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Congrats are in order for Insecure actress Natasha Rothwell. The actress/comedian inked a multi-year overall deal at ABC Signature. Under the deal, Rothwell will develop new television projects via her Big Hattie Productions. The deal is also in conjunction with Disney General Entertainment’s BIPOC Creator Initiative led by Tara Duncan. “Natasha is the real deal […]
Talk about a blast from the past of how-did-we-forget-about-this-show. HBO Max is giving Nickelodeon’s sitcom The Brothers Garcia, a sequel entitled The Garcias. If you don’t remember, The Brother’s Garcia aired on Nick for four seasons from 2000 to 2004. It was an original series that was billed as the first English-language sitcom to have […]
Season 2 of Netflix’s Russian Doll is coming together and adds Ephraim Sykes (Hamilton) to the cast. Russian Doll follows Nadia (Natasha Lyonne) who is caught in a time loop as the guest of honor at a seemingly inescapable party one night in New York City. She dies repeatedly, always restarting at the same moment […]
Annelle Olayele to star as a series regulars in Showtime’s sci-fi limited series The Man Who Fell to Earth. She will star opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor and Naomie Harris. Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet are writing the series based on Walter Tevis’ novel of the same name. Kurtzman is also directing multiple episodes. READ: Jamie Foxx, […]
Lovecraft County and Snowfall writer Ihuoma Ofordire is penning the remake of the 1973 Blaxploitation film, Cleopatra Jones for Warner Bros and Charles D. King’s Macro. The original film centered on Cleopatra Jones, played by Tamara Dobson, who is an undercover government agent who uses the day job of supermodel as her cover and an […]
Charles Babalola joins the cast of Lionsgate’s adaptation of the hit video game Borderlands. Bablola helps round out the cast that includes Kevin Hart, Cate Blanchett, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu, Edgar Ramirez, Haley Bennett, Olivier Richters, and Jack Black. Also recently cast aside Babalola are Gina Gershon, Cheyenne Jackson, Benjamin Byron Davis, […]
Dominique Fishback and Anthony Ramos to co-lead the latest installment of Hollywood’s biggest franchise, Transformers. Creed II helmer Steven Caple Jr. is directing the film for Paramount, eOne and Hasbro as they talk final negotiations with Fishback to confirm her spot. While Ramos was always a frontrunner for the lead role, the role of Fishback’s […]
Samuel L Jackson’s action flick The Protege gets a release date. Maggie Q and Michael Keaton also star in the action movie. Martin Campbell directs the Lionsgate film off Richard Wenks script. READ: Marsha Stephanie Blake, Damon Gupton, and More Join Samuel L Jackson in The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey In the film assassin […]
Michael B. Jordan is developing Akwaeke Emezi’s novel You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty through his Outlier Society production company. The adaptation will be made for Amazon Studios after the streamer won an auction for the screen rights to the book that the Simon & Schuster imprint Atria will publish in 2022. […]
Fresh from guest-hosting The Masked Singer, Niecy Nash joins another show. She will host the reboot of Don’t Forget the Lyrics! for Fox. The series challenges contestants’ musical memory in a bid to win $1 million as long as they don’t forget the lyrics. Contestants will choose songs from different genres, decades and musical artists. […]