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Thanksgiving is over so you can officially begin your Christmas countdown without feeling guilty. 19 FAMILY MEMBERS TO EXPECT DURING THE HOLIDAYS And there is no better way to get you in the Christmas spirit than with holiday films. From the romantic comedies to the lewd comedies, these are the best movies to get our […]
Marsai Martins’ skating coming of age comedy series, Saturdays, was just given a series order by Disney. This commitment is an upgrade to the pilot order Disney Channel gave it in March. Charles Stone III will direct. Saturdays centers on 13-year-old Paris Johnson (Danielle Jalade), who since the age of four, has been honing her […]
TV veteran Norman Lear and Jimmy Kimmel will revive their Emmy-winning Live in Front of a Studio Audience for its third iteration with a Diff’rent Strokes and its spinoff The Facts of Life. “Other than with my family, there’s no place I’d rather be in my 100th year than on a soundstage at Sony with […]
Ernest Kingsley Jr. and Iola Evans join Sterling K. Brown in Hulu’s upcoming adventure limited series Washington Black, which is based on Esi Edugyan’s novel of the same name. The nine-episode series is set in the 19th century and follows George Washington “Wash” Black (Kingsley Jr.) as he flees from a Barbados sugar plantation after […]
Anthony Anderson is set to reprise his role in the Law & Order revival for its upcoming season 21. The show which ended after 20 seasons will pick up where it left off and will once again examine “the police who investigate crime and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders.” READ: Michelle Obama to […]
Delroy Lindo joins Mahershala Ali in the Blade reboot which Ali is cast as the titular human-vampire hybrid. 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 After Starring in […]
Whatchu talkin’ ’bout, Willis? TV veteran Norman Lear and Jimmy Kimmel will revive their Emmy-winning Live in Front of a Studio Audience for its third iteration with a Diff’rent Strokes and its spinoff The Facts of Life. “Other than with my family, there’s no place I’d rather be in my 100th year than on a […]
Deborah Ayorinde and Hugh Quarshie have been set as leads in the cast of Amazon Studio and ITV’s six-part drama series Riches. Abby Ajayi created and wrote the series that follows the exploits of the brash, super-successful, and wealthy Richards family led by the highly intelligent with an undeniably ruthless streak, Stephen Richards (Quarshie). He […]
Forest Whitaker joins Khris Davis and Sullivan Jones in the George Foreman biopic for Sony’s AFFIRM Films label. The film will follow the remarkable life and times of George Foreman (Davis), from Olympic Gold medalist to World Heavyweight champion, Rumble in the Jungle fight with Muhammad Ali (Jones) in Zaire, to preacher, then stepping back […]
Method Man, Mike Epps, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, and Jamila C. Gray are joining the cast of ‘On The Come Up.’ They join Sanaa Lathan, who is starring and making her feature directorial debut on the Paramount Players’ adaptation of Angie Thomas’ New York Times bestseller. She’s the third director on the project. She is taking […]