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Mary J Blige’s hit song Real Love is inspiring Lifetime’s next movie. Blige is re-teaming with Lifetime to executive produce Real Love, a new original film inspired by her hit ’90s song of the same name. READ: Cynthia Bailey, Kelcey Mawema Cast in Lifetime’s Cruel Instruction Sonja Warfield and Rachel Ingram penned the coming-of-age romantic […]
Months after news that Camille Brown will direct and choreograph the Broadway revival of Ntozake Shange’s groundbreaking for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf, we now have a cast. Amara Granderson, Tendayi Kuumba, Kenita R. Miller, Okwui Okpokwasili, Stacey Sargeant, Alexandria Wailes, and D. Woods will star in the production. […]
Peacock has given a series order to the tv series adaptation of Twisted Metal with Anthony Mackie attached to star in and executive produce. The series will be a comedic half-hour live-action adaptation of the popular video game, from Sony Pictures TV, PlayStation Productions and Universal Television. READ: Anthony Mackie, Priyanka Chopra Jonas Cast in […]
This Is Us star Lyric Ross is joining Dominique Thorne and Anthony Ramos in Marvel and Disney+’s upcoming series Ironheart. The show centers on the teenage Riri Williams (Thorne), a genius inventor, who, in the comics, builds her own version of the Iron Man suit in an MIT dorm. Ross will play Williams’ best friend. […]
Jasmine Mathews, Sonja Sohn, John Magaro, and Shein Mompremier have joined the cast of the untitled George Foreman biopic for Sony’s AFFIRM Films label. They join previously Forest Whitaker, Sullivan Jones, and Khris Davis as George Foreman. George Tillman Jr. is set to direct the biopic and co-wrote it with Frank Baldwin. It is based […]
Another Basquiat project is in the works, this time with Stephan James attached to portray Jean-Michael Basquiat in a limited TV series. The project will be set during the 1980s, as Basquiat emerges from being an obscure graffiti artist born in Brooklyn to becoming a neo-expressionist painter of rock-star status in Manhattan. The scripted series […]
The cast of Boots Riley’s upcoming Amazon series I’m a Virgo, which is led by Jharrel Jerome, has added six to its cast. Brett Gray, Kara Young, Allius Barnes, and Olivia Washington join I’m a Virgo as series regulars with Mike Epps and Carmen Ejogo set to recur. “Our cast is hard as hell. Our […]
Deon and Roxanne Avent Taylor, through their Hidden Empire Film Group, is teaming up with King Bach (real name Andrew Bachelor) to develop a scripted series chronicling Bach’s rise to social media fame. Bach first hit it big when he became Vine’s biggest star, boasting 14 million followers and 5.1 billion loops. He has since […]
Aaron Pierre is joining Delroy Lindo and Mahershala Ali in Marvel’s Blade reboot starring Ali in the titular human-vampire hybrid role. Bassam Tariq is directing the feature project from a script Stacy Osei-Kuffour penned. Osei-Kuffour writing the script makes her the first Black woman to pen a Marvel movie. READ: 15 Actors Whose Careers Rose […]
It’s official, The Wendy Williams show is ending. After 14 seasons, The Wendy Williams Show is no more. Sherri Shepherd, who has been a frequent guest host on the season, will host her very own talk show, Sherri, in the fall and take over the time slot Williams’ show had on FOX. “OMG! I am […]