by Addie Morfoot | Variety W. Kamau Bell expected Bill Cosby to respond to the four-part Showtime docuseries that Bell has produced about the pioneering but now disgraced entertainer. But Bell was surprised by how Cosby chose to comment following the Jan. 22...
By Clayton Davis | Variety Is it time for Will Smith to join the list, or can Denzel Washington pick up a second lead actor statuette? We lost Sidney Poitier, and his impact is immeasurable. He was a titan in the industry who broke barriers and Oscar records. He...
TheWrap magazine: The musician was doing just fine in his day job when he got a chance to detour into directing — and the success of ”Summer of Soul“ still shocks him By Steve Pond | The Wrap This story about Questlove and “Summer of Soul” first appeared in the...
by K.J. Yossman | Variety Given it’s been a tough 12 months for cinema, it would be an achievement to appear in just one of the top 10 highest grossing films of the year. Naomie Harris has appeared in two: “No Time to Die” and “Venom: Let There Be Carnage,” as MI6...
Clayton Davis | Variety Actor Corey Hawkins is incredibly grateful to know Denzel Washington, his legendary co-star in “The Tragedy of Macbeth.” “I love that I get to walk in his footsteps, but I know I can never fill that man’s shoes,” Hawkins tells Variety’s Awards...
By Manori Ravindran | Variety In June 2020, amid the global Black Lives Matter movement, a three-page open letter began circulating across the U.K. film and TV industry with four commands from its signatories: Banish your weak excuses, be more demanding, expand your...
Jenelle Riley | Variety Aunjanue Ellis is aware she’s having a bit of a career renaissance. The talented actor has been consistently delivering great performances in films like 2002’s “Undercover Brother,” 2004’s “Ray” and 2018’s “If Beale Street Could Talk.” But in...
Angelique Jackson | Variety Over the next two years, Jonathan Majors will play a cowboy, a flyboy, a boxer and Marvel’s newest supervillain. With a resume that includes working with Spike Lee and earning a lead actor Emmy nod for “Lovecraft Country,” it’s hard to...
K.J. Yossman | Variety Jeymes Samuel was inspired to make his Western-themed feature debut “The Harder They Fall” after growing up watching genre flicks on BBC One and feeling disappointed by the way they depicted women and people of color. Samuel, who grew up on...
By Jenelle Riley | Variety Variety has announced its 10 Actors to Watch for 2021, an honor the publication has bestowed since 1998. Past honorees include many future Oscar winners and nominees including Mahershala Ali, Timothée Chalamet, Viola Davis, Adam Driver, Brie...
by Niko Rose | Shadow and Act Singer and actor Tyrese Gibson may be a heartthrob and pinnacle, but his recent Instagram post states Hollywood thought otherwise. Tyrese originally took to social media to talk about his experience with colorism. In a later interview...
By Cynthia Littleton | Variety In the 1980s, it took Stanley Nelson seven years to make “Two Dollars and a Dream: The Story of Madame C.J. Walker,” his first documentary film. It took him another seven years to make his second feature doc: “The Black Press: Soldiers...