Etan Vlessing | The Hollywood Reporter The Anita Hill-led Hollywood Commission on Wednesday pointed to a wide gap in...
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5 Underrated, Veteran Black Actresses…
...Who Deserve Their Flowers (And Way More Roles) by Jordan Simon | Shadow and Act It's no secret that Hollywood suffers from the disease known as racism, but it also suffers from ageism as well. To say that there aren't enough leading roles film for Black women over...
How Halle Berry Fought Her Way to the Director’s Chair
By Ramin Setoodeh | Variety On the day Halle Berry shot the big fight scene for her new movie “Bruised,” in which she plays a disgraced mixed martial arts fighter, she cracked two ribs. Berry, 54, had injured herself on the set of a movie before — breaking three ribs...
Tia Mowry Inks 3-Picture Deal With Lifetime
By Nellie Andreeva | Deadline Hollywood Tia Mowry will be part of Lifetime’s original movie franchise for years to come. The Game and Sister, Sister alumna has closed a three-picture deal with the A+E network to star in and produce three holiday movies for their It’s...
10 Best Space Horror Movies (according to Variety)
by Jenelle Riley | Variety There’s something inherently terrifying about space – maybe because of the loneliness and isolation, or perhaps because it’s an unknown landscape to most of us. But it makes great fodder for films and over the decades there have been many...
How Lion Forge Plans to Shake up the World of Animation
By Jazz Tangcay | Variety Not many companies can say they won an Academy Award with their first film. But Lion Forge Animation’s Carl Reed and David Steward II, who formed the U.S.’s only Black-owned animation studio last year to address a lack of representation in...
Gina Prince-Bythewood | The Film That Lit My Fuse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsmqERS4J3I&app=desktop By Jake Kanter | Deadline Hollywood The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the...
Variety Promotes Angelique Jackson to Film & Media Reporter
By Variety Staff | Variety Variety has promoted Angelique Jackson to film and media reporter. In her new role, Jackson will cover the major Hollywood studios and streaming services, as well as the indie film scene. She will also contribute in-depth interviews and...
Variety, AAFCA and LACES Launch Micheaux Project Outreach Program
by Variety Staff | Variety Variety, the African American Film Critics Association and the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies have partnered to create the Micheaux Project, an outreach program aimed at encouraging high school students from underrepresented...
Mike Epps Wants Kenya Barris To Help Him Bring Pryor Biopic To Life
by Monique Jones | Shadow and Act Back in 2017, Mike Epps was slated to star as Richard Pryor in a biopic directed by Lee Daniels and produced by Jay Z. But so far, the project hasn't come to fruition. Epps posted to Instagram recently about his remaining hope for a...
The Realities of Racism in Hollywood
by Angelique Jackson | Variety The world seems to be quickly coming to understand that navigating life as a Black person in America is an emotional and difficult journey. But what about paving a path in Hollywood? As support for the Black Lives Matter movement...
Idris Elba says a Luther movie is ‘close’ to happening
By Derek Lawrence | Entertainment Weekly Idris Elba is ready to bring his signature character to the big screen. Over five seasons and 10 years, the...