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NBC has announced a major shakeup for The Voice Season 31. Keke Palmer will take over hosting duties from Carson Daly, who has helmed the show since its 2011 debut, while Queen Latifah returns as coach alongside Riley Green and newcomer Joe Jonas. The season, dubbed The Voice: Celebrity, marks the first celebrity edition of […]
ALLBLK has set an official premiere date for D.O.P.E. Unit, the new crime drama series debuting Thursday, August 6, with new episodes airing weekly. The eight-episode first season comes from creator Thomas Walton and features an ensemble cast led by Johnell Young, Erica Peoples, Robert Ri’chard, Terayle Hill, Jhone Lucas, Supreme “Fre$h” Williams and Cornell […]
Jamie Foxx has found his next starring vehicle. Amazon MGM Studios has landed worldwide distribution rights to Deadlocked, an action thriller starring the Oscar winner, set to stream globally on Prime Video. Directed by Nikhil Bhat, the Indian filmmaker behind the breakout Hindi-language action-thriller Kill, which sold to Lionsgate in a mid-seven figure deal after […]
Paramount+ has greenlit Ascent, a new character-driven thriller starring and executive produced by EGOT winner Viola Davis. Created by John Logan, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter behind Skyfall, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful, the series marks Davis’s first lead television role since her Emmy-winning turn as Annalise Keating on How to Get Away with Murder. Davis will play […]
Lincoln Center Theater has announced the complete cast and creative team for its revival of August Wilson’s Seven Guitars, beginning performances November 5 at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater Off-Broadway, with opening night set for November 23. Directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, who won his first Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in the 1996 Broadway […]
Wildcards, the courtroom drama from writer-director Wes Miller, is heading to theaters nationwide on August 27 via BLacklight and Dark Star Pictures, following its Best Narrative Feature win at the 2026 Essence Film Festival. The film follows the trial of Theodore Sterling, a privileged young man accused of sexually assaulting a young Black woman. As […]
Marlon Jackson is setting the record straight about his father. The sixth child of Joseph and Katherine Jackson has partnered with streaming platform BLK Prime on a new original series titled The Manager, The Mythology, The Legend, offering what the family describes as a distinctive and accurate portrayal of the man behind one of music’s […]
By now the story of Marvel’s Blade reboot is one of Hollywood’s most talked-about development disasters. Announced at San Diego Comic-Con in 2019 with Mahershala Ali stepping onto the Hall H stage to thunderous applause, the project spent years cycling through directors, writers and false starts before Marvel quietly pulled it from its release calendar […]
Fresh off his celebrated turn as his late uncle Michael Jackson in the highest-grossing biopic of all time, Jaafar Jackson has found his next acting project. The rising star has joined the cast of Supermax, the action thriller from Amazon MGM Studios and Miramax directed by David Gordon Green, opposite Will Smith and AnnaSophia Robb. […]
HBO’s acclaimed crime drama Task is building out its Season 2 cast. Jharrel Jerome and Bethlehem Million are among the new additions, joining previously announced cast members Mark Ruffalo, Mahershala Ali, Julianne Nicholson, Harry Melling, Adam Nagaitis, Aminah Nieves and Edgar Ramírez. Silvia Dionicio also returns to reprise her role as Emily Brandis, Tom Brandis’ […]