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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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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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 […]
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Melvin Gregg Joins Nine Perfect Strangers as Series Regular
Melvin Gregg joins Nine Perfect Strangers as series regular opposite Nicole Kidman and Melissa McCarthy. The Alienist Luke Evans also joins the cast as well as Manny Jacinto. The Hulu limited series is based on author Liane Moriarty’s latest book by the same name. She’s also the author behind the HBO series Big Little Lies […]
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Mahershala Ali to Star as Boxer Jack Johnson in HBO Limited Series Unruly
Mahershala Ali is set to star as boxing legend Jack Johnson in HBO’s Unruly. Unruly is described as an unapologetically Black, no-holds-barred telling of Jack Johnson (Ali), the world’s first Black Heavyweight Boxing Champion. This bold exploration depicts the champion’s rise to athletic greatness and the costs he paid for his skin and defiance, which […]