Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Louis Gossett Jr. is joining the cast of IF for Paramount Pictures. The movie reunites Steve Carell with former Office star John Krasinski and also stars Alan Kim, Cailey Fleming, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fiona Shaw, and Ryan Reynolds. The films’ plot is being kept under wraps but it is based on Krasinski’s original idea about a […]
The Hallmark Channel is reuniting ER alums Gloria Reuben and Eriq La Salle for their upcoming original movie, A Second Chance at Love. Alvina August and Jarod Joseph have also been cast in the romantic comedy. The film centers around Alicia (August) and Arnold (Joseph), who on the surface their marriage is picture-perfect, however, there […]
The Flossy Posse is coming back. Producer Will Packer announced on Good Morning America that despite the woes of the pandemic Girls Trip 2 is underway. “Can’t we all use a post-pandemic trip, my friend? I think that the time is actually right, and this is something that I will tell you and break right […]
Better late than never right? 20 years later there is a Paid in Full sequel in the works. During a recent interview with AllHipHop, Dame Dash, an executive producer of the original, revealed he’s in the process of shooting the Paid in Full sequel in Newark, New Jersey. “It’s what happens after [they] put all […]
Will Packer’s company Will Packer Productions has tapped Leon Chills to adapt Stan Parish’s novel Love and Theft into a film for Universal Pictures. The film is a global romantic heist film set in three locations: Las Vegas, Mexico, and Spain. Love and Theft centers on Alex Cassidy and Diane Alison, who develop an instant […]
Toks Olagundoye, Ian Duff, and Hari Nef join the cast of the new incarnation of Steven Bochco’s legal drama L.A. Law. They join as series regulars in ABC drama pilot opposite original cast members Blair Underwood and Corbin Bernsen, who are reprising their roles as Jonathan Rollins and Arnie Becker, respectively. Anthony Hemingway is directing […]
The deaths of some of hip hop’s greatest artists are being explored in AMC Networks-owned WEtv’s upcoming unscripted series Hip Hop Homicides. The series comes from 50 Cent, Mona Scott-Young, and Lionsgate and will be hosted by Van Lathan. The eight-part series will look into the staggering number of unsolved murders in the hip-hop community […]
Jelani Alladin joins the cast of Disney+’s upcoming Beauty and the Beast prequel series. Titled, Little Town (a nod to Howard Ashman’s lyric in the musical’s opening number, “Belle”), he joins previously cast Luke Evans, Josh Gad, Briana Middleton, and Fra Fee. Gad, Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz developed and wrote the eight-episode limited musical […]
Disney+ gave a series order to Kwame Alexander’s basketball drama The Crossover and Lebron James and his Spring Hill production company joined on as executive producer. George Tillman Jr directed the pilot which is based on Kwame Alexander’s bestselling novel of the same name that is told entirely through verse. Alexander and Damani Johnson penned […]
Discovery dropped the trailer to their upcoming docuseries Profiled: The Black Man. The four-part docuseries that examines the origins of the widespread stereotypes that have permeated society and impacted the lives of Black men in America for centuries. Through a powerful mixture of historical footage, real-life testimony, and commentary from an array of renowned thought […]