Eddie Horniman doesn’t wait for permission, and neither does Netflix. The Gentlemen has been officially renewed for a third season before Season 2 even launches on September 3, with the first full-length Season 2 trailer dropping today and leaving no doubt that a bigger, grittier chapter of Guy Ritchie’s aristocrats-turned-gangsters saga is on the way. […]

Terrence Terrell is among the cast of The Summer They Came, a seaside dramedy currently in post-production, joining Jayne Taini, Sachin Bhatt, Mario Cantone, and William Sadler. America Young directs the film from a script by writer and executive producer Nick Wauters, who has spent nearly two decades bringing the project to the screen. Principal photography […]

Marissa Jo Cerar, the creator and showrunner behind Hulu’s Black Cake, is developing a television adaptation of E.L. Westbury’s domestic thriller Drowning in Paper Flowers, with Jenna Bush Hager and Ben Spector of Thousand Voices and Universal Global Television attached to the project. The recently re-released novel follows Ruby Powell, a wealthy and seemingly perfect […]

Sam Hanna is coming home. The first trailer for NCIS: New York has arrived, and it makes one thing clear: Special Agent Sam Hanna hasn’t lost a step since leaving Los Angeles. LL Cool J returns to the NCIS universe in the newest spinoff, this time bringing the franchise to New York City, where Hanna […]

Michael Wright, the actor whose portrayal of Eddie King Jr. in Robert Townsend’s The Five Heartbeats became one of the most celebrated performances in Black cinema, has died at the age of 70. His wife, Susan Wright, confirmed the news on the actor’s Instagram page. The cause of death has not been released. “It is […]

After spending years as a journalist at The New York Times, Walter Thompson-Hernández uses that eye for observation to craft “If I Go Will They Miss Me,” his feature directorial debut. The film unfolds with the patience of a documentary, letting its story of a father trying to reconnect with his 12-year-old son in Watts […]

The shift is about to start again. HBO has released the first teaser for Season 3 of The Pitt, with the medical drama set to return in January 2027. Season 3 finds Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch (Noah Wyle) back at work after four months away on sabbatical, stepping into a Pittsburgh emergency department that has […]

Brandon Broussard’s Essence Fest Best Short winner is funny, sharp, and feature-ready. There’s a difference between a short film that’s simply well-made and one that leaves an audience already lobbying for a feature-length follow-up before the credits roll. Switches is squarely the latter. Starring Sinqua Walls and Chanté Adams as Jake and Dawn, a married […]