Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Danielle Deadwyler has found her next role in Netflix and Amblin’s thriller Carry On. She joins Sofia Carson, Taron Egerton, and Jason Bateman in the holiday thriller. The thriller centers on Ethan Kopek, a young TSA agent who gets blackmailed by a mysterious traveler to let a dangerous package slip through security and onto a […]
Christmas is already beginning at OWN. The network announced two original Christmas movies for its OWN For The Holidays slate. One of the films is The Great Holiday Bake War and A Christmas Fumble. The Great Holiday Bake War stars LeToya Luckett and Finesse Mitchell and will premiere on Saturday, December 3 at 9 p.m. […]
Christmas is already beginning at OWN. The network announced two original Christmas movies for its OWN For The Holidays slate. One of the films is The Great Holiday Bake War and A Christmas Fumble. A Christmas Fumble stars Eva Marcille and Devale Ellis and will premiere on Saturday, December 10 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on […]
Mike Epps and his wife Kyra are Buying Back the Block in a new series that will premiere on HGTV, Spring 2023. The couple has been spending the last two years fixing houses in neighborhoods and are now sharing their journey with Home and Garden Television to push the importance of Black and brown people […]
Lena Waithe and Pharrell Williams have teamed up via their production companies Hillman Grad Productions and i am OTHER for a new skating comedy series, Rollin’, for HBO Max. Calaya Michelle Stallworth is penning the half-hour, single-camera comedy series which centers on “an easily corruptible newbie skater and her ragtag rink crew who find drive […]
Will Smith is producing and possibly starring in the film adaptation of Marcus Sakey’s novel Brilliance. The project is a passion project of his and Akiva Goldsman, who is on-board to pen the script. The duo teamed up for three of Smith’s previous projects: I, Robot, I Am Legend and Hancock. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, the four-time […]
Netflix released the trailer to their upcoming limited series From Scratch, based on Tembi Locke’s best-selling memoir From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home. The series will debut on Netflix, October 21st. The series stars Zoe Saldana, Eugenio Mastrandrea, Danielle Deadwyler, Keith David, Judith Scott, and Kellita Smith. Lucia Sardo, Paride Benassai, […]
The Kelvin Harrison Jr.-led biopic, Chevalier, about 18th-century French composer Joseph Bolonge, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, debuted at TIFF. Check out the first look at Harrison Jr. as Saint-Georges, aka Black Mozart, the first known composer of classical music from African descent below. Stephen Williams who executive produced the HBO limited series Watchmen directed the biopic […]
Usher is celebrating the 25th anniversary of his hit album ‘My Way,’ with a mini documentary ‘My Way’ set for release on YouTube on Sept. 16. The Dolapo Sangokoya-directed documentary combines commentary from Usher, producer Jermaine Dupri, and drummer Ryan James Carr with archival footage shot during the album’s making and new content captured during […]
Samuel L. Jackson is reprising his role as Nick Fury to lead Marvel’s upcoming series ‘Secret Invasion,’ due out on Disney+, spring 2023. The series, which was announced at Disney Investor Day in December 2020, follows the team-up of Avengers Boss Fury (Jackson) with Captain Marvel‘s Talos (Ben Mendelsohn). Thomas Bezucha and Ali Selim will […]