Samira Wiley, Galen J. Williams and Nicco Annan are among the cast of The Let Go, a music-driven indie drama that has wrapped production in Colorado. Written and directed by Kristen Wolf in her feature directorial debut, the film also stars Mileiah Vega, Sophia Bush, Midori Francis, Brandon Flynn and Tovah Feldshuh. The film follows […]

“I think there’s important conversations being had online about the kind of stories that we’re prioritizing and the kind of shows platforms wanna make.” Those were the words of Wonder Man co-creator and showrunner Andrew Guest, who took to TikTok on Saturday to address fans following the shock cancellation of the Marvel Disney+ series, and […]

Create the Writers Room has landed its films on one of streaming’s biggest free platforms. The creative incubator founded by filmmaker Rickey Castleberry has expanded its ongoing partnership with the Roku Channel, with select films from its Five Film Fridays screening series now available to the platform’s 100 million subscribers. Founded in 2018, Create the […]

The wait is almost over. Apple TV has released the first teaser for Neuromancer, the highly anticipated cyberpunk sci-fi series based on William Gibson’s groundbreaking 1984 novel, with the 10-episode series set to premiere January 22. Co-created by JD Dillard and Graham Roland, the series follows Case, played by Callum Turner, a damaged top-rung super-hacker […]

Apple TV is in early development on an ongoing series based on Colson Whitehead’s bestselling Harlem trilogy, Variety has learned. The studio has acquired the rights to all three novels, with Aric Avelino and Graham Yost adapting the books for television. The trilogy is set in New York and spans the 1950s through the 1980s, […]

Lee Daniels is not giving up on Star. The director and co-creator of the beloved Fox musical drama has gone public with his efforts to revive the series, revealing in a pair of recent videos that every major studio has turned him down but that he is determined to find another way. “Every studio has […]

Keke Palmer could not help but share some exciting news during her live podcast taping with Michelle Obama at the ESSENCE Festival of Culture on July 3 in New Orleans. While recording a live episode of IMO: The Look at the Caesars Superdome, Palmer revealed that she is developing a basketball-themed comedy film with Higher […]

Sterling Sulieman is joining the cast of the upcoming darkly comedic supernatural romance Thud, which stars Sarah Michelle Gellar as the Grim Reaper and Rudy Pankow as the Devil. The film has added seven new cast members, including Piper Curda, Sujata Day, Sulieman, Steve Agee, Karan Soni, Dot-Marie Jones and Katie Parker. Character details for […]

Seven years after Mahershala Ali shocked Hall H with the surprise announcement that he would become the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s new Blade, the two-time Oscar winner says he’s officially ready to leave the project—and the questions surrounding it—behind. In a new interview with GQ, Ali addressed the long-troubled Marvel reboot, making it clear he no […]

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against Penske Media Corporation on Tuesday, accusing the media conglomerate of orchestrating a fraudulent scheme to seize control of the Golden Globe Awards as part of a broader effort to dominate Hollywood’s awards and advertising ecosystem. The 113-page suit, filed in U.S. District Court in […]