Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Christina Anthony, Ray Santiago, and Melanie J. Newby have joined NBC’s upcoming comedy pilot Non-Evil Twin as series regulars opposite Amber Ruffin. Also written by Ruffin and Kenny Smith, Non-Evil Twin centers around Ruffin’s character, who is forced to take over her sister’s role as the head of a Fortune 500 company, despite her lack […]
It’s a family affair for the upcoming adaptation of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson. Netflix has announced that Samuel L. Jackson and John David Washington will star in the upcoming film adaptation of August Wilson’s classic play, The Piano Lesson. Both Jackson and Washington recently finished a run of The Piano Lesson on Broadway, which […]
Keesha Sharp, Demetrius Grosse, Rhyon Nicole Brown, and Akono Dixon lead an all-star cast in the new Mahogany movie, “Spring Breakthrough”, premiering Sunday, April 30th at 7 p.m. ET/PT, exclusively on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. Mykelti Williamson directs from a script by Samantha Herman. Alfred E. Rutherford, Topher Fredd, Aria Celeste Castillo, Laticia A King, […]
Mo’Nique has filed a lawsuit against Paramount and CBS on Wednesday (Apr 12) for unpaid royalties from her sitcom “The Parkers.” The breach-of-contract lawsuit alleges that the defendants artificially suppressed the show’s profitability, resulting in Mo’Nique’s production company not receiving the full amount of royalties contractually due. READ: 10 Will Packer-Produced Movies That Opened at […]
Nicki Minaj to executive produce and star in Lady Danger, a new animated series from Amazon Freevee based on Alex de Campi’s popular Dark Horse comic book series of the same name. The afrofuturistic series is set in the year 2075 and follows Lady Danger, a resurrected government field agent who conceals her true identity […]
RLJE Films has announced the release of “The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster,” a modern reinterpretation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Written and directed by Bomani J. Story in his directorial debut, the horror/thriller will be released in theaters, on VOD, and on Digital on June 9, 2023. The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster […]
Billy Porter and Dan McCabe are penning the screenplay for the upcoming James Baldwin biopic for Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group Motion Pictures. Porter will also have the opportunity to bring his long-standing dream of portraying the cultural icon to fruition. The film will be based on David Leeming’s book “James Baldwin: A Biography,” which […]
Will Packer is a highly successful film producer with a track record of creating movies that dominate the box office and touch audiences around the globe. His films have grossed over $1 billion worldwide, and ten of them have premiered at #1. This list showcases some of his most successful films that have opened at […]
MGM+ has greenlit, Hollywood Black, a four-part docuseries that will delve into the experience of Black creatives in Hollywood over the course of a century. The series will be an adaptation of historian Donald Bogle’s 2019 book Hollywood Black with Justin Simien attached to direct the series. The docuseries will chronicle the careers of pioneering […]
Tiffany Haddish, Sam Richardson and Zoe Chao are returning to solve another murder in Apple TV+’s ‘The Afterparty’ season 2. The streamer has just announced that the acclaimed murder mystery comedy series is set to return for a second season on Wednesday, July 12, 2023. And let me tell you, it’s going to be a […]