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You can now get a first look at photos of the world premiere stage adaptation of the iconic film, Purple Rain. The cast features Kris Kollins, who is making his professional stage debut in the lead role of The Kid, Rachel Webb, who co-stars as Apollonia, Bilaal Avaz as Doc, Leon Addison Brown as Father, Jaci Calderon as Susan, Lawrence Gilliard Jr. as Billy Sparks, Anissa Griego as Jill, Jared Howelton as Morris, Christina Jones as Brenda, Emma Lenderman as Lisa, Gían Pérez as Bobby, Kondwani Phiri as Mark, Antonio Michael Woodard as Jerome, and Grace Yoo as Wendy. The world premiere musical adaptation, Purple Rain, brings to life the electrifying,...

The world premiere musical adaptation, Purple Rain, will play at Hennepin Arts’ historic State Theatre in Minneapolis from October 16 – November 16 as the final production of its 2024-2025 Broadway on Hennepin season. In an intimate session at Vinegar Hill Sound in Brooklyn, Kris Kollins (The Kid) and Rachel Webb (Apollonia) bring fresh energy to this special arrangement of 'I Would Die 4 U.' Watch the video here! The cast features Kris Kollins, who is making his professional stage debut in the lead role of The Kid, and Rachel Webb, who will co-star as Apollonia. The cast also features Bilaal Avaz as Doc, Leon Addison Brown as Father, Jaci Calderon as Susan,...

Updated, 3:10 Pm: The rest of the cast is set for the Broadway-bound Purple Rain.

Also starring are Bilaal Avaz as Doc, Leon Addison Brown as Father, Jaci Calderon as Susan, Lawrence Gilliard Jr. as Billy Sparks, Anissa Griego as Jill, Jared Howelton as Morris, Christina Jones as Brenda, Emma Lenderman as Lisa, Gían Pérez as Bobby, Kondwani Phiri as Mark, Antonio Michael Woodard as Jerome and Grace Yoo as Wendy.

The ensemble will include Solymar Baxter, Christian Burse, Jojo Carmichael, Adante Carter, Trajan Clayton, Jd Johnathon Darcelle, Chase Maxwell, Peli Naomi Woods, Christine Shepard, Dion Simmons Grier, Jake Tribus and Sabrina Victor.

Previously, August 11: This fall’s world premiere in Minneapolis of the stage musical Purple Rain will star an up-and-coming musician-songwriter named Kris Kollins in the main role of The Kid, made famous in the 1984 film by rock star Prince.

Kollins’ casting, as well as that of...

BroadwayWorld has just learned that the complete cast has been revealed for the world premiere stage adaptation of the iconic film, Purple Rain. Joining the previously announced stars Kris Kollins, who is making his professional stage debut in the lead role of The Kid, and Rachel Webb, who will co-star as Apollonia, are Bilaal Avaz as Doc, Leon Addison Brown as Father, Jaci Calderon as Susan, Lawrence Gilliard, Jr. as Billy Sparks, Anissa Griego as Jill, Jared Howelton as Morris, Christina Jones as Brenda, Emma Lenderman as Lisa, GÍAN PÉREZ as Bobby, Kondwani Phiri as Mark, Antonio Michael Woodard as Jerome, and Grace Yoo as Wendy. The production’s ensemble will include Solymar Baxter,...

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Top Boy is a British crime thriller drama series created by Ronan Bennett. The Channel 4 and later on Netflix series is set in East London, and it follows Dushane and Sully, two drug dealers with different aspirations, as they get embroiled in gang violence. Top Boy stars Ashley Walters, Kane Robinson, Malcolm Kamulete, Giacomo Mancini, Shone Romulus, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Kierston Wareing, and Nicholas Pinnock. So, if you loved the intense crime drama, thrilling story, and compelling characters in Top Boy, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Gangs of London is a British action crime thriller drama series created by Gareth Evans and Matt Flannery. Based on the video game of the same name developed by London Studio, the AMC+ series is set in the underworld of London, and...

