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Netflix is rounding out the cast for Season 2 of its basketball comedy Running Point, starring Kate Hudson. Production is underway in Los Angeles, with eight new recurring cast members joining the series and two cast members upped to series regulars. Robert Townsend (The Bear), Duby Maduegbunam (Caught Up), Aliyah Turner (Power Book III: Raising […]

Yara Shahidi has joined the cast of The Beekeeper 2, the sequel to Miramax’s successful action thriller The Beekeeper, which starred Jason Statham in the lead role. Statham will reprise his role and return as a producer through his Punch Palace Productions banner. The sequel is being directed by Timo Tjahjanto, known for his recent […]

Rich Spirit has unveiled the official teaser for BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions, the debut feature from acclaimed artist and filmmaker Kahlil Joseph. The film will premiere October 4 at the New York Film Festival as part of the Main Slate before heading to the London Film Festival on October 12. A U.S. theatrical rollout in […]

Two-time Tony Award winner Kara Young and Succession’s Nicholas Braun are set to headline the Off Broadway revival of Rajiv Joseph’s Gruesome Playground Injuries. The romantic drama will run at the Lucille Lortel Theatre from November 7 through December 28. This production marks Braun’s New York stage debut. Best known as “Cousin Greg” on HBO’s […]

Lifetime is expanding its Terry McMillan Presents film franchise with Preach, Pray, Love, a new original movie headlined by Emmy Award-winning actress Karrueche Tran and Mark J.P. Hood. The film premieres Saturday, November 8 at 8/7c as part of the network’s Love of a Lifetime programming event. Tran stars as Charlisa “Charlie” Jones, a platinum-selling […]

Netflix has released the official trailer for Kathryn Bigelow’s upcoming thriller A House of Dynamite. The film marks Bigelow’s first feature in eight years and imagines what happens when a single, unidentified missile is launched at the United States. The trailer introduces the film’s central crisis: a nuclear missile heading toward Chicago with only 20 […]

NBC’s Law & Order is kicking off its milestone 25th season with a fresh face joining the squad. Star Trek: Discovery alum David Ajala has signed on as a series regular, stepping into the role of an NYPD detective alongside Reid Scott’s Det. Vincent Riley. Ajala’s first appearance will come a few episodes into the […]

Tyra Banks is headed back to Bel-Air. The supermodel and actress will guest star in the upcoming fourth and final season of Peacock’s drama series. Banks will play “a former college classmate with a big personality who Aunt Viv (Cassandra Freeman) is reluctantly reunited with,” according to the streamer. The casting is a full-circle moment […]

Jay Ellis and Nicholas Duvernay have signed on to star in Mindy Kaling’s upcoming Hulu comedy series Not Suitable For Work, set in Manhattan’s upscale Murray Hill neighborhood. They will star alongside Ella Hunt, Avantika, Will Angus, and Jack Martin. The workplace comedy follows five driven twenty-somethings hustling for professional success and, if time allows, […]

“Macho Man” Randy Savage is finally getting the big-screen treatment. Artists for Artists, the production banner from Kenan Thompson and Johnny Ryan Jr., is developing Macho, a feature biopic on the legendary pro wrestler. The project comes from a completed script by Savage’s brother, Lanny Poffo — who passed in 2023 — and Eric Shapiro. […]