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Critics Circle Young British Performer of the Year
20 December 2011 10:08 AM, PST | ScreenTerrier | See recent ScreenTerrier news »
The London Critics’ Circle has announced the nominees for its 32nd Film Awards, including five fantastic young actors all nominated for the Young British Performer of the year, and all previously featured on Screenterrier.
The five nominees for Young British Performer of the Year are:
19 year old John Boyega for his role as Moses in 'Attack the Block'. John has been out in the Us this year filming on Spike Lee's TV pilot Da Brick.
20 year old Jeremy Irvine for his role in Steven Spielberg’s 'War Horse'. Jeremy will also star as Pip in next year's film adaptation of Great Expectations, and recently filmed Now Is Good alongside Dakota Fanning.
20 year old Yasmin Paige for her role as Jordana in 'Submarine'. Familiar to TV audiences for her roles in The Sarah Jane Adventures and Ballet Shoes, Yasmin starred alongside fellow nominee Craig Roberts »
- noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
HBO Developing Marion Barry Biopic, Eddie Murphy Set To Star, Spike Lee To Direct
9 December 2011 10:16 AM, PST | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
In their latest collaboration, director Spike Lee and writer John Ridley have teamed for an HBO biopic of Marion Barry, with Eddie Murphy attached to play the larger-then-life former Washington D.C. mayor. The HBO Films project, first reported by the Washington Post, is currently in development. Ridley is writing the script based on several pieces of source material, including the 1994 book Dream City by D.C. journalists Harry Jaffe and Tom Sherwood who will serve as consultants. Lee on board to direct. The two are executive producing with Murphy. HBO previously developed a Marion Barry biopic a decade ago with Jamie Foxx attached to star and Chris Rock to executive produce, but the project didn’t go forward. Barry, currently a member of the Council of the District Of Columbia, did two terms as a mayor of D.C., from 1979-91 and 1995-99, separated by a six-month stint in »
- NELLIE ANDREEVA
Eddie Murphy to Play Marion Barry in HBO Biopic From Spike Lee
8 December 2011 9:12 PM, PST | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Eddie Murphy may be headed back to the small screen. HBO Films is developing an untitled television biopic centered on former Washington D.C. Mayor Marion Barry, whom Murphy would play should the project move forward, a source confirms to The Hollywood Reporter. Spike Lee is attached to direct with John Ridley (Red Tails, Da Brick) to pen the script. Murphy, Lee and Ridley would all serve as executive producers as the Washington Post first reported. Journalists Harry Jaffe and Tom Sherwood have been tapped to consult, along with The Nine Lives of Marion Barry filmmakers Dana Flor and Toby Oppenheimer. Jaffe
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- Philiana Ng
Elvis Nolasco joins Spike Lee's Da Brick
9 November 2011 12:02 PM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Elvis Nolasco has joined the cast of HBO.s new series "Da Brick" from Mike Tyson and Spike Lee. Tyson and Lee have teamed with "Entourage" creator and HBO show creator Doug Ellin for the new series . which is set in Newark and based on Tyson's early life growing up in the projects. The pilot was written by John Ridley (writer on "The Wanda Sykes Show", "Third Watch" and "Barbershop" TV series) with Lee set to direct. Nolasco was cast in the role called, "Hector Acevedo aka The Real" - who is a quite menace but dangerous. The actor has appeared in Lee.s Clockers, the futuristic sci-fi short film "White" and as "Jefe' in the film "Low »
- Patrick Luce
Attack the Block could be back as a sequel or Us remake, says director
18 October 2011 4:13 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Joe Cornish is considering sequel, American remake and TV spin-off ideas for his sci-fi hit about London teens battling aliens
Attack the Block director Joe Cornish has suggested that his aliens v adolescents sci-fi drama could get a sequel, an American remake and/or a TV spin-off.
Cornish, who was speaking to IFC News at last week's New York Comic-Con, said that he had already received a number of ideas for a potential sequel from Attack the Block's star, John Boyega, who plays Moses, leader to a group of London teens who repel an alien invasion.
