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Filming of the second season of Blindspotting is currently underway, and several additions have been made to the cast of the Starz comedy series. LeVar Burton, Katlynn Simone Smith, Tamera Tomakili and Tim Chantarangsu are joining Helen Hunt, Benjamin Earl Turner, Atticus Woodward, Jaylen Barron, Candace Nicholas-Lippman, and Jasmine Cephas Jones on the series.

revealed more about the second season of the series in a press release.

“Starz announced today that LeVar Burton, Katlynn Simone Smith Tamera Tomakili and Tim Chantarangsu have joined the cast of its critically acclaimed comedy series Blindspotting for season two, in recurring roles. Additionally, rappers E-40, P-Lo and Too hort will guest star as themselves in the upcoming season.

Starz additionally confirmed today that...

“Blindspotting” is adding some fresh faces to Oakland.

LeVar Burton Katlynn Simone Smith Tamera Tomakili and Tim Chantarangsu have joined Season 2 of the critically-acclaimed comedy series in recurring roles, Starz announced Thursday. Information regarding the characters they will be playing has yet to be announced.

In addition, Starz also announced that Margo Hall, April Absynth, Lance Holloway, Andrew Chappelle and Utkarsh Ambudkar, who recurred in the first season, will return in expanded capacities for the second season. An episode of the season will also feature guest appearances from rappers E-40, P-Lo and Too hort, who will all play themselves.

A spin-off of the 2018 film of the same name, “Blindspotting” stars Jasmine Cephas Jones as Ashley Rose, an ordinary woman whose life is upended when her boyfriend Miles (Rafael Casal) is sent to prison for 12 years. Forced to move in with her mother-in-law Rainey (Helen Hunt), Ashley begins relying on her community of friends and family,...

LeVar Burton (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Katlynn Simone Smith (Empire) Tamera Tomakili (Winning Time) and Tim Chantarangsu (Laid in America) are set for recurring roles on the second season of Starz’s Blindspotting. Additionally, rappers E-40, P-Lo and Too hort will guest star as themselves in the TV spin-off sequel from Lionsgate TV. Production on Season 2 is currently underway in Los Angeles and Oakland, CA.

Co-created by Rafael Casal, who also stars, and Daveed Diggs, the series centers on Ashley, played by Jasmine Cephas Jones, who was nipping at the heels of a middle class life in Oakland until Miles, her partner of 12 years and father of their son, is suddenly incarcerated, leaving her to navigate a chaotic and humorous existential crisis when she’s forced to move in with Miles’ mother and half-sister.

In addition to Cephas Jones and Casal, Helen Hunt, Benjamin Earl Turner, Atticus Woodward, Jaylen Barron...

Joe Sugg and Caspar Lee, two popular YouTube creators and social-media personalities, have formed a talent management agency with a strategic investment from Img.

Dubbed Margravine Management, the agency will be based in London and is focused on signing and developing “new and upcoming digital talent.” The company is led by Sugg and Lee, who are also best friends. Img is an investor and strategic partner to the new agency; a rep declined to disclose financial terms of the deal.

“We have been working in the digital space for over eight years now and can’t wait to combine our experience and skill with the strategic guidance of Img to offer a new management service and bring about a new era of digital talent,” Sugg and Lee said in a joint statement.

Margravine expects to announce its talent-management positions and initial signings in the next few weeks. A “margravine” is the wife of a margrave,...

The Gabbie Show is hitting the big time. That channel's leading lady, Gabbie Hanna, has signed with talent agency CAA for representation in all areas.

Hanna rose to digital prominence due in large part to her presence on Vine, but now that Twitter's six-second video platform is no more, she has devoted much of her creative energy tow YouTube, where The Gabbie Show -- which features vlogs, sketches, collaborations, and other assorted formats -- has more than 4.5 million subscribers. Her most popular video, in which she remakes her sister's Musical.ly clips, has received more than 20 million views to date.

Thanks to her popularity, Hanna has unlocked a number of offline projects. She served as one of the performers for Fullscreen's Drop The Mic event series, and she recently announced her first book, titled Adultolescence, which will become available in September. She has also picked up acting roles in several projects led by YouTube stars,...

