Dominic Patten | Deadline Hollywood “I’m not the person to ask about racism in this town, coming from where I came from I never had to go through what I’ve heard a lot of people had to go through in this town,” said Tyler Perry today at the Produced By conference. “I...
A Personal Essay by Michael B. Jordan (As told to Chris Lee) | Entertainment Weekly You’re not supposed to go on the Internet when you’re cast as a superhero. But after taking on Johnny Storm in Fantastic Four—a character originally written with blond hair and blue...
The walking condom full of walnuts chats to ZOO about surviving earthquakes, killing his daughter's boyfriends, cheat foods and his bedroom skills... G'day Dwayne. How was the San Adreas shoot? It was a great experience. We were in Australia, shooting there at Village...
by Anthony D'Alessandro | Deadline Hollywood Rick Famuyiwa is one of the most profitable voices in African American cinema at the box office with such titles as The Wood ($6M cost, $25M domestic) and Brown Sugar ($8M cost, $27.4M domestic). However, when he went to...
Antonia Blyth | Deadline Hollywood Following his notorious Oscar snub earlier this year, David Oyelowo is coming out fighting with a dramatically different project: Nightingale. As the film’s sole cast member, Oyelowo plays Peter Snowden, a sexually-repressed war vet...
from the Harlem Cultural Archives Camille Billops and Jim Hatch were professors at the City College of New York in Manhattan Community District 9 - Camille in Art and Jim in English - when they ramped up their "Artists and Influences" oral history project. The project...
Producer/Actress @LeslieLewonline stops by with the inside scoop on her Canadian Drama "With Child" @lolaogunnaike @MrShannonLanier
Playwright & Filmmaker @DavidETalbert talks with us about his amazing work, upcoming talent search & workshop.
Amazing Actor @TheRealMoMcRae with the inside scoop on #TNT's hit series #MurderInTheFirst @Lolaogunnaike @MrShannonLanier
By Brennan Williams | Huffington Post Earlier this year, director Lee Daniels managed to break records with the success of his show “Empire.” In addition to netting a cult-like following and record breaking ratings on Fox, the drama also changed the representation of...
Brian Steinberg | @bristei | Variety.com Spike Lee would rather watch a movie in a big theater than on a mobile-phone screen. “I know I’m a dinosaur,” Lee said while holding forth at Variety’s Entertainment and Technology conference in New York, but “there’s something...
Writer/Director Dee Rees tell us all about the amazing @HBO original film #Bessie @lolaogunnaike @MrShannonLanier