Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Karen Obilom joins House Party reboot as the female lead. She will star opposite Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Tosin Cole and DC Young Fly. Music video director Calmatic will be making his feature directorial debut based on a script by Stephen Glover and Jamal Olori. READ: Robin Thede, London Hughes to Lead Perfect Strangers Reboot The […]
Morris Chestnut is executive producing Greenwood Avenue. The feature film is about The Tulsa Race Massacre. Daryl Spiveys scripted the film that tells the story of a Philadephia lawyer who follows a lead to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and unveils the events of the massacre as well as her family’s connection to it. Casting for the film […]
Wanda Sykes joins season 5 of The Good Fight in a recurring position. In the fifth season, Diane (Christine Baranski) is forced to question whether it’s appropriate for her to help run an African American law firm with Liz (Audra McDonald) when the firm loses two top lawyers. Meanwhile, Marissa (Sarah Steele) and the firm […]
Kyle Bary joins the upcoming Fox drama Our Kind of People . He joins previously cast Joe Morton, Rhyon Nicole Brown, Yaya DaCosta, Morris Chestnut, Letoya Luckett and newcomer Alana Bright. The project comes from Lee Daniels and Karen Gist with Tasha Smith attached to direct two episodes of the series. The Fox drama Our […]
Sinqua Walls joins Anna Diop and Michelle Monaghan in Nikyatu Jusu’s thriller Nanny for Stay Gold Features And Topic Studios Pic. Jusu will write and make her feature directorial debut with Nanny, which is being described as a timely thriller that puts the immigrant story front and center. The film follows an undocumented nanny named Aisha […]
Brian Tyree Henry and Kate Mara are starring in FX’s A.I. limited series Class of ’09. The series which is set in the near future comes from Tom Rob Smith, Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson. Smith will write and executive produce the eight-part series in which the U.S. criminal justice system has been transformed by artificial […]
The HBO Lakers series has added four more to its cast. Mike Epps, Mariama Diallo, Carina Conti, and Max E. Williams round out (we think) the cast of Adam McKay’s HBO L.A. Lakers drama series. The untitled series based on Jeff Pearlman’s book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the […]
Remi Adeleke joined the cast of Amazon’s thriller series Terminal List in a recurring role. He joins previously cast members Chris Pratt, LaMonica Garrett, Alexis Louder, Tom Amandes, Riley Keough, JD Pardo, Constance Wu, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Taylor Kitsch, and Jeanne Tripplehorn. The series is based on Jack Carr’s bestselling novel and written by David DiGilio […]
Janet Hubert, La La Anthony, and Aisha Hinds have joined the cast of Neflix’s romantic comedy The Perfect Find. They join previously cast Gabrielle Union, Keith Powers and Gina Torres. Numa Perrier is set to direct the romantic comedy that will be released on Netflix. And Leigh Davenport adapted Williams’ book for the screen. READ: Hayley […]
Annie Ilonzeh is set to lead the NBC drama pilot, Getaway. Written by JJ Bailey and Moira Kirland, Getaway follows a destination wedding at an isolated luxury resort that quickly descends into chaos after a group of dangerous criminals takes the island hostage. The small group of guests, led by a fearless female Army vet […]