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12 Poetic Justice movie facts you didn’t know about 27 years ago, John Singleton’s cult classic, Poetic Justice was released. It centered on the development of a unique love story between Justice, played by Janet Jackson and Lucky, played by Tupac Shakur. READ: 11 Surprising Boyz N The Hood Facts You Didn’t Know About On a […]
Samuel L. Jackson and Ryan Reynolds are teaming up for a new animated comedy series for Quibi called Futha Mucka. The duo who starred in The Hitman Bodyguard movie franchise will also executive produce the series whose title, Futha Mucka, is a nod to Jackson’s famous expletive. The show’s plot centers on Samuel L. Jackson […]
Oscar nominee Cynthia Erivo to star in Talent Show, a musical drama for Universal Pictures. Gandja Monteiro is directing the picture which is based on an idea by Duane Adler, who originated the “Step Up” franchise. Talent Show follows a failed songwriter who returns home to Chicago to lead a group of at-risk youth in […]
Sherri Saum joins Power Book II: Ghosts for its first season. The series, which is a spin-off of Power, picks up shortly after the earth-shattering events of “Power” as Tariq St. Patrick grapples with a new world order: his father dead and his mother, Tasha, facing charges for the murder her son committed. Not to […]
Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts are reuniting for the first time since 1993’s The Pelican Brief for Leave The World Behind thriller for Netflix. The streaming giant won the rights to Rumaan Alam’s upcoming novel after a fierce bidding war with sources saying that the winning bid was over $100 million. The novel will be […]
Terrence Howard is coming out of acting retirement. Less than a year since the Empire actor announced he was retiring, he is making his directorial debut with Delta Blues. Howard will star in the film as well alongside Evan Ross. Howard has signed on for the pilot of Delta Blues, a one-hour drama based on […]
Ava DuVernay and her arts advocacy collective ARRAY are diving into the realm of reality for Home Sweet Home. NBC ordered 10 hour-long episodes of Home Sweet Home, a social experiment docu-series. This series marks as DuVernay’s first primetime unscripted project. Each episode of Home Sweet Home taps two families who lead very different lives […]
Michael Che to host a sketch comedy show for HBO Max. The sketch comedy show will consist of six original episodes that will cover a variety of themes or incidents. Topics will range from police brutality to falling in love. The show will use sketches and vignettes to illustrate these experiences from a black point […]
Now that there’s a limited series based on Lena Horne. We have one question looming, who will play the late multi-hyphenated star? The Showtime is called Blackbird: Lena Horne America, after Horne’s favorite poem, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.” READ: Gina Prince-Bythewood to Direct The Woman King Starring Viola Davis The limited series on […]
Now that Old Guard is officially playing on Netflix, Gina Prince-Bythewood has moved on to her next project, The Woman King. Gina Prince-Bythewood to direct Viola Davis in the period action drama The Woman King for Sony’s TriStar. The film is a historical epic inspired by actual events that took place in The Kingdom of […]