More than a decade after sharing the screen in Baggage Claim, Paula Patton and Derek Luke are back together for Love on the Vineyard, Lifetime’s newest original movie, premiering Saturday, November 21, at 8/7c. Lifetime gave Blackfilmandtv.com an exclusive first look at the trailer ahead of the release. The story follows Jordan Wilson, played by […]

HBO has set a November 17 premiere date for When a Witness Recants, director Dawn Porter’s documentary examining what’s been called the longest combined wrongful conviction case in U.S. history. The film will stream on HBO Max and is executive produced by Ta-Nehisi Coates. The documentary centers on the case of the “Harlem Park Three”, […]

Sinners: Sounds That Summon, a new exhibition built around the Club Juke sequence from Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, is now open at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles, running through March 14, 2027. Co-organized with Warner Bros. Archives and curated by Imani Y. Haynes, the show follows a film that earned 16 Oscar nominations […]

Matthew Weiner has exited The Chairman, the high-profile drama series starring Eddie Murphy in development at Peacock, Deadline confirmed, with the news first reported by Variety. Weiner had been brought on as writer, executive producer, and showrunner on the project from David Glasser’s 101 Studios and Universal Television. According to sources, the split was creative […]

True to the Game: Quadir’s Redemption, the fourth installment in the crime-thriller franchise, premieres December 15 exclusively on Paramount+, The Hollywood Reporter reports. The first three films in the series will also become available on Paramount+ starting December 1. The new film continues the story of Gena, played by Erica Peeples, and Quadir, played by […]

Byron Allen has sold his entire 10.7% stake in Starz Entertainment, just seven months after acquiring it. His investment arm, Allen Family Capital, sold the shares in tranches between August 7 and September 29, netting just under $45 million, according to an SEC filing disclosed Thursday and first reported by The Hollywood Reporter. Allen originally […]

Rome Flynn has joined the cast of Throttled, Amazon MGM Studios’ new romance film based on the first book in Lauren Asher’s bestselling Dirty Air series, Deadline reports. The film is directed by Nzingha Stewart, reuniting her with Flynn after directing him on Apple TV+’s Imperfect Women, where he played Jordan opposite Kerry Washington.. Throttled […]

MGM+ has released first-look images from Bosch: Start of Watch, the prequel series exploring the origin story of Michael Connelly’s detective Harry Bosch, ahead of its January 10 premiere. The series stars Cameron Monaghan as a 26-year-old rookie cop Harry Bosch and Omari Hardwick as veteran officer Eli Bridges. Set in 1992 Los Angeles, the […]

The trailer for One Last Shot is here, and it makes clear Tisha Campbell isn’t just showing up for her next Lifetime movie, she’s building it. The actress stars in, co-wrote, and executive produces the film, which premieres Saturday, November 14 at 8/7c, adding another layer to a career that’s increasingly about calling the shots […]

Patrick Stewart, the Shakespearean-trained actor who became a sci-fi icon through his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men franchise, has died. He was 86. Stewart died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles following what his longtime spokesperson Kelly Bush Novak described as […]