Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
A three-generation family collaboration has taken the top prize in this year’s Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film. Once Upon a Time in Harlem, directed by David Greaves using footage shot by his late father, filmmaker William Greaves, and produced by David’s daughter Liani, has been named the eighth annual winner, earning a […]
Sony Pictures has released the official trailer for Prima Facie, the legal drama starring Cynthia Erivo as a hotshot young barrister whose life unravels after she’s sexually assaulted by someone in her own legal circle. The film world premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this month and opens in UK and Irish theaters November […]
Paramount’s $110+ billion buyout of Warner Bros. Discovery just cleared its last real obstacle. The 12 Democratic state attorneys general who sued to block it, led by California’s Rob Bonta, settled on Monday. The WGA settled a parallel suit the same day. CEO David Ellison says closing is roughly two weeks out; WBD’s David Zaslav […]
LaChanze and Joe Morton are among seven new guest stars joining The Best of Us, Paramount+’s upcoming limited series about the decade-long legal fight for 9/11 first responder compensation, as production begins in New York City. The six-episode series dramatizes the legal case that secured nearly $1 billion in compensation for first responders who fell […]
Cliff Booth is officially back. Netflix has released the trailer for The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, with Brad Pitt reprising his Oscar-winning role from Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, joined by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as pro football champion turned screen star Roderick “Hot Rod” Harrison. Directed by David Fincher from a […]
MACRO Television Studios and MANSA Studios are joining forces on an original premium microdrama series, marking the first collaboration between the two companies and pairing MACRO’s development and production pedigree with MANSA’s mobile-first, vertical-native production infrastructure. The two studios will jointly develop and finance the series while sharing ownership of the underlying intellectual property. MANSA […]
Z Cher-Aime and Andre Engco, co-founders of Cutting Edge Animation, are expanding their acclaimed animated short series Captain Zero: Into The Abyss into a full-length animated feature, with production slated to begin in 2027. To help fund the project, the pair have launched a Kickstarter campaign, which hit its initial $10,000 goal in just 24 […]
Peter Parker has officially swung his way into the record books. Spider-Man: Brand New Day has surpassed Star Wars: The Force Awakens to become the highest-grossing domestic release in box office history, ending a run the 2015 film had held for more than a decade. The Force Awakens topped out at roughly $936,662,225 domestically, a […]
Two original Book of Mormon cast members are heading back to Broadway. Nikki M. James and Rory O’Malley will return to the Eugene O’Neill Theatre for a strictly limited 12-week engagement, running October 27, 2026, through January 17, 2027. The Book of Mormon follows Elder Price, an ambitious, by-the-book missionary who dreamed of a glamorous […]
One of the summer’s biggest streaming surprises is now one of its most confusing cancellations. Deadline reports that Prime Video has opted not to renew Ride or Die, the buddy spy comedy starring Octavia Spencer and Hannah Waddingham, for a second season, despite a run that by nearly every available metric looked like a hit. […]