This project reunites Kelley and the director, who worked together previously on “Star” and the 2013 film “Lee Daniels’ The Butler.” Hulu is producing an eight-part series about legendary crooner ...

Lee Daniels will co-write, executive produce, and direct the first two episodes of the biographical series about legendary comedian, actor, dancer, and singer Sammy Davis Jr. for Hulu starring Elijah ...

“Hairspray” standout Elijah Kelley broke into entertainment at age 11 when he answered a newspaper ad looking for young Atlanta-area talent. “They gave me a stick of bubble gum and said, ‘Sell this to ...

*Elijah Kelley (The New Edition Story) has signed on for a recurring role on Season 2 of Fox’s hit music drama “Star,” reports Deadline. Kelley will play Andy, a Harvard graduate who has worked all ...

If Travolta’s Edna Turnblad is the heart of Hairspray, Elijah Kelley’s Seaweed J. Stubbs is the hips–the kind of boy who makes teenage girls nearly choke on their lollipops or want to join him in ...

Hulu is teaming up with film director Lee Daniels to tell the story of singer Sammy Davis Jr. There will be an eight-episode series exploring the life of Davis Jr., told through the lens of his racial ...

The untitled upcoming project will be directed by Lee Daniels and distributed on Hulu. Then there’s “OH MY GOD, ARE YOU SERIOUS. THIS IS PERFECT. HE/SHE/THEY’RE GONNA ABSOLUTELY KILL THIS ROLE! GIVE ...

The live event stars Mills as Auntie Em, Queen Latifah as The Wiz, Blige as Evillene, Grier as The Cowardly Lion, Aduba as Glinda, Riley as Addaperle, Ne-Yo as the Tin Man, Elijah Kelley as the ...

Here’s the official logline: Sammy Davis, Jr. rose from childhood stardom on the vaudeville stage to become one of the most famous African American entertainers of the 1950s and ’60s (and the only ...