Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. New Line Cinema has released the first trailer ...

Richard Roundtree had a long and storied career, with over 150 credits and dozens of characters. But sometimes an actor needs but one role to make history. Roundtree had John Shaft. He played the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Is that Samuel L. Jackson and Richard Roundtree back on the streets as that very special man Shaft? You daammnn right.Warner Bros.

Shaft is back once again, and he's more confusing than ever. In the Shaft hitting theaters on June 14, Samuel L. Jackson returns to the role he portrayed in the 2000 movie of the same name, while ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Richard Roundtree as John Shaft. When it comes to trailblazers in the world of movies, Richard Roundtree ranks pretty high on the ...

Detective John Shaft casts a long shadow across movie history as the private dick who cemented the blaxploitation genre, and in pop culture as an icon of black masculinity, in or out of his badass ...

Back when Samuel L. Jackson first took up the mantle of Shaft in director John Singleton’s 2000 reboot, John Shaft II’s relationship with Richard Roundtree’s John Shaft was that of a nephew and an ...

Samuel L. Jackson, 70, will be reprising his role as John Shaft's nephew alongside Richard Roundtree for this year's Shaft film, which hits theaters on Friday Three generations of Shaft characters ...

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HARLEM, N.Y. — Way back in 1971, Richard Roundtree became an overnight star as Harlem detective John Shaft. He’s now reprising the role for the fifth time 48 years later in Friday’s “Shaft.” “When I ...

It’s been almost 50 years since moviegoers were introduced to the action hero John Shaft, played by Richard Roundtree in three trailblazing movies and one short-lived TV series. Heroic, revolutionary ...