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Kiersey Clemons has been cast in the lead role of Tayarisha Poe’s film The Young Wife. Sheryl Lee Ralph, Brandon Michael Hall, Kelly Marie Tran, Aida Osman, and Leon Bridges (who will make his acting debut) have been cast. Michaela Watkins, Judith Light, Aya Cash, Lukita Maxwell, Sandy Honig, Connor Paolo, and Jon Rudnitsky round […]
Broadway is celebrating James Earl Jones’ legacy by naming a Broadway theatre after him. The Shubert Organization announced on Wednesday that New York’s Cort Theatre, which has been called the Cort since the day it opened in 1912, will be renamed the James Earl Jones Theatre, in honor of the famed actor. Located on 48th […]
Essence is honoring four actresses who are making and have made their marks on-screen in unforgettable ways at its 15th annual Black Women in Hollywood Awards. Under the theme The Black Cinematic Universe, Damson Idris will host this years award ceremony that will honor Nia Long, Aunjanue Ellis, Quinta Brunson, and Chanté Adams. READ: Octavia […]
Months after news that Camille Brown will direct and choreograph the Broadway revival of Ntozake Shange’s groundbreaking for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf, we now have a cast. Amara Granderson, Tendayi Kuumba, Kenita R. Miller, Okwui Okpokwasili, Stacey Sargeant, Alexandria Wailes, and D. Woods will star in the production. […]
Peacock has given a series order to the tv series adaptation of Twisted Metal with Anthony Mackie attached to star in and executive produce. The series will be a comedic half-hour live-action adaptation of the popular video game, from Sony Pictures TV, PlayStation Productions and Universal Television. READ: Anthony Mackie, Priyanka Chopra Jonas Cast in […]
This Is Us star Lyric Ross is joining Dominique Thorne and Anthony Ramos in Marvel and Disney+’s upcoming series Ironheart. The show centers on the teenage Riri Williams (Thorne), a genius inventor, who, in the comics, builds her own version of the Iron Man suit in an MIT dorm. Ross will play Williams’ best friend. […]
Jasmine Mathews, Sonja Sohn, John Magaro, and Shein Mompremier have joined the cast of the untitled George Foreman biopic for Sony’s AFFIRM Films label. They join previously Forest Whitaker, Sullivan Jones, and Khris Davis as George Foreman. George Tillman Jr. is set to direct the biopic and co-wrote it with Frank Baldwin. It is based […]
Another Basquiat project is in the works, this time with Stephan James attached to portray Jean-Michael Basquiat in a limited TV series. The project will be set during the 1980s, as Basquiat emerges from being an obscure graffiti artist born in Brooklyn to becoming a neo-expressionist painter of rock-star status in Manhattan. The scripted series […]
The cast of Boots Riley’s upcoming Amazon series I’m a Virgo, which is led by Jharrel Jerome, has added six to its cast. Brett Gray, Kara Young, Allius Barnes, and Olivia Washington join I’m a Virgo as series regulars with Mike Epps and Carmen Ejogo set to recur. “Our cast is hard as hell. Our […]
Deon and Roxanne Avent Taylor, through their Hidden Empire Film Group, is teaming up with King Bach (real name Andrew Bachelor) to develop a scripted series chronicling Bach’s rise to social media fame. Bach first hit it big when he became Vine’s biggest star, boasting 14 million followers and 5.1 billion loops. He has since […]