Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Four years after it was renewed and its first season premiered, Terence Nance’s late-night sketch comedy series Random Acts of Flyness is returning for its second season this December on HBOMax. The show is described as a “fluid, mind-melting stream-of-conscious response to the contemporary American mediascape” in which each episode will “feature interconnected vignettes that […]
Riele Downs sees dead people in the teen horror comedy Darby and the Dead for Hulu. It is set to be released by 20th Century Studios on Hulu on December 2, 2022. Auliʻi Cravalho, Chosen Jacobs, Derek Luke, Genneya Walton, Asher Angel, Tony Danza, and Wayne Knight also star in the feature. After suffering a […]
UPDATED VERSION There are only 17 EGOT winners since the first recipient, Richard Rodgers, of this coveted awards won all four in 1962. Interestingly enough the actual term “EGOT” was coined two decades later in 1984 by Philip Michael Thomas. When his role on the new hit show Miami Vice brought him instant fame, and […]
ALLBLK just released the trailer to their upcoming series Wicked City, that centers on a coven of Black witches. The series stars Vanessa Bell Calloway who leads a coven of Black witches portrayed by Taylor Ellene Polidore, Shaquita Smith, Mercedez McDowell, and Chanel Mack. The five of them push their supernatural powers to new heights […]
Chloe Bailey has nabbed her first big feature film role in AGC Studios’ upcoming Wall Street drama Midas Touch. The film tells the true story of Lauren Simmons, the youngest equity trader ever to take the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Simmons is also only the second African American woman to hold that […]
A family who accidentally hunts criminals in another galaxy together, stays together… Netflix released the first trailer for My Dad the Bounty Hunter, an upcoming animated series that follows a family whose life turns upside down when siblings find out their father is an intergalactic warrior. Laz Alonso, Yvonne Orji, Priah Ferguson, Yvette Nicole Brown, […]
Check out Will Smith, who gave his blood, sweat, and tears, in Emancipation official trailer. The slavery thriller Emancipation will be released in theaters, December 2 followed by a December 9 release on Apple TV+. READ: The Marathon Continues with a Nipsey Hussle Docuseries [TRAILER] Antoine Fuqua is directing the Apple Original Film and Willam N. […]
The marathon continues with a Nipsey Hussle docuseries from Lebron James’ The SpringHill Company and the late rapper’s production company Marathon Films. Per a press release SpringHill — the media studio cofounded by LeBron James and Maverick Carter — has announced a partnership with Hussle’s Marathon Films to recall the late rapper’s life story in […]
Columbia Pictures, under the leadership of Vice President Maia Eyre, is set to produce a feature-length film about the life of the legendary DJ Screw, with Travis Scott and Isaac Yowman as executive producers. The biopic’s announcement comes as a significant tribute, coinciding with the 22nd anniversary of DJ Screw’s passing on November 16th. DJ […]
Half Baked 2 is fully baked after it has completed production Baton Rouge, LA for the follow-up of the 1998 cult classic. Rachel True is reprising her role as Mary Jane in the Universal 1440 Entertainment title. Harland Williams will also reprise his role in the sequel Of the new cast, Dexter Darden, Moses Storm, […]