"He has this image of a bigger alien attack on London, as if the attack we saw in Attack the Block was just the [first] wave and there's another wave of bigger creatures," Cornish said. "He had an image of Moses on a police horse. So he's on a horse leading this army of »
- Henry Barnes
Nycc: Believe It Bruv, 'Attack The Block' Comes To New York
15 October 2011 11:05 AM, PDT | Filmology | See recent Filmology news »
While some people were already gathering in line for the Avengers panel that will happen later today, others chose the slightly less crowded but just as excitable Attack the Block panel with writer/director Joe Cornish and stars John Boyega and Luke Treadaway. Attack the Block, if you were unaware, is one of the best action films this summer and it's currently on its way to be a cult hit for generations to come.
Joe Cornish's boyish excitement relaxed the atmosphere, bringing the panel into more of a conversation among friends rather than an artist lecturing pupils on his talent. It definitely could have gone that way though- I suspect that Cornish is on his way to becoming a cult director (he just wrote Adventures of Tin Tin which opens later this year). He easily joked about the technical difficulties that the room was having; poor microphones, misplaced clips, »
- Emily Cheever
Michael Fassbender, Steve McQueen reteam for 12 Years A Slave
11 October 2011 7:14 AM, PDT | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
Shame helmer Steve McQueen to reteam with Michael Fassbender for 12 Years a Slave. McQueen directs from a screenplay he wrote alongside John Ridley (Da Brick, Red Tails). Variety reports that also in the cast of the true story is Chiwetel Ejiofor. 12 Years a Slave tells of Solomon Northrup, a citizen of New York who, in 1841, was kidnapped and then rescued from a cotton plantation in Louisiana in 1853. Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner of Plan B are producing with an eye to shart shooting some time early 2012. »
Michael Fassbender, Steve McQueen reteam for 12 Years A Slave
11 October 2011 7:14 AM, PDT | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
Shame helmer Steve McQueen to reteam with Michael Fassbender for 12 Years a Slave. McQueen directs from a screenplay he wrote alongside John Ridley (Da Brick, Red Tails). Variety reports that also in the cast of the true story is Chiwetel Ejiofor. 12 Years a Slave tells of Solomon Northrup, a citizen of New York who, in 1841, was kidnapped and then rescued from a cotton plantation in Louisiana in 1853. Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner of Plan B are producing with an eye to shart shooting some time early 2012. »
Film Junk Podcast Episode #334: Red State and Fall TV Preview
7 September 2011 7:10 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
0:00 - Intro 6:00 - Headlines: Star Wars Blu-ray Changes, Josh Brolin to Star in Oldboy Remake, HBO Picks Up Mike Tyson Boxing Drama Da Brick, Steven Seagal Drives Tank into House, Killing Puppy 30:25 - Review: Red State 56:35 - Feature: Fall TV Preview 1:37:45 - Other Stuff We Watched: Penn & Teller: Fool Us, Exporting Raymond, Bko: Bangkok Knockout, If...., Dumb & Dumber, Paradise Lost, The Franchise: A Season with the San Francisco Giants, The Beaver, Buffalo Wingfest, Aladdin, Man on Fire 2:08:42 - Junk Mail: Current TV Top 50 Docs, Home Theatre Setups, DVD and Blu-ray Region Codes, Rumoured Arrested Development Movie Plot 2:23:45 - This Week's DVD Releases 2:26:10 - Outro 2:28:54 - Spoiler Discussion: Red State » Download the MP3 (79 Mb) » View the show notes » Vote for us on Podcast Alley! » Rate us on iTunes! Subscribe to the podcast feed: Donate via Paypal: »
- Sean
Attack The Block’s John Boyega Hits Spike Lee Boxing Drama
3 September 2011 10:00 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Having negotiated the treacherous waters of getting approval for his pilot episode, Spike Lee has now started casting a new boxing drama that he is producing and directing for HBO. Set in Newark, New Jersey, Da Brick is all about a young man who is released from juvenile detention on his 18th birthday and tries to find himself and his place amidst those around him.
That 18 year old, Donnie, will be played by John Boyega, hot-as-you-like off the back of his charismatic performance as Moses in Attack the Block, which after great reviews in the UK is starting to get real word-of-mouth traction in the Us as well. Also cast are Milauna Jemai (FlashForward) as Donnie’s mother and Julito McCullum (The Wire’s Namond Brice) as his best friend Kevin.
