Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Netflix is turning viral text exchange between grandmother accidentally inviting a stranger to thanksgiving into a movie called The Thanksgiving Text. READ: 25 Days to X Mas: 25 Christmas Movies with Black Cast or Leads to Watch Just about everyone knows the story, in 2016 Jamal Hinton posted screenshots of a text exchange between him […]
Laverne Cox and Keith Powers are set to star in the dystopian fantasy film Uglies for Netflix. Joey King, Brianne Tju and Chase Stokes are also cast in the film which is based on the first installment of Scott Westerfeld’s dystopian YA book series. READ: Deborah Cox to Recur in HBO Max’s Limited Series Station […]
Movie remakes is a trend that has Hollywood in a chokehold. Whether we love the projects or not, they are happening. And whether we always want to admit it or not, there isn’t one fixed direction on how one story can be told, especially when adapted to match the times we are in. Currently we […]
And another one… Calmatic, who just finished production for the House Party reboot has been tapped to direct White Men Can’t Jump remake for 20th Century. READ: Anthony Hemingway to Direct The Preacher’s Wife Remake — Courtney B. Vance to Reprise Role Kenya Barris and Doug Hall co-wrote the new script however details on the […]
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 […]