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The Chi is a drama series created by Lena Waithe. The Showtime series is set in a neighborhood in South Chicago, and it revolves around Emmett, Brandon, Ronnie and Kevin as their lives are forever changed when a murder takes place in their area. The Chi stars Jason Mitchell, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Jacob Latimore, Alex R. Hibbert, Tiffany Boone, Yolonda Ross, Armando Riesco, Barton Fitzpatrick, Shamon Brown Jr., and Michael V. Epps. So, if you loved the intense drama, thrilling story, and compelling characters in The Chi, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Power is a crime thriller-drama series created by Courtney A. Kemp. The Starz series follows James St. Patrick, a wealthy nightclub owner leading a double life as a drug lord. Now that he has everything he wants in life,...

It's tough being a wise old man character on "The Walking Dead." If you're not getting beheaded with a sword by the Governor, then you're probably getting your stomach ripped open by a stray walker. That's what happened to poor Dale (Jeffrey DeMunn), the guy who served as the primary survivor group's voice of reason for nearly two full seasons before his untimely demise on "The Walking Dead." Did Dale's moral code occasionally bring him into goody-two-shoes territory? Eh, probably. But it's better to have too many scruples than none at all, and the group was worse off in his absence.

In the "Walking Dead" TV show's season 2 episode "Judge, Jury, Executioner," Dale is patrolling around the farm alone at night when he sees a partially-devoured cow. He goes to investigate only to be ambushed by a surprise walker. Dale is strong enough to restrain the walker from biting him,...

Few athletes have lived a life as dramatic as George Foreman. The legendary professional, boxer, entrepreneur, minister, and author, isn’t just a heavyweight champion but a man who reinvented himself many times and never gave up no matter what challenges he faced. A dominant force in the world of boxing and sports, he made several unlikely decisions just when the world thought they had figured him out, leaving spectators surprised.

George Foreman has passed away at the age of 76 | Credits: George Foreman’s Ig

Well, given the extraordinary career and life he led, both in the boxing ring and outside of it, it was only a matter of time before Hollywood rushed in for the rights to a film. Thus, Big George Foreman came about, Sony’s take on the film with the legendary boxer himself attached to the film. An attempt to capture the brilliance of the legend...

By and large, the 2010s proved to be a superb decade for the horror genre. Following in the footsteps of some of the finest horror movies of all time, the decade played host to a number of standout offerings from one of cinema's oldest genres. The best horror movies of the 2010s featured the likes of The Witch, Get Out, and A Quiet Place to name but a few, while introducing new directorial genre standouts like Jordan Peele and Robert Eggers to a global audience.

However, while the headlines may have been dominated by the likes of the aforementioned big hitters, the horror genre also played host to a number of lesser-known and more underappreciated outings. These films may not have been accompanied by the same mainstream fanfare as some of their more popular contemporaries, but the best obscure horror movies from the 2010s feature a wide range of compelling central premises and characters,...

The Wire hit televisions across America on Sunday, June 2, 2002. This landmark series by HBO would launch the careers of Idris Elba, Dominic West, and a young Michael B. Jordan. Over the next six years and across four more seasons, The Wire went on to become one of the most memorable police procedurals in history. Introducing audiences to the occupants of Baltimore Pd, starting with Detective James Jimmy McNulty, before moving downtown and revealing his adversaries Russell Stringer Bell, and Avon Barksdale. This two-man crew controlled The Projects, and they were intent on building their own drug-trafficking empire one brick at a time.

From those foundations, co-creators David Simon and Ed Burns forged a television legacy that outlasted both The Wire's original run and TV's heaviest hitters of the time. Effortlessly unstructured, yet scripted to the smallest degree, The Wire Season 1 brought audiences to a world of harsh realities and painfully human cops and criminals,...

The Penguin comes to an end on HBO and Max on Sunday, Nov. 10. After watching one of the best gangster/mob stories we've seen in a long time, we know fans are going to be looking for something else to watch!

We've already watched The Batman, the film that inspired The Penguin, quite a few times. And, we also have a long time to wait until The Batman Part 2 hits theaters in 2026. Luckily, there are more than enough good crime shows for The Penguin fans to watch until The Batman Part 2.

And, we're also hearing some promising news about The Penguin season 2. We don't know for sure if the series is coming back for season 2, but there's some hope, according to a report from The Direct.

While we wait to find out the fate of The Penguin, let's get the list of crime shows to watch started with the best TV show of all time,...

