Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Michaela Coel joins Donald Glover and Maya Erskine in the TV show reboot of Mr. and Mrs. Smith for Amazon’s Prime Video. John Turturro and Paul Dano have also been cast. Glover and Erskine lead the series as John and Jane, whose marriage only becomes more complicated when they are hired by a mysterious spy […]
Showtime’s upcoming TV comedy pilot based on Rick Famuyiwa’s 1999 film, The Wood has set its cast. Richard T. Jones and Tamala Jones are set to reprise their roles as Slim and Tanya and they will join newly cast Melvin Gregg, Xavier Mills, Karen Obilom, Vince Staples, and Essence Renae. The project comes from the […]
Nickelodeon Animation and Paramount Pictures teamed up earlier this month (June 5, 2022), to pay homage to Black animators with “A Great Day in Animation.” The event was inspired by the iconic 1958 “A Great Day in Harlem,” photographed by Art Kane. The image, which was later recreated in 1998 for Hip Hop, featured 57 […]
James Lesure joins the cast of The Rookie spin-off, The Rookie: Feds, led by Niecy Nash-Betts. Frankie Faison, Kat Foster, Felix Solis, Britt Robertson, and Kevin Zegers have also been cast in the new series. The spinoff, follows the premise of The Rookie, which centers on the oldest rookie in the LAPD. However, the new […]
In a shocking recasting, Nigel Thatch is leaving Epix’s hit series Godfather of Harlem where he portrayed Malcolm X and Jason Alan Carvell is stepping into the role. We’re unsure why Thatch is leaving the series which is entering its third seasons. Production begins this week in New York. Created by Chris Brancato and Paul […]
Janet Hubert, Caleb Eberhardt, and Shakira Ja’nai Paye have joined the cast of AMC’s upcoming science-fiction comedy series Demascus. They will join as series regulars opposite previously cast Okieriete Onaodowan in the series from playwright Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm and AMC Studios. The six-episode series is set to premiere next year on AMC and AMC+. READ: […]
Tiffany Boone is set to star opposite André Holland in the Huey P. Newton limited series The Big Cigar for Apple TV. The series, which is about how the Black Panther leader eluded a nationwide manhunt and escaped to Cuba, is based on Joshuah Bearman’s Playboy article of the same name. Bearman is also attached […]
ALLBlk released the trailer to Deitrick Haddon’s The Fallen, a faith-based dramatic feature film. The project, which is written, directed, and starring Haddon, serves as a follow-up to 2010 film, Blessed and Cursed. Singer Q Parker, Jonathan Slocumb, gospel artist B Slade, Jo él Quinn, and Brittany Lucio also star in the film. According to […]
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Corey Hawkins are set to star as brothers in the revival of Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play Topdog/Underdog. Acclaimed by the New York Times as “The Greatest American Play of the Past 25 Years,” the darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity, will return to Broadway this fall for […]
Wendell Pierce, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, and Karen LeBlanc are set to star in an episode of Fox’s upcoming crime anthology drama series Accused. Based on the BBC’s BAFTA-winning crime anthology, Accused opens in a courtroom on the accused, with viewers knowing nothing about their crime or how they ended up on trial. READ: Tasha Smith Joins […]