LaKeith Stanfield and Ben Mendelsohn are set to star in Molepeople, a new horror thriller co-financed and co-produced by Blumhouse Atomic Monster and Paramount Primal, with Paramount handling worldwide distribution, The Hollywood Reporter reports exclusively. Stanfield revealed the news himself during a Blumfest panel at New York Comic-Con, confirming a theatrical release date of August […]

E. Lynn Harris’s estate has partnered with Oscar-winning producer Carl Reed and his studio, Composition Media, on AI-driven visual design for Behind the Mask: Invisible Life (The Musical), which will have its world premiere at Washington, D.C.’s Howard Theatre November 30 through December 1, closing on World AIDS Day. The musical adapts Harris’s 1991 debut […]

The seven-episode series, co-starring and created by Will Sharpe, premieres globally Feb. 10, 2027 Ayo Edebiri’s next chapter has a release date. Apple TV unveiled the first look at Prodigies, a romantic comedy series starring Edebiri opposite Will Sharpe, who created, wrote and directed the show. The seven-episode season launches globally on Wednesday, Feb. 10, […]

Netflix has released the first look at Tyler Perry’s The Gospel of Christmas, a holiday drama starring Fantasia Barrino Taylor and Durrell “Tank” Babbs, premiering November 11. Written and directed by Perry, the film follows a struggling pastor who inherits his family’s church in a troubled New York neighborhood and must fight to save it, […]

Production is officially underway in Paris on Miles & Juliette, the new feature from Oscar-nominated director Bill Pohlad and his River Road Entertainment banner. Damson Idris stars as Miles Davis, with Anamaria Vartolomei playing Juliette Gréco opposite him. Seven new names round out the cast: J. Alphonse Nicholson as Kenny “Klook” Clarke, Jay Reeves as […]

Dawn Porter is set to direct a feature documentary on pioneering Black TV news anchor Max Robinson for Wise Child Studios. Titled Color Bars: The Story of the Black Journalist Who Broke the TV News Color Barrier, the film will trace the rise and fall of Robinson’s broadcast news career. CNN anchor Victor Blackwell is […]

Darryl M. Bell and Kadeem Hardison, original stars of A Different World who also reprise their roles in Netflix’s revival, are launching a weekly rewatch podcast called A Different World View with Darryl & Kadeem. The show premieres Thursday, October 15, with new episodes dropping every Thursday from iHeartMedia and Charlamagne Tha God’s Black Effect […]

  Netflix has released the official trailer for How To Ruin Diwali: Meet the Parents, the latest entry in the network’s South African How To Ruin franchise, premiering October 30, 2026. The three-episode comedy comes from Burnt Onion Productions in collaboration with filmmaker Jayan Moodley, whose Kandasamys: The Baby and Meet the Khumalos are also […]

Jack’d is taking an unconventional approach to film distribution: instead of competing for placement on traditional festival circuits, the app is using its own existing user base of 15 million people as a built-in audience, a structural advantage queer filmmakers of color have historically lacked access to elsewhere. Jack’d, the largest dating app for queer […]

Hektik, Africa’s first homegrown microdrama streaming platform, has announced a new content partnership with Blue Pictures, one of the largest distributors in East and West Africa, alongside milestone viewership numbers for its debut original series, Exodus 20. Launched in February 2026, Hektik delivers short-form, vertical video content in 9:16 format, typically in one-to-three-minute episodes, built […]