Exclusive: Industry Entertainment veterans Bill Butler and Michelle Kittrell have left after 14 years to join upstart management/production company Amplified, launched earlier this year by fellow longtime Industry managers Adam Levine, Brandy Rivers and Michael Hepburn.

Butler and Kittrell, who are bringing all of their clients, will be launching a New York office of Amplified, located in Chelsea. Butler, who was a partner at Industry, will join Hepburn, Rivers and Levine as partner; Kittrell has been named VP/Head of NY Talent.

Butler started his career at Wma before moving to Gersh, where he eventually rose to senior partner and head of the NY office. Kittrell began her career in theater before transitioning to representation at Gersh NY. She followed Butler when he left to launch the NY offices of Industry Entertainment in 2010.

Butler and Kittrell have been instrumental in growing the NY offices of both Gersh and Industry, working with a roster of clients,...

The Featherweight follows retired boxer Willie Pep as he tries to mount a career comeback while wrestling with a plethora of family and financial issues in 1964 Hartford, Connecticut. Shot in a pseudo-documentary, cinema verit style on grainy 16Mm stock, the characters break the fourth wall and speak directly to the camera as the plot unfolds. Director Robert Kolodny deserves top marks for creative filmmaking in his debut feature. He expertly recreates Pep's matches while intercutting classic newsreel footage and staged reaction shots. This slice of life perspective and an engaging ensemble keeps your attention span as a predictable narrative wears thin.

James Madio, forever immortalized as "Don't Ask" in Steven Spielberg's Hook as a child actor, stars as the loquacious and headstrong Pep, who won 229 fights, held the featherweight championship twice, and is widely considered as one of the greatest boxers of all time. We're introduced to the 42-year-old...

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Long before the recent Netflix series Kaos reimagined Greek mythology in a modern setting, former journalist David Simon created a television series with the same level of Greek tragedy as something written by Euripides in the form of HBO's The Wire. One of the most highly acclaimed series ever made, The Wire slowly expanded its focus across Baltimore, Maryland, one season after another. What began as Baltimore P.D.'s Major Crimes Unit investigating the Barksdale criminal enterprise grew to include hundreds of characters, from the lowest level street dealer to the corrupt politicians sitting in a place of prominent power.

The Wire chose a different aspect of Baltimore to focus on every season. Exploring seemingly unrelated social systems,...

A premiere at last year’s Venice Film Festival is now coming to theaters next month. Robert Kolodny’s feature debut The Featherweight, which stars James Madio, Ruby Wolf, Keir Gilchrist, Stephen Lang, Ron Livingston, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Shari Albert, and undefeated professional featherweight boxer Bruce Carrington, is based on the true story of the winningest American boxer in the history of the sport. Ahead of a September 20 release, the first trailer and poser have arrived.

Here’s the synopsis: “Set in the mid-1960s in Hartford, Connecticut, The Featherweight presents a gripping chapter in the true-life story of Italian-American boxer Willie Pep the winningest fighter of all time—who, down and out in his mid-40s and with his personal life in shambles, decides to make a return to the ring, at which point a documentary camera crew enters his life. Painstakingly researched and constructed, the film is a...

"Best fighter I ever saw!" Tuckman Media has revealed an official trailer for the film The Featherweight, from filmmaker Robert Kolodny, which first premiered at the 2023 Venice Film Festival last year. The film is a mockumentary, a fake doc following a boxer as he attempts to make a comeback. Based on the true story of the winningest American boxer in the history of the sport. Set in 1964, a camera crew follows Willie Pep, retired featherweight boxing champion. Down and out in Hartford Ct, married to a woman half his age and with a drug-addled son and mounting debts, Pep decides to make a return to the ring. It doesn't go so well... After its Venice premiere, The Featherweight played festivals around the world, praised for its technical aspects as it recreates the 60s in vivid detail and intersperses staged & archival boxing footage. Starring James Madio as Pep (who trained for...

Supersex is here to tell the story behind one of the biggest male pornstars this world has ever seen. The Netflix series follows the life story of popular pornstar Rocco Siffredi, from his childhood in Ortona, Italy to becoming a sexual sensation. Alessandro Borghi stars in the leading role of Siffredi, and he puts everything into his performance to portray a complex and damaged character. If you loved the character-based drama, themes of deep-seated psychological issues, and sex in Supersex then you should check out these similar shows next.

