Amazon Studios has picked up the action movie Heads of State, to star Idris Elba and John Cena, from The Safran Company, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Harrison Query is penning the script and Peter Safran and John Rickard are producing.
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With the Black Lives Matter Movement driving for change to end police brutality in the United States, Idris Elba opened up about the importance of playing the father of a young Black teen growing up in America in the film “Concrete Cowboy”.
The movie had its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday and Elba joined filmmaker Ricky Staub, producer Lee Daniels and cast for a virtual press conference to talk about the making of this film.
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Amazon Studios has picked up the action movie Heads of State, to star Idris Elba and John Cena, from The Safran Company, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Harrison Query is penning the script and Peter Safran and John Rickard are producing.
Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has won Heads of State, a pitch package designed to re-team John Cena and Idris Elba, who star in the upcoming The Suicide Squad sequel at Warner Bros. The project was sold after a Zoom pitch presentation with the actors, screenwriter Harrison Query, and the producers (The Safran Company’s Peter Safran and John Rickard).
Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has won Head of State, a pitch package designed to re-team John Cena and Idris Elba, who star in the upcoming The Suicide Squad sequel at Warner Bros. The project was sold after a Zoom pitch presentation with the actors, screenwriter Harrison Query, and the producers (The Safran Company’s Peter Safran and John Rickard).
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Dave McNary Film ReporterIdris Elba will star in the survival thriller “Beast” for Universal Pictures with Baltasar Kormakur directing and producing.Universal is keeping the story line under wraps.
Idris Elba is taking on a thrilling new role.
Also Read: Jharrel Jerome on How 'Concrete Cowboy' Disrupts the Gangster Stereotype: 'You Don't Stop to See What Else He Is' (Video)Universal’s executive vice president of production Matt Reilly and creative executive Tony Ducret will oversee the project on behalf of the studio.Idris Elba was last seen in “Concrete Cowboy,” which made its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this fall.
Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterBREAKING: Idris Elba will star in Universal Pictures’ Beast, a thriller based on an original idea by Jaime Primak-Sullivan. Baltasar Kormakur will direct.Rampage scribe Ryan Engle wrote the script.Will Packer and James Lopez will produce through their Will Packer Productions.
Some of the world’s biggest stars will put adults to sleep when HBO Max’s new show, “A World of Calm”, hits screens in October.
Angela Bassett, Idris Elba, Salma Hayek, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, John Leguizamo, Eva Longoria and Courtney B. Vance and their respective production companies will produce 50 films across Paramount Network, MTV, Comedy Central and more ViacomCBS entities, for first time Black, Indigenous, persons of color and women filmmakers to tell diverse stories in their own voices.
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Idris Elba denies all rumors made online about a secret baby, insisting that he and his wife Sabrina Dhowre are not parents to a secret newborn, clearing all confusions on social media and assuring his fans it was simply gossip.
Idris Elba sparked rumors on Sunday, September 13, that he and his wife, Sabrina Dhowre, had secretly welcomed their first child together.“I’m a father of two boys, and definitely I can’t wait for my youngest to see this film,” the actor, 48, told ET Canada, referring to Concrete Cowboy.Since the DJ welcomed daughter Isan, 18, in a previous relationship and son Winston, 6, with Naiyana Garth, his comment led fans to believe that he had become a father of three.“I’m so happy for them,” one fan
ET Canada spoke to the actor and DJ at the Toronto International Film Festival where he was promoting Concrete Cowboy.The Luther star told them, ‘I’m a father of two boys, and definitely I can’t wait for my youngest to see this film.’Now, however, Idris has cleared things up by tweeting to advise fans as to what the face of the matter actually is.Sab @Sabrinadhowre and i thank you for all the congratulations but we haven’t had a baby.. ..
Idris Elba is speaking out in response to a report that he just welcomed a baby with his wife Sabrina.
Idris Elba is speaking out in response to a report that he just welcomed a baby with his wife Sabrina.