Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Samuel L. Jackson is returning to the stage. After 10 years, Jackson will star in the Broadway revival of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama The Piano Lesson. Danielle Brooks and John David Washington are co-starring in the revival alongside Jackson. And the return also marks a family affair as his wife, LaTanya Richardson is set […]
Tammy Williams is set to be the first Black woman majority owner of a multi-million dollar film studio and post-production facility in Georgia. And the second Black person to own a studio in the state. Up until now, Tyler Perry was the only Black person to own studio space in Georgia with Tyler Perry Studios. […]
In real life graduation usually means it’s time to move and that statement holds true in the land of TV. Six original Grown-ish cast members will not be returning to the series following the fourth’s season’s graduation finale. READ: John Clarence Stewart, Shamika Cotton, Miracle Watts Join Season 2 of P-Valley According to TV Line, […]
Roc Nation and Time Studios are teaming up to develop a Megan Thee Stallion docuseries with Nneka Onuerah attached to direct. The untitled multi-part docuseries will explore Megan’s Texas upbringing as well as her career’s ups and downs. It will mix rare archival footage and fresh verité video to showcase the rapper’s rise from a […]
Gabrielle Union is joining the third season of Apple TV’s anthology drama series Truth Be Told. She will co-lead this season with series regular Octavia Spencer. Based on Kathleen Barber’s novel Are You Sleeping, Truth Be Told is a series centered around true-crime podcasting and stars Spencer as podcaster ‘Poppy Scoville,’ who risks everything—including her […]
Ciara is the latest star to join the cast of the star-studded Color Purple musical film, directed by Blitz Bazawule. She joins previously cast Danielle Brooks, Fantasia Barrino, Colman Domingo, Halle Bailey, Taraji P Henson, H.E.R., and Corey Hawkins. Louis Gossett, Jr., David Alan Grier, Tamela J. Mann, Deon Cole , Phylicia Pearl Mpasi, and […]
Brandy is set to star in Netflix’s upcoming holiday film, Best. Christmas. Ever. Heather Graham, Matt Cedano, and Jason Biggs will star opposite her in the holiday movie about a friendship “put to the ultimate test over a boastful Holiday Newsletter.” Mary Lambert is directing based on Charles Shyer and Todd Calgi’s script. READ: Countdown […]
Karen Pittman, Erica Ash, Lance Gross, Joyful Drake, and Jermaine Love are all starring in Unthinkably Good Things. Terri J. Vaughn is directing the film based on a script by Cas Sigers-Beedles and it will serve as the first film under Hallmark’s new Mahogany banner. READ: Lyric Ross Joins Cast of Marvel and Disney+’s Upcoming […]
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is cast to star in the based on a true story film, I Helped Destroy People for Amazon Studios. Mateen II and Michael B. Jordan via his Outlier Production Company are producing the thriller that adapts Janet Reitman’s 2021 New York Times article of the same name. READ: FX Picked Up Blitz […]
Adina Porter and Clark Backo a starring opposite LaKeith Stanfield in Apple TV+’s upcoming drama series The Changeling. The series is an adaptation of Victor LaValle’s novel of the same name and is described as “a fairytale for grown-ups, a horror story, a parenthood fable and a perilous odyssey through a New York City you […]