Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Omar Epps and Michael Ealy are starring in the thriller The Devil You Know for Lionsgate and Command Films. Will Catlett, Glynn Turman, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Theo Rossi, BJ Britt, Vaughn Hebron, Erica Tazel, Curtiss Cook, Keisha Epps, and Ashley Williams also star in the film. READ: Showtime Orders TV Pilot of The Wood — Based […]
H.E.R. and Corey Hawkins join the cast of Warner Bros.’s feature adaptation of the Broadway musical The Color Purple. Blitz Bazawule to helm The Color Purple musical film. Marcus Gardley is penning the story that follows the lives of African-American women — namely Celie and Nettie Harris, Shug Avery and Miss Millie — in the […]
There is a documentary in the works on Reading Rainbow, the 80s children program hosted by LeVar Burton. Titled Butterfly in the Sky, Jasper Mall duo Bradford Thomason and Brett Whitcomb are directing the documentary. The film will feature archival footage and interviews with Reading Rainbow host LeVar Burton along with the major broadcasters, educators, […]
Alfre Woodard is joining the cast of New Line’s adaptation of Salem’s Lot, the 1975 Stephen King vampire novel of the same name. She joins previously cast Lewis Pullman, Makenzie Leigh, Spencer Treat Clark, and Bill Camp. Gary Dauberman is writing and directing Salem’s Lot which follows young author Ben Mears (Pullman) as he returns […]
Bel-Air has found its new Fresh Prince with newcomer and West Philadelphia local Jabari Banks. The new version titled Bel-Air, is a drama series based on Morgan Cooper’s viral YouTube trailer. It was a four-minute trailer that reimagined the series as a drama. Cooper a Fresh Prince super-fan, created and directed the 2019 clip that […]
Lashana Lynch joins Viola Davis and Thuso Mbedu 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 of Dahomey. It […]
Regina Hall is joining Kevin Hart and Mark Wahlberg in the Netflix comedy Me Time. READ: Kevin Hart, Snoop Dogg Will Recapping The Olympic Highlights in New Show on Peacock Hart’s Night School writer John Hamburg will write and direct the pic that follows a stay-at-home dad (Hart). He finds himself with some “me time” […]
Eddie Murphy is starring opposite Jonah Hill in an upcoming untitled comedy for Netflix with Kenya Barris on board to direct. The untitled comedy will mark as Barris’ feature directorial debut. Hill and Barris co-wrote the script which is being kept under wraps. What we do know is that it is said to be an […]
Tiffany Haddish is set to star in the live-action hybrid family comedy I.F. for Universal Pictures. Mike Mitchell is attached to direct based on a script by Darren Lemke. Specific details on the film, I.F. are under wraps but the story centers around an imaginary friend and uses both animation with live-action. Think Who Framed […]
The Lion King prequel has found its Mufasa and Scar. Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Aaron Pierre will head to the Pride Lands, to voice at-odds brothers Mufasa and Scar. Barry Jenkins is attached to direct the prequel to the 2019 adaptation which will further explore the mythology of the iconic characters, including Mufasa’s origin story. […]