John Legend’s Get Lifted and Nia Long are teaming up with Sony Pictures to bring Goldie Taylor’s 2018 bestseller Paper Gods to ABC. Paper Gods spotlight the struggles and battles professionally and personally for Victoria Dobb. Dobb (Long) is the imperfectly complicated girl next door turned formidable mayor of Atlanta. Set in the world of […]
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LeBron James And Maverick Carter’s SpringHill to Adapt New Kid Novel Into Feature Film
LeBron James and Maverick Carter’s SpringHill Entertainment are set to adapt New Kid novel into a feature film. The story centers on Jordan Banks, a seventh-grader who experiences culture shock when he enrolls at a private school. Universal Pictures acquired rights to Jerry Craft’s 2019 New Kid novel. SpringHill will develop and produce the picture. […]
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Kwame Patterson and Arlen Escarpeta Join David Makes Man Season 2
Kwame Patterson and Arlen Escarpeta are joining David Makes Man season 2. Patterson is tapped to play the title role and Escarpeta will portray his brother, JG. Created by Tarell Alvin McCraney, the first season of David Makes Man centered on David Young (Akili McDowell), a 14-year-old prodigy learning to survive the streets that raised […]
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Zoe Saldana Apologizes For Nina Simone Biopic: ‘I Should Have Never Played Nina’
Years after the bombshell Nina Simone biopic was released, Zoe Saldana is apologizing. On Tuesday, the actress spoke with Pose creator Steven Canals about portraying the singer and proclaimed, “I should have never played Nina.” “I should have done everything in my power with the leverage that I had 10 years ago, which was different […]
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Antoine Fuqua to Direct Siege of Bethlehem
Antoine Fuqua to direct Siege of Bethlehem for Bron Studios. The movie is based on former Newsweek Jerusalem bureau chief Joshua Hammer’s book A Season in Bethlehem: Unholy War in a Sacred Place. Avi Issacharoff, the Palestinian and Arab Affairs Correspondent for Haaretz and Matt Cook, a military veteran who served two combat tours in […]
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TI, Joseph Sikora, Annie ILonzeh and More to Star in Deon Taylor’s Horror Film Don’t Fear
Deon Taylor has another horror film in his arsenal. In an interview with BlackFilmandTV.com, Taylor revealed he recently wrote and completed filming the COVID-19-centered horror film called Don’t Fear. The Fear centers on a group of people who find themselves locked down at the lodge in the middle of a pandemic and while having to […]
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Nia DaCosta is Tapped to Direct Captain Marvel Sequel
Nia DaCosta has inked another huge movie deal. Nia DaCosta is tapped to direct the Captain Marvel sequel. Deadline reports that Marvel head Kevin Feige met with several potential directors over the weekend, but DaCosta was a favorite for some time. DaCosta will take over for Anna Bodn and Ryan Fleck, who directed the first […]
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Regina Hall Joins Nine Perfect Strangers Cast
Regina Hall joins Nine Perfect Strangers cast alongside Nicole Kidman, Melissa McCarthy, Melvin Gregg, Luke Evans, Samara Weaving, Tiffany Boone, and 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 which aired for two seasons. […]
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Chris Spencer, Chad Sanders Developing Teen Dramedy How To Survive Inglewood — Morgan Freeman to Produce
Chris Spencer and Chad Sanders are developing a teen dramedy, How To Survive Inglewood, for NBCU’s streaming platform Peacock. The pair created and will co-write the series as well as executive produce it alongside Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary of Revelations Entertainment. READ: Sanaa Lathan, Don Cheadle, Rosie Perez to Star in With/in Anthology Series […]
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Dania Ramirez Joins Neflix’s Sweet Tooth Series
Dania Ramirez joins Netflix’s Sweet Tooth series alongside Christian Convery, Nonso Anozie and Adeel Akhtar. She joins as the series heads to New Zealend to begin production. The eight-episode Sweet Tooth follows the adventures of Gus (Convery) — part deer, part boy — who leaves his home in the forest to find the outside world […]