Month: November 2020

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OWN Sets Three Holiday Movies Starring Vivica A. Fox, Jackée Harry, Lamman Rucker, Meagan Holder, Idara Victor, Tonea Stewart

More Christmas movies on the way. ~ Vida OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network has expanded its holiday season programming with three new original Christmas movies set to air over three consecutive Tuesdays in December. A Christmas For Mary, starring Vivica A. Fox and Jackée Harry, will premiere on December 8. Cooking Up Christmas, starring Greenleaf’s Lamman Rucker and Meagan Holder on December 15. First Christmas, starring … Continue reading OWN Sets Three Holiday Movies Starring Vivica A. Fox, Jackée Harry, Lamman Rucker, Meagan Holder, Idara Victor, Tonea Stewart

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Marvel’s ‘Black Panther’ Sequel Shoot to Begin in July

Tenoch Huerta, star of Netflix’s ‘Narcos: Mexico,’ is joining the cast of the untitled film from Ryan Coogler, sources tell THR. Marvel Studio’s plans for the sequel to Black Panther are starting to come into focus. The sequel was sidelined after the sudden and unexpected death of star Chadwick Boseman and a planned March 2021 production start was waylaid as filmmaker Ryan Coogler and Marvel … Continue reading Marvel’s ‘Black Panther’ Sequel Shoot to Begin in July

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Alfre Woodard to Star as Civil Rights Activist Fannie Lou Hamer in Limited Series for ABC Studios

Wow, this is going to be fantastic!! ~ V Alfre Woodard will star as civil rights and voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer in a forthcoming limited series for ABC Studios, Variety has learned exclusively. Woodard is executive producing along with Carl Beverly, Sarah Timbermann, Roderick Spencer and Harry Belafonte, while Gina Belafonte serves as a producer. Hamer rose from sharecropping in the Mississippi Delta … Continue reading Alfre Woodard to Star as Civil Rights Activist Fannie Lou Hamer in Limited Series for ABC Studios

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Danai Gurira to Play Pioneering Presidential Candidate Shirley Chisholm in New Film

The story of the first Black congresswoman is heading to the big screen. Danai Gurira will star in “The Fighting Shirley Chisholm,” portraying the titular political trailblazer in a story that follows Chisholm’s historic 1972 presidential run. Cherien Dabis will direct the film, from a script written by Adam Countee. Stephanie Allain will produce through her Homegrown Pictures banner, with Gabrielle Ebron as an executive … Continue reading Danai Gurira to Play Pioneering Presidential Candidate Shirley Chisholm in New Film

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Oprah Winfrey, Brad Pitt, MGM Team for Adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ ‘The Water Dancer’

Kamilah Forbes, who directed the theatrical event of Coates’ ‘Between the World and Me’, will also produce. Oprah Winfrey and Brad Pitt are teaming up to adapt The Water Dancer, the best-selling novel by Ta-Nehisi Coates, for MGM. Winfrey’s Harpo Films and Pitt’s Plan B are producing along with Kamilah Forbes, who previously developed and directed the theatrical event of Coates’ Between the World and Me at the legendary Apollo Theater and … Continue reading Oprah Winfrey, Brad Pitt, MGM Team for Adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ ‘The Water Dancer’

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Outlander Star Sam Heughan on His New Book Clanlands with Graham McTavish

Fans still slogging through Droughtlander received a welcome reprieve this week. Sam Heughan (James Fraser) and Graham McTavish (Dougal Mackenzie) have released their book, Clanlands, which follows the two men on a road trip as they drink, laugh, and bicker their way through Scotland’s historical sites. Written in first person, they frequently interject each other’s accounts, alternating between Scottish history, their road trip, and anecdotes … Continue reading Outlander Star Sam Heughan on His New Book Clanlands with Graham McTavish

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Outlander and Blackness Castle – the story behind one of show’s most impressive locations

Dubbed the ‘ship that never sailed’, the coastal fortress plays a vital role in season one of the hit show. It’s one of Scotland’s most impressive Outlander locations – a coastal fortress with high walls that jut out into the Forth. Blackness Castle, which lies near the village of Blackness near Linlithgow, on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth, was built in the … Continue reading Outlander and Blackness Castle – the story behind one of show’s most impressive locations

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‘The Umbrella Academy’ Renewed For Season 3 By Netflix

Whoo-Hoo!! ~ V Netflix has given a Season 3 order to one of its most popular series, The Umbrella Academy. Production on the 10-episode third season will begin in February in Toronto, Canada. Series regular cast members set to return, reprising their roles, include Ellen Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher, Justin H. Min, Ritu Arya, and Colm Feore. Also … Continue reading ‘The Umbrella Academy’ Renewed For Season 3 By Netflix

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How Stacey Abrams Is Turning the Tide in Georgia

Georgia hasn’t given its 16 electoral votes to a Democratic president since Bill Clinton in 1992. But 28 years later, the reliably red southern state is poised to go blue, in large part because of the visionary efforts of Stacey Abrams. The Yale Law School graduate, tax attorney, and former Georgia state representative became a rising star when she ran for governor of her home … Continue reading How Stacey Abrams Is Turning the Tide in Georgia

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Tom Byrne on playing Prince Andrew in The Crown

The Sun ran a headline which made me laugh,” Tom Byrne grins. “It was ‘Worst part on TV?’ Good news, you’re in The Crown; bad news, you’re playing Prince Andrew.” Well, quite. Landing a role in Netflix’s sumptuous royal saga, now in its fourth series, is surely a dream gig for any young actor – the show, after all, has become a finishing school for … Continue reading Tom Byrne on playing Prince Andrew in The Crown

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“We Are the Pillar of Something New”: Steve McQueen, John Boyega and Letitia Wright on the Emotional Journey to Spotlight Black British Life in ‘Small Axe’

The director and actors discuss their film anthology about London’s West Indian community and embracing their power amid Hollywood’s racial reckoning: “I don’t care about trying to mesh in with the system in order to secretly work it.” John Boyega was in his first year at the University of Greenwich when he received what he considered a sign from God. During his film studies class, … Continue reading “We Are the Pillar of Something New”: Steve McQueen, John Boyega and Letitia Wright on the Emotional Journey to Spotlight Black British Life in ‘Small Axe’

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The Crown Season 4 | Official Trailer | Netflix

I cannot wait for this to come out! ~ V As the 1970s are drawing to a close, Queen Elizabeth (Olivia Colman) and her family find themselves preoccupied with safeguarding the line of succession by securing an appropriate bride for Prince Charles (Josh O’Connor), who is still unmarried at 30. As the nation begins to feel the impact of divisive policies introduced by Britain’s first … Continue reading The Crown Season 4 | Official Trailer | Netflix

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