Oscar-winner Common is officially a member of the Suicide Squad. The actor/emcee joins Will Smith and Jared Leto in this all-star action flick about DC Comic supervillains. Is it just us, or is this cast of supervillains super-sexy? [Billboard]
The tide is turning against Tidal, the new music streaming service created by Jay Z. THe service peaked at No. 83 on the Apple App Store on its April 7 premiere. Since then, it’s dropped out of the top 750 apps.
Twitter users have been incredibly vocal about their disappointment with the music app. Even Kanye West, one of the biggest Tidal supporters, deleted all of his Tweets endorsing Tidal from his account. [Complex]
James Earl Jones is back like he never left, starring in a Broadway revival of D.L. Coburn’s The Gin Game with none other than Cicely Tyson. Jones and Tyson will play an elderly man and woman in a retirement home sharing stories of their past while playing a repeating game of gin. Previews begin September 21. [Yahoo! News]
Black-ish creator Kenya Barris teams up with Ice Cube to create a new comedy film, White Boy Problems. The film follows a hapless white guy who wakes up from an accident with Ice Cube’s voice inside his head. Driven by that voice, he gains the confidence to take control of his life. [Deadline]
