Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Shannan E. Johnson and The Professional Pen have set the cast for WOS Live: Who Killed Calvin?, an immersive live staged reading built around Johnson’s feature screenplay The Weight of Silence, set to take place September 20 in Los Angeles. The ensemble includes Birgundi Baker, Omar J. Dorsey, Zachariah Rogers, Jon Chaffin, Deborah Joy Winans, […]
USA Network has released the first trailer for The Rainmaker Season 2, confirming the legal drama returns Friday, October 16 at 10 p.m. Season 1 ended with Rudy Baylor, played by Milo Callaghan, pulling off a stunning underdog win against Great Benefit and its hospital, securing an $82 million judgment for client Dot Black after […]
Rachel Morrison’s sophomore directing effort, produced by Ryan Gosling, debuts at TIFF this weekend ahead of an October release. The first trailer for “Love of Your Life” dropped Wednesday, giving audiences their initial look at Rachel Morrison’s sweeping romantic drama ahead of its Toronto International Film Festival premiere this weekend. Margaret Qualley leads as Maya, […]
Update with trailer. CBS has released the official teaser for Cupertino, the upcoming legal drama from The Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King, offering the best look yet at the Silicon Valley-set series ahead of its October 8 premiere during CBS Premiere Week. The show follows Michael, played by Mike Colter, an attorney who […]
OWN is spotlighting the trailblazing all-Black women’s volleyball team that made history on the national stage. We Belong Here: The Story of Team Dream premieres on OWN Saturday, September 26 at 9 p.m. ET/PT as part of the network’s OWN Spotlight documentary series. Directed by Bianca Barnes-Williams, the film chronicles the journey of 12 Black […]
David Jonsson is set to lead the voice cast of the upcoming animated family feature Bollywoof, alongside Oscar winner Olivia Colman and The Big Bang Theory star Kunal Nayyar. Bollywoof follows a British pet dog who finds himself lost in the bustling city of Kolkata. To find his way home, he teams up with a […]
David Oyelowo is reimagining one of literature’s most iconic pirates. Paramount+ and MGM+ have unveiled a first look at Treasure Island, Playground Entertainment’s six-part adventure series starring David Oyelowo (Silo) as Long John Silver, marking the first time a Black actor has played the iconic pirate on screen. Oyelowo leads a cast that includes Hayley […]
The African American Film Critics Association has given $25,000 to the Black Film Hall of Fame, a museum and multicultural cultural center dedicated to preserving and celebrating Black cinema, set to open in 2027 inside Kansas City’s historic Boone Theater. The donation lands as the theater itself is only months into its own second act. […]
Netflix is marking a decade in South Africa with a fresh lineup of local titles, spanning returning seasons and sequels of established favorites alongside brand new series and unscripted formats. The streamer unveiled the lineup at a press showcase in Rosebank, Johannesburg, where Netflix executives, filmmakers and on-screen talent gathered to mark 10 years since […]
Universal Pictures’ Snoop Dogg biopic, Snoop, has added four more names to its stacked cast: Tre Hale, Bentley Green, SwayvoTwain and G Perico. Hale, who appears on the Netflix crime series Nemesis, will portray infamous record executive Suge Knight, the larger-than-life co-founder of Death Row Records, the label that helped bring rap and hip-hop into […]