Matthew A. Cherry’s Oscar-winning short film, Hair Love, is turning into a series, Young Love, for HBO Max. “Hair Love” followed the relationship between an African-American father and his daughter Zuri as they tackled a daunting task — doing Zuri’s hair for the first time together. The HBO Max series will follow the same characters […]
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Halle Berry Backs Out of Transgender Role After Backlash
Halle Berry Backs out of transgender role for an upcoming film she was intending on starring in after online backlash. During an interview with hairstylist Christin Brown on Instagram Live on Friday, July 3, the actress shared how she was preparing for the role despite not formally being cast in it. “[It’s] a character where […]
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23 Blackface TV Episodes and Movie Scenes
It seems like over the past few weeks Hollywood is doing their best to correct their decades-long history. And with that includes more than a few blackface TV episodes and movie scenes. READ: Whitewashing 101: 30 Times a White Actor Portrayed a Person of Color And while we know if we go past 40 years ago, […]
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Bozoma Saint John Named Netflix Chief Marketing Officer
Netflix is bringing in Bozoma Saint John to serve as its new Chief Marketing Officer. She will replace Jackie Lee-Joe. Saint John will start in that role in August, making her the third CMO for the platform in the last year. Lee-Joe, was a former marketing officer of BBC Studios and when she joined, she […]
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On This Day: TV and Film History on July 4
On This Day: TV and Film History on July 4th. History may be annoying to some, but it’s what shapes us in life. Especially in film and TV. It allows us to celebrate the lives of celebrities who are entertaining us. READ: 11 Coming to America Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About As well as […]
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17 Best Movie Cookout Scenes of All Time
Whether you celebrate July 4th as Your Independence Day or you’re just here for the food, here are the best movie cookout scenes of all time. Poetic Justice because we’re all “cousin” It’s not a cookout scene but the dinner scene in Who Made The Potato Salad counts because that’s a very important task […]
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Chris Paul to Produce HBCU Basketball Docu-Series Alongside Roadside Entertainment
Chris Paul is teaming up with Roadside Entertainment to produce an HBCU basketball docu-series. The HBCU basketball docu-series will occur over the course of the 2020-21 season. And it will highlight the plight of Historically Blacks Colleges and Universities basketball programs in recruiting top-level high school basketball prospects. The goal is to provide an intimate […]
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HBO Pays Seven-Figures to Adapt Brit Bennett’s Novel The Vanishing Half
After 17 bidders vied for the rights to Brit Bennett’s novel, The Vanishing Half, HBO won the auction with, according to sources, a low seven-figures bid. With that agreement, HBO will adapt the book a limited series that Bennett will executive produce. READ: 11 Surprising Boyz N The Hood Facts You Didn’t Know About The […]
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Stephen Williams and Stefani Robinson Team on Black Mozart Biopic Based on Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Stephen Williams and Stefani Robinson are teaming up for Black Mozart biopic about the life of the 18th-century French composer Chevalier de Saint-Georges. Williams who executive produced the HBO limited series Watchmen is set to direct the biopic based on Robinson’s original idea. An idea that she sold the idea to Searchlight. Robinson, who is […]
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On This Day: TV and Film History on July 3
On This Day: TV and Film History on July 3rd. History may be boring to some, but it’s what shapes us in life. Especially in film and TV. It allows us to celebrate the lives of celebrities who are entertaining us. READ: 11 Coming to America Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About As well as […]