Mike Tyson is on board as an executive producer, with the show said to be drawing on elements of »
- Dave Roper
Casting Bits: ‘Attack the Block’ Star in HBO’s ‘Da Brick’, Rachel Boston in ‘It’s a Disaster’, Harry Lloyd in ‘Closer to the Moon’
1 September 2011 2:00 PM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
[1] If you happened to catch a screening of Attack the Block this summer, you probably walked away thinking the same thing we did: this John Boyega kid is going to be a huge star. Well, Boyega's now landed his first part since Attack the Block opened, and it sounds like a great one. He'll play the lead, Donnie, in HBO's series Da Brick, a fictionalized telling of the earliest days of Mike Tyson's boxing career. Spike Lee is set to direct the pilot episode from a script by John Ridley (Three Kings), and will also executive produce along with Tyson, Ridley, Jim Lefkowitz, and Entourage creator Doug Ellin. Da Brick centers around a young man in modern-day Newark, NJ who gets released from juvenile detention on his 18th birthday. The series will aim to deal with larger issues like "what it means to be a young, black man in »
- Angie Han
‘Attack the Block’ Star John Boyega Tapped by Spike Lee for ‘Da Brick’
1 September 2011 11:07 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
A year ago, John Boyega was a name that nobody knew. And, okay, it’s probably still a name that a lot of people aren’t familiar with. But if the hype he’s been getting from film critics for his starring role in this summer’s Attack the Block is any indication, Boyega won’t be able to enjoy anonymity for very much longer. Attack the Block director Joe Cornish found Boyega performing in a small stage show in London and cast him in his hoods versus aliens monster movie based on that. One to take his work seriously, first-time film actor Boyega then took to studying season 4 of The Wire to get a handle on how to approach playing an urban youth, and brought reality to the character of Moses, in a performance that felt genuine and raw even when there was tons of alien monster insanity going on around it. Suddenly »
- Nathan Adams
'Attack the Block' Star John Boyega is Spike Lee's Next Leading Man
1 September 2011 9:45 AM, PDT | Movies.com | See recent Movies.com news »
We're well aware that you're probably tired of hearing about Attack the Block by now. This resourceful, fierce British sci-fi flick has been on the tip of every movie blog's tongue for the better part of 2011, but unfortunately a tepid response at the Us box office means it hasn't expanded wide enough for most people to catch it. But don't worry, this post isn't here to heap even more praise on Joe Cornish's flick. It's here to heap even more praise on its star, John Boyega! Boyega has just been cast in the lead role in Da Brick, a potential new HBO series produced by Spike Lee. The show will find Boyega playing Donnie, an 18-year-old man who is trying to get by as a "young, black man in a supposedly post-racial...
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- Peter Hall
'Lone Ranger': Disney Wants Johnny Depp, He Wants Gore Verbinski
1 September 2011 9:38 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Disney's dance with "The Lone Ranger" just keeps getting trickier.
Deadline reports that Disney must accept the $215 million-ish budget that director Gore Verbinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer are presenting, or move forward without Verbinski... and, by extension, without Johnny Depp, who reportedly won't shoot the film without Verbinski behind the camera. Disney originally pulled the plug on "The Lone Ranger" because the budget got a bit too out of control, though last we heard they were negotiating. We'll keep you posted with further updates as soon as we have them.
Check out the rest of today's casting news after the jump!
Amy Adams To Run "The Orphanage"?
File this under rumors we'd love to see happen. Bloody Disgusting has learned that New Line is in talks with Amy Adams to play the lead role of Laura in their remake of "The Orphanage." "The Mothman Prophecies" director Mark Pellington is set to helm the project. »
- Terri Schwartz
Attack The Block Star John Boyega Takes The Lead In Spike Lee's Da Brick
1 September 2011 9:21 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
John Boyega is going from beating down aliens to beating down boxers, the young actor having just signed on as the lead in Spike Lee's HBO boxing series Da Brick.Loosely based on the youth of Mike Tyson - who is on board as an executive producer - Da Brick will chronicle the life of a young man - Boyega - entering the boxing world as an eighteen year old phenom after being released from juvenile detention. Entourage creator Doug Ellin has a hand in this one as well. As anyone who has seen Attack The Block can tell you, Boyega is a star in the making and this seems like a perfect role for the young actor. Smart move on HBO's part. »
Da Brick: Spike Lee takes on Mike Tyson
1 September 2011 8:15 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The director is to film a pilot of the boxer's life for HBO. What other sports stars' stories would make good TV?