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It’s Supersex but Japanese and much more comedic and raunchy. Yes, we are talking about The Naked Director. Based on a novel titled Zenra Kantoku Muranishi Toru Den by Nobuhiro Motohashi, the semi-biographical Netflix series follows the life of Toru Muranishi, a very important figure in the Japanese porn industry. The series delves into...

Law & Order fans, we’ve got a fresh off the press preview for the new Season 23 Episode 6 episode titled On the Ledge!

Find out everything you need to know about the On the Ledge episode of Law & Order, including a full preview, videos, release date, cast information and how to watch!

Law & Order On the Ledge Season 23 Episode 6 Preview

Get ready for a gripping episode of “Law & Order” airing on NBC at 8:00 Pm on February 29, 2024. In this upcoming installment titled “On the Ledge,” viewers will be on the edge of their seats as the NYPD responds to an urgent call at a nearby hospital.

As chaos erupts inside the hospital, Detective Shaw finds himself facing a shocking revelation about his connection to the suspect. With tensions running high and lives on the line, the team must race against time to bring the situation under control and...

Saw is one of the longest-running slasher horror film franchises. With the release of its tenth film titled Saw X in September 2023, the Saw film series has been running for over 19 years. Starring Tobin Bell in the lead role of the Jigsaw killer, the Saw films were popular because of their inventive traps to kill people and also the twists and turns films took at the final minute. So, if you love the Saw film franchise here are some similar movies you could watch next.

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Synopsis: Presented by Quentin Tarantino and directed by Eli Roth (Cabin Fever), Hostel is a shocking and relentless film in the tradition of Saw about two American backpackers in Europe who find themselves lured in as victims of a murder-for-profit business. Paxton and Josh, two college friends, are lured by a fellow traveler to what...

All Fun and Games is a horror thriller film directed by Ari Costa and Eren Celeboglu, they also worked on the script with JJ Braider. The horror film follows a group of friends living in Salem, who discover a cursed knife, which unleashes a demon that makes them play gruesome games. All Fun and Games stars Asa Butterfield, Natalia Dyer, and Laurel Marsden. So, if you love the horror film here are some similar movies you could watch next.

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Synopsis: How far would you go to make contact with someone you lost? From the Producers of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Insidious comes a supernatural thriller in which a group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they unwittingly release a dark power from the other side. What started as a game will unleash an evil only they can stop.

Screen Rant is excited to reveal an exclusive peek at the gag reel for Big George Foreman. The movie tells the story of acclaimed boxer George Foreman and his journey from poverty to becoming a promising young boxer. After suffering a near-fatal injury, Foreman vows never to box again and hangs up his gloves for the collar, becoming a preacher. However, with the threat of bankruptcy looming closer, he decides to step back into the ring, becoming the oldest heavyweight champion boxer in history.

Big George Foreman is not the standard sports story examining his long life between his time as a boxer. As he grapples with the decision to become a boxer again and the intense training to once again come out on top. Big George Foreman debuts on digital June 13 and on Blu-ray and DVD on June 27.

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Big George Foreman is a film directed by George Tillman Jr. starring Khris Davis.

Some movies simply wait for a great story to do all the work.

Foreman’s life was quite a story.

We can’t say the same for the film.

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Some said the voiceover was anti-cinematic, and it was Scorsese (among others) who denied it film after film. This Big George Foreman wants to have a lot of Scorsese without achieving his pace, effectiveness and, above all, grace, and narrative freshness.

Big George Foreman is a film that resorts, at all times, to the obvious, to direct compassion, to that piece of American History a thousand times told in a thousand better ways and with more elaborate plots and less flat characters and, in the end, with more to say.

It is well executed technically, it knows how to behave, but the script’s compassionate...

Across a career that spanned four decades and saw him earn two heavyweight titles and a gold medal at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, George Foreman cemented his legacy as one of the greatest boxers of all time. But despite having one of the most remarkable stories in sporting history to work with, Big George Foreman manages to stumble sluggishly from one chapter in his life to the next in a way that’s neither insightful nor entertaining.

