Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Gabrielle Union is joining the third season of Apple TV’s anthology drama series Truth Be Told. She will co-lead this season with series regular Octavia Spencer. Based on Kathleen Barber’s novel Are You Sleeping, Truth Be Told is a series centered around true-crime podcasting and stars Spencer as podcaster ‘Poppy Scoville,’ who risks everything—including her […]
Ciara is the latest star to join the cast of the star-studded Color Purple musical film, directed by Blitz Bazawule. She joins previously cast Danielle Brooks, Fantasia Barrino, Colman Domingo, Halle Bailey, Taraji P Henson, H.E.R., and Corey Hawkins. Louis Gossett, Jr., David Alan Grier, Tamela J. Mann, Deon Cole , Phylicia Pearl Mpasi, and […]
Brandy is set to star in Netflix’s upcoming holiday film, Best. Christmas. Ever. Heather Graham, Matt Cedano, and Jason Biggs will star opposite her in the holiday movie about a friendship “put to the ultimate test over a boastful Holiday Newsletter.” Mary Lambert is directing based on Charles Shyer and Todd Calgi’s script. READ: Countdown […]
Karen Pittman, Erica Ash, Lance Gross, Joyful Drake, and Jermaine Love are all starring in Unthinkably Good Things. Terri J. Vaughn is directing the film based on a script by Cas Sigers-Beedles and it will serve as the first film under Hallmark’s new Mahogany banner. READ: Lyric Ross Joins Cast of Marvel and Disney+’s Upcoming […]
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is cast to star in the based on a true story film, I Helped Destroy People for Amazon Studios. Mateen II and Michael B. Jordan via his Outlier Production Company are producing the thriller that adapts Janet Reitman’s 2021 New York Times article of the same name. READ: FX Picked Up Blitz […]
Adina Porter and Clark Backo a starring opposite LaKeith Stanfield in Apple TV+’s upcoming drama series The Changeling. The series is an adaptation of Victor LaValle’s novel of the same name and is described as “a fairytale for grown-ups, a horror story, a parenthood fable and a perilous odyssey through a New York City you […]
The cast of the Color Purple musical just added six more and got even more star-studded. Louis Gossett, Jr., David Alan Grier, Tamela J. Mann, Deon Cole , Phylicia Pearl Mpasi, and Stephen Hill have been cast in the udpated musical film. They join previously cast Danielle Brooks and Fantasia Barrino who have joined to […]
Ruben Santiago Hudson, Richard Kind, Lavel Schley and Olivia Luccardi have joined the CBS drama pilot East New York. They will star as series regulars opposite Amanda Warren who will lead CBS’ police drama. Co-written by William Finkelstein and Mike Flynn, East New York centers on Regina Haywood (Warren), is the newly promoted deputy inspector […]
FX closed a deal to develop a limited series adaptation of Blitz Bazawule’s upcoming debut novel The Scent of Burnt Flowers with Yahya Abdul-Mateen II attached to star in it. The Scent of Burnt Flowers centers on Melvin and Bernadette, a Black couple fleeing persecution in 1960s America. They seek asylum in Ghana, where they […]
Leslie Jones is the latest to join the second season of BMF. She joins previously cast Kelly Hu and Christine Horn. As well as Lala, whose recurring role was upped to a series regular. Black Mafia Family/BMF is inspired by the true story of two brothers who rose from the decaying streets of southwest Detroit […]