From left; Chris Chalk, Fredy Miyares and Justin Cunningham Chris Chalk (Gotham) will play Adult Yusef Salaam; Newcomers Freddy Miyares and Justin Cunningham will play Adult Raymond Santana and Adult Kevin Richardson, respectively. Together, they will star alongside previously announced Jharrel Jerome and Jovan Adepo (Adult Antron McCray) as the adult men in the Central Park Five case. Jerome will …
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Niecy Nash, Aunjanue Ellis and Storm Reid join ‘Central Park Five’ from Ava DuVernay In what is already an embarrassment of acting riches, Ava DuVernay’s Central Park Five limited series for Netflix has added a quintet of powerhouse actresses to its cast. Emmy Award nominee Niecy Nash (Getting On, Claws), Aunjanue Ellis (Quantico, If Beale Street Could Talk), Kylie Bunbury …
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The 2018 BET Awards were held last night and Cardi B, Kendrick Lamar and Ava DuVernay came away winners in Female Hip Hop Artist, Album of the Year (“DAMN.”) and Video Director of the Year, respectively. Cardi B also won the Coca Cola Viewers’ Choice Award for “Bodak Yellow,” besting Drake (who won Video of the Year for “God’s Plan”) and …
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Paramount Pictures announced at CinemaCon today that its Star Trek series will get its first female director, S.J. Clarkson. This fourth film will star Chris Hemsworth and Zachary Quinto. Hemsworth appeared briefly as the father of Chris Pine’s Captain Kirk in the first film of the J.J. Abrams reboot, 2009’s Star Trek. Zachary Quinto, who has played Dr. Spock in …
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A casting call has gone out to find the four leads of Ava DuVernay’s five-part Netflix miniseries based on the Central Park Five. The ‘Central Park jogger’ was one of the most high-profile crime cases of the late 1980s. On the night of April 19, 1989, a white female jogger named Trisha Meili was assaulted and raped, which left her …
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Award-winning actors, filmmakers and musicians will join jury president for the 71st Cannes Film Festival, among them Ava DuVernay, Kristen Stewart and Denis Villeneuve. They represent seven nationalities and five continents and break female on the gender ratio line 5 to 4. This year’s festival runs May 8-19. The jury for this year’s festival is: Chang Chen – Chinese Actor …
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The Shape of Water has won the 2018 Producers Guild of America award for Motion Pictures with Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale as its winning pair. This was a very competitive win with a tough match again Golden Globe winners Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Lady Bird as well as the small-budgeted blockbuster hit Get Out. The Shape …
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The 49th NAACP Image Awards, handed out over two nights (Sunday and Monday) reveal their winners tonight in Motion Picture and Television and Entertainer of the Year. Get Out was the big winner of the evening, grabbing Actor in a Motion Picture (Daniel Kaluuya) and Directing and Writing wins for Jordan Peele. But Motion Picture went to the raucous hit …
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The nominations for the 49th NAACP Image Awards have been announced and in the Motion Picture section Get Out, Girls Trip and Marshall lead the field with five apiece. All three were nominated for Outstanding Motion Picture alongside Detroit and Roman J. Israel, Esq. In Television, Queen Sugar led the way with 6 nominations, followed by Insecure with five. Each …
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After scoring an Oscar nomination for her documentary feature 13TH, Ava DuVernay (with Participant Media, Harpo Films and Tribeca Productions) will re-team with Netflix for a five-part series on the Central Park Five set to debut in 2019. DuVernay will write and direct all episodes of the narrative drama, which focuses on the 1989 case in which five black teenagers …
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