George Tillman Jr.’s film plays out largely as a by-the-numbers biopic, charting Foreman’s rise from a troubled Texas youth to a title-winning boxer, then a born-again preacher, then a title-winning boxer again. Khris Davis, previously seen testing out his pugilistic skills on poor Donald Glover in Atlanta, plays Big George from the end of his teenage years to his remarkable comeback as the world’s oldest-ever heavyweight champion at the age of 45.

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So often thought of primarily as the big lug who was so dramatically dispatched by Muhammad Ali in the famous “Rumble in the Jungle” in Zaire in 1974, George Foreman is the main event in Big George Foreman. While there is plenty of boxing here to satisfy sports fans, the film is mild-mannered and genial to a fault as it charts the life of a dirt-poor Texas kid with a devastating punch whose public image transformed over the years from hulking bogeyman to that of a good-natured businessman and man of God.

Ali was such a commanding, entertaining and (mostly) adored worldwide figure, from his emergence as the self-anointed “greatest” to his ultimate status as one of the most beloved and admired men on the planet, that it isn’t easy to watch him take a back seat here to a younger but less charismatic figure onscreen. Eventually, if you like...

Grab a fine cut of meat and put up your dukes because a trailer for the upcoming George Foreman biopic is entering the ring! The biopic, titled Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World, is directed by George Tillman Jr. from a story he co-wrote with Dan Gordon and Frank Baldwin. As you can see from today’s Big George Foreman trailer, the film explores the life and times of the legendary boxer-turned-minister.

Khris Davis plays the iconic George Foreman, while Forest Whitaker plays Doc Broadus, the boxer’s longtime trainer who introduced him to the sport. Sullivan Jones plays Muhammad Ali, who fought Foreman throughout his storied career, including the Rumble in the Jungle bout in Zaire.

Big George Foreman also stars Jasmine Mathews, Sullivan Jones, Lawrence Gilliard Jr, John Magaro, and Sonja Sohn.

The Big George Foreman trailer presents several beats of the plot,...

Take in a midweek pop of inspiration in a trailer for Sony Pictures Canada’s Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World. The film will tell the story of the titular boxing superstar on his rise to the top from his humble beginnings followed by his career of chewing up and spitting out all the competition in sight. Boasting a knockout lineup, the film is led by Khris Davis (Judas and the Black Messiah), Jasmine Mathews (The Man from Toronto), John Magaro (Not Fade Away), Lawrence Gilliard Jr. (The Wire), and Sullivan Jones (The Surrogate) with supporting performances by Academy Award-winner, Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland) and Sonja Sohn (The Wire).

Boxing movies tend to be pretty great fodder for a harrowing feel-good story. Even people who don't give a damn about boxing otherwise would be hard-pressed not to cheer by the end of "Rocky" or "Cinderella Man." Sure, there is the occasional dark boxing tale, such as "Raging Bull," that makes for equally -- if not more -- compelling cinema. Today though brings us what appears to be an underdog story, and a familiar one for many fans of the sport, as the trailer for "Big George Foreman" is here. Or, to be more specific regarding the title, "Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World." And yes, they did put all of that on the poster.

In any case, this is the tale of George Foreman and, more specifically, his wildly unlikely comeback story as a boxer advanced in his years.

The official trailer has dropped for the George Foreman biopic, titled “Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World,” from director George Tillman Jr. It explores the life of the legendary boxer turned minister. Forest Whitaker portrays Doc Broadus, the boxer’s longtime trainer who introduced him to the sport, while Khris Davis will portray Foreman. Sullivan Jones will play Muhammad Ali, as the two boxers had iconic bouts during their careers, including the Rumble in the Jungle match in Zaire.

The biopic will follow Foreman’s boxing career highlights, including when he obtained Olympic Gold at the 1968 Mexico City Games and his world heavyweight champion run. Outside of his boxing career, the narrative will cover Foreman finding his faith, retiring and becoming a preacher. Finally, it will document his return to the ring at the age of 45 when his family and church faces financial hardship.

As Warner Bros attempts to shake up their whole content creation with DC films, only some schedule shifts are happening with Sony Pictures, according to Deadline. One of their biggest moves is pushing the Adam Driver sci-fi actioner, 65, back to the same weekend as Shazam: Fury of the Gods. The studio has faith that the movie will be able to compete with the DC superhero and gets pushed back so the latest Scream film can perform as best as can.

