While everyone was shutdown during COVID-19, Zendaya and John David Washington were filming a secret movie, Malcolm & Marie, while keeping social distancing. The film has already completed production, most likely the first feature film to do so during this epidemic. Euphoria creator Sam Levinson penned the script, one he wrote over the span of […]
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There’s a Wonder Years Reboot Pilot With a Black Family in the Works
There’s a Wonder Years Reboot pilot featuring a black family in the works at ABC. The network handed a pilot production commitment to a new iteration of the network’s 1980s family comedy-drama. Dave Executive Producer Saladin K. Patterson penned the reboot which is inspired by his experiences growing up in Montgomery, Alabama. The new version […]
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There is a Limited Series on Lena Horne in The Works Blackbird: Lena Horne America
There is a limited series on Lena Horne, in the works at Showtime. The series is called Blackbird: Lena Horne America, after Horne’s favorite poem, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.” The limited series on Lena Horne will span 60 years of her life, from dancing at the Cotton Club when she was 16, […]
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Tiffany Haddish to Star in Homecoming Queen, Raamla Mohamed to Pen Script
Tiffany Haddish to star in Homecoming Queen, a comedy project, set up at Amblin Partners. READ: Whitewashing 101: 30 Times a White Actor Portrayed a Person of Color The film is inspired by Haddish’s time in Africa. She traveled to the continent thinking she was royalty, only to find out that that “royalty” means something […]
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On This Day: TV and Film History on July 8
On This Day: TV and Film History on July 8th. History may be boring to some, but it’s what shapes us in life. Especially in film and TV. It allows us to celebrate the lives of celebrities who are entertaining us. READ: 11 Coming to America Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About As well as […]
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Charlamagne Tha God is Getting His Own Talk Show
Charlamagne Tha God is getting his own talk show. He will be the host of Comedy Central’s new weekly talk show, that is yet to be titled. The new series will be a weekly half-hour with a focus on current events and cultural issues, with elements from other weekly topical shows now on the air. […]
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John Boyega, Jodie Turner-Smith to Star in Thriller Borderland
John Boyega, Jodie Turner-Smith, Jack Reynor, and Felicity Jones in the high octane thriller Borderland. Charles and Tom Guard aka The Guard Brothers will direct the vengeance-filled film. It follows Irish paramilitary Michael (Reynor), who after a border ambush goes wrong witnesses the shooting of his pregnant wife at the hands of a SAS sergeant […]
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Hair Love Gets Animated Series Sequel Young Love For HBO Max
Matthew A. Cherry’s Oscar-winning short film, Hair Love, is turning into a series, Young Love, for HBO Max. “Hair Love” followed the relationship between an African-American father and his daughter Zuri as they tackled a daunting task — doing Zuri’s hair for the first time together. The HBO Max series will follow the same characters […]
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Halle Berry Backs Out of Transgender Role After Backlash
Halle Berry Backs out of transgender role for an upcoming film she was intending on starring in after online backlash. During an interview with hairstylist Christin Brown on Instagram Live on Friday, July 3, the actress shared how she was preparing for the role despite not formally being cast in it. “[It’s] a character where […]
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Bozoma Saint John Named Netflix Chief Marketing Officer
Netflix is bringing in Bozoma Saint John to serve as its new Chief Marketing Officer. She will replace Jackie Lee-Joe. Saint John will start in that role in August, making her the third CMO for the platform in the last year. Lee-Joe, was a former marketing officer of BBC Studios and when she joined, she […]