Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
LaKeith Stanfield and Tiffany Haddish are in talks to star in Disney’s new Haunted Mansion with Justin Simien set to direct. Katie Dippold penned the script that is reportedly based on the studio’s iconic theme park attraction. The Haunted Mansion theme park ride debuted in 1969 and takes guests through a ghostly manor where strange […]
Winston Duke is leaving the Marvel universe for the DC Universe to voice Batman in Spotify’s upcoming Batman Unburied podcast series. Harry Potter’s Jason Isaac will also lend his voice for the series. The series, which marks one of the highest-profile scripted podcasts to date, is a psychological thriller that takes listeners deep into the […]
Nick Creegan joins the cast of Batwoman season 3 in a series regular role. He joins newly added Robin Givens and Victoria Cartagena. Creegan will play Marquis Jet. A sexy playboy who grew up in a lavish lifestyle, Marquis is too charming for his own good and wields his power with a ne’er do well […]
Corinne Foxx (Beat Shazam, Safety) joins season 2 of Hulu’s Dollface. She will recur opposite, Esther Povitsky, Shay Mitchell, Lilly Singh, Brenda Song, and Jules Weiss. Created by Jordan Weiss, the half-hour comedy centers on a young woman named Jules (Dennings) who is dumped by her longtime boyfriend. She then tries to rekindle long-forgotten female […]
Keke Palmer, Daniel Kaluuya and Steven Yeun are cast in Jordan Peele’s next “terror” project Nope. And like much of Jordan Peele’s other projects, the name is short and the details are scarce as we know very little about his new project. Oh, except for the poster that Peele tweeted today to announce the project. […]
After an extensive search, Warner Bros. has found its Batgirl. In The Heights star Leslie Grace will portray Barbara Gordon and her superhero alter-ego Batgirl in the upcoming HBO Max film. Grace won the coveted lead role after testing opposite Isabella Merced, Zoey Deutch and Leslie Grace. Bad Boys for Life filmmaking duo Adil El […]
Michaela Coel will make her debut in Wakanda as she joins the cast of Black Panther 2. Formally titled, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, she joins Ryan Coogler who is back to write and direct the sequel. Coel is joining returning cast members including Angela Bassett as Queen Ramonda, Danai Gurira as Okoye, Winston Duke as […]
Punkie Johnson, Kimberly Elise, Blair Underwood are joining HBO Max’s romantic comedy anthology series Love Life season 2. Leslie Bibb, John Earl Jelks, Arian Moayed and Ego Nwodim will also star in the series. They all join previously cast stars Jessica Williams, Chris “Comedian CP” Powell, William Jackson Harper, Janet Hubert, Jordan Rock and Maya […]
Kadeem Hardison and Emma McDonald join the cast of AMC’s utopian drama Moonhaven, which is set 100 years in the future on a “utopian colony on the Moon that may hold the keys to preserving life on Earth, which has become increasingly perilous.” McDonald is cast as the lead role and Hardison as a series […]
Eva Reign, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Abubakr Ali, Courtnee Carter, Kelly Lamor Wilson, and Grant Reynolds join Billy Porter’s directorial debut film ‘What If? for Orion Pictures. Reign is replacing 17-year-old Britsh trans actress Yasmin Finney, who was originally cast to star in the lead role. Due to complications owing to backlogs during Covid that have […]