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Wendell Pierce, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, John Douglass Thompson and Suzan-Lori Parks are set to be honored by the African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) at their inaugural Salute to Broadway event. The event will take place on Oct. 17th at The Lambs Club in the heart of Midtown’s theater district. READ: Damon Wayans and Damon […]
Check out the official trailer for the House Party remake led by Jacob Latimore and Tosin Cole. Calmatic will be making his feature directorial debut based on a script by Stephen Glover and Jamal Olori. READ: Tyrese, Terrence Howard, Lil Yachty, and More Star in The System[TRAILER] Calmatic is directing Aspiring club promoters and best […]
Tati Gabrielle, Kyanna Simone, Abigail Achiri have been cast in Tina Mabry’s The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat. They all join previously cast leads Sanaa Lathan, Aunjanue Ellis, Uzo Aduba as best friends, dubbed “The Supremes” in project for Searchlight Pictures. READ: ‘They Cloned Tyrone’ Director Juel Taylor Talks Inspiration Behind Film [INTERVIEW] The film is […]
Chad Sanders wants the Black community to bank on Black financial freedom with new Direct Deposit podcast — now streaming for free on Audible. Each new episode of Direct Deposit, Chad brings us along on his dizzying ride to the top from sleeping on a mattress in his Brooklyn apartment to pitching in Hollywood meetings […]
The long-awaited Spawn reboot led by Jamie Foxx is moving forward with a new trio of writers. The Blumhouse project which is based on Todd McFarlane’s comic book character has added Scott Silver, Malcolm Spellman, and rising scribe Matt Mixon to the team. READ: Everybody Still Hates Chris: Chris Rock’s Family Comedy Everybody Hates Chris […]
Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr. are teaming up for their first show together, two decades in the making. The duo are starring in a father-son work comedy for CBS. The untitled comedy revolves around legendary talk radio host and happily divorced “Poppa” (Wayans), who has to drag his grown son (Wayans Jr.), who has […]
Tyrese Gibson, Terrence Howard, Jeremy Piven, and Lil Yachty star in the upcoming film The System. Directed by Dallas Jackson, “When a young soldier (Tyrese Gibson), newly returned from war, gets caught up in a drug bust, he is recruited by the authorities to go undercover in a notoriously dangerous prison to investigate what is […]
Check out the Wendell & Wild trailer. Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are back together in Netflix’s stop-motion animated dark comedy ‘Wendell & Wild’ Directed by Henry Selick, the animated dark comedy centers on two scheming demon brothers, Wendell and Wild (Key and Peele), who enlist the aid of 13-year-old Kat Elliot (Lyric Ross) […]
Netflix really knows how to twist the knife with their upcoming workplace comedy series Blockbuster. The series is about the last Blockbuster Video Store in America and stars Randall Park, Melissa Fumero, J.B. Smoove, Kamaia Fairburn, yler Alvarez, Madeleine Arthur, and Olga Merediz. READ: 50 Cent is Developing Three New Horror Films Created by Vanessa […]
Garcelle Beauvais, Anissa Felix, Peppermint, Taylor Selé, and Marouane Zotti are the latest to join Michelle Buteau’s upcoming Netflix comedy series Survival of the Thickest. The join previously cast stars Tone Bell Tasha Smith. Survival of the Thickest follows Mavis Beaumont (Buteau), a Black, plus-size and newly single woman, but not by her choice. Mavis […]