Wildcards, the courtroom drama from writer-director Wes Miller, is heading to theaters nationwide on August 27 via BLacklight and Dark Star Pictures, following its Best Narrative Feature win at the 2026 Essence Film Festival. The film follows the trial of Theodore Sterling, a privileged young man accused of sexually assaulting a young Black woman. As […]

Marlon Jackson is setting the record straight about his father. The sixth child of Joseph and Katherine Jackson has partnered with streaming platform BLK Prime on a new original series titled The Manager, The Mythology, The Legend, offering what the family describes as a distinctive and accurate portrayal of the man behind one of music’s […]

By now the story of Marvel’s Blade reboot is one of Hollywood’s most talked-about development disasters. Announced at San Diego Comic-Con in 2019 with Mahershala Ali stepping onto the Hall H stage to thunderous applause, the project spent years cycling through directors, writers and false starts before Marvel quietly pulled it from its release calendar […]

Fresh off his celebrated turn as his late uncle Michael Jackson in the highest-grossing biopic of all time, Jaafar Jackson has found his next acting project. The rising star has joined the cast of Supermax, the action thriller from Amazon MGM Studios and Miramax directed by David Gordon Green, opposite Will Smith and AnnaSophia Robb. […]

HBO’s acclaimed crime drama Task is building out its Season 2 cast. Jharrel Jerome and Bethlehem Million are among the new additions, joining previously announced cast members Mark Ruffalo, Mahershala Ali, Julianne Nicholson, Harry Melling, Adam Nagaitis, Aminah Nieves and Edgar Ramírez. Silvia Dionicio also returns to reprise her role as Emily Brandis, Tom Brandis’ […]

History has been made. Spider-Man: Brand New Day has become the highest-grossing domestic opening weekend of all time, surpassing the record previously held by Avengers: Endgame since 2019. Final Monday actuals landed at $360 million from 4,487 North American theaters, edging past Endgame‘s $357.1 million to claim the all-time title. Globally, the film opened to […]

“Don’t underestimate Latif.” Mahershala Ali is stepping into a very different kind of action role. Amazon MGM Studios and Orion Pictures have released the official trailer for Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, the upcoming action drama from writer-director Bassam Tariq, and Ali looks ready to remind audiences exactly what he can do when given […]

The Writers Guild of America East has withdrawn its sponsorship and participation from the 30th edition of the Urbanworld Film Festival, ending a 12-year partnership over the New York festival’s decision to incorporate AI-generated films into its official programming. The move has created a new flashpoint in Hollywood’s increasingly contentious debate over artificial intelligence and […]

Audible has unveiled the full cast for its ambitious global adaptation of Bram Stoker’s 1897 gothic horror classic Dracula, producing the audiobook simultaneously in seven languages with all-star local casts for each version. Jonathan Bailey leads the English-language production as Count Dracula, joined by Ella Purnell as Mina, Aimee Lou Wood as Lucy, Louis Partridge […]

Samira Wiley, Galen J. Williams and Nicco Annan are among the cast of The Let Go, a music-driven indie drama that has wrapped production in Colorado. Written and directed by Kristen Wolf in her feature directorial debut, the film also stars Mileiah Vega, Sophia Bush, Midori Francis, Brandon Flynn and Tovah Feldshuh. The film follows […]