Halle Bailey Joins Kelvin Harrison Jr. In Universal’s Musical From Michel Gondry & Pharrell Williams
Halle Bailey (The Color Purple) has been tapped to star alongside Kelvin Harrison Jr. and The Holdovers Oscar winner Da’Vine Joy Randolph in Universal Pictures’ untitled coming-of-age pic from director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and producer Pharrell Williams (Hidden Figures), Deadline has learned.
Details as to Bailey’s role are under wraps. A musical set in 1977 Virginia Beach, the film draws inspiration from Williams’ childhood growing up in the city’s Atlantis Apartments.
Script for the film is from Martin Hynes (Toy Story 4) and Steven Levenson. Williams and Mimi Valdés will produce through i am Other, alongside Gil Netter for Gil Netter Productions. Universal’s Senior Vice President of Production Development Ryan Jones and Director of Production Development Christine Sun are overseeing the project for the studio.
Most recently starring as Young Nettie in Warner Bros’ The Color Purple musical from director Blitz Bazawule,...
Details as to Bailey’s role are under wraps. A musical set in 1977 Virginia Beach, the film draws inspiration from Williams’ childhood growing up in the city’s Atlantis Apartments.
Script for the film is from Martin Hynes (Toy Story 4) and Steven Levenson. Williams and Mimi Valdés will produce through i am Other, alongside Gil Netter for Gil Netter Productions. Universal’s Senior Vice President of Production Development Ryan Jones and Director of Production Development Christine Sun are overseeing the project for the studio.
Most recently starring as Young Nettie in Warner Bros’ The Color Purple musical from director Blitz Bazawule,...
- 4/4/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Kelvin Harrison Jr. (Waves) has been set to lead a new, untitled Universal feature project from director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and producer Pharrell Williams (Hidden Figures), according to multiple sources, who also tell us that 2024 Academy Award winner Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers) is in talks.
Universal declined comment. But the film is said to be a coming-of-age musical, set in 1977 Virginia Beach, which draws inspiration from Williams’ childhood growing up in the city’s Atlantis Apartments.
Martin Hynes (Toy Story 4) and Steven Levenson penned the script. Williams and Mimi Valdés will produce through i am Other, alongside Gil Netter for Gil Netter Productions.
Known for roles in Trey Edward Shults’ Waves, Joe Wright’s Cyrano, Nat Geo’s Genius: MLK/X, which had him playing Martin Luther King Jr., and Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, which had him portraying B.B. King,...
Universal declined comment. But the film is said to be a coming-of-age musical, set in 1977 Virginia Beach, which draws inspiration from Williams’ childhood growing up in the city’s Atlantis Apartments.
Martin Hynes (Toy Story 4) and Steven Levenson penned the script. Williams and Mimi Valdés will produce through i am Other, alongside Gil Netter for Gil Netter Productions.
Known for roles in Trey Edward Shults’ Waves, Joe Wright’s Cyrano, Nat Geo’s Genius: MLK/X, which had him playing Martin Luther King Jr., and Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, which had him portraying B.B. King,...
- 3/21/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
If you watched Season Three of Only Murders in the Building, you know it ended with, well, another murder in the building. But if there’s one thing fans can count on, it’s that Mabel (Selena Gomez), Charles (Steve Martin), and Oliver (Martin Short) will be sure to follow the case closely.
The series’ season three premiere marked the highest-rated Hulu episode of 2023, and the show nabbed nearly a dozen Emmy nominations, making expectations for the next season even higher. And while some themes will remain tried and true...
The series’ season three premiere marked the highest-rated Hulu episode of 2023, and the show nabbed nearly a dozen Emmy nominations, making expectations for the next season even higher. And while some themes will remain tried and true...
- 3/4/2024
- by Kalia Richardson
- Rollingstone.com
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Boardwalk Empire's Terence Winter has departed HBO show Vinyl ahead of season 2, which will see "a change in the creative direction"...
It's fair to say that things haven't gone swimmingly for HBO's much-hyped Vinyl. The involvement of big names (Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger...) and the richer than rich pickings of the 1970s Us music scene haven't yet added up to TV glory, critically or in terms of ratings.
HBO is still committed, however, to a second season, following a cockily early renewal. That second season will go on without showrunner Terence Winter (Boardwalk Empire, The Sopranos), it's been confirmed.
Winter will be replaced by executive producers Scott Z Burns (The Bourne Ultimatum, Contagion) and Max Borenstein (the Minority Report TV show) for Vinyl's second season. HBO describes Winter's exit thusly:
“As we head into the second season of Vinyl, we have decided it is an...
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Boardwalk Empire's Terence Winter has departed HBO show Vinyl ahead of season 2, which will see "a change in the creative direction"...
It's fair to say that things haven't gone swimmingly for HBO's much-hyped Vinyl. The involvement of big names (Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger...) and the richer than rich pickings of the 1970s Us music scene haven't yet added up to TV glory, critically or in terms of ratings.
HBO is still committed, however, to a second season, following a cockily early renewal. That second season will go on without showrunner Terence Winter (Boardwalk Empire, The Sopranos), it's been confirmed.
Winter will be replaced by executive producers Scott Z Burns (The Bourne Ultimatum, Contagion) and Max Borenstein (the Minority Report TV show) for Vinyl's second season. HBO describes Winter's exit thusly:
“As we head into the second season of Vinyl, we have decided it is an...
- 4/11/2016
- Den of Geek
Directed by: Edward Douglas
Written by: Tony Demci, Edward Douglas
Cast: Andrew Divoff, Jason Carter, Tom Savini, Sean Serino, Tom Nagel, C.B. Spencer, Christopher Robichaud, Brian Van Camp, Donna Williams
The Dead Matter, available now in special edition at Hot Topic, is Edward Douglas' feature length film debut as director. Written by Edward and Tony Demci, it is a low budget, independent remake of a film he made in 1996 with $2,000, a few friends and his backyard.
Edward Douglas is known more for the gothic, heavily atmospheric horror themed music, designed to spark the imagination, he has been creating since forming Midnight Syndicate in 1996. Having become the reigning champ in spooky music featured at Halloween events and haunted houses he has given his other passion a go. Having completed the score for Robert Kutzman's (K.N.B. Efx Group) The Rage in 2007, filmed in Edward Douglas's home state of Ohio where...
Written by: Tony Demci, Edward Douglas
Cast: Andrew Divoff, Jason Carter, Tom Savini, Sean Serino, Tom Nagel, C.B. Spencer, Christopher Robichaud, Brian Van Camp, Donna Williams
The Dead Matter, available now in special edition at Hot Topic, is Edward Douglas' feature length film debut as director. Written by Edward and Tony Demci, it is a low budget, independent remake of a film he made in 1996 with $2,000, a few friends and his backyard.
Edward Douglas is known more for the gothic, heavily atmospheric horror themed music, designed to spark the imagination, he has been creating since forming Midnight Syndicate in 1996. Having become the reigning champ in spooky music featured at Halloween events and haunted houses he has given his other passion a go. Having completed the score for Robert Kutzman's (K.N.B. Efx Group) The Rage in 2007, filmed in Edward Douglas's home state of Ohio where...
- 9/21/2010
- by Robert A. Newberry
- Planet Fury
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