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*Samuel L. Jackson is boarding RKO Pictures’ “Barely Lethal,” which marks the third Jackson project that is being shopped at the Cannes Film Festival. The action-comedy is described as a playful, high-velocity romp in which a 16-year-old international assassin (Hailee Steinfeld) yearning for “normal” adolescence fakes her own death and enrolls in a suburban high [...]
*Samuel L. Jackson is attached to star as the president of the United States in rising star Jalmari Helander’s English-language debut, “Big Game.” The movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter, is billed as an adrenaline-fuelled action-adventure and tells the story of a shy, nervous 13-year-old boy who, like his forefathers, takes a test of manhood [...]
*The Weinstein Company has acquired worldwide rights, excluding the U.S., South Africa and India, to the live-action remake of Yasuomi Umetsu’s Japanese anime movie “Kite,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film, which has just completed shooting in South Africa, stars Samuel L. Jackson, India Eisley and Australia’s Callan McAuliffe and was directed by Ralph [...]
*If Samuel L. Jackson could win an award that currently doesn’t exist, he’d probably get the man who gets the most work in film award. The dynamic actor is back at it again, blazing a trail of diverse success. His new indie drama, “Reasonable Doubt” was recently picked up by Lionsgate and will be sold [...]
*Target Presents AFI Night at the Movies screens a dozen classic films with stars in attendance on one night, Wednesday April 24. This year’s line-up will include Sidney Poitier presenting his 1967 classic, “In the Heat of the Night,” and Samuel L. Jackson presenting his 1994 Quentin Tarantino-helmed “Pulp Fiction.” Tickets go on sale on [...]
*Everyone’s got a fear, including award-winning actress S. Epatha Merkerson. Snakes is what gets her going, so much so that she nearly passed up the opportunity to play alongside Justin Timberlake and Samuel L. Jackson in “Black Snake Moan.” She wanted to be sure the script included not a single snake. “I won’t even read [...]
*When you think Black History Month do you think of Samuel L. Jackson? Well, funnyman Roy Wood Jr. (TBS’ Sullivan & Son, Letterman & Conan) sho’ nuff does. You see, Mr. Jackson has probably said the word “Muthaf***a!” over 9,000 times (just guessing). And Roy is paying tribute to Sam in his “New Faces Of [...]
*Best Actress Academy Award winners Halle Berry, Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon join the list of presenters for the Oscar telecast, show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announced today. Berry won the award for her performance in “Monster’s Ball” (2001), Bullock for “The Blind Side” (2009), Kidman for “The Hours” (2002) and [...]
*Samuel L. Jackson is set to topline a live action remake of Yasuomi Umetsu’s 1998 Japanese anime film “Kite,” with South African director Ralph Ziman taking over helming duties from the late David R. Ellis. The original “Kite” was controversial for its graphic depictions of sex and violence involving an orphaned girl who’s taken under [...]
*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 [...]
*2 Live Crew alum Luther Campbell has jumped into the debate over Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained.” In an op-ed for the Miami New Times, the former rapper goes all the way in on Spike Lee, who has publicly taken issue with Tarantino’s repeated use of the n-word in “Django’s” script. RELATED STORY: ‘Django’ Fanatic Dick [...]
*“Django” hit the jackpot this year for Oscar nominations. The controversial spaghetti Western/slave flick, however, is not cool enough for the committee to push past its tradition of skipping over great black actors. Supporting actor Christoph Waltz was nominated and the film got nods for best picture and original screenplay. However, Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington [...]
*Reginald Hudlin, a producer on Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained,” has adapted the film into a miniseries for DC Comics, along with artist R.M. Guera, reports ComicsAlliance.com. The first issue is on sale now at comic book store sor in digital form from Comixology. Issue #2 will be available Feb. 13th. Hudlin, who wrote the comic [...]
*Well lookie here. ‘Django Unchained,’ the Quentin Tarantino film that has been causing a lot of ‘stuff’ since its release, and even before, is amongst the films’ given top honors recently by the Producers Guild of America. A “Best Picture” nomination was bestowed upon the slave-turned-bounty-hunter film on Wednesday. Other ‘best picture’ contenders include the [...]
*Quentin Tarantino is still catching heat for “Django Unchained” and the use of the N-word. And now curse-happy Katt Wiliams, of all people, who also over uses the word, is for whatever reason, is agreeing with Spike Lee And we all know what Spike thinks of Tarantino’s use of the N-word in “Django.” Anyway, the [...]
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