Y’lan Noel To Headline ‘The Spook Who Sat By The Door’ FX Pilot Produced By Lee Daniels

“The Wonder Years” is getting the reboot treatment at ABC, and filmmaker Lee Daniels has shared the first look at the new cast. The upcoming series, which received a pilot order from the network, will star Elisha “EJ” Williams as Dean Williams, taking over for Fred Savage, who played the central character, Kevin Arnold, in the original run.

is getting the reboot treatment at ABC, and filmmaker Lee Daniels has shared the first look at the new cast.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentThe lead actress Oscar race is competitive, so there’s no guarantee that Andra Day will win for her socko performance in “The United States vs. Billie Holiday.” But Day has the kind of backstory that Oscar voters love: She (and the movie) appeared with little advance fanfare, and she makes a huge impact in only her second feature (after a tiny role in “Marshall”).

Ang Lee will be presented with an honorary BAFTA Fellowship during the org’s Film Awards on Sunday, April 11.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterHollywood is full of filmmaking collectives — camps of creative people who met at the bottom and carry each other, hopefully, to great heights.Particularly sacred (and occasionally fraught) is the relationship between producer and director, a delicate balance of trust and honesty.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla The Lee Daniels and Karin Gist project “Our Kind of People” has been given the straight-to-series treatment at Fox Entertainment.

EXCLUSIVE: Fox has given a series order to drama Our Kind Of People, from writer/executive producer Karin Gist (Star, Mixed-ish) and executive producer Lee Daniels (Empire, Star). This marks the first new Fox drama series ordered for the 2021-22 season and the first series to come out of the network’s script-to-series model introduced last summer, which involves the opening of a writers room.

The Cinequest Film and Creativity Festival and Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) have announced the launch of their inaugural Laura Ziskin Visionary Award.Named after the late film producer, the award will recognize leaders in the film industry whose work exemplifies groundbreaking collaboration. This year’s recipients will be Andra Day and director Lee Daniels for their collaboration on “The United States vs.

EXCLUSIVE: The Wonder Years reboot has found its narrator. Don Cheadle has been tapped to play adult Dean Williams in ABC’s single-camera pilot from Saladin Patterson, the original series’ Fred Savage and Lee Daniels.

Lee Daniels has got a lot of irons in the fire.

Sara Gilbert‘s first girl kiss went a little like this…

EXCLUSIVE: The Wonders Year pilot is adding to its cast.

Sara Gilbert had never been kissed by a girl… until she met Drew Barrymore!The tworeminisce over the cute memory on Wednesday's episode of. During the «Drew or False» segment of the show, Gilbert is asked to reveal which of the three «facts» about herself on the screen are true.«The true one is C, my first girl kiss was with Drew,» Gilbert, 46, shares.

Robert Kirkman is a comic book writer that fans of the medium probably know very well. From his work at Marvel and other superheroes to the creation of “The Walking Dead” and various other massive series, Kirkman has established himself as one of the best the medium has seen in the modern era.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefJason Kothari, Hong Kong-born entrepreneur and film producer who was an executive producer on Vin Diesel-starring  “Bloodshot,” has acquired all rights to The Silent Flute, the spiritual martial arts project co-written by martial arts icon Bruce Lee in 1970.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterY’lan Noel has been cast as Dan Freeman, the protagonist in the FX adaptation of Sam Greenlee’s spy novel, “The Spook Who Sat By the Door,” which is being executive produced by Lee Daniels. The project is in pilot production at the premium cabler.In “Spook,” the fictional Freeman is the first Black CIA officer hired by the agency in the late 1960s, who has trained in high-level combat and espionage.

Psych alum Dulé Hill is set as a lead opposite Elisha “EJ” Williams and Saycon Sengbloh in ABC’s The Wonder Years single-camera comedy reboot pilot. Additionally, newcomer Laura Kariuki (Black Lightning) is set as a series regular in the reboot from Dave exec producer Saladin Patterson, Fred Savage and Empire co-creator Lee Daniels.

Eugene Daniels, the co-author of Politico’s daily newsletter Playbook, is joining MSNBC as a contributor.