Joy Oladokun recently started re-watching Nashville, the soapy TV series centered on country music dreams and drama that helped usher in a wave of big change in the Tennessee capital. She had been thinking about her own place in Nashville — mainly, if she should stay as the state becomes increasingly hostile to marginalized people — and feeling depressed about the way the town’s music industry fosters Olympic levels of jealousy for anyone who catches a break.
“The way it’s depicted on that show is honestly kind of perfect — this Southern,...
“The way it’s depicted on that show is honestly kind of perfect — this Southern,...
- 4/28/2023
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
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.
The film currently in production in Atlanta follows a struggling small-town gas station attendant and aspiring singer, Jodi Jackson (Kilgore), whose life is sent into a tailspin when there’s a robbery at work. As previously announced, Iacono is playing Jodi’s fiercely devoted hustler boyfriend turned music manager, Eddie, with Harris as James Walker, a young gangster in the drug running business.
Grier will play Mama, the undisputed head of her family’s criminal organization, whose son James executes her wishes. Wayans will portray Wally, the owner of the convenience store that gets robbed. He’s a businessman who also owns a used car lot that...
The film currently in production in Atlanta follows a struggling small-town gas station attendant and aspiring singer, Jodi Jackson (Kilgore), whose life is sent into a tailspin when there’s a robbery at work. As previously announced, Iacono is playing Jodi’s fiercely devoted hustler boyfriend turned music manager, Eddie, with Harris as James Walker, a young gangster in the drug running business.
Grier will play Mama, the undisputed head of her family’s criminal organization, whose son James executes her wishes. Wayans will portray Wally, the owner of the convenience store that gets robbed. He’s a businessman who also owns a used car lot that...
- 4/5/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.
And today we are fortunate enough to speak with Adrien Brody himself about his new film Clean, along with some of the more memorable B-Sides from earlier in his career. These highlights include Love The Hard Way, Detachment, and Cadillac Records (currently on Netflix as we publish this! Watch it!).
We dive into all of the work that went in to getting Clean made and into movie theaters, Brody’s deep bench of B-Side movies, and the enduring New York City setting in Love The Hard Way.
Clean is currently in theaters and everywhere you rent and buy movies.
For more from The B-Side, you can find every actor/director and the films discussed in one place here.
And today we are fortunate enough to speak with Adrien Brody himself about his new film Clean, along with some of the more memorable B-Sides from earlier in his career. These highlights include Love The Hard Way, Detachment, and Cadillac Records (currently on Netflix as we publish this! Watch it!).
We dive into all of the work that went in to getting Clean made and into movie theaters, Brody’s deep bench of B-Side movies, and the enduring New York City setting in Love The Hard Way.
Clean is currently in theaters and everywhere you rent and buy movies.
For more from The B-Side, you can find every actor/director and the films discussed in one place here.
- 1/31/2022
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
Atlanta rapper Lil Marlo (aka Rudolph Johnson) is dead, according to the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office.
No official cause of death has been revealed. However, Atlanta Police confirmed that officers found a 30-year-old man shot in a car on I-285 near the Benjamin E. Mays Drive overpass. Police did not confirm the man’s identity, but said it appeared he was intentionally shot and an investigation by the homicide division is proceeding.
The medical examiner’s office in Atlanta confirmed that a Rudolph Johnson was in their custody shortly after reports of Lil Marlo’s death surfaced.
Lil Marlo emerged on 2017’s “2 Hard the Way,” a collaboration with his friend Lil Baby. His album “1st and 3rd” was recently released.
Social media fans and fellow artists mourned Johnson’s death, including his Quality Control Music label mate Lil Yachty, who noted that they had been collaborating on new music recently.
No official cause of death has been revealed. However, Atlanta Police confirmed that officers found a 30-year-old man shot in a car on I-285 near the Benjamin E. Mays Drive overpass. Police did not confirm the man’s identity, but said it appeared he was intentionally shot and an investigation by the homicide division is proceeding.
The medical examiner’s office in Atlanta confirmed that a Rudolph Johnson was in their custody shortly after reports of Lil Marlo’s death surfaced.
Lil Marlo emerged on 2017’s “2 Hard the Way,” a collaboration with his friend Lil Baby. His album “1st and 3rd” was recently released.
Social media fans and fellow artists mourned Johnson’s death, including his Quality Control Music label mate Lil Yachty, who noted that they had been collaborating on new music recently.
- 7/12/2020
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Oscar winner Adrien Brody is back in theaters with Predators (i.e. Predators 5: A Reboot??? I don't know. I don't follow these things) and it arrives so shortly after his last sci-fi effort Splice... why not feature him? We never discuss him and isn't there plenty to discuss. As in Wtf with his career? I can't include all 35 movies so I thought we'd pick up just where things got interesting.
Though he's had his share of straight to DVD or barely released indies over the years, he actually started off with quite a few classy projects with the likes of Steven Soderbergh (King of the Hill) and Francis Ford Coppola (New York Stories). He reportedly expected Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line (1998) to be his film-carrying breakthrough but Malick's film was so fluid in the telling that many famous actors were entirely deleted in the final cut and Brody's part was drastically reduced.
Though he's had his share of straight to DVD or barely released indies over the years, he actually started off with quite a few classy projects with the likes of Steven Soderbergh (King of the Hill) and Francis Ford Coppola (New York Stories). He reportedly expected Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line (1998) to be his film-carrying breakthrough but Malick's film was so fluid in the telling that many famous actors were entirely deleted in the final cut and Brody's part was drastically reduced.
- 7/11/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Brody inks CAA for agency rep
Oscar winner Adrien Brody has signed with CAA for agency representation. Brody, who continues to be managed at the Firm by his longtime rep JoAnne Colonna, had been without an agent for several years. The actor won an Academy Award in March for his portrayal of Wladyslaw Szpilman in director Roman Polanski's The Pianist. He is onscreen in Love the Hard Way and will be seen in the fall in Dummy and The Singing Detective. Brody's credits include The Affair of the Necklace, Summer of Sam and The Thin Red Line.
- 6/19/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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