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Nico Parker Joins Merle Dandridge in HBO’s adaptation of the popular video game The Last of Us into a series. Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey and Gabriel Luna are also cast The story takes place twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed. Joel (Pascal), a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie (Ramsey), a 14-year-old […]
Nadine Ellis joins the Fox drama series Our Kind of People in recasting. She will star opposite Yaya DaCosta, Morris Chestnut and Joe Morton. The project comes from Lee Daniels and Karen Gist with Tasha Smith attached to direct two episodes of the series. The drama Our Kind of People is inspired by Lawrence Otis […]
Boris Kodjoe is making his directorial debut with lifetime’s thriller Safe Space. Boris will also star alongside his wife, Nicole Air Parker, Drea de Matteo, Nik Sanchez, Mackenzie Astin, Monica Calhoun, and Julito McCullum. Nneka Gerstle penned Safe Space that centers on recently widowed Lila Jackson (Ari Parker) and her 14-year-old, autistic son Ian (Sanchez). […]
Telma Hopkins, Linda Park and Vanessa Marano join Shanola Hampton and Dascha Polanco as series regulars in NBC pilot Dangerous Moms. The pilot comes from Warner Bros. Television and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group. The pilot is based on the Spanish version Señoras del (h)Ampa. Janine Sherman Barrois is writing and executive producing […]
L. Scott Caldwell is the most recent star to join Fox’s upcoming drama Our Kind of People . She joins previously cast Yaya DaCosta, Morris Chestnut, Letoya Luckett, Lance Gross, Joe Morton, Rhyon Nicole Brown, Kyla Bary, and newcomer Alana Bright. The project comes from Lee Daniels and Karen Gist with Tasha Smith attached to […]
Wunmi Mosaku is the latest to join HBO’s new limited series We Own This City. She joins previously cast Jamie Hector, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Rob Brown, McKinley Belcher III. Larry Mitchell have recently been added to, Jon Bernthal, and Josh Charles. Reinaldo Marcus Green is set to direct and executive produce the series. The series comes […]
Rapper Young Thug to make his acting debut in Amazon’s musical dance dramedy, Throw It Back. He will star opposite Shahadi Wright Joseph and Tiffany Haddish. Shadae Lamar Smith will make his feature directorial debut with Throw It Back. He will direct based off a script he co-wrote with Rochée Jeffrey. READ: Cynthia Erivo to Star […]
Gabrielle Union’s I’ll Have Another Productions along with Katie and Mauricio Mota via their Wise Entertainment are teaming up for The Sisters Are Alright dramedy. The aforementioned are adapting Tamara Winfrey-Harris’ award-winning book The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women In America into a half-hour dramedy series. Sonja Perryman will pen […]
Before Jackie Robinson, there was Satchel Paige and Magic Johnson is helping tell his story. Johnson is producing a drama series about Satchel Paige and the Negro League Baseball for Apple Studios, which gained the rights to Donald Spivey’s non-fiction book, If You Were Only White: The Life of Leroy ‘Satchel’ Paige. READ: Stephan James, […]
Asante Blackk and Tiffany Haddish are starring in the sci-fi film adaptation of M.T. Anderson’s novel Landscape With Invisible Hand for MGM and Plan B. Cory Finley wrote and directed the film which is described as a “heightened comedy set in a deeply stratified, alien future. It is based on M.T. Anderson’s novel of the […]