Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Former President Barack Obama is now a three-time Emmy winner. At the 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Awards, held Sunday, Sept. 7 in Los Angeles, Obama won Outstanding Narrator for Netflix’s Our Oceans. The five-part natural history series, which premiered in November 2024, explores marine life across the Pacific, Indian, Atlantic, Arctic, and Southern Oceans. Produced […]
Netflix’s Rebel Ridge has been named Outstanding Television Movie at the 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Awards. The ceremony took place over the weekend, Saturday, Sept. 6, and Sunday, Sept. 7, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. The action-thriller, released in September 2024, tells the story of a former Marine battling corrupt small-town police in […]
Daniel Craig is back as detective Benoit Blanc — and this time, he’s heading to church. Netflix just dropped the teaser trailer for Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, the third entry in Rian Johnson’s acclaimed whodunit franchise. The film will debut in select theaters on November 26 before streaming on December 12. […]
Djimon Hounsou has officially joined the cast of Amazon MGM’s Highlander remake, making the upcoming action fantasy film a mini-Guardians of the Galaxy reunion. Hounsou now shares the call sheet with his Marvel co-stars Dave Bautista and Karen Gillan, alongside Henry Cavill, Russell Crowe, and Marisa Abela. Directed by John Wick mastermind Chad Stahelski, the […]
Will Smith has found a new studio home. The Oscar winner and his Westbrook banner, co-run with Jada Pinkett Smith, have signed a first-look, multi-picture deal with Paramount Pictures. The partnership centers on developing global, four-quadrant theatrical films, with a focus on franchise plays and IP-driven projects designed as starring vehicles for Smith. Westbrook will […]
People has unveiled the exclusive first look at Malcolm-Jamal Warner in what will be his final television performance. The beloved actor guest stars in season 2 of Murder in a Small Town, returning September 23. Warner appears in the third episode, Mother Love, airing October 7. He plays Richard Buscombe, a protective father who becomes […]
Hulu has dropped the first trailer for Swiped, a biographical drama chronicling the turbulent journey of Whitney Wolfe Herd, the visionary behind Bumble. Lily James steps into the role of Wolfe Herd, capturing her fight to change the landscape of online dating after a contentious split from Tinder. Alongside James, the cast also includes Myha’la, […]
Nicholas Duvernay (The White Lotus, Bel-Air) is starring in Mindy Kaling’s upcoming Hulu comedy Not Suitable for Work. The series follows five ambitious twenty-somethings chasing professional success — and maybe personal happiness — in Manhattan’s Murray Hill. Duvernay plays Kel Washington, a charming but slightly anxious medical student struggling to balance exams while quietly pursuing […]
The Bear’s Corey Hendrix and The Chi’s Ahmad Ferguson are the latest names to board Moses The Black, a gritty gangland drama executive produced by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and his G-Unit Film and Television. They join Omar Epps, Wiz Khalifa, Quavo, and Chukwudi Iwuji in the modern-day Chicago crime story. The film, written and […]
Street Fighter — and its parent studio Legendary — have officially found a new home. Legendary signed a three-year deal with Paramount to distribute its films, and the Kitao Sakurai–directed Street Fighter will be the first release out of the gate, hitting theaters October 16, 2026. Set in 1993, the same year Street Fighter II […]