Donald Glover and James Earl Jones are ready to sing “Hakuna Matata.” The “Atlanta” star is in talk to play Simba in Disney’s live-action “The Lion King” remake directed by Jon Favreau, Variety has confirmed. Meanwhile, Jones, who voiced Simba’s father Mufasa in the original, will return to reprise the role.
The Litchfield squad returns with “Orange Is the New Black” season 5, slated to hit Netflix worldwide on June 9, while the streamer’s new talk show with science guru Bill Nye is set to debut April 21.
John Hurt, the wiry English actor who played a drug addict in “Midnight Express,” Kane in “Alien,” the title character in “The Elephant Man,” and Winston Smith in “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” has died, according to multiple media reports. He was 77.
Actor Shia LaBeouf was arrested in New York City early Thursday after he got into an altercation with another man during a performance art project that has seen him chanting “He will not divide us” in front of a live camera since Donald Trump’s first day as president.
Lionsgate has set a June 16, 2017, release for the Tupac Shakur biopic “All Eyez on Me,” starring Demetrius Shipp, Jr.
The makers of “Star Wars” have put a quick end to rumors that while Carrie Fisher has died, her Princess Leia may live on.
“La La Land” steamrolled, “Moonlight” swooped in at the last minute and Meryl Streep offered a stirring rebuke to president-elect Donald Trump at a schizophrenic Golden Globes that pivoted between heartfelt moments of protest and a desire to sing and dance.
A forgetful fish, infighting superheroes and some intergalactic rebels led the North American box office in 2016, which, with an estimated $11.2 billion in earnings to date, has become the highest grossing year of all time — slightly surpassing last year’s $11.1 billion record.
