Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Comedian and actor Lil Duval is taking his horror-comedy Camp Duval: Ain’t Nobody Dying Today on the road before it hits theaters. Swirl Films and Lil Duval have announced a six-city interactive premiere tour ahead of the film’s limited theatrical release in AMC theaters beginning September 24, with a VOD release on Apple TV and […]
Still waters run deep. Still Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre. Universal Pictures’ upcoming biographical film Snoop has found its Dre, with Myles Bullock set to play the legendary rapper and producer opposite Jonathan Daviss, who stars as Snoop Dogg himself. The relationship between Snoop and Dre was instrumental to Snoop’s rise and will figure prominently […]
Emmy and Grammy winner Jasmine Cephas Jones among one of the leads of the New York premiere of 2:22 — A Ghost Story, the Olivier Award-nominated stage thriller heading to Off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theatre this fall. Written by Danny Robins, creator of the hit BBC podcast The Battersea Poltergeist, the play follows Jenny (Cephas Jones), […]
Teyonah Parris is the latest to join the growing cast of Running, the Apple Original Films sports drama from director Gavin O’Connor. She joins Brian Tyree Henry, Spike Fearn, Rhea Seehorn, and Andrew Schulz in the film. Based on an original story by O’Connor and Bill Dubuque (Ozark, The Accountant), who also penned the script, […]
Six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald is the latest to join Amazon MGM’s romantic comedy Love Love, alongside Adeline Rudolph (Mortal Kombat II) and Dylan McDermott (FBI: Most Wanted). Character details are being kept under wraps. The three join previously announced leads Isabel May and Tyriq Withers in the film, written by Joey Power and […]
Colman Domingo is heading back to Netflix. The Emmy winner will star in and executive produce The Headlands House, a thriller limited series that landed at the streamer following a competitive bidding war. Written and executive produced by Cameron B. Dupont (Yellowjackets), the series follows a gay couple whose marriage begins to fracture after they […]
Marcus Callender is bringing a Black cultural tradition to stages across the country. The actor, known for his roles in Power and Wu-Tang: An American Saga, has announced a 76-show national tour of Spades: The Play, his debut as both playwright and director, a production ten years in the making. Set in 2013 Harlem and […]
The official trailer for Walter Thompson-Hernandez’s If I Go Will They Miss Me is here, offering the first full look following its “Best Feature Film” win at Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival ahead of its September 18 theatrical release. The film follows Big Ant (Nicholson), Lozita (Brooks) and 12-year-old Lil Ant (Bodhi Dell), or […]
Alex Ullom is wasting no time. Ahead of this weekend’s release of his debut feature, the Neon horror thriller It Ends, the filmmaker has locked the lead cast for his second film at the studio, 4 X 4: The Event, a genre-bending horror thriller that already has the internet buzzing. Quintessa Swindell (Teenage Sex and […]
A decade after 13th became a cultural touchstone, Ava DuVernay is returning to Netflix with 14th, a new documentary chronicling the enduring constitutional battle over the 14th Amendment. The film will premiere globally on Netflix on December 4, following a theatrical release in select US and UK theaters beginning November 27. It will make its […]