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Dorian Missick, Amanda Warren, Pamela Reed, and Jim Klock round out the cast of Prime Video’s The Burial led by Tommy Lee Jones and Jamie Foxx. The film is based on a true story, about a bankrupt funeral homeowner who decides to sue a rival businessman over a handshake deal gone wrong and then owner […]
Mamoudou Athie joins the cast of the legal drama The Burial for Amazon Studios. He joins Jamie Foxx, Tommy Lee Jones and Jurnee Smollett who were previously cast. The film is based on a true story, about a bankrupt funeral homeowner who decides to sue a rival businessman over a handshake deal gone wrong and […]
Jurnee Smollett and Misha Green are reteaming up for Black Canary, a spinoff from Warner Bros.’s 2020 DC movie Birds of Prey. The project, which is in early development at HBO Max sees Smollett reprising her supporting Birds of Prey character Black Canary as the lead in the film. And according to Cinelinx, Green is […]
Jurnee Smollett is headed to Netflix to star in and executive produce Lou. She will star opposite Allison Janney who is also executive producing. READ: Antoine Fuqua is Directing & Producing the Film Adaptation of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof With All-Black Cast Lou follows the life of a young woman and her landlord […]
Now that there’s a limited series based on Lena Horne. We have one question looming, who will play the late multi-hyphenated star? The Showtime is called Blackbird: Lena Horne America, after Horne’s favorite poem, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.” READ: Gina Prince-Bythewood to Direct The Woman King Starring Viola Davis The limited series on […]
Javicia joins a new league of black actress superheroes. Congratulations again to Javicia Leslie on becoming the first black woman to play Batwoman. READ: Zendaya and John David Washington Shoot a Feature Film, Malcolm & Marie, in Midst of COVID-19 Since the first appearance of superheroes in comic books, many minority groups were underrepresented and the […]