Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Huey P. Newton is the center of a new limited series for Apple TV. Andre Holland is in talks to star as Huey P. Newton in the Apple TV limited series The Big Cigar, about how the Black Panther leader eluded a nationwide manhunt and escaped to Cuba. The six-part series comes from Don Cheadle, […]
The cast of The Color Purple just got more star-studded as Aunjanue Ellis joins The Color Purple musical film, directed by Blitz Bazawule. The Color Purple is set for a global theatrical release in December of 2023. She joins previously cast Danielle Brooks, Fantasia Barrino, Colman Domingo, Halle Bailey, Taraji P Henson, H.E.R., and Corey […]
Damon Wayans, Pam Grier and more have been cast in the noir thriller Cinnamon for Tubi, Fox’s free streaming service. They will star opposite previously cast Hailey Kilgore, David Iacono and Jeremie Harris. Cinnamon follows a struggling small-town gas station attendant and aspiring (and truly gifted) singer, Jodi Jackson (Kilgore), whose life is sent into […]
Kid Cudi (real name Scott Mescudi) is the latest star to join the cast of the Silent Night. He’ll star alongside Joel Kinnaman, Harold Torres, and Catalina Sandino Moreno in the forthcoming action-thriller from director John Woo. Robert Lynn penned the screenplay. READ: Anthony Mackie is Cast in Action-Comedy Twisted Metal TV Series Silent Night […]
Laurence Fishburne has been cast as Doc Rivers in the FX limited series The Sterling Affairs based on the ESPN 30 for 30 podcast of the same name. Jacki Weaver is also attached to star in the series which tells the downfall of Los Angeles Clippers’owner Donald Sterling. Weaver will star as Sterling’s wife Shelly […]
The queen of staying booked, Keke Palmer has secured another role in Being Mortal for Searchlight Pictures. She joins previously cast Bill Murray and Seth Rogen in what will serve as Aziz Ansari’s directorial debut. Based on Atul Gawande’s non-fiction book, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, Ansari wrote the script and […]
Gugu Mbatha-Raw to star opposite as the female lead opposite Kevin Hart in the Netflix action thriller Lift. F. Gary Gray is directing the pic with Dan Kunka penning the script. 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 […]
After not speaking for 13 years, Lee Daniels has publicly apologized to Mo’Nique as well as added her to his latest film, Demon House. She will replace Octavia Spencer in the exorcism project that Netflix acquired for $65 million. Spencer was originally starring in the star-studded film but had to bow out due to scheduling […]
The slap-gate continues and with more consequences coming Will Smith’s way, like Academy resignation, by way of Will Smith himself. Following Smith slapping Chris Rock while he was presenting on stage at last weekend’s Academy Awards, Will Smith announced in a statement on Friday (Apr 1) that he has resigned from the Academy of Motion […]
Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman are teaming up again for the upcoming dark comic thriller The Kill Room. According to The Hollywood Reporter, “The darkly comic crime thriller comes from writer Jonathan Jacobson, with Nicol Paone set to direct, and sees both Thurman and Jackson return to familiar territory involving hi-jinx and hired guns. […]