Idris Elba News
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At some point earlier this week Screen Gems, the low-budget genre arm of Sony Pictures, sent out an email saying that press screenings for their upcoming home invasion thriller "No Good Deed" had been shuttered because the twist ending was so seismic that they didn't want members of the press seeing it early and then spilling the beans.
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The box office saw some life this weekend while Marvel’s Guardians hit a new milestone.
In at number 1 is No Good Deed (read our review) with $24. 5 million. Clearly, audiences were looking for something new and this Idris Elba thriller fit the bill nicely. The film opened strong on Friday and was able to hold on throughout the weekend.
Dolphin Tale 2 is the number 2 film this weekend with $16.5 million. The sequel’s numbers were slightly off of its predecessor’s, which opened with $19 million in September 2011.
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At some point earlier this week Screen Gems, the low-budget genre arm of Sony Pictures, sent out an email saying that press screenings for their upcoming home invasion thriller "No Good Deed" had been shuttered because the twist ending was so seismic that they didn't want members of the press seeing it early and then spilling the beans.
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PLOT: When her husband is out of town, a mother and her two children are faced with a possibly deadly escaped convict. Once she begins to realize how dangerous he is, she must find a way to protect her children… And hit the stranger on the head as often as possible.
REVIEW: What the hell happened with NO GOOD DEED? How could a major theatrical release starring the incredibly talented Idris Elba and...
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Between playing Nelson Mandela in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and voicing a jaguar in The Jungle Book, Idris Elba is making a stop in Ghana, where he is filming True Detective director Cary Fukunaga’s next film, Beasts of No Nation, and the first photo has been released.
He plays a character just called Commandant, because the film is from the point of view of a young boy named Agu, conscripted into becoming a soldier in Commandant’s guerrilla military group after civil war breaks out in an unspecified West African country.
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Between playing Nelson Mandela in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and voicing a jaguar in The Jungle Book, Idris Elba is making a stop in Ghana, where he is filming True Detective director Cary Fukunaga’s next film, Beasts of No Nation, and the first photo has been released.
He plays a character just called Commandant, because the film is from the point of view of a young boy named Agu, conscripted into becoming a soldier in Commandant’s guerrilla military group after civil war breaks out in an unspecified West African country.
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First Look: Cary Fukunaga's 'Beasts of No Nation' Starring Idris Elba
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Whoa - do not mess with this guy. A first look photo for the new film from "True Detective" director Cary Fukunaga has been unveiled, showing Idris Elba in full regalia as a tough-looking commander of a West African unit of guerrilla fighters. The film is titled Beasts of No Nation is an adaptation of Uzodinma Iweala's novel of the same name, following a young boy who is taken from his home and raised by this gang of guerrilla fighters.
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Ben Kingsley Joins Disney's 'The Jungle Book'
12:48 PM 6/25/2014 by Binh Ngo
Ben Kingsley is joining the voice cast of Disney's The Jungle Book as the black panther Bagheera, the studio has announced. The movie is a live-action/CGI adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's book of the same name.
In the book, Bagheera helps to pave the way for the human boy Mowgli's adoption into a wolf pack and also mentors and protects the boy as he grows up.
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Last year we saw Idris Elba take on some fantastical bad guys in Pacific Rim and Thor: The Dark World, and he even changed history as Nelson Mandela in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. But this year he's becoming a villain himself. However, he's not becoming a monster or a comic book villain, but rather a menacing man who weasels his way into a family's house after pretending to have some car trouble in No Good Deed. This looks like a typical home invasion thriller from this first trailer, but both Elba and Taraji P.
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Lupita Nyong'o Joins Disney's 'The Jungle Book'; Scarlett Johansson Circling
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Warner Bros. and Disney are both working on their own live-action adaptation of The Jungle Book, but Disney's is farther along and is in the process casting up.
Idris Elba is the first to board and will voice the tiger Shere Khan. Joining him will be 12 Years a Slave's Lupita Nyong'o, who will be voicing the wolf mother Rakcha.
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