scream Girls”) and a reunion with Daniel Kaluuya, who played Peele’s lead in their breakout film, “Get Out.” READ MORE: The 100 Most Anticipated Films Of 2021 The bad news, details are totally under wraps, and no one knows what the film is about.

There are two modes for Jordan Peele. There’s Actor Peele, the guy that makes you cry from laughing so hard in skits from “Key & Peele” and his various film appearances.

Even though Jordan Peele has only released two feature films as a director, we’re starting to notice a trend. First, the film is likely going to be a horror-thriller.

Nia DaCosta is one of the most exciting new filmmakers working today. Not only is she coming up under Jordan Peele, who has given her his ringing endorsement as he handed over the reins to the new “Candyman” film, but she’s also recently signed on to helm “Captain Marvel 2,” which is going to give her the chance to helm a billion-dollar franchise film.

Jordan Peele’s and his follow-up,, finally shattered any preconceived notions about who could tell these stories — and just as importantly, who could star in them. “The fact that there’s, you know, a small handful of films led by Black people, to me, was the horror itself,” the director said in the 2019 Shudder original documentary , which traces the untold stories of Black people’s contributions to the horror genre and how they’ve finally been embraced by Hollywood. Three years after, the 2020

Since the debut of “Tenet” in theaters, analysts have been paying close attention to see if the current state of theaters (with reduced capacities and stringent safety protocols) could support a major studio release. Well, the answer isn’t as cut and dry as people would have hoped.

Horror sequel Candyman is the latest Hollywood film to be pushed back and will now arrive next year.

Jurnee Smollett) tag along. On their road trip, the trio encounters the real racial terrors of Jim Crow America, along with more fantastical ones.

Jordan Peele is one of the best filmmakers working today. And even though he only has two features under his belt as a director, that statement is far from hyperbolic.

HBO’s new series “Lovecraft Country” — and is joined by nightmarish beasts from the works of author H.P. Lovecraft.In the series, produced by Jordan Peele and JJ Abrams, stars Jonathan Majors, Courtney B.

Atticus (Jonathan Majors) loves pulp fiction. He loves that “the heroes get to go on adventures on other worlds… defeat the monsters, save the day.” A trimmed Korean war veteran, usually dressed in a t-shirt and slacks, he’s traveling from Florida back home to Chicago.

Sure, the world is seemingly falling apart, as a global pandemic still continues to wreak havoc all over the planet. And in the US, we’ve decided to also add a bit of civil unrest and a Presidential Election to the mix, just to spice things up.

Universal Pictures, “Insecure” star and creator Issa Rae and Oscar-winner Jordan Peele (whose studio Monkeypaw are facilitating a whole lot of interesting work lately) are teaming up on movie “Sinkhole,” a thought-provoking genre piece that engaging with questions around female perfection and identity, adapted from a short story of the same name.

Universal Pictures, “Insecure” star and creator Issa Rae and Oscar-winner Jordan Peele (whose studio Monkeypaw are facilitating a whole lot of interesting work lately) are teaming up on movie “Sinkhole,” a thought-provoking genre piece that engaging with questions around female perfection and identity, adapted from a short story of the same name.

We have our first clip of the upcoming HBO horror show “Lovecraft Country” and it is fittingly creepy. READ MORE: ‘Lovecraft Country’ Trailer: Horror Comes To 1950s Jim Crow America For Jurnee Smollett, Micheal Kenneth Williams & More The clip premiered at the show’s Comic-Con@Home panel on Saturday, and it shows Jonathan Majors‘ Atticus Freeman, Jurnee Smollett‘s Letitia and Courtney B.

The team of showrunner Misha Green, and executive producers Jordan Peele and J.J. Abrams bring you HBO‘s latest horror thriller, “Lovecraft Country” The show, set in 1950s Jim Crow America, centers a black man, his friend and Uncle who embark on a road trip in search of his missing father.

Two words capture the new season of “The Twilight Zone” with unfortunate clarity—overwritten and overdirected. Most anything Jordan Peele puts his name on, whether his own movies (“Get Out,” “Us”) or projects led by other talents (Nia DaCosta’s “Candyman” sequel) at least deserves consideration for quality of imagination and for the strength of vision.

typical “Twilight Zone” fashion, the mission does not go as planned.“[A large] number of people on the set said, ‘I won’t eat octopus ever again,’” says McHale, 48. “I wanted the episode to be a whole series! I did research a bunch of stuff about octopuses — they’re probably the smartest animal in the sea.”His appearance on “The Twilight Zone” adds to McHale’s growing list of credits outside of the comic arena.

CBS All Access' reinterpretation of the iconic sci-fi franchise from executive producer Jordan Peele returns for another round of strange new realities, unexpected twists and unexplainable events, and only ET has the exclusive first look at the episode Peele wrote. In the Peele-penned hour, titled «Downtime,» plays Michelle, who feels like she’s on top of the world after getting a promotion to hotel manager.

re-imagining of “Candyman” might be even more bone-chilling than the original.Director Nia DaCosta shared an eerie but stunning animated teaser for her upcoming reboot of the 1992 horror classic, which resonates now more than ever amid the Black Lives Matter movement, heightened by the recent death of George Floyd and many others while in police custody.“CANDYMAN, at the intersection of white violence and black pain, is about unwilling martyrs.

Mark Hamill has praised his Star Wars co-star John Boyega following his emotional speech during anti-racism protests in London.