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Kat Graham will star in the thriller Collide opposite Ryan Phillippe and Jim Gaffigan. David Cade, Dylan Flashner, Drea de Matteo, Aisha Dee, David James Elliot, and Paul Ben-Victor round out Collide‘s cast. READ: Leave The World Behind: Myha’la Herrold Joins Mahershala Ali, Julia Roberts in Thriller For Netflix Written and directed by Mukunda Michael […]
Jada Pinkett Smith and Queen Latifah, who have shared the screen and stage on many occasions are reuniting in CBS’ The Equalizer. The series which is led by Latifah will see Smith guest star as Jessi Cook, a savant-level thief with a photographic memory. Though she’s brilliant and the best at what she does, she’s […]
Taraji P. Henson has joined H.E.R. and Corey Hawkins in Warner Bros.’s feature adaptation of the Broadway musical The Color Purple. Blitz Bazawule to helm The Color Purple adaptation. 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 […]
Mamoudou Athie joins the cast of the legal drama The Burial for Amazon Studios. He joins Jamie Foxx, Tommy Lee Jones and Jurnee Smollett who were previously cast. The film is based on a true story, about a bankrupt funeral homeowner who decides to sue a rival businessman over a handshake deal gone wrong and […]
Cynthia Bailey and Reginae Carter join season 2 of Jerry LaMothe and Kajuana S. Marie horror anthology season, Terror Lake Drive for AllBlk. They join previously cast Pascale Armand, Yolonda Ross, Denise Boutte, Charles Malik Whitfield, and Kendrick Cross who lead the series. Titled Terror Lake Drive: Single Black Female, the upcoming season of the […]
Get ready to meet the new class at Rydell High. Paramount+ unveiled the cast for its Grease prequel musical TV series Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies. Set four years before the beloved original 1987 feature film, the Grease prequel stars Marisa Davila as Jane, Cheyenne Isabel Wells as Olivia, Ari Notartomaso as Cynthia, Tricia […]
Kerry Washington, Laurence Fishburne, and Daniel Dae Kim are set to star in Audible and QCode original podcast drama series Prophecy. The eight-episode series is set around various unexplainable events that happen simultaneously around the world. Following the events hydrologist Virginia (Washington), British zoo veterinarian Daniel (casting TBA), and commercial driver Jonah (Kim) find themselves […]
Dee Rees is directing the adaptation of Alexis Schaitkin’s novel Saint X for Hulu. The eight-part, psychological drama comes from writer Leila Gerstein and Rees. It is told in multiple timelines and perspectives, explores and upends the girl-gone-missing genre. READ: Ernest Kingsley Jr., Iola Evans Join Sterling K. Brown in Hulu Limited Series Washington Black Saint […]
Carl Weber’s The Family Business has upped some recurring cast members and added some new faces to its roster for its upcoming fourth season. Brely Evans and Ben Stephens, who currently recur as Sonya Duncan and Curtis Duncan, have been promoted to series regulars while Bern Nadette Stanis, Nayirah Teshali, and Sacaiah Shaw have joined […]
Sharon Duncan-Brewster, newcomer Eddie Karanja, and Edward Bluemel join the cast of Hulu’s upcoming drama series Washington Black. They join as series regulars opposite Sterling K. Brown, Iola Evans and Ernest Kingsley Jr. The nine-episode limited series is based on Esi Edugyan’s novel of the same name. Set in the 19th century and follows George […]