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*AMC’s “The Walking Dead” has opened its arms to Larry Gilliard Jr. The former star of HBO’s “The Wire” will play the series regular part of Bob Stookey, a former Army medic who is deeply haunted by his past — both before and after the apocalypse. He’s a loner, though he maintains a charming yet [...]
*Director-actor Clark Johnson has been cast as a lead opposite John Goodman, Mark Consuelos and Matt Malloy in Amazon Studios‘ comedy pilot, “Alpha House,” written by Garry Trudeau. According to Deadline.com, the actors play four senators who live together in a rented house in Washington DC. Johnson is Sen. Robert Bettencourt, a power player from [...]
*A funeral service will be held in Baltimore today for Robert F. Chew, the actor best known for his role as narcotics kingpin Proposition Joe on HBO’s “The Wire.” As previously reported, the actor and teacher died Jan. 17 of apparent heart failure while asleep in his Baltimore home. He was 52. In addition to [...]
*With “Treme” nearing its end, co-star Wendell Pierce has already lined up his next gig. The actor, who plays Antoine Batiste on the HBO New Orleans-set drama, has joined the cast of NBC’s upcoming Michael J. Fox series, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Inspired by the former “Family Ties” actor’s life, NBC ordered 22 episodes of the untitled single-camera comedy starring Fox [...]
*ICM Partners has signed Michael Kenneth Williams, currently starring as Chalky White in HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire.” He just wrapped production on Steve McQueen’s upcoming film “12 Years A Slave,” as well as Ric Roman Waugh’s “Snitch” opposite Dwayne Johnson. And he was considered for the title role in Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” until Jamie Foxx [...]
*“Boardwalk Empire” actor Michael Kenneth Williams is in negotiations to join the cast of “Robocop,” MGM and Sony’s remake of the classic 1987 sci-fi action movie. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Production is set to begin in September in Toronto and so far includes Joel Kinnaman in the title role, Hugh Laurie as the villain, [...]
*Michael Kenneth Williams has joined the cast of “Twelve Years a Slave,” an adaptation of Solomon Northup’s 1853 book about a free black man who is drugged and dragged to the South to be sold into slavery. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The actor joins Michael Fassbender, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Brad Pitt in the Steve [...]
*The latest addition to the comedy website Funny or Die is a musical spoof of the critically acclaimed HBO series “The Wire,” with many of the show’s stars participating – including Snoop “as you’ve never seen her before.” [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] “The Wire: The Musical” debuted today with cast members reprising their roles [...]
*Michael K. Williams, best known for his work in HBO’s “The Wire,” will star as the late hip-hop artist Ol’ Dirty Bastard, (real name Russell Jones), in the feature film “Dirty White Boy.” The film is based on the true story of Jarred Weisfeld, a 22-year-old VH1 intern who eventually became the rapper’s manager. The [...]
*Idris Elba’s mini-series “Luther” – a show so intense and disturbing it makes FX’s new “American Horror Story” look like “Sesame Street” – wraps its second season tonight on BBC America with Det. John Luther hunting a serial killer that actually turns out to be two serial killers – twins. [Watch the season finale trailer [...]
*Idris Elba is a man of many faces that has taken Hollywood by storm. But not only has he taken on the big screen, he became the ladies’ desire on HBO’s Baltimore drug drama, “The Wire.” But, what most didn’t know at the time was that he was not from these shores; that actually, he is [...]
*Smartwater has just become Sexywater, if you’re an Idris Elba fan. The British actor has just been named the new face of the Coca-Cola-owned water brand and will appear in print ads that will run in upcoming issues of GQ, Essence and Men’s Journal magazines. Elba is best known for his role as intellectual drug [...]
*You know him from HBO’s “The Wire” as the ex-con turned boxing instructor Cutty. Soon, a wider audience will get to enjoy actor Chad L. Coleman when he premieres in Fox’s new fall sitcom “I Hate My Teenage Daughter.” The series follows two mothers who were never part of the popular crowd when they were [...]
*It’s a little scary when government officials seem to have a type of power that seems nearly tyrannical. But Attorney General Eric Holder might just be getting praised for ordering the writer of HBO “The Wire” to pick their pens back up to write more episodes or a movie. For those of you who live [...]
*”The Wire” actress Felicia Pearson has pleaded not guilty to conspiring to sell heroin. The one-time drug dealer in real life was arrested along with 37 other suspects during a March 10th raid by police in Baltimore, Maryland on an alleged drugs ring. Pearson, who was jailed for more than six years for killing a [...]
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