Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Awards season has officially kicked off, and documentaries took center stage this weekend as the Critics Choice Association celebrated the 10th Annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards in New York City. Netflix’s The Perfect Neighbor dominated the night, earning five awards, including the coveted Best Documentary Feature. The powerful true-crime doc, directed by Geeta Gandbhir, examines […]
Lamorne Morris (New Girl) and Naturi Naughton (Power) are joining forces in filmmaker J. Lee’s new comedy Jacob Beats Up Nate. The project has wrapped filming in St. Louis and is now launching sales at the American Film Market (AFM) through Vaneast Pictures and CAA Media Finance. The film, inspired by true events from Lee’s […]
Nollywood is going global — again. Rushlake Media, FilmOne Entertainment, and InkBlot Productions have joined forces in a new strategic partnership designed to bring a curated slate of Nigerian films to global audiences through AVOD (Advertising-Video-on-Demand) and FAST (Free Ad-Supported Streaming Television) platforms. This move brings together three major forces in the industry: Rushlake Media […]
Hulu’s newest legal drama All’s Fair has made an explosive debut. The Ryan Murphy–produced series, starring and executive produced by Kim Kardashian, has become the streamer’s biggest scripted series premiere in three years, drawing 3.2 million global views within its first three days of release. Premiering on November 4, the series follows Kardashian as a […]
Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa has joined the cast of Bad Fairies, the upcoming animated musical from Warner Bros. Pictures Animation and Locksmith Animation. The original musical comedy follows a bold group of fairies who shake up their magical world with a little rebellion and a lot of glitter. Gatwa joins Cynthia Erivo, who was […]
The Bride is returning to the big screen — this time in the form Quentin Tarantino always intended. Lionsgate has released the official trailer for ‘Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair’, a four-hour supercut that merges Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 into a single, unrated, extended feature. The film arrives in theaters nationwide […]
The world was watching — and Michael delivered. After making its global debut, the teaser trailer for Michael, Lionsgate’s upcoming biopic about the King of Pop, soared to 116.2 million views worldwide in its first 24 hours, according to new data from WaveMetrix. That number officially makes it the largest 24-hour trailer launch in Lionsgate […]
NATIVES isn’t just a web series — it’s a declaration of independence for storytelling that refuses to fit the mold. Created by Ronald Hinton (actor, filmmaker, and founder of Shared Soil Productions), with Creative Producer Darnell Dudley and Director Brittany Franklin, the series centers on twenty-something New Yorkers navigating love, identity, and survival in public […]
After decades of scene-stealing cameos, Miss Piggy is finally getting her own close-up. Jennifer Lawrence revealed that she and Emma Stone are producing a Miss Piggy movie with Oh, Mary! creator and Tony Award winner Cole Escola writing the script. It’s the first solo film for the iconic Muppet since her debut on The Muppet […]
The world’s been waiting for Michael, and the numbers prove it. The first teaser for Lionsgate’s upcoming biopic on the King of Pop exploded online — racking up more than 30 million views in its first six hours, a number that already outpaced some of the studio’s biggest recent releases. According to Lionsgate Motion Picture […]