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News for 10/15/2007


Broadway's Broderick and Lathan Featured in New Film "Wonderful World"

By Ernio Hernandez


Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick and Broadway actress Sanaa Lathan will star in the forthcoming independent film "Wonderful World," according to Variety.

Joshua Goldin ("Darkman," "Out on a Limb") will direct his screenplay for Ambush Entertainment. Matt Leutwyler and Miranda Bailey produce.

"Wonderful World," the trade mag reports, "centers on a depressed, divorced and unemployed father who finds solace in his Senegalese roommate's sister." Filming is slated to begin this month in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Broderick won Tony Awards for his turns in Brighton Beach Memoirs and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Other credits include The Odd Couple, Biloxi Blues, Night Must Fall, Taller Than a Dwarf, On Valentine's Day, Torch Song Trilogy and The Widow Claire. His various film credits include "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "Glory," "The Cable Guy," "Election," "You Can Count on Me" "The Stepford Wives," "Marie and Bruce" and "The Producers" movie.

The actor — who last teamed with Kenneth Lonergan on the as-yet-unreleased film "Margaret" — is slated to star in Lonergan's upcoming Off-Broadway run of The Starry Messenger. The new work begins previews Feb. 7, 2008, at Manhattan Theatre Club.

Lathan earned a Tony nomination for her Broadway debut in the 2004 revival of A Raisin in the Sun — a turn she reprised for the upcoming ABC television adaptation opposite her stage co-stars Phylicia Rashad, Audra McDonald and Sean Combs. The actress seen recently on FX's "Nip/Tuck" is also known for her film work in "Love & Basketball," "The Wood," "The Best Man," "Brown Sugar," "Out of Time" and "Something New."



News for 3/13/2007


The following article appeared in the November 2006 issue of Essence Magazine





News for 12/10/2006


The following article appeared in the October 2006 issue of Upscale Magazine





The following news item appeared in the October 2, 2006 issue of People Magazine





News for 6/1/2006


Lathan Slices into 'Nip/Tuck'

'Something New' star set to join season four


LOS ANGELES -- Sanaa Lathan is getting ready to carve out a place for herself on FX's operatic drama "Nip/Tuck."

The "Something New" star is in negotiations to be a regular on the show's fourth season, which is scheduled to begin in the fall. She'll play a trophy wife who comes into the lives of Drs. Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh) and Christian Troy (Julian McMahon), according to The Hollywood Reporter.

With the Carver now plying his trade in Europe, it would seem that business at the McNamara/Troy plastic-surgery practice might return to normal this season -- "normal" being a relative term on a show that's featured an exquisitely crafted male-to-female transgender person, white supremacists and Sean's unusual attachment to a blow-up doll.

Lathan's character will step into that world via her rich older husband, who ends up buying the practice from Sean and Christian.

"Nip/Tuck" will be Lathan's first regular TV work since the comedy "LateLine," which had a brief run on NBC in 1998-99. Her film credits, in addition to "Something New," include "Love & Basketball," "Out of Time," "Blade" and "Alien vs. Predator."



News for 3/30/2006


The following article appeared in the March 2006 issue of Essence Magazine





The following interview appeared in the February 20, 2006 issue of People Magazine





The following news item appeared in the February 3, 2006 issue of Jet Magazine