Colman Domingo, action star? Believe it or not, that’s what Netflix‘s “The Madness” has in store for subscribers later this month. It’s quite an about-face for the Oscar-nominated actor, but for those who’ve seen Domingo’s turns in “Zola” and “Drive-Away Dolls,” maybe it’s not so surprising?

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But those roles were villainous and broadly comedic.

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Colman Domingo has been on a roll lately. Not only is he one of the stars of “Euphoria,” but he also has some recent acclaim for his roles in two new films, “Rustin” and “Sing Sing.” Domingo is also lining up his first directorial outing that might begin filming in 2025. But before that, he has a new show coming to Netflix, titled “The Madness.”

READ MORE: ‘Scandalous’: Sydney Sweeney & David Jonsson To Star In Colman Domingo’s Directorial Debut

As seen in the teaser, “The Madness” tells the story of a political consultant/TV pundit who goes off to write a novel.

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Colman Domingo is one of the best actors working today. So, why not try his hand at directing? That’s exactly what he plans on doing with the upcoming film “Scandalous,” and he’s invited one of his “Euphoria” stars along too. 

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According to Deadline, Colman Domingo is set to make his feature film directorial debut with “Scandalous,” a film about the love affair between Sammy Davis, Jr.

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Is it wrong to ask for just a mildly competitive Best Actor race? Just once? Granted, we’ve had them before. The 2015 class, in particular, saw arguably five potential winners snubbed from a nomination. But, for the most part, the actors making the final five have featured, at most, one surprise, if at all, in the decade since. The 2025 Oscars class does not look like it will break that streak.

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At the moment, there are three locks for a nod.

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World premiering earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, the genre-bending horror slasher “It’s What’s Inside,” which was picked up by Netflix for acquisition rights soon after the festival, is coming out this October.

While it premiered in Sundance’s Midnight section—generally reserved for horror movies, the filmmakers—and was sometimes described as a slasher, director Greg Jardin, executive producer Colman Domingo, and Academy Award nominee Greg Jardin never regarded it as either.

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Marvel Animation’s D23 panel today in Anaheim, California, was far more subdued than Marvel’s live-action panel last night, which showed off trailers for “Daredevil: Born Again,” “Ironheart,” and “Agatha All Along.” Nonetheless, while short on news, trailers, or concrete release dates, the Marvel Animation panel did provide some updates.

The biggest of them all, arguably, was the news that season 3 of “What…If?

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Colman Domingo has had meetings before. He’s had many of them. He’s met with filmmakers, writers, and producers. It’s part of the business. But there was something that sparked with a sit-down with director Clint Bentley and screenwriter Greg Kwedar. The filmmakers behind the acclaimed 2021 indie drama “Jockey” couldn’t nail adapting the true story of a rehabilitation for the arts program at Sing Sing Correctional Facility into a movie.

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Sam Levinson has been at the center of quite a few controversies over the past few years, beginning with the success of HBO’s “Euphoria.” There have been accusations of long hours, poor work environment, and even misogyny on the set of his award-winning series. But according to one star of “Euphoria,” a lot of the negativity surrounding Levinson comes from a place of misunderstanding.

READ MORE: ‘Euphoria’: HBO Considered Replacing Creator Sam Levinson, But Cast Remains “Committed” To Showrunner In New Report

In a new interview with GQ, Colman Domingo, who stars in “Euphoria,” talked about working with Sam Levinson on the series.

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There are many dozens of classic prison movies, everything from “The Shawshank Redemption” to Robert Bresson’s “A Man Escaped” to several Clint Eastwood movies, and many of them revolve around the human spirit, the will to live beyond the psychological claustrophobia of incarceration. But perhaps there’s been no prison movie like “Sing Sing,” a new A24 drama starring Colman Domingo, about a theatre troupe that finds escape from the realities of incarceration through the creativity of putting on a play.

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Marvel Studios has been facing many difficulties with its next “Avengers” installment following the departure of director Destin Daniel Cretton, who left to focus on other Marvel projects (“Wonder Man” and the “Shang Chi” sequel). Screenwriter Jeff Loveness exited as well, but none of that really compares to the firing of Jonathan Majors, who was set to play the film’s villain, Kang The Conqueror, and let go after he was convicted in connection to a violent altercation with his ex-girlfriend (now awaiting sentencing that will be handed down in April).

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Antoine Fuqua‘s Michael Jackson biopic deviates from the director’s usual modus operandi of actioners. But with the cast he’s accrued for “Michael,” the upcoming film could be a sleeper hit. Now Deadline reports that Miles Teller is the latest to join the movie’s cast, playing an attorney of the titular King Of Pop.

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Who Teller plays exactly isn’t known yet, but the actor joins Colman Domingo, Nia Long, and Jaafar Jackson in the film’s cast.

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Are you having a rough week? Perhaps the utter joy of 2024 Oscar nominees reacting to their nods will cheer you up. From Emma Stone to Bradley Cooper to first-time nominees Jeffrey Wright, Lily Gladstone, and Colman Domingo, among others, these honorees have a lot of people to thank.

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“11 nominations for Poor Things feels like a surreal dream.

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It’s a big year for Colman Domingo, with three starring roles (four before Focus pushed “Drive-Away Dolls” to next February): “The Color Purple,” “Sing Sing,” and “Rustin.” And “Rustin” reaches audiences first, fresh off its world premiere at Telluride in August (read The Playlist’s review here). Could Domingo be up for an Oscar nod for his performance?

