Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
This is your invitation to the celebration honoring the 25th anniversary of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella. On August 23rd at 8PM, ABC will air a Special Edition of 20/20 in honor of the 1997 musical — it will stream on Hulu the next day. Original stars of the musical: Brandy, Paolo Montalban, Whoopi Goldberg, Victor […]
New update: While we have no update on when ‘Young. Wild. Free.” will be released, Sanaa Lathan shared an image of the film on her IG. And included in the caption “coming soon.” While coming soon can mean an unfixed time, it’s a good update seeing as ‘Young. Wild. Free’ premiered at Sundance Film Festival […]
Yvonne Orji is set to lead the upcoming female empowering Netflix drama series Stronger (working title). Sheldon Turner created and wrote the series that is said to follow Toni Winslow (Orji), a single mom who feels unseen and unimportant. She becomes obsessed with bodybuilding as she explores the surprisingly tenuous line separating self-empowerment from self-destruction, […]
Marlon Wayans’ new comedy Book of Marlon moves from HBO Max to Starz. Wayans is set to star in, co-write, and executive produce the half-hour comedy which inspired by his life and career. The project hails from Diallo Riddle and Bashir Salahuddin, Wayans’ longtime producing partner Rick Alvarez (Marlon), Michael Rotenberg and Warner Bros. TV. […]
Omar Sy is cast as the lead in The Killer remake from John Woo and Universal for Peacock. Woo who wrote and directed the original 1989 crime drama is returning to direct the film. Writing partners Matthew Stuecken and Josh Campbell, Eran Creevy and Brian Helgland are penning this new version. READ: Aldis Hodge to […]
https://cdn.prod.www.spiegel.de/images/26679400-3acf-421e-bcb4-fd1fadfdfa30_w948_r1.778_fpx47_fpy40.jpg Paramount Pictures’s Bob Marley biopic has cast Lashana Lynch to play Bob Marley’s wife, Rita. After a lengthy-search, in which one of the criterias was someone with Jamaican descent, the family –including Rita herself– gave their blessing to have Lynch (who is British but her family comes from Jamaica) star in the project. She […]
Rashida Jones is attached to executive produce the new Hulu x Oynx Collective series The Other Black Girl along with showrunner Danielle Henderson. The series is an adaptation of Zakiya Dalila Harris’ debut thriller novel of the same name. The novel is described by Cosmopolitan as “Get Out” meets “The Devil Wears Prada”. READ: Emayatzy […]
Snoop Dogg is set to star in the upcoming comedy The Underdoggs for MGM. Snoop will produce the project under his Death Row Pictures banner alongside Kenya Barris. The Underdoggs is based on an original pitch from Snoop Dogg and his longtime producing partner Constance Schwartz-Morini with Danny Segal and Isaac Schamis attached to pen […]
Chris Rock’s autobiographical series Everybody Hates Chris is getting an animated reimagining with Everybody Still Hates Chris. The upcoming series received a straight-to-series order by MTV Entertainment and will premiere on both Paramount+ and Comedy Central. Sanjay Shah wrote the pilot script which like its predecessor is inspired by the comedian’s teenage years growing up […]
Jordane Christie has signed on for a recurring role in The Big Cigar. He joins previously cast André Holland, Alessandro Nivola, Tiffany Boone, PJ Byrne, Marc Menchaca and Moses Ingram in the Apple TV+’s limited series. The series, which is about how Black Panther leader, Huey P. Newton eluded a nationwide manhunt and escaped to […]