Idrissa Akuna "Idris" Elba (born 6 September 1972) is an English television, theatre, and film actor. He has starred in both British and American productions. He grew up in Canning Town, East London. One of his first acting roles was in the soap opera Family Affairs. He has worked in a variety of TV roles including Ultraviolet and The Inspector Lynley Mysteries. He is known for playing Russell "Stringer" Bell, a Baltimore drug lord and aspiring businessman, in HBO's critically acclaimed show The Wire. Elba is a DJ under the moniker DJ Big Driis/Big Driis the Londoner, and a hip-hop soul recording artist.
Source: The Courier-Journal
Although Memorial Day marks the beginning of the summer movie season for Mary Hession, her most anticipated summer film, The Dark Knight Rises, will not hit theaters until July 20. Batman Begins is probably my very favorite movie of all time, ...
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Source: Times of India
At the heart of Ridley Scott's Prometheus, is the search for one of life's most profound questions: where do we come from and where do we go after we die? The film marks the director's return to films in the epic genre and stars the likes of Char ...
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Source: Digital Spy
The trailer for Quentin Tarantino's upcoming Django Unchained will premiere before Prometheus. Django Unchained stars Christoph Waltz, Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington and Leonardo DiCaprio. It tells the story of a freed slave who exacts revenge on the slave ...
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Source: Tom's Hardware Guide
20th Century Fox has released a pair of new featurettes for its upcoming sc-fi thriller Prometheus. This first video offers us some brief behind the scenes footage, but mostly seems to be an excuse to laud Ridley Scott ...
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Source: The Hindu
Ridley Scott's much-awaited “Prometheus” is all set to hit the screens on June 1. parvathi nayar on the hype surrounding the flick “The gods, you might say, overreacted a little,” suggests Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce), in the course of his TED Talk from th ...
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Source: Dan's Media Digest
Just a quick blog to say I'm away for awhile now. I definitely won't be able to blog until Monday at the earliest because I'll be in Wales. (Next week's TV Picks are going up automatically.) I'll have to pl ...
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Source: Hollywood Hils
New ‘Prometheus’ rough Charlize Theron,David 8 movie clip hit the net. Recently, Jay Leno dropped a new movie clip (below) for the upcoming sci-fi/thriller flick “Prometheus” on his Tonight Show,and it features Charlize Theron’s chara ...
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Are you a fan of EURweb? Like us on and Follow us on *One of the most fawned over Hollywood leading men, black or white, is former “The Wire” star Idris Elba. Elba, who made his name as the character Stringer Bell on HBO’s “The Wire,” has moved on to ma ...
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Source: ReelzChannel
Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen has made a living out of playing villains — in the U.S. anyway. After breaking into English-language movies in 2006's Casino Royale, Mikkelsen most recently appeared as the villain Rochefort in The Three Musketeers. Mikkelsen ...
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Source: Pop Tower
NEW YORK, NY — This year the "BET Awards 2012" will be 'Too Big To Miss.' Earlier today at a press conference held in BET's New York studios, it was announced that actor Samuel L. Jackson, declared the highest grossing movie actor of ...
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