Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Mara Brock Akil has set her newly launched production company story27 under her previously announced overall deal at Netflix. “At story27, thoughtful and entertaining projects centering the humanity of the marginalized is the priority and that starts with identifying the best and most unique storytellers,” Akil said. READ: Rosario Dawson Joins Tiffany Haddish, LaKeith Stanfield […]
The Tony Award-winning play, A Solider’s Play is being adapted into a limited series by Sony Pictures Television with David Alan Grier, who starred in the play, starring in the limited series. The series adaptation, spanning multiple wars and several decades, will center on Sgt. Vernon Waters and the emotional impact he is subjected to […]
Season 2 of The Flight Attendant has expanded its cast. Mo McRae, Callie Hernandez, and JJ Soria join the cast as series regulars. They join returning season 1 cast that includes Kaley Cuoco, Rosie Perez, Zosia Mamet, Griffin Matthews, and Deniz Akdeniz. In the next season of The Flight Attendant, we see Cassie Bowden (Cuoco) […]
Lauren London is the latest to join Eddie Murphy and Jonah Hill in the untitled comedy that Kenya Barris is directing. The untitled comedy will mark as Barris’ feature directorial debut. Barris and Hill co-wrote the film that follows a new couple (Hill and London) and their families, who find themselves examining modern love and […]
F. Gary Gray and Kevin Hart are teaming up for heist film Lift, which Netflix acquired in March. Hart will play a master thief who is wooed by his ex-girlfriend and the FBI to pull off an impossible heist with his international crew on a 777 flying from London to Zurich. Dan Kunka penned the […]
Rashida Jones and David Oyelowo are the latest to join the cast of Wool, the series adaptation of Hugh Howey’s dystopian novels for Apple TV+. The pair joins previously announced cast members Rebecca Ferguson and Tim Robbins. READ: Mustafa Shakir, Charmaine Bingwa, Ben Foster, and Gilbert Owuor Cast in Emancipation Graham Yost will write Wool […]
Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff’s iconic song Summertime is getting a musical makeover. Westbrook Studios and Davis Entertainment are teaming up to develop a hip-hop musical based on the Grammy-winning song. READ: H.E.R. and Corey Hawkins Cast in The Color Purple Musical Film — Blitz Bazawule to Direct Details on Summertime’s plot are being […]
John Boyega has joined Viola Davis, Thuso Mbedu, and Lashawna Lynch in The Woman King for TriStar Pictures. Gina Prince Bythewood is directing and Dana Stevens wrote the original screenplay with the current draft being by Stevens and Prince-Bythewood. The film is a historical epic inspired by actual events that took place in The Kingdom […]
Ashton Sanders joins the cast of the Whitney Houston biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody for Sony and its TriStar division. Sanders will play Bobby Brown. He joins previously cast Moses Ingram and Naomi Ackie. Ackie will play Whitney Houston and Ingram is cast as Houston’s longtime assistant Robyn Crawford. Crawford later became Houston’s creative […]
LisaGay Hamilton, Bashir Salahuddin, Shaun J. Brown are cast in Hulu’s limited series The Dropout, which is based on the ABC News/ABC Radio podcast about the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos. Dylan Minnette, Alan Ruck, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Michaela Watkins, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Kevin Sussman, Sam Straley also star. READ: Pose’s MJ Rodriguez to […]