The plot synopsis for 65 reads, “After a catastrophic crash on an unknown planet, pilot Mills (Driver) quickly discovers he’s actually stranded on Earth…65 million years ago. Now, with only one chance at rescue, Mills and the only other survivor, Koa (Ariana Greenblatt), must make their way across an unknown terrain riddled with dangerous prehistoric creatures in an epic fight to survive. Sam Raimi produces. Scott Beck and Bryan Woods wrote A Quiet Place.

The Sony Adam Driver sci-fi movie 65 is moving onto the opening weekend of New Line’s Shazam: Fury of the Gods, March 17-19. The Scott Beck-Bryan Woods movie was previously dated for March 10, 2023.

The studio, I hear, has a confidence in the movie, and it’s to give the pic some air from the next Scream sequel on March 10. No rating yet for 65.

In addition the studio is movie its Affirm release of the George Foreman Biopic from March 31 next yera to April 28. The movie moves away from Paramount/eOne’s Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Uar’s A Good Person, and Focus Features’ A Thousand and One to a weekend where there’s Lionsgate’s feature take of Judy Blume novel Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

65’s logline: After a catastrophic crash on an unknown planet, pilot Mills (Driver) quickly discovers he’s actually stranded on Earth…...

"The Wire" co-creator David Simon often compares the show to a modern Greek tragedy, going so far as to reimagine mythic Gods moved into intractable American institutions. Capitalism, drug dealing, policing, politics, education, and the media are all examined in great detail, giving you a full picture of why the characters are helpless, and fundamentally incapable of changing anything beyond, maybe, their personal situations.

The series is set in Baltimore, which occasionally gave it some difficulties due to the bleak urban picture it painted, but as co-creator Ed Burns said, "we could've taken that show into any city." Burns and Simon just had decades of life and experience in Baltimore from which to draw.

"The Wire" began with a narrow focus that gradually expanded to dig into Baltimore's nooks and crannies. The show's first season mostly focuses on the plights of both the Barksdale criminal organization and the Baltimore P.

This article contains spoilers for every season of The Walking Dead.

When a black and white comic book series titled The Walking Dead premiered among Image Comics’ monthly offerings in 2003, few would have guessed that it would spawn the multimedia franchise we know it as today. As one among many works that capitalized in a cultural resurgence in the zombie subgenre in the late ‘90s and early 2000s, The Walking Dead might have been a flash in the pan were it not for its world-building and revolving ensemble cast, which allowed for it to go mainstream with AMC’s 2010 TV adaptation.

The main series will have clocked in at 177 episodes by its Nov. 20, 2022 conclusion, making it one of the most prominent TV sagas of the modern era. Even here in the eleventh hour of the eleventh season, there are bound to be many excellent episodes on the way before all is said and done.

When you think of HBO's classic mid-'00s series "The Wire," it's the characters that come to mind first -- people like McNulty (Dominic West), D'Angelo, Kima (Sonja Sohn), or Stringer Bell (Idris Elba). All of them have their place in the show's vast tapestry, but their stories never feel manufactured or inauthentic. Their major failures and small triumphs echo and clash against those of others, comprising the major drama of the show. And Stringer, the ambitious climber at the top of the show's Barksdale criminal empire, had some of the show's most engaging material. Of course, it helped that he was played by a future movie star.

While you can now see him on the big screen fighting monstrous lions in "Beast" or playing a romantic Djinn in a George Miller film, Idris Elba's work in "The Wire" some 20 years earlier was much more low-key. Stringer is nothing like the typical fantasy gangster.

Exclusive: Devon Bostick (Pink Skies Ahead) is the latest addition to the cast of Christopher Nolan’s film Oppenheimer for Universal Pictures.

He joins a stacked ensemble led by Cillian Murphy that also includes Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Rami Malek, Benny Safdie, Josh Hartnett, Dane DeHaan, Jack Quaid, Matthew Modine, Dylan Arnold, David Krumholtz, Alden Ehrenreich, David Dastmalchian, Olli Haaskivi, Jason Clarke, James D’Arcy, Michael Angarano, Guy Burnet, Danny Deferrari, Matthias Schweighöfer, Harrison Gilbertson and Emma Dumont, as previously announced.

