Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
David Ramsey is opening up about a deeply personal health journey he kept private for years. The 54-year-old actor recently shared on the Inside of You podcast that he is a testicular cancer survivor, revealing that doctors first discovered signs of concern when he was just 28. After noticing that one testicle was significantly smaller […]
Prime Video is bringing back its breakout docu-style comedy Jury Duty for a second season — and this time, the courtroom chaos is headed to a corporate getaway. Titled Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat, Season 2 premieres March 20, launching with three episodes. Two more will drop on March 27, followed by a three-episode finale […]
Rosario Dawson and Tiffany Haddish are set to lead The Lesson, a new horror-thriller from executive producer JoJo Ryder, who will make his feature directorial debut with the project. The film centers on a devoted teacher whose death sparks a series of disturbing events that begin to haunt his former students. As the unsettling incidents […]
The world of Tyler Perry’s Beauty in Black just got a whole lot darker. Netflix has dropped the first trailer for Season 2, Part 2 of the hit drama, and alongside rising stakes for Kimmie and Mallory, a brand-new villain named Gina makes a chilling first impression — threatening to upend everything the Bellarie circle […]
Tommie Earl Jenkins has boarded the cast of the upcoming newsroom thriller Red Ink, a gripping period drama set in New York City in the aftermath of World War II. The film, produced by New York-based Incline Studios, recently wrapped production in Syracuse, New York, and unfolds over the course of a single high-stakes morning […]
Amazon MGM Studios is expanding the ensemble of its upcoming romantic comedy Goodbye Girl, with Andrew Bachelor officially joining the cast. The film is currently in production in New Orleans and will premiere globally on Prime Video. Bachelor joins a lineup led by Kiernan Shipka and Cole Sprouse, with direction from Oran Zegman, who previously […]
When Andre Gaines decided to adapt Amiri Baraka’s 1964 one-act play The Dutchman, he admits he initially thought it might be a simpler lift — two characters on a train, a contained story. But once he began writing, he quickly realized that translating Baraka’s poetic, explosive dialogue into a modern feature would require more than […]
Veteran actor and two-time Oscar nominee Djimon Hounsou is stepping further behind the camera. Hounsou has officially launched a new production company, Fanaticus Media Group (FMG), expanding on his earlier venture, Fanaticus Entertainment. The announcement arrives alongside the Berlin screening of FMG’s first feature title, Calabash, which played this week as part of the AfroBerlin […]
“Dreamgirls,” the landmark musical about the rise of a 1960s girl group and the price of fame, is officially making its long-awaited return to Broadway — and Jennifer Hudson is stepping into a new role behind the scenes. Hudson, who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her powerhouse portrayal of Effie White […]
Clarence Maclin is the latest name to join the growing cast of Netflix’s upcoming limited thriller series ‘Rabbit, Rabbit.’ Maclin will appear in a recurring guest star role alongside previously announced lead Adam Driver, with Regina Hall, Odessa Young, and Will Poulter also set to star. While details surrounding Maclin’s character are being kept under […]