November brings both the start of holiday season and one of the year’s biggest months for new releases. In theaters, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping finally arrives, along with David Fincher’s Cliff Booth sequel, a heist comedy from David Leitch, and Disney’s latest animated film. On streaming, Prime Video premieres The Greatest, its […]

Chicago filmmaker Ben F. Locke has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the remainder of The HOA‘s first season, following a successful earlier campaign that fully funded and completed the show’s pilot episode. Locke describes The HOA as “Insecure meets Living Single,” a character-driven comedy rooted in their own love for shows like A Different […]

Guerilla Film Group, the independent production company led by Chris M. Rutledge, has released the official trailer for Love & Death: A Reckoning in Harlem, a seven-minute proof of concept for a planned Black film noir series. Filmed entirely in Atlanta, the project follows Charlie Goolsworth, a 1950s Harlem gangster and jazz club owner confronting […]

Marcia Ann Gillespie, the pioneering journalist who led ESSENCE through its formative years and later became the first Black woman to serve as editor-in-chief of a mainstream American magazine, has died. She was 82. Her death was announced October 31, with tributes pouring in from colleagues who remembered her as brilliant, forthright, and endlessly supportive. […]

Criminal Minds: Evolution will end with its upcoming 20th season on Paramount+, Variety reports. The decision marks the first official cancellation under new Paramount+ leadership, Co-Chair and Chief Content Officer for Skydance Direct to Consumer Casey Bloys, though sources say the call followed a recommendation from the previous Paramount+ regime, which had given the show […]

OCTET Productions’ holiday romance A Christmas Destiny premieres today, November 1, on STARZ, starring Karen Obilom and Derrick A. King. Directed by Chazitear, who also co-wrote the script with Bree West, the film previously carried the working title A Kismet Holiday before earning the 2024 ESSENCE Film Festival Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature. The […]

MANSA, the entertainment studio and streaming platform co-founded by David Oyelowo and Nate Parker, is expanding its original microdrama slate into AI-driven world-building with They Left Us to Die, a 30-episode zombie survival thriller premiering Friday, October 30 on the MANSA app and TikTok Minis. The series was produced using generative AI technology, with digitally […]

Disney has officially confirmed a new Princess and the Frog special is in active production for Disney+, featuring new songs and members of the original cast. Walt Disney Animation Studios Chief Creative Officer Jared Bush made the announcement exclusively to Collider at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival, describing the project as a complete story rather […]

A comic book store’s fictional fight for survival is becoming a real one. Creator, writer, and star Cheyenne Ewulu announced at LA Comic Con that The Comic Shop, the independent workplace mockumentary, will return to Kickstarter to fund its second season, building directly on the show’s own storyline. Season 1, currently streaming on YouTube, ended […]

Beyond the Gates won four Daytime Emmy Awards at last night’s 53rd ceremony at the Hollywood Palladium, in its first year of eligibility after earning a record 15 nominations for a debut soap, the most ever for a new series. The CBS drama, the first new broadcast soap opera since 1999, follows a powerful Black […]