Angelique Jackson | Variety Tyler Perry has formalized a new creative partnership with Netflix to write, direct and produce feature films under a multi-year, first-look deal. The pact spans eight pictures over four years. Perry already has five films under his belt at...
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Wilson Morales | BFTV The Venice Film Festival revealed the lineup for its 80th edition Tuesday morning, and its Official Competition featured works by five women filmmakers, including Ava DuVernay, who makes history as the first African American woman in...
Jordan Simon | Shadow and Act The Oscars are finally recognizing that Angela Bassett did the thing! It was announced that the beloved on-screen legend will receive an Honorary Academy Award at this Governor’s Awards ceremony on Saturday, Nov. 18 in Los Angeles. In...
By Zack Sharf | Variety The “Fast and Furious” franchise might not be ending as quickly as fans previously thought. The upcoming “Fast X” is being billed by Universal Pictures as the beginning of the end of the saga, which kicked off in 2001. The plan has long been to...
By Angelique Jackson | Variety On the heels of winning a Peabody Award for the Showtime docuseries “We Need to Talk About Cosby,” W. Kamau Bell has launched a new production company, Who Knows Best, and inked an overall deal with Boardwalk Pictures. Bell, an...
by Chris Morris | Variety Singer, actor, producer and activist Harry Belafonte, who spawned a calypso craze in the U.S. with his music and blazed new trails for African American performers, died Tuesday of congestive heart failure at his Manhattan home. He was 96. An...
Monique Jones | Shadow and Act Billy Porter is taking on critics who feel he won’t be able to accurately portray writer and activist James Baldwin. While as a guest on Tamron Hall, Hall asked the Pose and Broadway actor about his opinion on people who are questioning...
Zayna Allen | WBLS The National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress chooses a list of recordings every year to preserve. The list of 25 recordings showcases the range and diversity of American recorded sound. Currently, there are 600 works/titles on the...
By Anthony D'Alessandro, Rosy Cordero | Deadline The industry is still reeling from the sudden passing of Lance Reddick. However, his eloquent presence will continue on in several upcoming film and TV projects which the prolific actor had completed before his death at...
By Manori Ravindran | Variety “Luther” star Idris Elba and media mogul Mo Abudu are joining forces to empower talent from Africa and the diaspora through their respective production companies, Green Door Pictures and EbonyLife Media. The new partnership aims to...
by Peter White | Deadline Reginald Hudlin and Byron Phillips have struck a first-look deal with Original Productions after teaming up on Amazon documentary series Phat Tuesdays: The Era of Hip Hop Comedy. The Fremantle-backed production company has signed the deal...