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Jaalen Best to Play Boxer Muhammad Ali in ‘The Greatest’ for Amazon/MGM

©Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali The Greatest, a limited series about the late boxer Muhammad Ali is in the works. Jaalen Best will play the iconic pugilist who was originally known as Cassius Clay. Ben Watkins will be the showrunner/executive producer of the series, for which Ali’s widow Lonnie Ali will also serve…

Edward Moran

July 11, 2024

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Leslie Odom Jr. Talks about How He Finds Sam Cooke’s Voice in “One Night in Miami.”

To get to play soul singing legend Sam Cooke would be an achievement enough but to do so in a film as prestigious as One Night In Miami adds the sweet topping to the prize cake. Such a triumph is not the only feather in the cap of 39-year old Leslie Odom Jr. —- he…

Nobuhiro Hosoki

April 13, 2021

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‘Conclave’ Director Edward Berger on Making an Intense Vatican Thriller… and Jason Bourne!

After his previous film, All Quiet on the Western Front, won multiple Oscars, director Edward Berger had many options ahead of him, but he decided to direct an adaptation of Daniel Harris’ bestselling book, Conclave. Adapted by Oscar nominee Peter Straughan (Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy), Conclave stars Oscar nominee Ralph Fiennes as Cardinal Lawrence, who…

Edward Douglas

October 22, 2024

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Cast Expanded for Netflix’s ‘East of Eden’ Series, Starring Florence Pugh

©In the Time It Takes to Get There Filming of Netflix’s seven-part series based on John Steinbeck’s East of Eden novel has gotten underway in New Zealand. Florence Pugh, who is playing the leading role of Cathy Ames, will be joined in the cast by Joe Anders, Ciaran Hands, Tracy Letts, Martha Plimpton, and Joseph…

Edward Moran

October 22, 2024

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Gladiator II : Training Featurette : Starring Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal and Denzel Washington

Paramount Pictures has dropped this brand-new featurette for Gladiator II which is directed by Ridley Scott and starring Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal and Denzel Washington. In order to make it out of the gladiatorial games at the Colosseum and fight in the war, the stars of Gladiator II had to put in a lot of…

Nobuhiro Hosoki

October 22, 2024

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NYCC : The Electric State / Q&A with Actress Millie Bobby Brown, Actor Chris Pratt and Directors Russo Brothers

©Courtesy of Netflix The Electric State is a spectacular adventure from the directors of Avengers: Endgame set in an alternate, retro-futuristic version of the 1990s. Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things, Enola Holmes, Damsel) stars as Michelle, an orphaned teenager navigating life in a society where sentient robots resembling cartoons and mascots, who once served peacefully among humans, now…

Nobuhiro Hosoki

October 22, 2024

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Jaalen Best to Play Boxer Muhammad Ali in ‘The Greatest’ for Amazon/MGM

Leslie Odom Jr. Talks about How He Finds Sam Cooke’s Voice in “One Night in Miami.”