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Netflix released the trailer to their upcoming limited series From Scratch, based on Tembi Locke’s best-selling memoir From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home. The series will debut on Netflix, October 21st. The series stars Zoe Saldana, Eugenio Mastrandrea, Danielle Deadwyler, Keith David, Judith Scott, and Kellita Smith. Lucia Sardo, Paride Benassai, […]
The Kelvin Harrison Jr.-led biopic, Chevalier, about 18th-century French composer Joseph Bolonge, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, debuted at TIFF. Check out the first look at Harrison Jr. as Saint-Georges, aka Black Mozart, the first known composer of classical music from African descent below. Stephen Williams who executive produced the HBO limited series Watchmen directed the biopic […]
Usher is celebrating the 25th anniversary of his hit album ‘My Way,’ with a mini documentary ‘My Way’ set for release on YouTube on Sept. 16. The Dolapo Sangokoya-directed documentary combines commentary from Usher, producer Jermaine Dupri, and drummer Ryan James Carr with archival footage shot during the album’s making and new content captured during […]
Samuel L. Jackson is reprising his role as Nick Fury to lead Marvel’s upcoming series ‘Secret Invasion,’ due out on Disney+, spring 2023. The series, which was announced at Disney Investor Day in December 2020, follows the team-up of Avengers Boss Fury (Jackson) with Captain Marvel‘s Talos (Ben Mendelsohn). Thomas Bezucha and Ali Selim will […]
Disney revealed more details on their upcoming live-action The Lion King prequel led by Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Aaron Pierre as Mufasa and Scar. During Walt Disney Studios’ panel at D23 Expo on Friday, Barry Jenkins- who is attached to direct — revealed that the film will be titled Mufasa: the Lion King. It will […]
Manhattan Theatre Club will debut Jocelyn Bioh’s play Jaja’s African Hair Braiding in the fall of 2023 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street). Bioh wrote play and Whitney White will direct. READ: Yahya Abdul Mateen II, Corey Hawkins to Star in Broadway Play Topdog/Underdog Jaja’s African Hair Braiding is set in […]
Vince Staples’ life is inspiring the upcoming Netflix series The Vince Staples Show. Staples is set to star in the fictional series set in Long Beach, California and based on his upbringing. It is separate from the web series of the same name he launched in 2019. He will also executive produce the project alongside […]
Check out Nnamdi Asomugha, Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne in Netflix’s upcoming serial killer thriller ‘The Good Nurse’ trailer. Noah Emmerich and Kim Dickens also star. Danish writer-director Tobias Lindholm is making his English-language feature directing debut with the film based on a script by Krysty Wilson-Cairns. Based on Charles Graeber’s book, ‘The Good Nurse’ […]
Zazie Beetz is cast to star in Steven Soderbergh’s upcoming HBO Max limited series Full Circle. According to the logline, Full Circle is centered on an investigation into a botched kidnapping. That investigation uncovers long-held secrets connecting multiple characters and cultures in present day New York City. Beetz is believed to be playing an agent […]
Check out the Wendell & Wild trailer. Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are back together in Netflix’s stop-motion animated dark comedy ‘Wendell & Wild’ Directed by Henry Selick, the animated dark comedy centers on two scheming demon brothers, Wendell and Wild (Key and Peele), who enlist the aid of 13-year-old Kat Elliot (Lyric Ross) […]