Following the premiere of his first feature film co-starring Caspar Lee titled Laid In America, the YouTube phenom Ksi, whose real name is Olajide Olatunji, has revealed his next career move: music. Olatunji, who counts roughly 15 million subscribers on his seven-year-old channel chock full of FIFA gaming videos, vlogs, and more, tells the IBTimes that he now plans to pursue a recording career full-throttle.

To this end, Olatunji just released a new single featuring the rapper Waka Flocka Flame titled Jump Around (below) that’s a remixed version of the 90s classic. He’s also slated to kick off an eight-date European tour next Wednesday beginning in Paris and concluding on Nov. 8 in London.

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World-famous YouTube superstar Ksi makes his much anticipated feature-film debut alongside Caspar Lee this fall in the laugh-out- loud, chaotic comedy Laid In America. A hilarious and outrageous film that’s the perfect mix of sex, stupidity and fun for its millennial audience, Laid In America was released on Digital HD on September 27, 2016 and on Blu-ray and DVD on October 4, 2016 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

Now you can own the Blu-ray of Laid In America. We Are Movie Geeks has three copies to give away. Just leave a comment below and answer this question: What is your favorite movie with the word ‘America’ in the title? (mine is Once Upon The Time In America) It’s so easy! We’ll pick the winners next week.

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With the September 23, 2017 debut of Dirty 30 and the September 26 premiere of Laid in America, Hollywood has presented us with two studio-backed low-budget films featuring many prominent social-media influencers. Traditional Hollywood has finally joined, to borrow influencer Michelle Glavan’s phrase, “the YouTube movie circuit.”

That means traditional studios are finally trying a newish model for making and marketing films that are the polar opposite of their usual blockbuster behemoths. The model emerged about three years ago, when indie producers and multichannel networks like AwesomenessTV tapped squadrons of influencers for roles in films such as Expelled and Camp Takota. This model has resulted in small films that typically are profitable, relatively low risk, and can connect with young audiences who otherwise ignore traditional studios.

Previously, the big media companies focused more on buying up multichannel networks (e.g. Maker Studios, Machinima, Collective Digital Studios) and tapping influencers to promote their products.

From RedBand.Ca, take a look @ the restricted, 'red band' trailer supporting Universal's new teen comedy feature "Laid In America", opening September 27, 2016:

"...two foreign exchange high-school students are kidnapped during their quest to 'get laid' on their last night in America..."

Directors are Sam Milman and Peter Vass, from a screenplay by Sam Milman and Peter Vass, starring Olajide Olatunji, Caspar Lee and Bobby Lee.

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Laid In America"...

Two of the most popular YouTube stars in the world are two months away from splashing into the film world. On September 26th, the film Laid In America, which stars Caspar Lee and Olajide “Ksi” Olatunji, will premiere in the UK. It will make its stateside debut the following day.

Laid in America, which we first heard about more than a year ago, follows its two stars as they descend upon Yankee shores and get into all sorts of trouble. The film is being billed as a raunchy teen comedy, and its plot, which can be summed up as “two guys try to lose their virginity on the night before they leave the United States,” is reminiscent of the enduring 1999 film American Pie.

Like many of the other so-called “influencer films” that star digital media personalities in feature-length productions, Laid in America will feature a supporting cast filled with Lee and Ksi’s colleagues.

The trend of feature films led by YouTube stars is not strictly an American phenomenon. British YouTube star Olajide Olatunji, known online as Ksi, and South African vlogger Caspar Lee will star in Laid In America, an upcoming feature film whose cast is filled with YouTube stars.

As TheVideoInk, Laid In America began filming last month and promises exactly what it says in the title. Ksi and Lee will play a pair of friends who cross the pond in an attempt to score with Stateside women. The supporting cast is full of YouTube stars: Timothy DeLaGhetto, Josh Leyva, and Josh Golden will all make appearances.

Laid in America is helmed by a notable YouTube channel as well. Bad Weather Films, a sketch comedy hub, is directing the film and co-producing it alongside Max Gottlieb.

Ksi and Caspar are frequent collaborators who are also two of the biggest stars on YouTube.