Jonathan Daviss to play Snoop Dogg in upcoming biopic
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We now know who will play Snoop Dogg in his upcoming music biopic.
Jonathan Daviss has been cast in the lead role of Snoop Dogg in the upcoming film about the hip-hop legend for Universal.
Daviss and Snoop Dogg confirmed the casting in separate posts shared to Instagram on Monday.
“Let’s go nefew !!” Snoop Dogg captioned his post, which included a screenshot of the Deadline article about the casting news. “it’s time,” Snoop Dogg continued, next to a praying hands emoji and a green check mark emoji.
“Bow wow wow,” Daviss captioned his own post announcing the news.
Coming 2 America helmer Craig Brewer will direct Daviss in the role. Brewer is revising the script that was penned by Joe RobertCole. It tells the story of Calvin Broadus Jr.‘s life and his journey to fame as the musician Snoop Dogg.
Snoop Dogg serves as a producer on the film.
Daviss is known for his role as Pope Heyward in the Netflix series Outer Banks.
Tom Cruise shows off more of his signature stunts in the official trailer for Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning.
The new trailer for the upcoming Paramount Pictures film finds Cruise reprising his role as IMF agent Ethan Hunt. This time around, Ethan again faces off against the form of artificial intelligence known as The Entity.
He first faced this enemy in the 2023 film Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning. Now, Ethan has the necessary key to destroy his AI foe, but he must assemble his team to find the code to destroy the technology once and for all.
Cruise hangs off the side of an airplane and swims deep underwater as part of the new footage shown in the trailer. His missions and death-defying stunts of the past are also referenced as Ethan is put in handcuffs and taken in for questioning.
“Smart people on every side are close to panicking,” Ethan says in the trailer, before a montage of his past flashes quickly across the screen.
Christopher McQuarrie directed the eighth film in the Mission: Impossible franchise from a script he wrote along with ErikJendresen.
“I need you to trust me. One last time,” Cruise’s Ethan Hunt says at the end of the trailer.
Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Angela Bassett and Rolf Saxon all return to star in the film, while Hannah Waddingham, Nick Offerman, Lucy Tulugarjuk, Katy O’Brian, Tramell Tillman and Stephen Oyoung join the franchise.
Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning arrives in theaters on May 23.
A tearful Ryan Kiera Armstrong let out an emotional “yes” to Sarah Michelle Gellar‘s offer to join the Buffy universe as the newest slayer.
The sweet exchange was shared to Gellar, Armstrong and Hulu’s Instagram accounts Thursday, amid the news Armstrong had been cast in the lead role in the upcoming, untitled Buffy reboot.
“From the moment I saw Ryan’s audition, I knew there was only one girl that I wanted by my side,” Gellar, who played Buffy Summers in the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer, captioned the social post. “To have that kind of emotional intelligence and talent, at such a young age is truly a gift. The bonus is that her smile lights up even the darkest room.”
Project executive producers NoraZuckerman and Lilla Zuckerman added of the star, “We are so overjoyed to have found this generation’s slayer in Ryan Kiera Armstrong, she absolutely blew us away — there is no question in our mind that she is the chosen one.”
Armstrong’s credits include Disney+’s Star Wars: Skeleton Crew and Firestarter, the sci-fi horror film based on Stephen King‘s 1980 novel of the same name. Armstrong can also be seen in Netflix’s Anne with an E and American Horror Story.
While not many other details have been shared about Armstrong’s role in Buffy, she took to social media with a post expressing how she is “beyond thankful,” “excited for this journey” and “in awe” of her co-star Gellar.
“I’m still in so much shock and disbelief,” she wrote.
Get ready for a “whole new world.” A seventh Disney destination is coming to Abu Dhabi.
The Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger made the major announcement Wednesday on ABC’s Good Morning America, describing it as “the most technologically advanced theme park that we’ve ever built.”
“I am excited for the UAE and Abu Dhabi. Bringing a Disneyland to a land in the world is, I think, a big deal and it makes a big statement and it’s just a great moment,” Iger said.
A new chapter of Disney storytelling will rewrite a land known for its architecture, culture, coastlines and desert. Excitement is already brewing in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates.
“We’ve decided that we want to build a very modern Disneyland,” Iger continued. “It will obviously incorporate a lot of our intellectual property and some of the typical stories that we tell in our theme parks.”
Disney’s new theme park will be located on Abu Dhabi’s Yas Island, about 8,400 miles away from Anaheim, California – the site of the first Disneyland, which opened in 1955.
“You start thinking about what is possible, actually envisioning a castle rising up, in this case, from the sand, and also being on the water,” Iger said.
“We haven’t decided everything that will go into it but we do know it will be anchored by a castle,” Iger continued. “And again – the modernization that is Abu Dhabi – the castle will be the first real modern castle that we built.”
Iger said the selection of Abu Dhabi as the next Disneyland site was a key decision.
“The UAE and Abu Dhabi is a crossroads of the world,” said Iger. “This is a hub in many respects but also, because it is located where it is, it’s accessible to so many different regions, places where we typically have only scratched the surface in terms of attendance to our parks.”
Disney’s new theme park has been in the works since 2017 but plans crystalized after Iger visited the region last year and discovered there was already a lot of excitement surrounding Disney.
Disney is partnering with Miral, the operators of world-class immersive experiences and attractions in Abu Dhabi, to bring the new theme park to life. Miral will oversee the building and development of Disney’s resort.
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