American premium cable channel HBO has commissioned film director Spike Lee to make a pilot for a series based on the life of heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson.
Da Brick will reflect aspects of Tyson's New Jersey upbringing and early career and is said to be a boxing equivalent to Entourage, whose creator Doug Ellin is also involved in the project. South London newcomer John Boyega, whose only previous role was as Moses in Joe Cornish's Attack the Block, has been cast as the main character.
A boxing drama is a good fit for HBO, which built its audience on world-title fights going as far back as 1975, when the channel screened the Ali v Frazier "Thrilla In Manilla" via satellite in the Us. It does however beg »
- Johnny Dee
Da Brick: Spike Lee takes on Mike Tyson
1 September 2011 8:15 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
The director is to film a pilot of the boxer's life for HBO. What other sports stars' stories would make good TV?
American premium cable channel HBO has commissioned film director Spike Lee to make a pilot for a series based on the life of heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson.
Da Brick will reflect aspects of Tyson's New Jersey upbringing and early career and is said to be a boxing equivalent to Entourage, whose creator Doug Ellin is also involved in the project. South London newcomer John Boyega, whose only previous role was as Moses in Joe Cornish's Attack the Block, has been cast as the main character.
A boxing drama is a good fit for HBO, which built its audience on world-title fights going as far back as 1975, when the channel screened the Ali v Frazier "Thrilla In Manilla" via satellite in the Us. It does however beg »
- Johnny Dee
HBO Picks Up Mike Tyson Boxing Drama Da Brick, Attack the Block’s John Boyega to Star
1 September 2011 7:49 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
After a cameo in The Hangover brought Mike Tyson back into the public eye a couple of years ago, his new career in showbiz is now "flourishing" with a reality TV show on Animal Planet and co-hosting duties for Comedy Central's roast of Charlie Sheen. But more importantly, he is currently setting up a boxing drama for TV with the help of Spike Lee and Entourage creator Doug Ellin. This week it was announced that HBO has ordered a pilot for the project, which is going under the title Da Brick (a reference to the Newark, NJ setting, which is also known as The Brick City). They've also already found a lead for the show in John Boyega, the star of Joe Cornish's breakout hit Attack the Block. Count me in. Tyson appeared on an episode of Entourage back in 2010, and at the time he told Doug Ellin »
- Sean
Spike Lee casts “Attack the Block” star in HBO drama
1 September 2011 4:48 AM, PDT | Hollywoodnews.com | See recent Hollywoodnews.com news »
By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: That was fast. In our story yesterday reporting Spike Lee’s deal with HBO to shoot a pilot surrounding Mike Tyson’s early days, we wondered who the director would cast as the savage heavyweight fighter.
The answer is John Boyega.
Currently starring in “Attack the Block,” Boyega has been cast as Donnie, a former juvenile delinquent who embarks on a personal journey toward redemption, THR reports. The character is based loosely on Tyson, though his name on the show (and the name of the show, itself) will be “Da Brick.”
THR adds that Milauna Jemai (“NCIS”), Julito McCullum (“The Wire”) and Kamahl Naiqui Palmer (“Gossip Girl”) also have been cast in the show, which is being described as “a contemporary exploration of what it means to be a young, black man in a supposedly post-racial America.” Lee will direct the pilot, while “L.A. Riots »
- Sean O'Connell
John Boyega to star in Mike Tyson, Spike Lee HBO pilot 'Da Brick'
1 September 2011 3:59 AM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
John Boyega has landed the lead role in HBO's drama pilot Da Brick. The project, which was ordered to pilot earlier this week, comes from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Spike Lee and Entourage creator Doug Ellin. Boxer Mike Tyson is also heavily involved in the project, which is based loosely on his life. Boyega has now signed up to play Donnie, Deadline (more) »
- By Catriona Wightman
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