Walt Disney Pictures has just dropped a Thanksgiving gift for fans of the 1994 animated classic The Lion King with the release of the first trailer for director Jon Favreau’s (The Jungle Book) upcoming remake; check it out here, along with a teaser poster featuring young Simba… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OARmVa5qs54 Lions rule the African savanna in The […]
October Horrors 2018 Day 13 – Annabelle (2014)
Annabelle, 2014. Directed by John R. Leonetti. Starring Annabelle Wallis, Ward Horton, Tony Amendola and Alfre Woodard. SYNOPSIS: In 1967, new parents Mia and John Form, after surviving a violent encounter with a pair of murderous cult members and losing their house to a fire, find themselves being haunted by a supernatural entity that appears […]
Alfre Woodard’s Luke Cage character confirmed by Marvel
Back in August it was reported that Alfre Woodard (Desperate Housewives, True Blood) has signed on to appear in the upcoming Luke Cage Netflix series, and now Marvel has confirmed her casting as Mariah Dillard, a.k.a. Black Mariah. The official site describes Mariah as “a local Harlem politician–and cousin to recently announced Cornell “Cottonmouth” Stokes […]
Movie Review – Burning Sands (2017)
Burning Sands, 2017 Directed by Gerard McMurray Starring Trevor Jackson, Alfre Woodard, Steve Harris, Tosin Cole, DeRon Horton, and Trevante Rhodes. SYNOPSIS: Deep into Hell Week, a favored pledgee is torn between honoring his code of silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground hazing. A fiery takedown of the fraternity pledging culture […]
New images from season 2 of Marvel’s Luke Cage
Empire’s spinoff magazine Pilot has revealed a batch of new images from the second season of Netflix’s Marvel series Luke Cage featuring Mike Colter’s titular hero, Danny Rand/Iron Fist (Finn Jones), Claire Temple (Rosario Dawson), Shades (Theo Rossi), and Mariah Dillard (Alfre Woodard), and offers a first look at Bushmaster (Mustafa Shakir) and a peek at […]
The Lion King’s full cast revealed, Beyonce confirmed as Nala
The full cast for Jon Favreau’s live-action take on Disney’s classic The Lion King has been revealed with mega-artist Beyonce being one of the last to join the film. She will play Nala as an adult and shared a photo of the rest of the cast over her Facebook page, while Disney shared via Twitter. The other […]
Alfre Woodard and John Kani join The Lion King remake
The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Captain America: Civil War co-stars Alfre Woodard and John Kani have become the latest additions to the cast of Disney and Jon Favreau’s The Lion King remake. Woodard is set to voice Sarabi, the mother of Simba, with Kani portraying the baboon Rafiki. The duo join a cast that […]
