Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
The LAB Studios has released the trailer for Christmas in the Tropics, its holiday romantic comedy bringing a Jamaican Christmas to audiences worldwide. The film is streaming now, free on Tubi, with rental and purchase options available on Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV, and hits theaters in Jamaica December 2. Dale S. Lewis directs. […]
When we first covered Christopher McQuarrie’s thriller Compassionate Release for Amazon MGM and United Artists, the headline was Denzel Washington teaming up with the director for the first time. Now that cast is filling in around him: Sinners breakout Miles Caton is set to play Washington’s grandson, Deadline reports exclusively, joining Teyonah Parris, who plays […]
Netflix has released the first-look images for The Take, formerly titled Here Comes the Flood, an unconventional heist thriller starring Denzel Washington, Robert Pattinson, and Daisy Edgar-Jones, premiering January 15, 2027, alongside a limited theatrical release. The film is directed by Fernando Meirelles from an original script by Simon Kinberg. Set in New York, The […]
Noel Braham, founder of the Oscar Micheaux Film and Media Institute, has set plans to launch The Micheaux Roadshow 2027, a touring theatrical program for independent features and short films. The Roadshow begins in Los Angeles in April 2027 before expanding throughout California, to cities across the country, and into select international markets. The program […]
Letitia Wright is set to star in In Her Shadow, a supernatural horror film from Obsession producer Tea Shop Films, Deadline reports exclusively. Bankside is launching world sales on the project ahead of the American Film Market. The film comes from British writer-director Rowan Athale, known for Gangs of London, with Wright also serving as […]
Yvette Nicole Brown and her real-life husband, Anthony Davis, will guest star on CBS’s Beyond the Gates in the episode airing Friday, November 13. Brown plays Tameka, cousin to Shanice, played by Ernestine Johnson Morrison, while Davis plays Tameka’s husband, Tony. Tameka and Tony’s arrival in Fairmont Crest comes as Shanice navigates an already complicated […]
BET has set a premiere date of Friday, November 27 at 10 p.m. ET/9 p.m. CT for You Can Go Home Again, a documentary following Queen Latifah’s journey to build affordable housing in her hometown of Newark, New Jersey. The film is co-produced by Flavor Unit Entertainment and P&G Studios, directed by Muta’Ali, and executive […]
Manny Montana has joined the Season 5 cast of Paramount+’s Tulsa King in a recurring role, playing Gilberto Torres, a gangster whose presence looms large despite never needing to announce it. Through his network on the streets, nothing happens in New York without him knowing. Tulsa King follows New York mafia capo Dwight “The General” […]
A sequel to 1408, the 2007 Stephen King adaptation, is officially in the works, Variety reports exclusively. Original stars Samuel L. Jackson and John Cusack are currently negotiating terms to return and if so they will join Natalia Dyer who is set to lead the sequel and Elijah Wood in a supporting role. Mikael Håfström, […]
Idris Elba is set to star in and direct In Laws, an action-comedy A Higher Standard is launching for sales ahead of the American Film Market, Deadline reports exclusively. Principal photography begins March 2027 in Spain, with additional casting still underway. Elba plays Carson Hughes, a blacklisted secret agent given a shot at redemption, forced […]