Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Delroy Lindo joins Mahershala Ali in the Blade reboot which Ali is cast as the titular human-vampire hybrid. Bassam Tariq is directing the feature project from a script Stacy Osei-Kuffour penned. Osei-Kuffour writing the script makes her the first Black woman to pen a Marvel movie. READ: 15 Actors Whose Careers Rose After Starring in […]
Whatchu talkin’ ’bout, Willis? TV veteran Norman Lear and Jimmy Kimmel will revive their Emmy-winning Live in Front of a Studio Audience for its third iteration with a Diff’rent Strokes and its spinoff The Facts of Life. “Other than with my family, there’s no place I’d rather be in my 100th year than on a […]
Deborah Ayorinde and Hugh Quarshie have been set as leads in the cast of Amazon Studio and ITV’s six-part drama series Riches. Abby Ajayi created and wrote the series that follows the exploits of the brash, super-successful, and wealthy Richards family led by the highly intelligent with an undeniably ruthless streak, Stephen Richards (Quarshie). He […]
Forest Whitaker joins Khris Davis and Sullivan Jones in the George Foreman biopic for Sony’s AFFIRM Films label. The film will follow the remarkable life and times of George Foreman (Davis), from Olympic Gold medalist to World Heavyweight champion, Rumble in the Jungle fight with Muhammad Ali (Jones) in Zaire, to preacher, then stepping back […]
Method Man, Mike Epps, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, and Jamila C. Gray are joining the cast of ‘On The Come Up.’ They join Sanaa Lathan, who is starring and making her feature directorial debut on the Paramount Players’ adaptation of Angie Thomas’ New York Times bestseller. She’s the third director on the project. She is taking […]
Universal Pictures is making a sequel to their 1988 action-comedy ‘Midnight Run,’ the sequel will star Regina Hall, who will also produce. The original film starred Robert De Niro as Jack Walsh, a bounty hunter whose job it is to collect mob accountant, Jonathan Mardukas, (the late Charles Grodin). Walsh needed to get Mardukas to […]
Anthony Hemingway is directing The Preacher’s Wife remake that will also see original cast member Courtney B. Vance reprising his role. The film, which is described as a “reimagining” of the 1996 film will “creatively evolve the story in a new direction.” “Christmas has always been my favorite time of the year. To be re-imagining […]
Phoebe Robinson and Dewayne Perkins’ barber/beauty shop sitcom Chopped & Screwed is in development at ABC. Perkins will also star in the multi-camera sitcom comedy. The series is set in a Black barbershop and beauty salon that, due to unavoidable circumstances, must come together as one entity to continue servicing the superficial and therapeutic needs […]
Morgan Freeman, Chinaza Uche and Celeste O’Conner are starring in A Good Person for MGM. Florence Pugh, Zoe Lister-Jones, and Molly Shannon are also cast. A Good Person centers on Allison (Pugh), whose life falls apart following her involvement in a fatal accident. In the ensuing years, it is the unlikely relationship she forms with […]
Deon Cole, La La Anthony, Travis Bennett, Andrea Savage, and Rhea Perlman have rounded out the cast of a new untitled Netflix comedy. They join previously cast Lauren London, Eddie Murphy, Jonah Hill, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Nia Long, Sam Jay, Molly Gordon, and David Duchovny. Kenya Barris is making is feature directorial debut with the film […]