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Dime Davis, director of HBO’s A Black Lady Sketch Show, has become the first Black woman to secure an Emmy nod for directing a variety series.

Debbie Allen was nominated in 1989 for directing ABC’s The Debbie Allen Special when the category was known as Outstanding Directing for a Variety or Music Program, but Davis becomes the first Black Woman for series directing. She is also only the second Black director to score a nomination in the category and the first in nearly 50 years since Mark Warren won for NBC’s Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In in 1971.

This comes as the Robin Thede-created sketch comedy was nominated for three awards this morning including for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series and for Angela Bassettt for Outstanding Guest Actress In A Comedy Series.

A Black Lady Sketch Show is strangely up against only Saturday Night Live and Drunk History in the...

You remember Bryan Cranston, right? White guy, about average height, tendency to shave his head and scowl out meth-related menace from behind a bushy goatee? Since Breaking Bad ended last year, Cranston’s been floating from project to project, picking up a role here and there but nothing truly memorable since his hair grew back and his perma-grimace softened. Cranston’s added another post-Breaking Bad role to his list: The Infiltrator. Like the title implies, Cranston will play a guy who infiltrates. In this case, that guy would be the real-life Robert Mazur, a Customs and Excise agent who went undercover into the highest circles of Columbian drug cartels, specifically the Medellin cartel headed up by Pablo Escobar. So the absolute highest of the high in South American drug circles. Based on Mazur’s autobiography of the same name, The Infiltrator will be helmed by Brad Furman, who’s got a solid working relationship with Cranston...

Bryan Cranston will be starring in the thriller The Infiltrator, based on the autobiography of the same name by Robert Mazur, EW has confirmed. Cranston will play Mazur, a customs and excise agent who goes undercover as Bob Musella, assuming the life of a hot-shot money launderer in order to trap Colombia's most corrupt bankers and mafia members. The film will be produced by U.K.'s Good Films and sister label, George Films, and will directed by Lincoln Lawyer director Brad Furman. Ellen Brown Furman will adapt the work for the screen. “Brad and I have invested a great...

Having worked together on The Lincoln Lawyer, Bryan Cranston and director Brad Furman are reuniting, this time with Cranston snatching a lead role. He’s locked in to tackle The Infiltrator.Adapted by Ellen Brown Furman from customs and excise agent Robert Mazur’s autobiography, Cranston will be Mazur, who must investigate dodgy dealings by going undercover as a man named Bob Musella.“Brad and I have invested a great deal of time ensuring that the casting on this film is absolutely perfect, and we feel we’ve done just that," said Good Film boss Miriam Segal in a statement. "Bryan’s talent is immeasurable, and he continues to demonstrate his versatility and skill as an actor. The Infiltrator is a film that demands a dynamic and complex leading man, and we could not be more excited to have him on board.”Furman, who last made the forgettable gambling drama Runner Runner,...

Bryan Cranston will star in The Infiltrator.

The Breaking Bad star has signed on for director Brad Furman's Good Films thriller, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Ellen Brown Furman is adapting Robert Mazur's autobiography of the same name.

Cranston will play Customs and Excise agent Mazur and his undercover alias Bob Musella in the investigative thriller.

Furman and Cranston previously worked together on The Lincoln Lawyer.

Cranston was most recently seen in Gareth Edwards's Godzilla remake.

The Infiltrator will begin shooting in January in London, Paris and Florida.

Throughout his long and celebrated tenure on Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston had his fair share of run-ins with the DEA (Drugs Enforcement Agency) as chemistry teacher turned drug lord, Walter White. And now, it looks as though the award-winning actor is set be involved with the agency once again after he has entered talks to star in crime thriller, The Infiltrator.

Taking inspiration from the memoirs of Robert Mazur — a Tampa resident and undercover agent for the DEA — the film has been described as an investigative thriller centring around Mazur who, after infiltrating a renown financial institution, seeks out to bring down the infamous Colombian drug lord, Pablo Escobar.

Currently, we’re not sure exactly which role Cranston will play in the film — mind you, Heisenberg versus Escobar sure sounds like a show-stopping encounter. What we do know is that filming is due to get underway in January, with on location shooting planned in London,...

Relativity International to handle sales on Good Films thriller at Afm.

Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston is to star in The Infiltrator, a thriller based on the true story of federal agent Robert Mazur who went undercover to infiltrate Colombia’s mafia and helped collapse one of the world’s biggest privately held banks.

The film is a passion project of director Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer) and was first reported by ScreenDaily at the American Film Market (Afm) in 2012. Relativity International will present the film to distributors at this year’s Afm.

It marks the first on slate of seven projects from Good Films and will be produced by the company’s founder and former BBC Films exec, Miriam Segal.

Principal photography is scheduled to begin January 2015 on location in London, Paris and Florida.

Adapted for the screen by Ellen Brown Furman from Mazur’s autobiography of the same name, Cranston will play...

Bryan Cranston is attached to re-team with his "The Lincoln Lawyer" director Brad Furman on the thriller "The Infiltrator" for Good Films. Adapted by Ellen Brown Furman, the story is described as an investigative thriller based on Robert Mazur's autobiography of the same name.

Mazur was a customs and excise agent spent five years undercover as a playboy named Bob Musella who infiltrated the criminal hierarchy of Colombia's drug cartels. In the process he captured the damning evidence of the crimes of the corrupt bankers and businessmen who financed these crooks.

At a staged wedding, he led a dramatic takedown which saw more than eighty men and women charged worldwide, whilst evidence proved critical to the conviction of Panamanian dictator General Manuel Noriega.

Shooting begins in January on location in London, Paris and Florida.

Source: THR...