Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Chad Sanders wants the Black community to bank on Black financial freedom with new Direct Deposit podcast — now streaming for free on Audible. Each new episode of Direct Deposit, Chad brings us along on his dizzying ride to the top from sleeping on a mattress in his Brooklyn apartment to pitching in Hollywood meetings […]
The long-awaited Spawn reboot led by Jamie Foxx is moving forward with a new trio of writers. The Blumhouse project which is based on Todd McFarlane’s comic book character has added Scott Silver, Malcolm Spellman, and rising scribe Matt Mixon to the team. READ: Everybody Still Hates Chris: Chris Rock’s Family Comedy Everybody Hates Chris […]
Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr. are teaming up for their first show together, two decades in the making. The duo are starring in a father-son work comedy for CBS. The untitled comedy revolves around legendary talk radio host and happily divorced “Poppa” (Wayans), who has to drag his grown son (Wayans Jr.), who has […]
Check out the Wendell & Wild trailer. Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are back together in Netflix’s stop-motion animated dark comedy ‘Wendell & Wild’ Directed by Henry Selick, the animated dark comedy centers on two scheming demon brothers, Wendell and Wild (Key and Peele), who enlist the aid of 13-year-old Kat Elliot (Lyric Ross) […]
Netflix really knows how to twist the knife with their upcoming workplace comedy series Blockbuster. The series is about the last Blockbuster Video Store in America and stars Randall Park, Melissa Fumero, J.B. Smoove, Kamaia Fairburn, yler Alvarez, Madeleine Arthur, and Olga Merediz. READ: 50 Cent is Developing Three New Horror Films Created by Vanessa […]
Garcelle Beauvais, Anissa Felix, Peppermint, Taylor Selé, and Marouane Zotti are the latest to join Michelle Buteau’s upcoming Netflix comedy series Survival of the Thickest. The join previously cast stars Tone Bell Tasha Smith. Survival of the Thickest follows Mavis Beaumont (Buteau), a Black, plus-size and newly single woman, but not by her choice. Mavis […]
American film critic Elvis Mitchell’s documentary Is That Black Enough For You?!? examines the history of Black representation in cinema during the 60s and 70s. He also debunks the notion that Black cinema in that period only meant Blaxploitation films. “Black film reintroduced the ideals of glamour and heroism to the medium. And that one […]
Leon Addison, Whoopi Goldberg, Jeffrey Wright. and Alec Baldwin are among 14 cast in Will Parker’s mystery film Atrabilious. Mark Boone Junior, Lewis Black, Evan Jonigkeit, Joel de la Fuente, David Pittu, Andy Karl, Ward Horton, Hunter Parrish, Brooks Ashmanskas, and Dan Finnerty also star in the project. Atrabilious follows Steven Joyner (Brown) as he […]
Tamara Taylor is joining the cast of FX’s Snowfall for its sixth and final season. Snowfall comes from John Singleton, Eric Amadio, and showrunner Dave Andron. Set in Los Angeles in 1983, the series revolves around the first crack epidemic and its impact on the city. The series follows the stories of several characters whose […]
It has been 27 years since we were first introduced to the Friday franchise and still the question remains, “where’s the fourth Friday film?” For years — nearly years to be exact — fans have been waiting for the follow up to the hilarious Friday After Next. And since that time franchise staples John Witherspoon, […]