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Clement Virgo’s feature film, “Brother,” which premiered at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival is headed to the US as Vertical has secured U.S. distribution rights. Starring Lamar Johnson, Aaron Pierre, Marsha Stephanie Blake, and Kiana Madeira, the drama explores themes of masculinity, family, race, and identity. READ: Idris Elba, Archie Panjabi, Christine Adams’ Real-Time […]
Netflix’s limited series The Madness, led by Colman Domingo has added four new cast members, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Gabrielle Graham, John Ortiz, and Tamsin Topolski to its line up. The conspiracy thriller follows media pundit Muncie Daniels, played by Domingo, who finds himself embroiled in a murder investigation after discovering a crime scene in the […]
Marsha Stephanie Blake, Winning Time’s Rachel Hilson, Demetrius Grosse (Fear the Walking Dead), Never Have I Ever’s Sendhil Ramamurthy, Johnny Simmons (Girlboss), and Rahnuma Panthaky (NCIS: Los Angeles) are all cast as leads in Kay Oyegun’s therapist drama pilot for ABC. The drama centers on five therapists (Hilson, Grosse, Ramamurthy, Simmons, Panthaky) located in Philadelphia […]
Lamar Johnson, Aaron Pierre, Marsha Stephanie Blake, and Kiana Madeira are all cast in the feature drama Brother. Set in Toronto’s early hip hop scene, the film follows Francis and Michael (Pierre and Johnson), sons of Caribbean immigrants, who are maturing into young men during the sweltering summer of 1991. Escalating tensions set off a […]