Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Netflix has released the first look at Tyler Perry’s The Gospel of Christmas, a holiday drama starring Fantasia Barrino Taylor and Durrell “Tank” Babbs, premiering November 11. Written and directed by Perry, the film follows a struggling pastor who inherits his family’s church in a troubled New York neighborhood and must fight to save it, […]
Production is officially underway in Paris on Miles & Juliette, the new feature from Oscar-nominated director Bill Pohlad and his River Road Entertainment banner. Damson Idris stars as Miles Davis, with Anamaria Vartolomei playing Juliette Gréco opposite him. Seven new names round out the cast: J. Alphonse Nicholson as Kenny “Klook” Clarke, Jay Reeves as […]
Dawn Porter is set to direct a feature documentary on pioneering Black TV news anchor Max Robinson for Wise Child Studios. Titled Color Bars: The Story of the Black Journalist Who Broke the TV News Color Barrier, the film will trace the rise and fall of Robinson’s broadcast news career. CNN anchor Victor Blackwell is […]
Darryl M. Bell and Kadeem Hardison, original stars of A Different World who also reprise their roles in Netflix’s revival, are launching a weekly rewatch podcast called A Different World View with Darryl & Kadeem. The show premieres Thursday, October 15, with new episodes dropping every Thursday from iHeartMedia and Charlamagne Tha God’s Black Effect […]
Netflix has released the official trailer for How To Ruin Diwali: Meet the Parents, the latest entry in the network’s South African How To Ruin franchise, premiering October 30, 2026. The three-episode comedy comes from Burnt Onion Productions in collaboration with filmmaker Jayan Moodley, whose Kandasamys: The Baby and Meet the Khumalos are also […]
Jack’d is taking an unconventional approach to film distribution: instead of competing for placement on traditional festival circuits, the app is using its own existing user base of 15 million people as a built-in audience, a structural advantage queer filmmakers of color have historically lacked access to elsewhere. Jack’d, the largest dating app for queer […]
Hektik, Africa’s first homegrown microdrama streaming platform, has announced a new content partnership with Blue Pictures, one of the largest distributors in East and West Africa, alongside milestone viewership numbers for its debut original series, Exodus 20. Launched in February 2026, Hektik delivers short-form, vertical video content in 9:16 format, typically in one-to-three-minute episodes, built […]
Woody McClain will star as a younger version of Rod Paige, the nation’s first Black U.S. Secretary of Education, in the upcoming biopic Paragraphs of a Paige. Directed by Isaac Yowman, the film is set to premiere in 2027, with a trailer now released. McClain, known for Power Book II: Ghost, The Bobby Brown Story, […]
In the Shadows, the British boxing biopic based on the true story of British-Somali boxer Ramla Ali, will self-release theatrically in the U.K. after its original distributor, True Brit Entertainment, filed for administration in late September. The film still premieres as planned at the London Film Festival on October 9, with additional financial support from […]
Aldis Hodge and Wunmi Mosaku are set to star in One Night Out, a new thriller from Amazon MGM Studios’ Orion Pictures, Deadline reports exclusively. George Tillman Jr. will direct, with the film streaming on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories. Nelson Greaves wrote the script, based on his own short story, […]