Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Lee Daniels has put together an all-star team for his based on a true horror story film which was recently acquired by Netflix for $65 Million dollars. The untitled horror thriller is based on the true story of Latoya Ammons and stars Octavia Spencer, Aunjanue Ellis, Caleb McLoughlin, Andra Day, Rob Morgan and Glenn Close. […]
Will Packer’s company Will Packer Productions has tapped Leon Chills to adapt Stan Parish’s novel Love and Theft into a film for Universal Pictures. The film is a global romantic heist film set in three locations: Las Vegas, Mexico, and Spain. Love and Theft centers on Alex Cassidy and Diane Alison, who develop an instant […]
Actor Hakeem Kae-Kazim is adding director to his resume. The Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End star is making his directorial debut with It’s the Blackness. Newcomer Dapo Oshiyemi is penning the script.. Set in South London, It’s the Blackness tells the story of two ambitious graduates from an elite university who must navigate […]
Toks Olagundoye, Ian Duff, and Hari Nef join the cast of the new incarnation of Steven Bochco’s legal drama L.A. Law. They join as series regulars in ABC drama pilot opposite original cast members Blair Underwood and Corbin Bernsen, who are reprising their roles as Jonathan Rollins and Arnie Becker, respectively. Anthony Hemingway is directing […]
We are sending so much love and light to Regina King who is mourning the loss of her son, Ian Alexander Jr., who died by suicide, he was 26 (he just turned 26 on Wednesday, Jan 19). He was King’s only child, whom she shared with her ex-husband, record producer Ian Alexander Sr. Despite her […]
The deaths of some of hip hop’s greatest artists are being explored in AMC Networks-owned WEtv’s upcoming unscripted series Hip Hop Homicides. The series comes from 50 Cent, Mona Scott-Young, and Lionsgate and will be hosted by Van Lathan. The eight-part series will look into the staggering number of unsolved murders in the hip-hop community […]
Jelani Alladin joins the cast of Disney+’s upcoming Beauty and the Beast prequel series. Titled, Little Town (a nod to Howard Ashman’s lyric in the musical’s opening number, “Belle”), he joins previously cast Luke Evans, Josh Gad, Briana Middleton, and Fra Fee. Gad, Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz developed and wrote the eight-episode limited musical […]
Disney+ gave a series order to Kwame Alexander’s basketball drama The Crossover and Lebron James and his Spring Hill production company joined on as executive producer. George Tillman Jr directed the pilot which is based on Kwame Alexander’s bestselling novel of the same name that is told entirely through verse. Alexander and Damani Johnson penned […]
Discovery dropped the trailer to their upcoming docuseries Profiled: The Black Man. The four-part docuseries that examines the origins of the widespread stereotypes that have permeated society and impacted the lives of Black men in America for centuries. Through a powerful mixture of historical footage, real-life testimony, and commentary from an array of renowned thought […]
Ahead of Bel Air’s February 13th premiere, Peacock announced seven more have been added to the drama reboot of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Duane Martin, Karrueche Tran, April Parker Jones, Joe Holt, SteVonté Hart, Scottie Thompson, and Charlie Hall will all recur on the series. READ: 13 Times The Fresh Prince of Bel Air […]