Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Common is the latest star to join the cast of Wool, the series adaptation of Hugh Howey’s dystopian novels for Apple TV+. The rapper/actor joins previously announced cast members Rashida Jones, David Oyelowo, Rebecca Ferguson, and Tim Robbins. READ: Mustafa Shakir, Charmaine Bingwa, Ben Foster, and Gilbert Owuor Cast in Emancipation Wool, which was given […]
Lamar Johnson, Aaron Pierre, Marsha Stephanie Blake, and Kiana Madeira are all cast in the feature drama Brother. Set in Toronto’s early hip hop scene, the film follows Francis and Michael (Pierre and Johnson), sons of Caribbean immigrants, who are maturing into young men during the sweltering summer of 1991. Escalating tensions set off a […]
Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones are starring in Amazon’s upcoming legal film, The Burial. The film is based on a true story, about a bankrupt funeral homeowner who decides to sue a rival businessman over a handshake deal gone wrong and then owner hires a flamboyant attorney to handle the case. Harrison Ford was […]
Netflix is entering the arenas of books with the launch of their own Netflix Book Club, a global club to read the books that inspired the streaming service’s popular adaptations. And they tapped Uzo Aduba to host the club. “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve asked friends, ‘But have you read the book?’ […]
Vanessa Estelle Williams joins the cast of the Fox drama series 9-1-1 for season 5. Williams has a heavily recurring role as Claudette Collins, a take-control 9-1-1 Call Center veteran who transfers back to the main LA station and shows the younger ones, including May Grant (Corinne Massiah) “how it’s done”… Claudette is tough but […]
Yvonne Orji is helping us say goodbye to all the things we want to forget. Following the success of last year’s, Yearly Departed, Amazon greenlit the special for 2021 with Orji as this year’s host. The special will again feature an all-female lineup of guests (TBA) who will tackle some of 2021’s highlights we probably […]
MGM’s Orion Pictures’ film Till has rounded out its cast. Frankie Faison, Jayme Lawson, Tosin Cole, Kevin Carroll, Sean Patrick Thomas, John Douglas Thompson and Roger Guenveur Smith have boarded the project. They all join previously cast leads Danielle Deadwyler, Whoopi Goldberg and Jalyn Hall as Emmett Till, READ: Bokeem Woodbine, Raul Castillo Join Gabrielle […]
Colman Domingo is set to portray Bayard Rustin in the upcoming biopic, Rustin, about the gay, civil rights activist. Audra McDonald, Chris Rock, and Glynn Turman join Domingo in the feature. George C. Wolfe is directing from a screenplay he co-wrote with Dustin Lance Black. The film tells the story of how Rustin overcame an […]
Bailey Bass joins Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid in Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire series for AMC and its sister streamer, AMC+. Rolin Jones is creator, showrunner and executive producer of Interview With the Vampire. Based on Rice novels, the story centers on an 18th-century lord, Louis de Pointe du Lac (Anderson) who is […]
Akende Munalula, Shacai O’Neal, Lily Keene, and Margot Catherine Terry are the latest to join the cast of the upcoming Showtime drama pilot, Coercion. They are cast as series regulars opposite Sydney Chandler, Sydney Park and Tyrone Marshall Brown. Written and to be directed by Susannah Grant, Coercion is inspired by the life of Rebecca […]