Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
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 […]
Debbi Morgan 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 direct […]
Phylicia Rashad joins Nikyatu Jusu’s thriller Nanny for Stay Gold Features And Topic Studios Pic. Sinqua Walls, Anna Diop, Michelle Monaghan, and Morgan Spector also star. Jusu will write and make her feature directorial debut with Nanny, which is being described as a timely thriller that puts the immigrant story front and center. The film […]
Andre Royo joins the cast of Amazon’s holiday romantic comedy series With Love. He joins previously cast Rome Flynn, Isis King, Todd Grinnell, Desmond Chiam, Emeraude Tobia and Mark Indelicato. “One Day at a Time” co-creator Gloria Calderón Kellett created and wrote With Love which follows the Diaz siblings, Lily (Toubia) and Jorge (Indelicato) who […]
Naomi Ackie joins Channing Tatum in Zoe Kravitz’s Pussy Island. MGM acquired the film during the virtual Cannes Festival in a highly competitive situation which marks Kravitz directorial debut. Kravitz and E.T. Feigenbaum wrote the film that centers on a philanthropist and tech mogul Slater (Tatum) who whisks away young, clever, Los Angeles cocktail waitress […]
Lance Gross is the latest to join the growing cast of Fox’s upcoming drama Our Kind of People . He joins previously cast Yaya DaCosta, Morris Chestnut, Letoya Luckett. The project comes from Lee Daniels and Karen Gist with Tasha Smith attached to direct two episodes of the series. The Fox drama Our Kind of […]
Colman Domingo is adapting his award-winning play Dot into the dramedy series West Philly, Baby for AMC. The half-hour series follows the journey of a Philadelphia family. They are forced to grapple with their matriarch’s declining memory amidst uncovering long-held family secrets that shake the foundation of their home. Midlife crises, troubling revelations, childhood trauma, […]