SEE NAOMI ACKIE BECOME WHITNEY HOUSTON IN ‘I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY’ TRAILER, FIRST PHOTOS
By Benjamin VanHoose Published on September 15, 2022 09:59 AM I Wanna Dance with Somebody, directed by Kasi Lemmons, is in theaters Dec. 21. Naomi Ackie admits she was “very” nervous to play the “incredible, multifaceted” Whitney Houston. “She’s been elevated in my life for so long that it felt like an impossible thing to... Read More
JONATHAN MAJORS PROVES HE’S A STAR IN WAR DRAMA DEVOTION
BY DAVID CANFIELD SEPTEMBER 12, 2022 Majors plays the U.S. Navy’s first-ever Black aviator in the smart film from J.D. Dillard—which also finds Glen Powell back in the pilot’s seat post-Top Gun: Maverick. Forget the epic aerial cinematography and claustrophobic plane sequences, the real reason to watch Devotion in IMAX is Jonathan Majors’s face. The... Read More
TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL 2022 EXPECTING “FULL HOUSES” SAYS CEO WITH STAR POWER WORLD PREMIERES: JENNIFER LAWRENCE’S ‘CAUSEWAY’, ANYA TAYLOR-JOY’S ‘THE MENU’, JESSICA CHASTAIN’S ‘THE GOOD NURSE’, JONATHAN MAJORS & GLEN POWELL’S ‘DEVOTION’ & MORE
By Anthony D’Alessandro July 28, 2022 7:01am The Toronto International Film Festival is back this year. Seriously, they’re really back. Unlike last year which was a significantly quieter festival with fewer stars and feature films at a count of 130, this year TIFF will see the celebratory closing down of King Street (sans streetcars), full... Read More
‘DEVOTION’: JONATHAN MAJORS, GLEN POWELL KOREAN WAR MOVIE TO GO WIDE DURING THANKSGIVING
By Anthony D’Alessandro July 6, 2022 2:49pm Sony has decided to push Devotion to Wednesday, Nov. 23, as a wide release. The Culver City studio previously planned an October rollout that included going limited on Oct. 14, an Oct. 21 expansion and wide break on Oct. 28. On its new date, Devotion joins Disney’s animated... Read More
JONATHAN MAJORS AND GLEN POWELL TAKE FLIGHT IN THRILLING DEVOTION TRAILER: WATCH
The war film based on Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice by Adam Makos tells the story of late Navy pilot Jesse Brown and hits theaters in October. By Dana Rose Falcone May 26, 2022 11:28 AM Just ahead of Memorial Day, Jonathan Majors and his upcoming movie Devotion offer a reminder... Read More
DEVOTION: THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF AVIATOR JESSE BROWN FINALLY TAKES FLIGHT
J.D. Dillard dug into his own family history to chronicle the unlikely bond between pioneering Navy airman Brown (played by Jonathan Majors) and Tom Hudner (Glen Powell) during the Korean War. BY REBECCA FORD MAY 23, 2022 J.D. Dillard’s earliest childhood memory is of burning his hand on the nose of an airplane after an... Read More
‘REPTILE’: DOMENICK LOMBARDOZZI, KARL GLUSMAN, OWEN TEAGUE & MORE ROUND OUT CAST OF NETFLIX THRILLER
By Matt Grobar September 30, 2021 9:00am EXCLUSIVE: Domenick Lombardozzi (The Irishman), Karl Glusman (Greyhound), Matilda Lutz (Revenge), Owen Teague (Montana Story) and Catherine Dyer (The Morning Show) will round out the cast of Netflix’s Reptile. They’ll appear in the crime thriller alongside previously announced cast members Benicio Del Toro, Justin Timberlake, Alicia Silverstone, Michael... Read More
STANLEY TUCCI TO PLAY CLIVE DAVIS IN WHITNEY HOUSTON BIOPIC ‘I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY’
By Justin Kroll September 24, 2021 10:30am EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated actor Stanley Tucci has been tapped to play Grammy-winning producer Clive Davis in the biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody, the upcoming feature film about the late musical icon Whitney Houston. Naomi Ackie will play Houston in the musical biopic, which is based on Houston’s epic... Read More
ASHTON SANDERS TO PLAY BOBBY BROWN IN WHITNEY HOUSTON BIOPIC AS BLACK LABEL MEDIA JOINS AS CO-FINANCIER
By Justin Kroll Senior Film Reporter September 20, 2021 3:30pm EXCLUSIVE: Ashton Sanders has joined the cast of the biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody, the upcoming feature about the late musical icon Whitney Houston. Sanders will play Bobby Brown, and sources also tell Deadline that Black Label Media is coming on board to co-finance... Read More
‘REPTILE’: JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE JOINS BENICIO DEL TORO IN FILM FROM BLACK LABEL MEDIA AS IT HEADS TO NETFLIX
By Matt Grobar August 26, 2021 2:44pm Netflix has acquired worldwide rights to Black Label Media’s Reptile, setting Oscar nominee Justin Timberlake (Palmer, The Social Network) to star opposite Oscar winner Benicio Del Toro (Sicario, Traffic), whose casting had already been announced. The film picks up following the brutal murder of a young real estate... Read More