Lauren Cohan joins Tupac Shakur biopic “All Eyez On Me”January 16, 2016 - 10:52 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Lauren Cohan has joined the cast of the Tupac Shakur biopic “All Eyez On Me” and will portray an early mentor for the iconic musician, Variety reports. The cast of the Morgan Creek movie, currently shooting in Atlanta, includes Danai Gurira, Kat Graham, Jamie Hector and Demetrius Shipp Jr. in the lead role. “All Eyez on Me” chronicles the life and legacy of Tupac Shakur, including his rise to superstardom as a hip-hop artist and actor, his imprisonment and his time at Death Row Records Cohan will play Leila Steinberg, who met Shakur in 1988 when he was 17 and became his first manager. The two later founded the Microphone Sessions writing workshop. “All Eyez on Me” is directed by Benny Boom. The film’s title is taken from Shakur’s fourth studio album, which was released in early 1996. The film is produced by James G. Robinson and David Robinson of Morgan Creek Productions along with LT Hutton. Shakur’s mother, Afeni Shakur, serves as executive producer. The film will be distributed by Open Road. Cohan is best known for portraying Maggie Greene on AMC’s “The Walking Dead” and recurring roles on “The Vampire Diaries” and “Supernatural.” Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |