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Reggie Hudlin, Django Unchained producer, plants the seed for its script *“I wasn’t interested,” said Reginald “Reggie” Hudlin, co-producer of the box office hit Django Unchained starring Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Leonardo DiCaprio and Christoph Waltz. “He (Quentin Tarantino) reached out 15 years later and said, ‘I got a new script,’…he said, [...]
*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 [...]
*”Flight,” “Django Unchained,” “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” “Red Tails” and “Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds” will battle for the outstanding motion picture trophy at the 44th annual NAACP Image Awards. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People announced the nominations Tuesday for the awards that honor diversity in the arts. The ceremony will [...]
*With HBO’s “Treme” currently airing its final season, co-star Clarke Peters has been cast as a regular in AMC’s Untitled Lagravenese/Goldwyn pilot. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The legal thriller centers on Adam Page (Damon Gupton), a District Attorney who uncovers new evidence that prompts the reinvestigation of a sensational murder. Peters will play Adam’s [...]
*Co-creator David Simon will get his wish to finish his New Orleans-based series “Treme” in four seasons… well, 3.5 seasons. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] During a screening for the show’s production staff last night in New Orleans on the eve of the show’s third season premiere on Sunday, Simon announced that the post-Hurricane Katrina [...]
*Lionel Batiste, the vocalist, bass drummer and assistant leader of the Treme Brass Band, has died, reports the Associated Press. He was 81. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Batiste often appeared on the HBO series “Treme.” He was the slim guy with the big drum in the band, one of the acts regularly featured on [...]
WARNING, SEASON FINALE SPOILERS *AMC’s “The Walking Dead” has recruited “Treme” actress Danai Gurira to play Michonne, the legendary heroine from the Robert Kirkman comic series on which the zombie drama is based. Are you a fan of EURweb? Like us on Facebook or Follow us on Twitter.) The hooded, sword-wielding character made her onscreen [...]
*Former “CSI: Miami” star Khandi Alexander will guest-star on the upcoming first season of USA’s “Common Law,” the freshman dramedy co-starring Michael Ealy. Premiering Friday, May 11 at 10/9c,“Common Law” tells the story of Travis Marks (Ealy) and Wes Mitchell (Warren Kole), two sharp LAPD detectives whose partnership becomes so strained that Captain Mike Sutton [...]
*A lot of American history is lost. Some of it may be due to its African origin, but most has simply become stories that have not been published, but passed down from the elders to their children and to their children until it has become lore. But, some history cannot be shaken down and stirred [...]
*“Treme” fans will have to exercise a little patience when it comes to the new season. HBO has pushed back the drama’s Season 3 premiere from its usual April beginning to fall, The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports. No reason was given for the move. The 10-episode third season of “Treme” is currently in production.
*When it comes to hiring female and minority directors, the ABC sitcom “The Middle” gets scores high, while HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” has some work to do, according to a new report from The Directors Guild of America. The DGA analyzed more than 2,600 episodes produced in the 2010-2011 television season from more than 170 [...]
*In the wake of Sunday’s season finale of HBO’s “Treme,” the show and one of its characters have been given extraordinary props by two separate media outlets. Below, The Hollywood Reporter’s Tim Goodman, in his piece “How ‘Treme’ Found Greatness In Ordinary People And Counterintuitive Storytelling,” tries to pinpoint the exact ingredients that make this [...]
*The producers of the HBO series “Treme,” which follows life in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, are fighting to stop the demolition of a row of homes the city says are in danger of collapsing. The homes became a symbol of post-Katrina in New Orleans when they were featured as the backdrop of a poster [...]
*A tour of New Orleans musicians under the banner of the HBO show “Treme” have booked nine dates this summer, and the promoter is looking to extend its routing into the spring of 2012, Billboard reports. “A Night in Treme” is booked June 10-13 in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington, D.C., and will [...]
*The creator of HBO’s “The Wire” is speaking out on the arrest of Felicia Snoop Pearson, saying she deserves the benefit of the doubt following her arrest Wednesday as part of a massive drug raid that detained some 60 people in Baltimore. For Simon, the issue is less about Pearson’s alleged crime than about the [...]
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