Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Michael Hyatt, Sterling Macer Jr., Garret Dillahunt, Ahna O’Reilly, and newcomer Jojo Regina join the cast of Where The Crawdads Sing. They join previously cast Diasy Edgar-Jones. Where The Crawdads Sing is a film adaptation based on Delia Owens’ 2018 NYT best-selling novel of the same age. The book follows two intertwining storylines. One explores […]
April Parker Jones, Celeste O’Connor, and Donna Biscoe round out the cast of Paramount Players film The In Between. They join previously cast Joey King, Kyle Allen, John Ortiz, and Kim Dickens. Arie Posin is directing the supernatural thriller film based on an idea by Marc Klein, who also penned the script. READ: Will Smith […]
Deborah Cox joins HBO Max’s limited series Station Eleven in a recurring capacity. It is a 10-episode post-apocalyptic saga about survivors of a devastating flu as they attempt to rebuild. They also are reimagining the world anew while holding on to the best of what’s been lost. Cox will play Wendy, a musician looking for […]
RJ Cyler, Donald Watkins, Sabrina Carpenter, and Sebastian Chacon are all starring in the comedy thriller Emergency from Amazon Studios and Temple Hill. Maddie Nichols, Madison Thompson, Diego Abraham, and Melanie Jeffcoat round out the cast. Carey Williams is directing the film from the screenplay by KD Dávila. Emergency is a story punctuating the […]
Anika Noni Rose to lead Let the Right One In, the Showtime vampire drama pilot. She will star opposite Demián Bichir. Let the Right One In is inspired by John Ajvide Lindqvist’s best-selling novel of the same name. It was also adapted in 2008 into a Swedish film. It is described as an elevated genre […]
How To Get Away With Murder alum Aja Naomi King joins QCode podcast Blackout for its second season. She will star opposite returning cast Rami Malek. The series centers on Simon Itani (Malek) a small-town New Hampshire radio DJ who fights to protect his family and community after the power grid goes down nationwide, upending […]
Lamorne Morris to star in the horror film Night Shift alongside Phoebe Tonkin, Madison Hu, Patrick Fischler, Lauren Bowles, and Christopher Denham. Paul and Benjamin China are writing and directing. The horror-thriller follows a young woman (Tonkin) working her first night shift at a remote motel as she begins to suspect that she is being […]
Meagan Good and Snoop Dogg join Jamie Foxx in Neflix’s Vampire movie Day Shift. Also, cast are Karla Souza, Scott Adkins, Eric Lange, Zion Broadnax, Dave Franco, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Oliver Masucci, Steve Howey, and C.S. Lee. Day Shift follows Foxx as a hard-working blue-collar dad who just wants to provide a good life for […]
Yara and her mother/business partner Keri Shahidi are adapting Cole Brown’s debut book Greyboy: Finding Blackness in a White World into a series for ABC. The book is a first-hand examination of what it means to navigate the in-between. The book’s synopsis read: Cole has heard it all before—token, bougie, oreo, Blackish—the things we call […]
Pepi Sonuga to recur in Hulu’s limited series Pam & Tommy. She will star opposite Andrew Dice Clay, Lily James, Sebastian Stan, Nick Offerman, and Seth Rogen. The series is based on the true story behind the release of the first-ever viral video in history — the sex tape of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee. […]