Idris Elba News

The 2016 BET AWARDS took place at Microsoft Theater last night, Sunday, June 26. Check out the full list of winners

FINDING DORY, the long-awaited follow-up to the unbelievably beloved 2003 film FINDING NEMO, follows Dory, a good-natured, amnesiac blue tang fish (voiced by Ellen DeGeneres), as she searches for her long lost parents.

IDRIS ELBA NO LIMITS premieres Monday, July 4 beginning at 7 PM ET/PT as part of Discovery's iconic Motor Monday line-up.

Spike's hit series will boldly go where no man has gone before as Zoë Saldana and Zachary Quinto will be featured in a super-sized one-hour episode of 'Lip Sync Battle' on Thursday, June 9 at 8:00pm ET/PT.

The Ambassador Theatre Group is to produce a brand new stage musical based on the life of the legendary Frank Sinatra, in partnership with Stewart Till and Frank Sinatra Enterprises.  The show, which is planned to open in 2018, will feature a number of timeless hit songs from Sinatra's incredible catalogue of over 1400 tracks recorded during his illustrious career. Script development for the Frank Sinatra musical is planned to start shortly.

Director Sean Foley, who has recently enjoyed sell-out success adapting and directing The Painkiller in the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company season of Plays at the Garrick will, starting this autumn, under producer Mark Goucher, direct two new productions in the West End.

Two-time Oscar®-winner Cate Blanchett ('Blue Jasmine,' 'Carol, 'Cinderella') joins Marvel Studios' 'Thor: Ragnarok' as the mysterious and powerful new villain Hela, along with Jeff Goldblum (the upcoming 'Independence Day: Resurgence,' 'The Grand Budapest Hotel,' 'Jurassic Park') who joins the cast as the eccentric Grandmaster, Tessa Thompson ('Creed,' 'Selma') who will bring the classic hero Valkyrie to life on the big screen, and Karl Urban ('Star Trek' trilogy, 'The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King') who will add his might to the fray as Skurge.

BET Networks, a unit of Viacom Inc. (VIA, VIA.B), today announced the nominations for the 2016 'BET Awards,' taking place at Microsoft Theater on Sunday, June 26.

According to the UK's Daily Mail, actor Daniel Craig has turned down an offer of £68 million to return as the iconic secret agent James Bond.

The historical drama WOLF HALL, Shane Meadows' “This Is England '90” and “Peter Kay's Car Share” were among the big winners at last night's BAFTA Television Awards

Stage and screen vets Idris Elba and Jessica Chastain are in talks to lead playwright and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin's directorial debut MOLLY'S GAME, based on Molly Pope's high-stakes poker memoir.

RLJ Entertainment's Urban Movie Channel (UMC) presents the gripping psychodrama, Second Coming, premiering on May 6, 2016. Written and directed by Olivier Award-winning playwright, Debbie Tucker Green, the film stars Idris Elba (Luther, Beasts of No Nation, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom) and Nadine Marshall (The Smoking Room, Waterloo Road) as a married couple left with unanswered questions when the wife mysteriously becomes pregnant despite their lack of intimacy.

(New York, October 14, 2015)—The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that The Costume Institute's spring 2016 exhibition will be manus x machina: fashion in an age of technology, on view from May 5 through August 14, 2016(preceded on May 2 by The Costume Institute Benefit).  Presented in the Museum's Robert Lehman Wing and Anna Wintour Costume Center, the exhibition will explore the impact of new technology on fashion and how designers are reconciling the handmade and the machine-made in the creation of haute couture and avant-garde ready-to-wear.

Below, check out the new music video for the DJDS Remix of “Trust In Me” from THE JUNGLE BOOK. “Trust In Me” is performed by Scarlett Johansson and produced by Mark Ronson.

Ruth Wilson is headed back to the stage after her star turn in Broadway's CONSTELLATIONS.

Below, check out Baloo (voiced by Bill Murray) and Mowgli (played by Neel Sethi) singing the film's classic song 'The Bare Necessities.'

Academy Award-winner John Ridley (American Crime, 12 Years a Slave) will write, direct and executive produce GUERRILLA, a new six-part limited series set to air on SHOWTIME and Sky Atlantic,

Disney's extraordinary 3D adventure filmTHE JUNGLE BOOK, directed by Jon Favreau captivated audiences and brought a mighty roar to the box office as the exhilarating motion picture generatedapproximately 43% of its domestic opening weekend gross on 3D equipped screens.

Walt Disney Records releases The Jungle Book soundtrack, featuring score by award-winning composer John Debney