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'Borderland': John Boyega,
'Voices Of Fire': Netflix Sets Gospel Music Series With Pharrell Williams
BISHOP EZEKIEL WILLIAMS AND PHARRELL WILLIAMS
Netflix has announced a new unscripted gospel music series, Voices of Fire, from Pharrell Williams. The se- ries follows Williams’ hometown community of Hampton Roads, Virginia as it builds one of the world’s most inspiring gospel choirs. It will premiere on the streaming giant later this year.
The official description: Voices of Fire follows Phar- rell Williams’ hometown community as it builds one of
the world’s most inspiring gospel choirs. Pharrell’s uncle and a well-respected musical genius in the area, Bishop Ezekiel Williams and his core team of influen- tial gospel leaders will ven- ture out into Hampton Roads to find undiscovered talent. With the belief that diverse backstories can give their col- lective voice a greater mean- ing, the Bishop and his team will be searching for people of all ages, ethnicities and back- grounds.
Jodie Turner-Smith To Star
John Boyega, Felicity Jones, Jack Reynor and Jodie Turner-Smith have been tapped to star in the up- coming thriller film, Border- land.
The Guard Brothers are di- recting the film that will be written by Chris Coen.
Here's the description: Bor- derland follows Irish paramil- itary Michael (Reynor), who after a border ambush goes wrong, witnesses the shooting of his pregnant wife at the hands of an SAS sergeant Tempest (Boyega). When Tempest is sent back to Lon- don to lead a covert counter- terrorist operation, Michael
JOHN BOYEGA AND JODIE TURNER-SMITH
In Upcoming Thriller
joins a ruthless active service unit (ASU) wreaking havoc in the capitol. For Michael, the mission is personal — to hunt down Tempest — and he’ll stop at nothing to avenge his wife's death.
"Borderland is a vengeance
fuelled chase movie, fusing some pulse ticking action with a powerful message for our times,. We’re thrilled that the script, driven as much by char- acter as it is by plot, has at- tracted such a first rate cast," said the Guard Brothers.
Remy Ma And Papoose Are Expecting Baby Number 2
Apple Studios Record Deal Emancipation Will Smith Antoine Fuqua
ANTOINE FUQUA AND WILL SMITH
Round two! Love & Hip Hop: New York stars Remy Ma and Papoose have a sec- ond baby on the way, 18 months after their daughter Reminisce’s birth.
Celebrity Pregnancy An- nouncements of 2020
“I love being with my family [during the coronavirus pan- demic],” the Brooklyn native, 42, said during a Monday, July 6, appearance on Fox Soul’s Out Loud With Claudia Jor- dan. “I get to spend so much time with my amazing wife and my amazing daughter. I’m just
Colin Kaepernick has signed an overall first-look deal with The Walt Disney Company via his Ra Vision Media.
The partnership will focus on telling scripted and un- scripted stories that explore race, social injustice and the quest for equity, and will pro- vide a new platform to show- case the work of Black and Brown directors and produc-
PAPOOSE AND REMY MA
making the best out of it, and we’re moving forward. Some good things are coming out of this. We’re going to have a new
COLIN KAEPERNICK
child real soon.”
Claudia Jordan joked, “A
lot of quarantine babies are probably going to be born.”
ers.
Disney said the deal will ex-
tend across all Walt Disney Platforms including Walt Dis- ney Television, ESPN, Hulu, Pixar, and ESPN’s The Unde- feated. Kaepernick will work closely with The Undefeated, which is expanding its portfo- lio across Disney, to develop stories from the perspective of Black and Brown communi- ties.
The largest film festival ac- quisition deal in film history is now closed. Apple Studios has acquired world rights to Emancipation, the film pack- age with Antoine Fuqua di- recting Will Smith in a Willam N. Collage-scripted
action thriller about the har- rowing escape of Peter, a run- away slave forced to outwit cold-blooded hunters and the unforgiving swamps of Louisiana on a tortuous jour- ney North where he joined the Union Army.
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Colin Kaepernick Inks Overall First-Look Deal With Disney