Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
BLEX EXCLUSIVE: Fly Butterfly Productions has announced a life rights deal with Kitty Black Perkins, the trailblazing designer behind the first Black Barbie, with a feature film biopic now in development. Keena Ferguson is attached to direct, Kadesha Powell to write and Jasmine Farr to produce. Kitty chronicles the life of Louvenia “Kitty” Black Perkins, […]
Netflix has set October 15 as the premiere date for The Diplomat Season 4 and released the first teaser trailer alongside first-look photos from the upcoming eight-episode season. The teaser opens with Kate Wyler making her intentions clear. “I’m not trying to get out of the marriage, I’m trying to get back in,” Keri Russell’s […]
Whitney Peak is the latest to join Universal’s Miami Vice ’85, the highly anticipated reimagining of the classic 1980s television series directed by Joseph Kosinski. Peak joins a cast that already includes Michael B. Jordan, Austin Butler and Alden Ehrenreich in the IMAX film set for release on May 19, 2028. Peak is set to […]
Pennywise is coming back. HBO has officially renewed It: Welcome to Derry for a second season, nearly a year after the first season premiered last October. As we have been reporting for some time, the renewal had long been expected but took longer than anticipated as the creative team worked out the direction for the […]
The wait is almost over. Netflix has released the official trailer for its A Different World sequel series, confirming a September 24 premiere date for the 10-episode single-camera half-hour dramedy. The sequel returns to Hillman College with a new class stepping onto campus and beloved faces coming home. At the center is Deborah Wayne, played […]
Wanda and Leon are coming back. FX has released the trailer for The Drop: A Snowfall Saga, the spinoff series picking up where the beloved drama left off, premiering Tuesday, September 8 at 9 p.m. ET on FX and Hulu. New episodes will roll out weekly across eight episodes, with the series also available internationally […]
Switches, the R-rated romantic comedy short film written and directed by Brandon Broussard, is heading to the Oscar-qualifying BronzeLens Film Festival in Atlanta, where it will screen on August 27 at 2:38 p.m. The film, which previously won Best Short Film at the Essence Film Festival and has also been accepted into the LA Shorts […]
Spider-Man: Brand New Day has crossed the $2 billion mark at the global box office, reaching the milestone in 17 days and becoming only the eighth film in history to ever do so. The Destin Daniel Cretton-directed film now stands as the third MCU film to cross $2 billion, joining Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: […]
Independent studio Fuck Hollywood Productions has has launched a new Kickstarter campaign for its debut feature film, A Nightmare on Malcolm X Blvd, after an investor unexpectedly pulled out just weeks before production was set to begin. The film is a horror comedy set during the 1980s comedy boom. It follows a struggling Black comedian who marries […]
Kris Bowers is bringing his acclaimed musical talents to Netflix’s upcoming animated comedy Steps, serving as composer for the feature ahead of its November 20, 2026 release. The score was recorded over July and August at the iconic Abbey Road Studios in London, adding another major creative collaboration to a film that marks a milestone […]