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TELLURIDE – Every year, almost without fail, there is an American hero, somehow lost to history, who finally gets their moment on the big screen. This year’s honoree is Bayard Rustin, a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement who was a primary organizer for the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. The fact his voice has been passionately portrayed by an actor as talented as Colman Domingo and his story will now stream to a global audience via Netflix is perhaps the most rewarding aspects of George C.

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Though the release dates for many fall films is still being questioned, due to the ongoing SAG and WGA strikes, it appears Netflix is still moving ahead with one of its most star-studded films— “Rustin.”

As seen in the trailer for “Rustin,” the upcoming Civil Rights drama follows the incredible true story of Bayard Rustin, one of the people responsible for the organization of the iconic March on Washington.

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A cold open introducing how a Transformer ends up on earth. An extended introduction to a nifty, somewhat nerdy girl into gizmos and gadgets. A fateful path crossing between man and machine of the Autobot variety. An unexpectedly tender bond forms. A collision course with their mechanical foes bent on destruction. A battle where just that ensues.

If that sounds familiar from 2018’s “Bumblebee,” the only film in the “Transformers” series to receive net positive scores from critics and audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, you’d be correct.

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Culturally, “The Color Purple” is many different things to many people. To some, it’s the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel of the same name by Alice Walker, the 1985 adaptation of that novel by Steven Spielberg, and more recently, it’s the 2005 musical with music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray. And it’s this musical that begets the latest cinematic take on “The Color Purple.”

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This unique and bold new take on sisterhood and three women who share one unbreakable bond is directed by Blitz Bazawule (“Black Is King,” “The Burial of Kojo”) and produced by Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Scott Sanders, and Quincy Jones.

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Not all anticipated prestige movies are coming out this year. A new biopic about the life of Bayard Rustin will be released on Netflix in 2023 and, this morning, the streamer released the first image of Colman Domingo as the Civil Rights icon. Titled “Rustin,” the picture was directed by George C. Wolfe, his first feature since the Oscar-nominated “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.”

READ MORE: Colman Domingo: “The Color Purple” is going to “Knock your sock’s off” [Interview]

Born in 1912, Rustin was best known as one of the organizers on the March on Washington in 1963, but spent decades of his life working to end racial discrimination in the workplace.

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Colman Domingo may just be one of the seminal actors of our time. The actor has key roles in films such as “Selma,” “If Beale Street Could Talk,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “Zola,” just to name a few. An impressive Tony-nominated resume on Broadway, and yes, a pivotal performance on HBO’s sensation, “Euphoria.” And, currently, he’s portraying the role of Mister in Blitz the Ambassador’s big-screen adaptation of the musical version of “The Color Purple.” And based on Domingo’s enthusiasm over Blitz’s vision, the film sounds like something truly special.

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Released in 1985, “The Color Purple” is one of the most celebrated films of the modern era. The film earned 10 Oscar nominations and is considered a landmark achievement. So, in an era of remakes and revivals, it was only a matter of time before “The Color Purple” got another chance to shine. And apparently, the film is going to have one hell of a cast. 

According to Vanity Fair, the remake of “The Color Purple” is set to begin production in Georgia next month and will feature a cast that includes Fantasia Taylor, Colman Domingo, Taraji P.

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Great acting was everywhere in 2021. While we received the usual assortment of great performances in festival standouts and end-of-year awards contenders, we also found inspired performances in big-budget multiplex movies and no-budget horror.

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We cast a wide net for our list of the Best Film Performances of 2021. Every list has its omissions – no doubt some of your favorite roles just missed appearing on here – but if you wanted to see the full range of modern cinematic acting, you could do a lot worse than starting with the actors we’ve assembled.

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“Y’all wanna hear a story about why me & this bitch here fell out? It’s kind of long but full of suspense.” On this episode of The Playlist Podcast, we spoke with writer, director (and actor) Janicza Bravo, who directed and co-wrote A24‘s Sundance-acclaimed indie “Zola.” Delayed by a year because of the pandemic (which the filmmaker addresses in heartbreaking detail), “Zola” finally came out earlier this summer, and now, the film arrives on DVD and Blu-ray (plus Digital) today, August 14.

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Say his name five times in a mirror, and you’re going to have a bad time.  Nia DaCosta‘s “Candyman,” the sequel/update to Bernard Rose‘s 1992 modern horror classic, finally hits theaters at the end of the summer after being delayed three times thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. With a script co-written by horror maestro Jordan Peele and frequent Peele collaborator Win Rosenfeld, DaCosta’s film may end up being the summer’s big horror film over the likes of “Old” and “A Quiet Place: Part II.”

READ MORE: Director Nia DaCosta cites ‘The Fly’ & ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ As Her ‘Candyman’ Influences 

Based on the short story “The Forbidden” by Clive Barker, Rose’s “Candyman” followed a graduate student as her research on urban legends unearthed the violent and tragic secret history of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green neighborhood.

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The legacy of author Tom Clancy‘s famous spy, espionage, and military-science thriller novels is such his name is in the title of Michael B. Jordan‘s latest film, “Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse.” Clancy, of course, is the author behind the books adapted for such famous movies like “The Hunt for Red October” (1984), “Patriot Games” (1987), “Clear and Present Danger” (1989), and “The Sum of All Fears” (1991).

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Did we ever envision a day when a whole-ass Twitter thread would become a movie? Well, it happened alright; an epic story by A’Ziah King, aka ZOLA, told on Twitter (since deleted) became “Zola.” The movie premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2020 to major acclaim. Directed by Janicza Bravo (“Atlanta,” “Lemon“) and starring Taylour Paige and Riley Keough, “Zola” is about Aa stripper named Zola who embarks on a wild road trip to Florida.

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