In the film, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin, Murphy plays the theoretical physicist whose work on the Manhattan Project led to the creation of the atomic bomb. Bostick will play Seth Neddermeyer, the physicist who discovered the elementary particle known as the muon and later...

Exclusive: Demetrius Grosse (Cabinet of Curiosities) has signed on for a role in George Tillman Jr.’s untitled George Foreman biopic for Sony Pictures and Affirm Films.

He joins a cast that also includes Khris Davis, Sullivan Jones, Forest Whitaker, Jasmine Mathews, Sonja Sohn, John Magaro, Shein Mompremier, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Sam Trammell, Erica Tazel, Matthew Glave and Al Sapienza, as previously announced.

The film will follow the remarkable life and times of Foreman (Davis), from Olympic Gold medalist to World Heavyweight champion, the Rumble in the Jungle fight with Muhammad Ali in Zaire, to finding his faith, retiring, and becoming a preacher. When financial hardship hits his family and church, he steps back in the ring and regains the championship at age 45, becoming the oldest heavyweight champion in boxing history.

Grosse is playing Foreman’s biological father, Leroy Moorehead. Though he’s proud that he’s never missed watching...

Exclusive: Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Sam Trammell, Erica Tazel, Matthew Glave and Al Sapienza are the latest additions to the cast of George Tillman Jr.’s untitled George Foreman biopic for Sony Pictures and Affirm Films.

They join an ensemble led by Khris Davis that also includes Sullivan Jones, Forest Whitaker, Jasmine Mathews, Sonja Sohn, John Magaro and Shein Mompremier, as previously announced.

Tillman Jr.’s latest will follow the remarkable life and times of Foreman (Davis), from Olympic Gold medalist to World Heavyweight champion, the Rumble in the Jungle fight with Muhammad Ali in Zaire, to finding his faith, retiring, and becoming a preacher. When financial hardship hits his family and church, he steps back in the ring and regains the championship...

The price of being the boss is getting costlier and costlier for Raq on Power Book III: Raising Kanan.

But as the queenpin proved on Sunday night’s installment, titled “Stick and Move,” ice-cold Raq keeps a Louis Vuitton stacked with cash, and her eyes on the bottom line. This time around that meant handing a stuffed envelope to Deen’s bodyguard Smurf in exchange for intel on Unique’s next cocaine re-up. (Also, shoutout to The Wire vet Lawrence Gilliard Jr., for playing Deen. It’s always great to see cats from the iconic drama get that work.)

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“Nomadland” was the big winner when we announced the 19th Annual Gold Derby Film Awards on Tuesday, April 20. It claimed four awards including Best Picture. Watch our 30-minute winner announcement above. Scroll down for our complete list of winners in all categories, which were decided by more than 2,500 of our registered users.

Chloe Zhao‘s film about a woman (Frances McDormand) coping with loss and looking for work as she lives out of her van was also awarded Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for Zhao, in addition to Best Cinematography. But our Derbyites spread the wealth as four other films claimed multiple awards and 13 total films were honored across our 22 categories.

SEE2021 Oscar: Best Supporting Actor nominees have already set records

Though “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” wasn’t one of the 10 films nominated for Best Picture at these awards, it was the second biggest winner with three prizes: Best...

I’d recently been absorbed in the deep colors and heartache of Douglas Sirk's melodramas, following on from this I found myself pining for more white picket fence drama, but with a twist. This is where John Waters came back into my world, how I had missed him, so this edition of Notebooks Soundtrack Mix is a sonic ode to a pioneer of perversion. I started back with Polyester (1981) and Serial Mom (1994), which, alongside Gus Van Sant's 1995 To Die For is a double bill I’m always dreaming of. The work of John Waters ramps up the technicolor dreams of Sirk and places them in a camp world of dysfunctional misfits. His work is a reminder to not take things so seriously and that there is a place for everyone in this world which, importantly, includes the poor, repugnant and nasty! Waters is famous for his use of...

