Aker Ajak, opinion intern | The Los Angeles Loyolan Tyler Perry is an anti-Black Black man. In a Refinery29 article titled “Yes, Tyler Perry Is Still Obsessed With Unstable Black Women," journalist Sesali Bowen claims that Perry is obsessed with painting Black women...
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Etan Vlessing | The Hollywood Reporter The Anita Hill-led Hollywood Commission on Wednesday pointed to a wide gap in...
...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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...