Ice Spice is starting her acting career with a bang. Entertainment Weekly can confirm that the “Think U the S--- (Fart)” rapper will make her big-screen debut in a cameo role alongside Denzel Washington in the Spike Lee-helmed remake of Akira Kurosawa’s classic crime drama High and Low. Variety was first to report the casting. The film marks Lee and Washington's fifth collaboration. They previously made Mo’ Better Blues, Malcolm X, He Got Game, and Inside Man together. Read More...
EPCOT at Walt Disney World is about to get an extra spoonful of sugar. On Sunday at the annual D23 Fan Expo, Disney announced that EPCOT, a core part of Florida’s Walt Disney World, will be receiving a major makeover over the next few years — as part of that, a new attraction inspired by ‘Mary Poppins’ is poised to become part of the Disney theme park universe. Disney Parks, Experiences and Products Chairman Bob Chapek made the announcement, laying out the projected plan for EPCOT, including an overhaul that will divide the park into four new neighborhoods — World Showcase, World Celebration, World Nature, and World Discovery. Read More...
Image Credit: Stephane Danna/AFP/Getty ImagesIdris Elba’s slow and steady rise might speed up with this news: The Wire actor has been cast as Dr. Alex Cross in a reboot of the role that Morgan Freeman originated in Kiss the Girls and Along Came A Spider. Deadline reports that Elba will star in David Twohy’s adaptation of James Patterson’s novel Cross, the 12th book in the series, which follows the forensic psychologist as he tries to help nab a serial rapist and mutilator (Michael Sullivan, the Butcher of Sligo) who used to work for the mob and may have killed Cross’ pregnant wife years earlier. Read More...
