Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Peacock has released the first teaser for Crystal Lake, the highly anticipated prequel series to the Friday the 13th franchise, and set an October 15 premiere date for all eight episodes. The A24-produced series comes from creator, writer and showrunner Brad Caleb Kane, whose credits include IT: Welcome to Derry and Tokyo Vice. Set in […]
Kevin “KevOnStage” Fredericks is taking his grief on the road. The comedian, actor, and New York Times bestselling author has announced Grief Sucks: A One Man Show, a 31-city North American stand-up tour promoted by Live Nation. The run kicks off August 14 at The Lyric in Birmingham, Alabama and closes December 20 at Buckhead […]
For nearly a quarter century, the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival has operated as something between a film festival and a cultural homecoming — the place where studio executives, first-time directors, and vacationing Black Hollywood all end up in the same room by the second week of August. This year’s edition, running August 7–15 […]
Chicago-born sisters Kozi Kyles and Kyra Kyles are back with more seasonal scares. Myth Lab Entertainment has announced Season 2 of Home for the Holidays, its award-winning horror-comedy audio anthology series, with the debut episode “Invitation to the Cookout” now available on all podcast platforms. The new season opens with NFLer-turned-entertainer Anthony “Spice” Adams in […]
Tyriq Withers is heading to the US Open. The Reminders of Him star is set to star and executive produce Love Love, a romantic comedy at Amazon MGM Studios, Deadline has learned exclusively. Isabel May is also on board to star in the film, written and directed by Joey Power, who co-wrote the script with […]
Susan Kelechi Watson has been cast in the untitled Apple TV thriller starring previously announced Dakota Fanning, Stellan Skarsgård, Daryl McCormack, Grace Gummer and Joely Richardson. In the series, Fanning stars as an undercover Treasury agent embedded in a multi-billion-dollar international conglomerate with world-changing political and criminal tentacles. Her mission becomes complicated when she grows […]
One of the biggest media mergers in Hollywood history is now facing its most significant legal challenge yet. A coalition of 12 state attorneys general, led by California AG Rob Bonta, filed an antitrust lawsuit Monday in federal court in Sacramento seeking to block Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent […]
Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary have released the official trailer for Digger, the first collaboration between Tom Cruise and four-time Academy Award winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu, and it is unlike anything either man has made before. Cruise is nearly unrecognizable as Digger Rockwell, a blunt, pot-bellied Southern oil baron who may have triggered a massive […]
Shaquille O’Neal and TNT Sports have announced the premiere date and full roster for Dunkman, the first professional league built entirely around dunking. Live competition begins Tuesday, July 21 at 8 p.m. ET, with the world championships set for Tuesday, August 25 at 8 p.m. ET. The winner will take home a grand prize of […]
Warner Bros. is developing a reimagining of the beloved 1993 family adventure Free Willy, with Anthony and Joe Russo’s AGBO producing. Mary-Margaret Kunze and Jade Halley Bartlett have been tapped to write the screenplay. The original Free Willy, about an orphaned boy who befriends a captive orca, became a global phenomenon upon its release, grossing […]