Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Roc Nation and Time Studios are teaming up to develop a Megan Thee Stallion docuseries with Nneka Onuerah attached to direct. The untitled multi-part docuseries will explore Megan’s Texas upbringing as well as her career’s ups and downs. It will mix rare archival footage and fresh verité video to showcase the rapper’s rise from a […]
Gabrielle Union is joining the third season of Apple TV’s anthology drama series Truth Be Told. She will co-lead this season with series regular Octavia Spencer. Based on Kathleen Barber’s novel Are You Sleeping, Truth Be Told is a series centered around true-crime podcasting and stars Spencer as podcaster ‘Poppy Scoville,’ who risks everything—including her […]
Amin Joseph, Karen Obilom, and more have joined the cast of AllBlk’s upcoming dark comedy series Send Help from co-creators Jean Elie and Mike Gauyo. Karina Bonnefil, Catfish Jean, Courtney Taylor, Kimiko Singer, and newcomer Ana Bowen have also been previously cast. READ: Terror Lake Drive: Pascale Armand, Yolonda Ross and More Join Second Season […]
Ciara is the latest star to join the cast of the star-studded Color Purple musical film, directed by Blitz Bazawule. She joins previously cast Danielle Brooks, Fantasia Barrino, Colman Domingo, Halle Bailey, Taraji P Henson, H.E.R., and Corey Hawkins. Louis Gossett, Jr., David Alan Grier, Tamela J. Mann, Deon Cole , Phylicia Pearl Mpasi, and […]
Brandy is set to star in Netflix’s upcoming holiday film, Best. Christmas. Ever. Heather Graham, Matt Cedano, and Jason Biggs will star opposite her in the holiday movie about a friendship “put to the ultimate test over a boastful Holiday Newsletter.” Mary Lambert is directing based on Charles Shyer and Todd Calgi’s script. READ: Countdown […]
Karen Pittman, Erica Ash, Lance Gross, Joyful Drake, and Jermaine Love are all starring in Unthinkably Good Things. Terri J. Vaughn is directing the film based on a script by Cas Sigers-Beedles and it will serve as the first film under Hallmark’s new Mahogany banner. READ: Lyric Ross Joins Cast of Marvel and Disney+’s Upcoming […]
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is cast to star in the based on a true story film, I Helped Destroy People for Amazon Studios. Mateen II and Michael B. Jordan via his Outlier Production Company are producing the thriller that adapts Janet Reitman’s 2021 New York Times article of the same name. READ: FX Picked Up Blitz […]
It is no secret that when we talk about ageless celebrities, Bianca Lawson is top of the list. On and off the screen Lawson has retained a youthful presence so much so that she has been twice as old as some of the teen characters she has played. While she may never look her age, […]
Spike Lee doesn’t get all recognition he deserves for helping the careers of so many extremely successful actors. And he for sure doesn’t get the accolades and awards he rightfully deserves for directing such masterpieces. READ: 10 ‘Do The Right Thing’ Topics That Are Still True If it wasn’t for Lee’s classic films like Do […]
Adina Porter and Clark Backo a starring opposite LaKeith Stanfield in Apple TV+’s upcoming drama series The Changeling. The series is an adaptation of Victor LaValle’s novel of the same name and is described as “a fairytale for grown-ups, a horror story, a parenthood fable and a perilous odyssey through a New York City you […]