Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
2022 is already looking amazing for Kelvin Harrison Jr.’s acting resume. The Cyrano star is set to embody American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in a biopic titled Samo Lives, directed by Julius Onah. Onah will also produce the film based on a script he co-wrote with Peter Glanz. READ: Numa Perrier to Produce and Star in Audre […]
Ruben Santiago-Hudson and Charles Randolph-Wright and teaming up to tell Sidney Poitier’s life story on Broadway. Titled “Sidney,” the show will trace Poitier’s upbringing on Cat Island in the Bahamas to his rise to become America’s most revered actor and activist. The play “explores the nature of sacrifice and commitment, pride and humility and the […]
Delroy Lindo joins Mahershala Ali in the Blade reboot which Ali is cast as the titular human-vampire hybrid. Bassam Tariq is directing the feature project from a script Stacy Osei-Kuffour penned. Osei-Kuffour writing the script makes her the first Black woman to pen a Marvel movie. READ: 15 Actors Whose Careers Rose After Starring in […]
LaKeith Stanfield is set to star in and executive produce Apple TV+’s new drama 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 didn’t know […]
Brandon Micheal Hall joins the cast of the How I Met Your Mother spin-off, How I Met Your Father, for Hulu. Hall will recur opposite series lead Hilary Duff in the series which was given a straight-to-series spinoff. Chris Lowell, Francia Raisa, Tom Ainsley, Tien Tran, and Suraj Sharma have also been cast. Created and […]
Idris Elba joins the cast of Paramount’s Sonic The Hedgehog 2 as the famed character of Knuckles the Echinda. He joins Ben Schwartz, who is reprising his role as Sonic in the first film. James Marsden, Tika Sumpter, and Jim Carrey are also returning as well as director Jeff Fowler. READ: Idris Elba to Produce […]
The Game reboot is underway with two original cast members returning. Brittany Daniel and Pooch Hall will reprise their roles as Kelly Pitts and Derwin “Ding Dong” Davis. They will make special appearances in the 10-episode Paramount+ series. The revival shifts the action from San Diego to Las Vegas and combines original cast members with […]
Corinne Foxx (Beat Shazam, Safety) joins season 2 of Hulu’s Dollface. She will recur opposite, Esther Povitsky, Shay Mitchell, Lilly Singh, Brenda Song, and Jules Weiss. Created by Jordan Weiss, the half-hour comedy centers on a young woman named Jules (Dennings) who is dumped by her longtime boyfriend. She then tries to rekindle long-forgotten female […]
After an extensive search, Warner Bros. has found its Batgirl. In The Heights star Leslie Grace will portray Barbara Gordon and her superhero alter-ego Batgirl in the upcoming HBO Max film. Grace won the coveted lead role after testing opposite Isabella Merced, Zoey Deutch and Leslie Grace. Bad Boys for Life filmmaking duo Adil El […]
Michaela Coel will make her debut in Wakanda as she joins the cast of Black Panther 2. Formally titled, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, she joins Ryan Coogler who is back to write and direct the sequel. Coel is joining returning cast members including Angela Bassett as Queen Ramonda, Danai Gurira as Okoye, Winston Duke as […]