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In association with BBC, Netflix is planning on adapting the popular British crime series Luther starring Idris Elba into a movie. Cynthia Erivo and Andy Serkis are also set to join the cast. According to Hollywood Reporter, the creator and writer of the series, Neil Cross, will be writing the script while Jamie Payne, who directed the last full season of the […]
For its 2020 Year in Search campaign, Google enlisted Peter CottonTale to create the first original song for its annual look back. The final product? A record appropriately titled “Together,” featuring Chance the Rapper, Cynthia Erivo, the Chicago Children’s Choir, and the Matt Jones Re-Collective Orchestra. Peter composed, produced, and recorded the song, with contributions from 80 Black artists, engineers, producers, side musicians, […]
National Geographic will premiere the third installment in their Genius anthology series later this year with a focus on the life of the iconic Aretha Franklin. The eight-part series will “explore Franklin’s musical genius and incomparable career – and the immeasurable impact and lasting influence she has had on music and culture around the world.” Aretha will be played by Cynthia […]
Gregory Allen Howard has been trying to get Harriet made for quite a while. The screenwriter behind Remember The Titans and Ali said that “the climate in Hollywood … was very different” when he first started to pitch the movie. So different, in fact, that a studio exec thought Julia Roberts could play Harriet Tubman. […]
In an interview with Shadow and Act during the Toronto International Film Festival, Cynthia Erivo responded to the recently resurfaced tweets that have followed throughout the press run for Harriet, the biopic based on the life of Harriet Tubman starring Erivo in the titular role. “I would say it took a lot of hard work to get to this […]
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