Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Issa Rae is joining the Marvel Universe. The multi-hyphenated Rae joins the cast of the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse sequel as Jessica Drew aka Spider-Woman. Plot details are being kept hidden but the sequel will continue to feature an array of Spider-characters drawn across Marvel Comics’ time and space. READ: Malcolm Barrett, Cedric Joe + […]
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is set to star in the action flick Emergency Contact for Warner Bros. Dwayne Johnson and Beau Flynn are producing the project via their production banners. Abdul-Mateen will executive produce as well. Warner Bros. picked up the project as a pitch from the writing team of Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani. The […]
With the end of her long-standing, series role in Shameless, Shanola Hampton has already found her next potentially big role. She is set to star in and produce the NBC pilot Dangerous Minds from Warner Bros. Television and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group. READ: Nicole Ari Parker, Brad James, and More Join NBC […]
LeToya Luckett joins Fox’s upcoming drama Our Kind of People. She will co-lead opposite Yaya DaCosta, Morris Chestnut, and newcomer Alana Bright. 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 Graham’ non-fiction […]
Tiffany Haddish is set to star as the fastest woman in the world, Olympic runner Florence Griffith Joyner in a biopic about her life. Known as Flo-Jo, Joyner took the sports world by storm in the 1980s and helped bring women track and field to the forefront with her record-breaking Olympic run. With her record-setting […]
Alfre Woodard and Sarah Silverman join Blair Underwood in the indie thriller Viral. Underwood is directing and producing the thriller Viral for York films. Joe McClean wrote the film which is about a man dealing with his wife’s disappearance. Underwood and McClean are producing alongside Daniel Cypress and York Films’ John Kalafatis, Joanna Kalafatis, and […]
LaMonica Garrett, Alexis Louder and Tom Amandes (not pictured) are recurring in Amazon’s conspiracy thriller series The Terminal List. They join previously announced series regulars Constance Wu, Chris Pratt, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Riley Keough, Taylor Kitsch. and Jeanne Tripplehorn. The series is based on Jack Carr’s bestselling novel and written by David DiGilio who also serves […]
Jonathan Majors is in talks to star opposite Michael B Jordan for Creed III. According to Deadline, negotiations are underway for Majors to star in the film as Adonis Creed’s ring nemesis. For the deal, they are trying to get around Major’s busy schedule. READ: Idris Elba to Produce and Star in Holiday Action Movie […]
Howard University is renaming its College of Fine Arts after Chadwick Boseman. Boseman, who passed away last August at age 43 from colon cancer, attended Howard before becoming a household name in Hollywood. The news also comes after Howard recently named alumna Phylicia Rashad as the college’s dean. While Boseman was a student, Rashad befriended […]
Amazon has added more to the cast of the second season of its romantic anthology series Modern Love. Sophie Okonedo and Tobias Menzies join previously cast stars Dominique Fishback, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Susan Blackwell, Zoe Chao, Maria Dizzia, and Grace Edwards. The series which is inspired by The New York Times column and developed by John […]