Saniyya Sidney, Regina Taylor, Julian De Niro, and Evan Parke have been cast in Showtime’s anthology series The First Lady. They join previously cast Viola Davis, Lexi Underwood, O-T Fagbenle, Michelle Pfeiffer and Gillian Anderson. Created by Aaron Cooley, The First Lady will center on the lives of various first ladies of the United States […]
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Brandi Denise, Cynthia Bailey and Five More Join Games People Play Season 2
Brandi Denise joins BET’s Games People Play season 2 as a series regular. Cynthia Bailey, Nazanin Mandi, Ro Parrish, Hitman Holla, Leon and Calvin Seabrooks have also been cast in recurring capacities for the series’ new season. She joins returning series regulars Sarunas J. Jackson, Karen Obilom, Parker McKenna Posey, Jackie Long, and Kendall Kyndall. […]
Dominique Fishback is Teaming Back Up With Jamie Foxx For Subverted
Dominique Fishback is teaming back up with her Project Power co-star Jamie Foxx. Fishback is working with Foxx to adapt her one-woman show Subverted into a new special. Before the 29-year old was making headlines for starring in films such as Judas and the Black Messiah, she wrote and starred in her own one-woman show […]
Yasmin Finney to Lead Billy Porter’s Directorial Debut Drama What If
Billy Porter’s directorial debut film What If? has found its lead. 17-year-old Britsh trans actress Yasmin Finney, a 17-year-old Black has landed the lead role in the Orion Pictures film. READ: 19 Black Film Composers You Should Know Alvaro Garcia Lecuona penned the script for this coming-of-age story. Synopsis: When high school senior Khal posts […]
Will Smith and Antoine Fuqua’s Drama Emancipation Boycotts Georgia Over New Laws
Will Smith and Antoine Fuqua are no longer filming slave drama Emancipation in Georgia after Gov. Brian Kemp signed the state’s controversial new voting law last month. “At this moment in time, the nation is coming to terms with its history and is attempting to eliminate vestiges of institutional racism to achieve true racial justice,” […]
Nia Long, Storm Reid to Star in Searching Sequel
Nia Long and Storm Reid to star in Searching sequel for Sony’s Stage 6 Films. The film however isn’t a direct sequel to the original film, but a next installment within the Searching franchise. READ: Nia Long to Voice Life After Death Audio Book– The Sequel to ‘The Coldest Winter Ever’ Aneesh Chaganty made his […]
Brittany Adebumola, Jaye Ladymore & Amarr Wooten Join 4400 Reboot
The CW’s 4400 reboot adds more to its cast. Brittany Adebumola, Jaye Ladymore, and Amarr Wooten join previously cast Joseph David-Jones and Khailah Johnson as series regulars. Penned by executive producer Ariana Jackson, the 4400 reboot follows 4,400 overlooked, undervalued, or otherwise marginalized people. They all vanished without a trace over the last hundred years […]
CBC and BET+ have begun casting on its drama series The Porter
CBC, Canada’s public broadcaster, and BET+ have begun casting on its drama series The Porter. Aml Ameen will lead the series about a group of 1920s railway workers who unite to form the world’s first Black union. Ronnie Rowe Jr. and Mouna Traoré are also cast. The series was created by Arnold Pinnock, Annmarie […]
Nikki Amuka-Bird and Simon Russell Beale Join Cast of The Outfit
Nikki Amuka-Bird and Simon Russell Beale have joined the cast of The Outfit. They join previously cast Mark Rylance, Dylan O’Brien, Zoey Deutch, and Johnny Flynn. The Outfit follows Leonard (Rylance), an English tailor who used to craft suits on London’s world-famous Savile Row. But after a personal tragedy, he’s ended up in Chicago, operating […]
Eli Goree and T’Nia Miller Are Set to Star in Amazon’s Sci-fi Thriller The Peripheral
Eli Goree and T’Nia Miller are set to star in Amazon’s sci-fi thriller The Peripheral. Goree will lead opposite Chloë Grace Moretz and Jack Reynor. Miller will co-star alongside previously announced series regulars Gary Carr, Charlotte Riley, JJ Feild, Adelind Horan, and Alex Hernandez. READ: Tisha Campbell and Tichina Arnold to Host Talk Show Tisha & […]