Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Kerry Washington and Lupin star Omar Sy are starring opposite one another in the action-thriller Shadow Force for Lionsgate. Joe Carnahan is directing the feature that follows “an estranged couple with a bounty on their heads who must go on the run with their son to avoid their former employer, a shadow ops unit that […]
Angela Bassett is joining Stranger Things’ Millie Bobby Brown in the upcoming Netflix fantasy film Damsel, which tells the story of what happens when the princess marries prince charming. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo is directing based on a script written by Dan Mazeau. READ: Angela Bassett, Lyric Ross and More Join Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele […]
Whoopi Goldberg joins Delroy Lindo and Malachi Kirby in the Amazon Prime series adaptation of Anansi Boys. Based on Neil Gaiman’s fantasy novel, the six-episode series is set throughout contemporary London and follows a cast of characters in an epic story that stretches from the UK to Florida, the Caribbean, and the mythical World Before […]
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 […]