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Film Adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘Cell’ Acquired for US Distribution

Click here to read at Dailydead.com.

John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson set for leads.

Cover of Stephen King's 2006 novel Cell

Cover of Stephen King’s 2006 novel Cell

Amandla Stenberg to Continue Being a Very Woke Teen in #BlackLivesMatter Movie

Read about it at Vulture.com.

She’s not so little anymore.

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This Low-Budget Time-Travel Thriller Looks Like Just the Right Amount of Goofy Fun

Click here for Charlie Jane Anders’s review of Paradox at io9.com.

Paradox stars Malik Yoba (Alphas) and Zoe Bell (The Hateful Eight).

Actor Malik Yoba

Actor Malik Yoba

‘Dr. Who’ Actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw Set to Star in ‘An Untamed State,’ an Adaptation of Roxane Gay’s Debut Novel

Click here to read at Vulture.com.

Actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Dr. Who) is set to star.

Actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw

‘The Perfect Guy’ Star Michael Ealy Joins ‘Jacob’s Ladder’ Reboot

Check it out at Variety.com.

Theatrical release poster for 1990's Jacob's Ladder - Photo via Wikipedia

Theatrical release poster for 1990’s Jacob’s LadderPhoto via Wikipedia

‘The Jungle Book’: New Cast & Character Images Released

Check out the pics at Screenrant.com.

Here’s the trailer:

Ruth Negga: ‘I never fitted anywhere – in life or in Hollywood’

Read at The Guardian.

Actress Ruth Negga

Actress Ruth Negga

Shocktillyoudrop.com Interview: The RATS Are Coming! Geretta Geretta is Here!

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Variety.com Has Exclusive Story on Octavia Spencer and Guillermo Del Toro’s Cold War Film!

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Actress Octavia Spencer

Actress Octavia Spencer

Beals, Ali, and Hudson In Casting News From Deadline.com…

Actress Jennifer Beals at the GLAAD Awards in 2009

Actress Jennifer Beals at the GLAAD Awards in 2009

Looks like Jennifer Beals (The Bride, The Book of Eli, Flashdance) is set as the female lead in Taken, the NBC prequel to the Taken film franchise. Beals will co-star opposite Clive Standen in the role of Christina Hart the special deputy director of National Intelligence.

House Of Cards’ Mahershala Ali has joined the cast in director Ted Melfi’s Hidden Figures, the story of former NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson. Ali’s role? Love interest of main character, Johnson, played by Taraji Henson.

Also confirmed is Ernie Hudson of Ghostbusters fame (also set to appear in the “controversial” remake) as Sgt. Ed Conrad in the pilot for Fox detective show APB.