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Mo’Nique has filed a lawsuit against Paramount and CBS on Wednesday (Apr 12) for unpaid royalties from her sitcom “The Parkers.” The breach-of-contract lawsuit alleges that the defendants artificially suppressed the show’s profitability, resulting in Mo’Nique’s production company not receiving the full amount of royalties contractually due. READ: 10 Will Packer-Produced Movies That Opened at […]
Nicki Minaj to executive produce and star in Lady Danger, a new animated series from Amazon Freevee based on Alex de Campi’s popular Dark Horse comic book series of the same name. The afrofuturistic series is set in the year 2075 and follows Lady Danger, a resurrected government field agent who conceals her true identity […]
RLJE Films has announced the release of “The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster,” a modern reinterpretation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Written and directed by Bomani J. Story in his directorial debut, the horror/thriller will be released in theaters, on VOD, and on Digital on June 9, 2023. The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster […]
Billy Porter and Dan McCabe are penning the screenplay for the upcoming James Baldwin biopic for Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group Motion Pictures. Porter will also have the opportunity to bring his long-standing dream of portraying the cultural icon to fruition. The film will be based on David Leeming’s book “James Baldwin: A Biography,” which […]
Will Packer is a highly successful film producer with a track record of creating movies that dominate the box office and touch audiences around the globe. His films have grossed over $1 billion worldwide, and ten of them have premiered at #1. This list showcases some of his most successful films that have opened at […]
MGM+ has greenlit, Hollywood Black, a four-part docuseries that will delve into the experience of Black creatives in Hollywood over the course of a century. The series will be an adaptation of historian Donald Bogle’s 2019 book Hollywood Black with Justin Simien attached to direct the series. The docuseries will chronicle the careers of pioneering […]
Tiffany Haddish, Sam Richardson and Zoe Chao are returning to solve another murder in Apple TV+’s ‘The Afterparty’ season 2. The streamer has just announced that the acclaimed murder mystery comedy series is set to return for a second season on Wednesday, July 12, 2023. And let me tell you, it’s going to be a […]
It’s a new week, and that means a new batch of trailers and movie releases to look forward to! Here are the exciting TV and movie trailers and releases that dropped this week, Apr 10, 2023. Check out the trailers and let us know what you are looking forward to watching. PS. We’re adding new […]
Glynn Turman is set to recur on CBS’ multi-camera comedy pilot Jumpstart. The series which previously cast Ryan Michelle Bathe and Terry Crews as leads also added Rob Corddry to the script as the third lead. The series hopeful is based on the long-running comic strip by Robb Armstrong that first debuted in 1989. The […]
Carmen Ejogo has signed on for two exciting new projects, the comedy film Goodrich and the upcoming HBO Max series The Penguin, with a teaser trailer for the latter. “Goodrich” is a comedy film that stars Michael Keaton as art dealer Andy Goodrich, whose life is turned upside down when his younger wife enters rehab […]