Miss Juneteenth, the compelling first feature from Channing Godfrey Peoples, recently made its debut at Sundance Film Festival. It centers on Turquoise Jones (Nicole Beharie), a single mother and former holder of the Miss Juneteenth title, who wants her rebellious teenage daughter, Kai (Alexis Chikaeze), to follow in her footsteps. The film, which is drenched […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Back in March, filmmakers Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz gathered their artist friends and a few journalists at Manhattan’s members-only social club, Soho House, for a screening of their first feature-length project, “Antebellum.” They wanted a constructively critical reaction ahead of the planned spring release of the film — a psychological […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Colin Kaepernick is joining with Emmy-winning filmmaker Ava DuVernay on a Netflix drama series about the teenage roots of the former NFL player’s activism. “Colin in Black & White” will examine Kaepernick’s high school years to illuminate the experiences that shaped his advocacy, Netflix said Monday. “Too often we see race […]
The life story of French-Caribbean composer Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges is coming to the big screen. The idea is from Emmy-nominated writer Stefani Robinson, known for her work on FX’s Atlanta and What We Do in the Shadows. Stephen Williams, who has directed prominent episodes of Watchmen and Westworld, will helm the biopic. De […]
Recently, HBO won an auction where 17 bidders competed for the rights to adapt Brit Bennett’s praised novel The Vanishing Half. With the seven-figure deal, HBO will create a limited television series out of the novel, Deadline reports. Receiving acclaim from critics, The Vanishing Half has been compared to Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, with […]
In June of this year, Matthew A. Cherry signed a major multi-year deal with Warner Bros Television to develop comedies, dramas, and event series with the studio. Now, we’ve been informed about the first series that will be part of this deal: Young Love. Created by Cherry, Young Love is a 2D-animated series that features […]
NEW YORK (AP) — For Michael B. Jordan, timing is everything. So when the SAG award winner marched in a Los Angeles Black Lives Matter protest last month demanding that Hollywood drastically increase its diversity in the executive ranks, it was a moment he felt prepared for. ‘I think it’s always been brewing in me, […]
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is teaming up with CBS Television Studios through a multi-year agreement to produce content that focuses on the African American experience. Through this new partnership, the organizations will collaborate on producing scripted, unscripted, and documentary content for CBS’s broadcast, cable, and streaming platforms. This deal […]
Gina Prince-Bythewood (Love & Basketball, The Secret Life of Bees, Old Guard), is set to direct the upcoming period action drama The Woman King for Sony’s TriStar. Influenced by true events, the historical movie is set in the Kingdom of Dahomey, one of the most paramount states of Africa during the 18th and 19th centuries. […]
Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts will star in the upcoming Netflix family drama “Leave the World Behind,” which is adapted from the Rumaan Alam novel of the same name. After longing to work together again, Washington and Roberts are finally reuniting in the film world after 27 years, previously starring together in the 1993 legal […]