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EXCLUSIVE: Jill Alexander, who featured on HBO’s Silicon Valley for four seasons, has signed with APA.

Jackie Brown with Quentin Tarantino.The actor reflected on playing the eponymous role in the filmmaker’s 1997 movie, discussing his fast shooting pace and two-week rehearsal process.Grier spoke to Entertainment Weekly about her time on set with Tarantino and Samuel L. Jackson, explaining that Brown had to speak quickly across dense lines of dialogue.“She has to speak fast with Sam Jackson’s Ordell,” Grier said.

and 's “Actors on Actors” interview for Variety hit the internet on December 7, and one clip in particular had Twitter going bananas within minutes. Lawrence was trying to make a point about how roles for women and men in Hollywood differ—often unfairly—but one factual error had the whole internet shouting “BS” instead.“I remember when I was , nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie because it wouldn't work, we were told,” Lawrence says to Davis, who murmurs in agreement.

Austin Stoker has died aged 92.The actor - who is best known for his role in John Carpenter's action thriller Assault on Precinct 13 - passed away on Friday of renal failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.Robin Stoker - his wife of 43 years - shared the sad news of his death on her personal Facebook page, and described him as 'the love of my life' in her tribute. A sad loss: Austin Stoker has died aged 92.

EXCLUSIVE: Kino Lorber today announced that it has acquired worldwide rights to Rob Nilsson’s latest film Faultline, as well as his near complete filmography, including his 1979 feature Northern Lights, co-directed with John Hanson.

Austin Stoker has died aged 92.The actor - who is best known for his role in John Carpenter's action thriller Assault on Precinct 13 - passed away on Friday of renal failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.Robin Stoker - his wife of 43 years - shared the sad news of his death on her personal Facebook page, and described him as 'the love of my life' in her tribute. A sad loss: Austin Stoker has died aged 92.

Austin Stoker has died aged 92.The actor - who is best known for his role in John Carpenter's action thriller Assault on Precinct 13 - passed away on Friday of renal failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.Robin Stoker - his wife of 43 years - shared the sad news of his death on her personal Facebook page, and described him as 'the love of my life' in her tribute. A sad loss: Austin Stoker has died aged 92.

J. Kim Murphy Austin Stoker, a veteran actor who most notably starred in John Carpenter’s sophomore feature “Assault on Precinct 13” and co-starred with Pam Grier in the 1975 blaxploitation feature “Sheba, Baby,” died Friday of renal failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 92. Details regarding Stoker’s death were shared by his wife of 43 years, Robin Stoker, on her personal Facebook Monday evening. Robin called Austin “the love of my life” in her tribute. In another tribute, actor and director Bill Duke hailed Stoker as “one of Hollywood’s unsung actors” and shared his blessings to his family.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic In “Is That Black Enough for You?!?,” Elvis Mitchell’s highly pleasurable and eye-opening movie-love documentary about the American Black cinema revolution of the late ’60s and ’70s, Billy Dee Williams, now 85 but still spry, tells a funny story about what it was like to play Louis McKay, the dapper love object and would-be savior of Billie Holiday in “Lady Sings the Blues.” The year was 1972, and African-American audiences had rarely (if ever) been given the chance to gawk at a movie star of color who was not just this sexy but this showcased for his sexiness. Louis was like Clark Gable with a dash of Marvin Gaye; when he was on that promenade stairway, Williams says that he just about fell in love with himself. That’s how unprecedented the whole thing was. The actor recalls how the lighting was fussed over (we see a shot in which Louis appears bathed in an old-movie glow), and how unreal that was to him on the set. At the time, Black actors didn’t get lighting like that. But Black audiences drank it in with a better-late-than-never swoon, even as they knew that this was a representation they’d been denied for more than half a century.

EXCLUSIVE: Pam Grier, the actress from such cult classics as Jackie Brown, Foxy Brown and Coffy, has inked with APA.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter“Jackie Brown” star Pam Grier, “30 Rock” actor Chris Parnell and “Project X” star Oliver Cooper are set to headline “As We Know It,” an independent film that unfolds amid a nuclear zombie apocalypse.Set in Los Angeles in the late 1990s, the comedy-horror-romance movie follows a struggling writer named James Bishop, who is dealing with a messy breakup with the help of his best friend while trying to finish his latest book before the impending apocalypse.The cast will also include Mike Castle (“Brews Brothers”), Taylor Blackwell (“Designated Survivor”) and TikToker Danny Mondello, who is making his film debut.Josh Monkarsh is directing the film, which started production in Los Angeles at the end of July and is expected to wrap in early August. Monkarsh co-wrote the screenplay with Christopher Francis and Brandon DePaolo.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorLake Bell first explored the power of voice in her award-winning 2013 film about the voiceover industry, “In a World…,” which she wrote, directed and starred in.Now, nearly 10 years later, the actor-writer-director-producer further unpacks the fixation in “Inside Voice: My Obsession With How We Sound,” an audiobook set to be published by Malcom Gladwell’s Pushkin Industries on Nov. 1, 2022.“Inside Voice,” Bell’s first book project, will delve into her complicated opinions about voice — and “how this vital piece of our identity serves as an X-ray of our personal histories, exposures, vulnerabilities and conditioning,” according to Pushkin.“Without hyperbole, the subject of voice has been a lifelong passion, inspiring my work and life from every angle,” Bell said in a statement provided to Variety.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter“They’re coming out of the woodwork!”Jennifer Lopez is gushing in delight as an impromptu flash mob breaks out — to the tune of “Jenny From the Block,” naturally — on the red carpet of “Halftime,” her new documentary that opened the 2022 Tribeca Festival. “Only in New York,” she said, letting out a “woo.”the woman of the hour, @jlo, watching in delight as a flash mob breaks out on the red carpet at the #Halftime world premiere pic.twitter.com/vHxShRTTxx— Rebecca Rubin (@rebeccaarubin) June 9, 2022Wednesday’s world premiere doubled as a homecoming, of sorts, for the global icon, who grew up only a few blocks from the United Palace in Washington Heights, where the movie played to 3,000 mostly maskless and always enthusiastic audience members.

The 2022 Tribeca Festival has named its jury totaling more than five dozen members across 18 categories with Alan Zweibel, Aidan Quinn, Anne Archer, Rose Troche and Oge Egbuonu judging the U.S. Narrative Feature Competition.

Damon Wayans (Fox’s Lethal Weapon) and Pam Grier (Jackie Brown) have signed on to star alongside Hailey Kilgore, David Iacono and Jeremie Harris in the noir thriller Cinnamon, which will debut exclusively on Fox’s free streaming service, Tubi, later this year.

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Amy Nicholson Krystin Ver Linden’s “Alice” is a righteous fable about a Black woman (Keke Palmer) who escapes from an isolated Georgia plantation that’s enslaved her, her husband (Gaius Charles) and her family for generations, and discovers a wonderland just outside the property line: 1973 America, where she learns she’s been emancipated for a century. “I never told anyone they had to stay,” her Bible-thumping captor Mr. Paul (Jonny Lee Miller) sputters by way of cheap justification.

Regina King is mourning the loss of her son, Ian Alexander Jr.