Updated with full list: The nominations for the 27th SAG Award were announced Thursday in a virtual ceremony featuring Lily Collins and Daveed Diggs reading off nominees in 13 film and TV categories honoring the best acting of the past year.

Much like it did at the Golden Globes the day before, Netflix led the way with 30 total nominations. The Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture ensemble race features three Netflix dramas: Da 5 Bloods, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and The Trial of the Chicago 7 along with A24’s Minari and Amazon Studios’ One Night In Miami. Outside of Chicago 7 it is a fully new slate of films from the admittedly apples-to-oranges Best Motion Picture lists set by the Golden Globes on Wednesday.

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World-building is a topic that tends to come up with science-fiction sagas or fantasy epics, but “The Deuce” is one of the most impressive examples in recent memory. Not only did the HBO drama immediately immerse audiences in a historical facsimile of 42nd Street, Manhattan, with XXX theaters and denizens of the night aplenty, but creators David Simon and George Pelecanos, alongside their producing partner Nina Noble and a top-notch crew lead by production designer Scott Dougan, replicated the so-called Deuce’s transformation over three separate time periods: first in 1971, then in the high-end porn days of 1977, and finally in the turbulent ’80s, specifically 1985, as the neighborhood is about to be transformed.

In terms of sheer artistic value, these touches can’t be praised highly enough. “The Deuce” isn’t breaking the budget, compared to other Home Box Office hits, but it’s a stunning, transportive experience each and every episode.

The Deuce season 3 is the perfect conclusion to David Simon's pornographic period masterpiece.

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This The Deuce review contains no spoilers.

Midway through The Deuce season 3’s first episode, “The Camera Loves You,” former Times Square streetwalker turned arthouse porn director Eileen “Candy” Merrell (Maggie Gyllenhaal) attends the 1985 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

She and producing partner Harvey Wasserman (David Krumholtz) are there to hock their wares - stylish, slick, and largely feature-length pornography. As they sit behind their ill-attended booth, Candy and Harvey see two men wearing all black along with matching black pimp hats march in with a cadre of onlookers surrounding them.

“Who the fuck are they?” Candy asks, of the men gracelessly appropriating the world she used to live in.

“The Dark Brothers,” Harvey says. “They made a film Let Me Tell Ya ‘Bout White Chicks.It’s just a bunch...

HBO released the trailer for its eight-episode third and final season of David Simon’s porn drama, “The Deuce” on Thursday.

Welcome to 1985. Here’s what’s going down this decade:

Season 3 of “The Deuce” brings us into the world of 1985, just as VHS overtakes film as the primary medium for porn production and distribution. The lure of the California sunshine, the city’s aggressive takeover of commercial sex properties in Times Square and the devastating impact of the AIDS epidemic mark the end of an era. With the party of the 1970s winding down, 42nd Street has deteriorated into a hive of uncontrolled violent crime and seedy video stores, making urban renewal seem more unlikely than ever before. Following the interconnected lives of Times Square’s barkeeps, prostitutes, pimps, police, mobsters, porn actors and producers, the eight-episode third season of “The Deuce” brings the series’ arc to a dramatic conclusion.

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Despite its James Franco double shot, the first season of The Deuce TV show ran in the middle of HBO's pack of shows. Does this porn industry series, from George Pelecanos and David Simon, have what it takes to attract a larger audience in its second season? Will The Deuce be cancelled or renewed for season three? Stay tuned. **Status update below.

An HBO 1970s period piece, The Deuce stars Franco, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gary Carr, Gbenga Akinnagbe , Margarita Levieva, Dominique Fishback, Emily Meade, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Chris Bauer, Michael Rispoli, and Chris Coy. A fictional historical drama, inspired by real-life twins who would go on to operate business fronts for the Gambino family, The Deuce centers on the rise of modern-day pornography in 1970s New York City. Season two picks up five years later, in 1977, during the golden age of porn, with...

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An HBO 1970s period piece, The Deuce stars James Franco, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gary Carr, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Margarita Levieva, Dominique Fishback, Emily Meade, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Chris Bauer, Michael Rispoli, and Chris Coy. A fictional historical drama, inspired by real-life twins who would go on to operate business fronts for the Gambino family, The Deuce centers on the rise of modern-day pornography in 1970s New York City. Season two picks up...