by Jordan Simon | Shadow and Act With Halloween approaching, now is a great time to remind what kinds of costumes are inappropriate and downright unacceptable. In the words of Dear White People's Sam Logan, a list of acceptable costumes includes "pirates, nurses and...
The Cosby Prison Sentence: Working While Black by Yasmin Shiraz | Black TV Film Crew Today I heard a colleague rejoice, celebrate, pump her fists, give a high five, do everything but dance in the end zone when she heard that Bill Cosby had been sentenced to three to...
by Tonja Renée Stidhum | Shadow & Act Costume designer Ruth E. Carter’s name reached a wider audience for her work in Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther, but please trust and believe, her stamp has been ensconced in Black film and TV history since the 1980s. Our...
...Pay Parity, Licking Arsenio, and Why Emmys and Oscars Are Overrated By Debra Birnbaum | Variety “More work! More work, and more sleep.”’ That’s what on Tiffany Haddish’s agenda for the rest of 2018, which has already been a tear for the comedian. She’s been on a...
By Cynthia Littleton | Variety Prolific producer Will Packer has set up a TV, digital and branded content production venture with Discovery Communications and Universal Pictures. As part of the deal, Will Packer Media will have a first-look programming pact with OWN,...
By Todd Longwell | Los Angeles Times Pasted in a corner of Eddie Smith’s scrapbook is a small, yellowed newspaper clipping from 1969 telling of a helicopter crash on the set of a war movie in which a pilot and two stuntmen “escaped injury.” The movie was “MASH”; Smith...
by Monique Jones | Shadow and Act Set production on the Kasi Lemmons-directed Harriet has started, prompting new criticisms of Cynthia Erivo, who has been cast as Harriet Tubman. According to Deadline, the film will focus on Tubman's life, including her time as a...
https://youtu.be/HhZUooOr-tk Olivia Munn and Keegan-Michael Key teach you Japanese and Detroit slang words. Olivia and Keegan-Michael star in The Predator, out in theaters September 14th.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GKq0DaQzBU 'Farming' director and star Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, along with co-stars Kate Beckinsale, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Damson Idris, visit IMDb at Toronto. READ STORY
from Variety Variety is pleased to announce its annual list of 10 Actors to Watch, an honor the publication has bestowed since 1998. Past honorees include many future Oscar winners and nominees, such as Mahershala Ali, Timothée Chalamet, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer,...
By Daniel Holloway | Variety Atop the coffee table inside the house where Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Prods. lives sit some very on-brand periodicals — titles like Heavy Metal, Fangoria and Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone Magazine. The Twilight Zone issue is a gem. It not...
By Erin Nyren and Christi Carras | Variety “Black Panther” actor Sterling K. Brown is torn about the Academy Awards’ new popular film category. At an FYC event for “This Is Us” at Paramount Studios, Brown, who played N’Jobu in the Marvel blockbuster, told Variety his...