Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Uzo Aduba and Ron Cephas Jones will star in Lynn Nottage’s Clyde’s on Broadway this fall. Reza Salazar and Kara Young have also been cast with the fifth role yet to be announced. Clyde’s follows a truck stop sandwich shop that offers its formerly incarcerated kitchen staff a shot at redemption. Aduba is cast as […]
Common is teaming up with Steel Springs Pictures to produce the based on a true story film, Rising Above. The sports film tells the true story of Howard University’s 1971 soccer team and its coach Lincoln “Tiger” Phillips. Taylor Materne penned the script which follows the 1971 HU’s soccer team, that was unfairly stripped of […]
Devon Terrell joins the cast of Issa Rae’s HBO Max’s half-hour comedy series Rap Shit (working title). He joins previously cast leads Aida Osman, KaMillion, and Jonica Booth in the series from Rae and her Hoorae Productions. The eight-episode series will follow two estranged high school friends from Miami, Shawna (Osman) and Mia (KaMillion), who […]
Kingsman director Matthew Vaughn has an all-star cast for his new spy thriller franchise, Argylle. The lengthy list of stars includes Samuel L. Jackson, Bryan Cranston, Henry Cavill, Sam Rockwell, Bryce Dallas Howard, Bryan Cranston, Catherine O’Hara, John Cena, and Dua Lipa. Lipa will be making her acting debut with this role and will provide […]
Uzo Aduba is set to star in Netflix’s limited series Painkillers. She will star alongside Matthew Broderick, West Duchovny, Dina Shihabi, and John Rothman. Peter Berg will direct all of the six-episode series that will tell the story of the United States’ opioid crisis. Aduba will play Edie, an investigator leading the case against Purdue […]
Yahya Abdul-Mateen is starring in and executive producing the limited series The Scent of Burnt Flowers. Charles D. King’s Macro Television Studios is developing the series which comes from Blitz Bazawule. The six-episode series which is described as a geopolitical fugitive thriller is based on Bazawule’ upcoming first novel of the same name, which will […]
50 Cent is developing a hip-hop competition series titled Unrapped via his G-Unit Film & Television for ABC. Dubbed as Hip-Hop’s American Idol, the show will follow a rap battle format that sees celebrities compete with the help of the music industry’s most iconic mentors. The contestants will go head-to-head in rap battles until a […]
Joy Bryant and Henry Simmons will lead the second season of OWN’s romance anthology Cherish the Day. In season two, followers will follow the rekindling of former high school sweethearts, Ellis and Sunday, who find themselves reunited in beautiful New Orleans. Bryant will play a vegan celebrity chef named Sunday, while Simmons will play former […]
Lance Reddick is reprising his role in John Wick: Chapter 4. Reddick plays Charon, the concierge of New York’s Continental Hotel who also helps John Wick (Keanu Reeves). In John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, Charon fights with Wick in the High Table attacks at the hotel. Together the guys take out the strike force […]
Robin Givens joins the cast of Batwoman season 3 in a series regular role. Givens is cast as Jada Jet, the CEO of Jett Industries CEO. Her character description reads, “Passionate and hard working, a woman who has worked her way through life’s ups and downs to climb her way to the top — all […]