Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald is the latest to join Amazon MGM’s romantic comedy Love Love, alongside Adeline Rudolph (Mortal Kombat II) and Dylan McDermott (FBI: Most Wanted). Character details are being kept under wraps. The three join previously announced leads Isabel May and Tyriq Withers in the film, written by Joey Power and […]
Colman Domingo is heading back to Netflix. The Emmy winner will star in and executive produce The Headlands House, a thriller limited series that landed at the streamer following a competitive bidding war. Written and executive produced by Cameron B. Dupont (Yellowjackets), the series follows a gay couple whose marriage begins to fracture after they […]
Marcus Callender is bringing a Black cultural tradition to stages across the country. The actor, known for his roles in Power and Wu-Tang: An American Saga, has announced a 76-show national tour of Spades: The Play, his debut as both playwright and director, a production ten years in the making. Set in 2013 Harlem and […]
The official trailer for Walter Thompson-Hernandez’s If I Go Will They Miss Me is here, offering the first full look following its “Best Feature Film” win at Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival ahead of its September 18 theatrical release. The film follows Big Ant (Nicholson), Lozita (Brooks) and 12-year-old Lil Ant (Bodhi Dell), or […]
Alex Ullom is wasting no time. Ahead of this weekend’s release of his debut feature, the Neon horror thriller It Ends, the filmmaker has locked the lead cast for his second film at the studio, 4 X 4: The Event, a genre-bending horror thriller that already has the internet buzzing. Quintessa Swindell (Teenage Sex and […]
A decade after 13th became a cultural touchstone, Ava DuVernay is returning to Netflix with 14th, a new documentary chronicling the enduring constitutional battle over the 14th Amendment. The film will premiere globally on Netflix on December 4, following a theatrical release in select US and UK theaters beginning November 27. It will make its […]
Netflix has acquired The Disciple: A Wu-Tang Fable, the Sundance-premiering documentary from Oscar-winning filmmaker Joanna Natasegara, and will release the film on October 16. The documentary follows Tarik Azzougarh, a Dutch-Moroccan rapper and producer known as Cilvaringz, whose devotion to Wu-Tang Clan took him from teenage superfan to collaborator and eventually into the group’s extended […]
Jamie Foxx is taking his comedic talents to Hulu for the first time. Hulu has announced the title, premiere date and first look photo for the Academy Award-winning actor and comedian’s new stand-up special. Jamie Foxx: Take Care of Yourself premieres October 7, 2026, on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ for bundle subscribers in the […]
Issa Rae and Mike Gauyo’s scripted audio drama Fruit: The Cost of Legacy has announced its cast and dropped a trailer ahead of its August 20 premiere on Audible. The series, the third installment and a reboot of the original Fruit, follows Marc St. James (Siddiq Saunderson), a star running back for the University of […]
Apple TV+’s Emmy-nominated sci-fi comedy Murderbot is assembling a formidable roster for its second season. It added 25 new recurring and guest cast members who join returning series regulars Alexander Skarsgård, Noma Dumezweni, Tattiawna Jones, Tamara Podemski, David Dastmalchian, Sabrina Wu, and Akshay Khanna. Among the new additions are Tramell Tillman (Severance), Blair Underwood, Wanda […]