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Peacock has revealed more cast members for the third installment of The Best Man franchise, titled The Best Man: The Final Chapters. Unlike the first two films, The Final Chapter will be a four-part limited series for Peacock. Nicole Ari Parker, Ron Canada, Brandon Victor Dixon, Michael Genet, Yvonna Pearson, Terrence Terrell, Tobias Truvillion, Aaron […]
Charles D. King’s MACRO and The Black List founder Franklin Leonard’s are producing a biopic on the late pioneering Black businessman Reginald F. Lewis. The Reginald F. Lewis biopic will be based on his autobiography Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun?. READ: Chaz Lamar Shepherd Cast as Marvin Sapp in TV One Biopic, […]
Idris Elba is taking on hostage negotiations while in the open skies with the thriller series Hijack for Apple TV+. Elba is starring in and executive producing the seven-episode limited-series that will be told in real time as a hijacked flight makes a seven-hour journey toward London and authorities on the ground search for answers. […]
Marsai Martin, Omari Hardwick, Kelly Rowland, and Rome Flynn are all cast in the upcoming feature family film Fantasy Football for Nickelodeon and Awesomeness Films. Elijah Richardson, Hanani Taylor, Abigail Killmeier, Tyla Harris, Isac Ivan and Tony Gonzalez round out the cast. READ: Marsai Martin’s Skating Comedy Saturdays Given a Series Order by Disney Anton […]
The cast of Lee Daniels’ untitled Netflix horror film keeps getting better and better. Multi-hyphenate and frequent collaborator of Daniels, Tasha Smith has just joined the project that Netflix acquired for $65 million. Daniels is directing Demon House which is based on the true story of Latoya Ammons and her children who became demonically possessed. […]
Barbie just even more popular. Issa Rae joins the cast of Greta Gerwig’s upcoming Barbie film which stars Margot Robbie in the title role. Rae joins the ever-growing cast that includes Ryan Gosling, Will Ferrell, America Ferrera, Simu Liu, Kate McKinnon, and most recently Michael Cera AND Hari Nef. Details with regard to the Warner […]
Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs’ Starz series Blindspotting will welcome seven new faces for its second season. LeVar Burton, Tamera Tomakili, Katlynn Simone Smith, and Tim Chantarangsu are joining the Starz series in a recurring role while rappers E-40, P-Lo and Too $hort will guest star. The latter three will portray themselves. READ: Leslie Jones […]
You know that picture Donald Glover posted that featured Dominique Fishback, well we’re pretty sure it was for his and Janine Sabers upcoming untitled series for Amazon. (Click here for photo) On Tuesday (Apr 12), Glover shared a photo that included Fishback holding a binder that gave the first look into who could be cast […]
Hulu has ordered an eight-episode limited series about Sammy Davis, Jr. that will see Elijah Kelley cast in the title role which is based on the Wil Haygood book, “In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr.” The project comes from Lee Daniels and reunites Kelley with Daniels years after working on Daniels’ […]
Jesse L. Martin is going from high speed to high probability. After eight seasons, Martin will no longer be a series regular on The CW’s The Flash. He instead is moving on as a lead in the NBC drama pilot, The Irrational, which is based on Dan Ariely’s book Predictably Irrational. Written by Arika Mittman, […]