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Michael B. Jordan Signs Development Deal To Produce Film, Television Projects

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Michael B. Jordan continues to cement his place as one of the most promising young actors in Hollywood, especially a young actor of color. In the last few years, he has proven himself to be a critical and box-office favorite, but yet that mainstream crossover appears to be just out of his reach. Well now, […]

Michael B. Jordan Signs Development Deal To Produce Film, Television Projects

New Black Kid On The Block : Dez Flips Covers Of “HYFR” And “I Miss You”

You know how we like to introduce you to promising young talent … Meet Dez, he’s a currently unsigned artist who has a mixtape “Real Talk” coming later this month. He is from Virginia but now resides in Los Angeles. Check out his covers of Wayne and Drake’s “HYFR” and Beyoncé’s “I Miss You” as well as his original “We Ride” track below. Dez is produced by production duo, The Movement, who did Jesse McCartney’s “Leavin” and Justin Bieber’s “One Time.” So what do you think? Do You Hate It Or Love It?!?! You can follow Dez on Twitter @movedez

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New Black Kid On The Block : Dez Flips Covers Of “HYFR” And “I Miss You”

Josh Hutcherson: ‘Everybody Has Roles They Wanted and Didn’t Get’

What a difference a few months make. When we profiled Josh Hutcherson in The Verge last August , he was a promising young actor in two low-profile films that failed to do much business. This year, though, his career has taken off with a bang: not only was he heavily considered to play the title character in the reboot of Spider-Man , but the 17-year-old has supplanted Brendan Fraser as the star of their franchise, Journey to the Center of the Earth . And then there’s Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right : as Laser, the young son who spurs his mothers (Annette Bening and Julianne Moore) to meet the sperm donor who fathered him, Hutcherson turns in a winning performance in one of the best films of the year. Last month, I sat down with the up-and-comer to discuss how shocked he was that people found Kids to be a comedy, what exactly is going on with the troubled remake of Red Dawn , and how he feels when he loses out on a major role (in what turned out to be a prescient conversation).

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Josh Hutcherson: ‘Everybody Has Roles They Wanted and Didn’t Get’