Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
MRC’s The Blackening, a horror parody that Lionsgate picked up after premiering at TIFF will premiere Juneteenth weekend on June 16, 2023. Yvonne Orji, Sinqua Walls,Jermaine Fowler, Melvin Gregg, Antoinette Robertson, Grace Byers, Dewayne Perkinds, X Mayo, and Jay Pharoah star in the film. Tim Story directed The Blackening based on a script Tracy Oliver […]
Isaiah Mustafa and Ryan Eggold are joining Amazon’s Alex Cross series Cross, led by Aldis Hodge. Nzingha Stewart will direct and executive produce the first two episodes of Cross, which is based on James Patterson’s series of novels by the same name. Cross will center on Hodge’s title character, a detective and forensic psychologist who’s […]
Jovan Adepo, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie Diego Calva, Li Jun Li and Jean Smart star in Damien Chazelle’s Babylon. Written and directed by Damien Chazelle, the Paramount Pictures film is set to release in theaters on Dec. 23. Babylon is an original epic tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess set in 1920s Los Angeles. […]
Idris Elba is reprising his role as DCI John Luther for the film continuation of the BBC One series Luther. The film, titled Luther: The Fallen Sun is scheduled to be released in March 2023, by Netflix. Elba stars as Luther, a brilliant detective who always seems to be walking the line between serving justice […]
Amazon Studios announced on Monday that it has closed a four-picture film deal Tyler Perry. Under his pact with the studio he will write, direct, and produce four features that will be released on Prime Video which is in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. READ: 14 of the Blackest Movies to Watch on […]
Remember her name. Irene Cara. Rest in Peace Irene Cara. The singer and actress passed away Nov 26. She was 63. Cara’s publicist, Judith A. Moose, announced her passing via the singer’s Twitter account early Saturday morning. “It is with profound sadness that on behalf of her family I announce the passing of Irene Cara,” […]
Black Mafia Family/BMF is inspired by the true story of two brothers of the Flenory brothers — Meech and Terry — who rose from the decaying streets of southwest Detroit in the late 1980’s and gave birth to one of the most influential crime families in this country. READ: 50 Cent is Producing Adaptation of […]
Blackest movies to watch on Black Friday. If the black experience was told through movies, what movies would you pick? How would you describe life in the hood or the suburbs? Or what is it like for a typical black family, or what about entrepreneurship? There are so many facets to one black person and […]
CBS is developing multi-camera family comedy, The Hilsons from Malik Sanon, Cedric the Entertainer, production companies Kapital Entertainment and TrillTV, and studio CBS Studios. Sanon wrote the comedy which centers on a mother and her two adult sons who thought they knew each other until they are forced to live under the same roof for […]
Everyone knows Salli Richardson-Whitfield for her acting career. She was unforgettable in Low Down Dirty Shame, was a series regular on Eureka and has had big and small roles on some of your favorite shows and movies since her first role in the 1991 film, Up Against the Wall. READ: 9 Movies Sidney Poitier Directed […]