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Colman Domingo is set to portray Bayard Rustin in the upcoming biopic, Rustin, about the gay, civil rights activist. Audra McDonald, Chris Rock, and Glynn Turman join Domingo in the feature. George C. Wolfe is directing from a screenplay he co-wrote with Dustin Lance Black. The film tells the story of how Rustin overcame an […]
Bailey Bass joins Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid in Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire series for AMC and its sister streamer, AMC+. Rolin Jones is creator, showrunner and executive producer of Interview With the Vampire. Based on Rice novels, the story centers on an 18th-century lord, Louis de Pointe du Lac (Anderson) who is […]
Akende Munalula, Shacai O’Neal, Lily Keene, and Margot Catherine Terry are the latest to join the cast of the upcoming Showtime drama pilot, Coercion. They are cast as series regulars opposite Sydney Chandler, Sydney Park and Tyrone Marshall Brown. Written and to be directed by Susannah Grant, Coercion is inspired by the life of Rebecca […]
Larenz Tate is becoming a much bigger part of the Power-sphere. Before the Power alum fronts his own spin-off, Power Book V: Influence, he’s set to serve as a series regular on season 2 of Power Book II: Ghost. READ: Tiffany Haddish Stars in and Produces Family Comedy I.F. Larenz Tate first made his debut […]
Melissa De Sousa and McKinley Freeman are set to recur on Fox’s Freshman series Our Kind of People. They are set to star opposite Yaya DaCosta, Morris Chestnut, Nadine Ellis, Lance Gross, and Joe Morton. The Fox drama Our Kind of People comes from Lee Daniels and Karen Gist and is inspired by Lawrence Otis […]
ABC has given a pilot green light to a new incarnation of Steven Bochco’s legal drama L.A. Law. The L.A. Law sequel that has been in the works since Decemeber has Blair Underwood attached as executive produce as well as reprising his role as attorney Jonathan Rollins. Anthony Hemingway is directing from a script written […]
Sistas star KJ Smith is the latest cast addition to the second season of Starz/Lionsgate’s Power prequel series, Power Book III: Raising Kanan. Omar Dorsey, LeToya Luckett, Krystal Joy Brown, and Paulina Singer were previously added to Power Book III, season 2. All have been cast in recurring roles. Smith will star in a major […]
Nafessa Williams joins the cast of the Whitney Houston biopic, I Wanna Dance With Somebody for Sony and its TriStar division. She will replace Moses Ingram as Houston’s longtime assistant Robyn Crawford. Crawford later became Houston’s creative director while also remaining one of her closest friends. Ingram recently parted ways with the role. She joins […]
Sydney Park and Tyrone Marshall Brown join the cast of the upcoming Showtime drama pilot, Coercion. They are cast as series regulars opposite Sydney Chandler. Written and to be directed by Susannah Grant, Coercion is inspired by the life of Rebecca Bender, a national leader on and survivor of sex trafficking. READ: Khris Davis, Sullivan […]
Nia Long rounds out the cast of the upcoming untitled comedy for Netflix. She joins previously cast Lauren London, Eddie Murphy, Jonah Hill, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Sam Jay and Molly Gordon. David Duchovny was also recently cast. Kenya Barris is making is feature directorial debut with the film that he co-wrote with Hill. The untitled comedy […]