Idris Elba News

Idris Elba is currently in talks to star in MGM's supernatural thriller “Deeper,” according to Variety.

BBC AMERICA will air The EE British Academy Film Awards in primetime on Sunday, February 10 at 9:00pm ET/PT. The ceremony will be hosted by Joanna Lumley and will be held in one of the world's most beautiful concert halls, the Royal Albert Hall in London.

After eight films that have amassed almost $5 billion worldwide, the Fast & Furious franchise now features its first stand-alone vehicle as Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham reprise their roles as Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw in Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw.

Rising Brighton soul singer Celeste kicks off 2019 with her most personal release to date, “Father's Son,” accompanied by a video directed by Bob Harlow from an original concept by Celeste. The track ruminates on the now West London-based singer's complicated relationship with her Jamaican father, who died when she was 16: “My mother has covered so much in my life but there were points where I thought it would be cool to ask my dad this one question,” she says.

Today, ABFF Ventures announced actress, producer, author and entrepreneur La La Anthony will serve as the 2019 American Black Film Festival's Ambassador, to be held in Miami Beach, June 12-16. 

Naomi Ackie, Denise Gough, Jamie Campbell Bower, Sheila Atim, Ivanno Jeremiah, Georgie Henley, Alex Sharp, and Toby Regbo have all joined the pilot for HBO's 'Game of Thrones' prequel in series regular roles, according to Variety.

Antonio Banderas(four-time Golden Globe Award nominee), Kristen Bell (Golden Globe Award nominee), Emily Blunt (Golden Globe Award winner and six-time award nominee), Steve Carell (Golden Globe Award winner and nine-time award nominee), Olivia Colman (Golden Globe Award winner and two-time award nominee), Bradley Cooper (four-time Golden Globe Award nominee), Taron Egerton, Lady Gaga(Golden Globe winner and four-time award nominee), Richard Gere (Golden Globe Award winner and four-time award nominee), Danai Gurira, Nicole Kidman (five-time Golden Globe Award winner and fourteen-time award nominee), Lucy Liu, Julianne Moore (two-time Golden Globe Award winner and nine-time award nominee), Maya Rudolph, Megan Mullally (four-time Golden Globe Award nominee), Chris Pine, Amy Poehler (Golden Globe Award winner and three-time nominee), Gina Rodriguez (Golden Globe Award winner and three-time award nominee), Emma Stone (Golden Globe Award winner and five-time award nominee) and Rachel Weisz (Golden Globe Award winner and three-time award nominee) are the second round of presenters announced by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) for the 76th Annual Golden Globe® Awards.

Three emerging playwrights - two from St. Louis and one from Chicago - have been selected to participate in a new initiative developed by Shakespeare Festival St. Louis called the Confluence Regional Writers Project. As part of the program, the festival has also selected St. Louisan Carter Lewis, a two-time nominee for the American Theatre Critics Award, as the Festival's 2019 Playwriting Fellow.

On Friday, March 15, Idris Elba comes to Netflix in new comedy series, Turn Up Charlie, see a first look of Elba in the series below!

Halle Berry (Golden Globe Award winner and six-time award nominee), Chadwick Boseman, Sterling K. Brown (Golden Globe Award winner and two-time award nominee), Jessica Chastain (Golden Globe Award winner and five-time award nominee), Kaley Cuoco, Jamie Lee Curtis (two-time Golden Globe Award winner and seven-time award nominee), Dick Van Dyke (three-time Golden Globe Award nominee), Idris Elba (Golden Globe Award winner and six-time award nominee), Harrison Ford (Four-time Golden Globe Award nominee and Cecil B. deMille Award recipient), Johnny Galecki (Golden Globe Award nominee), Justin Hartley, Taraji P. Henson (Golden Globe Award winner and one-time award nominee), Felicity Huffman(Golden Globe Award winner and seven-time award nominee), Allison Janney (Golden Globe Award winner and six-time award nominee), Michael B. Jordan, William H. Macy (five-time Golden Globe Award nominee), Chrissy Metz (two-time Golden Globe Award nominee), Mike Myers, Lupita Nyong'o (Golden Globe Award nominee), Gary Oldman(Golden Globe Award winner and one-time award nominee), Jim Parsons (Golden Globe Award winner and three-time award nominee), Sam Rockwell (Golden Globe Award winner and two-time award nominee), Saoirse Ronan (Golden Globe Award winner and three-time award nominee), Octavia Spencer (Golden Globe Award winner and three-time award nominee), Ben Stiller, Lena Waithe, and Catherine Zeta-Jones (two-time Golden Globe Award nominee) have been announced as presenters by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) for the 76th Annual Golden Globe® Awards.

The annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has released its full lineup which features the headliners Childish Gambino, Tame Impala, and Ariana Grande.

Idris Elba confirmed at the Season 5 launch of 'Luther,' that the writer-creator of the series, Neil Cross, is working on a script for the movie version of the series, according to Variety.

Award-winning actress Danielle Brooks, star of Netflix's blockbuster series Orange Is the New Black, has been named host of the eleventh season of the public television series AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange. Brooks will help guide audiences as they journey through AfroPoP's new slate of documentary and short stories on contemporary life, art and culture in the African Diaspora. Season 11 of the series, which highlights diverse issues including social justice, politics, LGBTQ identity, fashion and violence against women, premieres at 8 p.m. ET/10 p.m. PT on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday, January 21, on the WORLD Channel, with a new episode airing each Monday through February 18. AfroPoP is produced by Black Public Media (BPM) and co-presented by American Public Television (APT). 

Production began today at Leavesden Studios in Hertfordshire, UK for the big screen adaptation of Cats, which is set to hit theatres on December 20, 2019!

Protagonizada por James Corden, Judi Dench, Jason Derulo y Jennifer Hudson, llegara a los cines el 25 de diciembre de 2019

Production began today at Leavesden Studios in Hertfordshire, UK for the big screen adaptation of Cats, which is set to hit theatres on December 20, 2019!

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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the nominations for the 2019 Golden Globe Awards this morning. Terry Crews, Danai Gurira, Leslie Mann and Christian Slater will join HFPA President Meher Tatna, executive producer Barry Adelman and Isan Elba, daughter of Idris Elba and this year's Golden Globe ambassador, to make the announcement.  We've got the full list of nominees below, plus find out which of your favorite theater stars received a 2019 nomination!

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the nominations for the 2019 Golden Globe Awards on Thursday morning. Terry Crews, Danai Gurira, Leslie Mann and Christian Slater will join HFPA President Meher Tatna, executive producer Barry Adelman and Isan Elba, daughter of Idris Elba and this year's Golden Globe ambassador to make the announcement. 

American actress Johnetta Eula'Mae Ackles makes her professional stage debut in Martin McDonagh's A Very Very Very Dark Matter at the Bridge Theatre, playing the captive Congolese woman who supplies writer Hans Christian Andersen with all his stories.