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*Page Kennedy will join Dennis Haysbert and “The Office’s” Rainn Wilson in the CBS/20th TV drama pilot “Backstrom,” reports Deadline. Based on the Swedish book series and written by “Bones” creator Hart Hanson, “Backstrom” centers on Everett Backstrom (Wilson), an overweight, offensive, irascible detective as he tries, and fails, to change his self-destructive behavior. In [...]
*With a new week comes a new round of film and TV castings. The latest involves Dennis Haysbert, Omar Sy and Tongayi Chirisa. Dennis Haysbert, who starred in the CBS military drama “The Unit,” is reuniting with the network and “The Unit” producer 20th Century Fox TV with a co-starring role in the CBS/20th TV [...]
*Something tells us this year’s NAACP Image Awards is gonna be a goodie. Today, the NAACP announced that comedian, author, radio and talk show host, Steve Harvey will host and Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie Foxx, Queen Latifah, Wanda Sykes and Tony Goldwyn (“Scandal”) will be part of an all-star line-up to present at the 44th [...]
*Dennis Haysbert says he’s always made a point to play strong characters that are positive, whether it was the leader of a top secret military squad in the CBS drama “The Unit,” the President of the United States in FOX’s “24,” or leaving you in good hands with Allstate. But in the nearly four years [...]
*Common returns to the big screen this weekend in “LUV,” a drama set in Baltimore’s inner-city featuring the rapper/actor as an ex-convict uncle who is idolized by his newly-orphaned 11-year-old nephew. Woody (Michael Rainey, Jr.) gets a crash course in what it means to be a man when he spends a day with his Uncle [...]
*Dennis Haysbert has been cast in the next “Sin City” film from director Robert Rodriguez to replace the late Michael Clarke Duncan, who died in September. Rodriguez is co-directing “Sin City: A Dame to Kill For” with Frank Miller, the comic book icon who created the Sin City comics that were published by Dark Horse [...]
*Don Rickles took the stage at American Film Institute’s tribute to Shirley MacLaine on Thursday night at Sony Pictures Studios and did exactly what he’s done his whole career – unleash a torrent of insults. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Living up to his name as “Mr. Warmth,” he unloaded on famous people in the [...]
*”LUV,” a coming-of-age story that premiered last month at Sundance, has been acquired by the Indomina Group and BET Networks, the companies announced Saturday. Common, Michael Rainey Jr., Dennis Haysbert, Danny Glover, Charles S. Dutton, Meagan Good, Lonette McKee and Michael Kenneth Williams star in the movie about Woody, an 11-year-old orphan who reveres his [...]
*It’s settled then. Sexy British actor Idris Elba will play the role of former South African president Nelson Mandela in an upcoming biopic. You may ask why he was chosen out of all people. There’s no telling, but one thing is for sure: he’s good. Elba has taken on some pretty major roles lately, including [...]
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*For more than 20 years, PBS has been proud to honor the service and sacrifice of our men and women in uniform, their families at home and all those who have given their lives for our country with the annual broadcast of the NATIONAL MEMORIAL DAY CONCERT. The multi award-winning event, broadcast live from the [...]
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