Director: Malcolm D. Lee Writer(s): Raamla Mohamed, Ryan Richmond Starring: Unknown Synopsis: Inspired by Mandy Len Catron’s New York Times viral article “To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This”. The story explores two people reading from a list of questions developed...
Director: Malcolm D. Lee Writer(s): Terry McMillan (novel, screenplay), Ron Bass (screenplay) Starring: Viola Davis Synopsis: Georgia Young, a twice-divorced, successful optometrist. Despite a life, full of great friends and family, she hasn’t felt a romantic spark in...
Director: Justin Simien Writer(s): Tracy Oliver, Malcolm Spellman, Carlito Rodriguez Starring: Unknown Synopsis: The rags-to-riches tale about how Sylvia Robinson blazed a trail as a female record producer and music mogul in a male-dominated industry. In 1979 she...
Director: Justin Lin Writer(s): Gary Scott Thompson (characters) Starring: Vin Diesel, Jordana Brewster Synopsis: Plot unknown. The tenth and final film of the ‘Fast and Furious’ franchise. Release Date: April 2, 2021 | Length: Unknown | Genre: Action,...
Director: Ryan Coogler Writer(s): Ta-Nehisi Coates, Rachel Aviv (New York Yorker article) Starring: Michael B. Jordan Synopsis: A math teacher in Atlanta is scandalized when he looks to get funding for his school by altering his students’ test scores. Release...
Director: S.J. Clarkson Writer(s): Patrick McKay, John D. Payne, Gene Roddenberry Starring: Chris Pine, Chris Hemsworth, Danai Gurira, John Cho, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg Synopsis: The follow-up to Star Trek: Beyond (2016). Release Date: Unknown (USA) |...
Director: Unknown Writer(s): Unknown Starring: Kevin Hart Synopsis: Remake of the 1998 film of the same name. Release Date: Unknown | Length: Unknown | Genre: Unknown | MPAA Rating: Unknown Note: Kevin Hart is also a producer on this project....
Director: Unknown Writer(s): Albert Woodfox (novel) Starring: Mahershala Ali Synopsis: Solitary is based on a memoir that Albert Woodfox wrote about the 43 years he spent in solitary confinement in Louisiana’s Angola Prison. That is the longest stretch in the U.S. for...
Director: Barry Jenkins Writer(s): Julian Breece Starring: Unknown Synopsis: Based on the life and work of choreographer Alvin Ailey. Release Date: Unknown | Length: Unknown | Genre: Biography, Dance, Drama | MPAA Rating: Unknown Note: Announced by Deadline Hollywood....
Director: Unknown Writer(s): Unknown Starring: Unknown Synopsis: The story centers on a dysfunctional African-American family going on a road trip to play for a game show in order to win enough money to keep their struggling restaurant afloat. Release Date: Unknown |...
Director: Robert Zemeckis Writer(s): Randall Wallace (screenplay) Starring: Dwayne Johnson Synopsis: King Kamehameha fulfills his life-long prophecy of uniting the Hawaiian islands. Release Date: Unknown | Length: Unknown | Genre: Action, Biography, Drama | MPAA...
Director: David Ayer Writer(s): David Ayer, Evan Spiliotopoulos Starring: Will Smith, Joel Edgerton Synopsis: Plot unknown. Sequel to the 2017 film ‘Bright’. Release Date: Unknown | Length: Unknown | Genre: Action, Crime, Fantasy | MPAA Rating: Unknown...
Director: Unknown Writer(s): Erin Entrada Kelly (book), Michael Golamco (adaptation) Starring: Unknown Synopsis: When a bully’s antics land a timid boy in the bottom of a well, his self-proclaimed psychic friend and unknowing crush team up to find him. The novel is a...
Director: Unknown Writer(s): Jonathan Herman Starring: Amandla Stenberg Synopsis: Remake of 1996 movie by the same name, starring Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon. Release Date: Unknown | Length: Unknown | Genre: Unknown | MPAA Rating: Unknown...
Director: Liesl Tommy Writer(s): Janine Eser (screenplay), Trevor Noah (book) Starring: Lupita Nyong’o Synopsis: The film adaptation of The Daily Show host Trevor Noah’s bestselling debut autobiography Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood....
Director: Tim Story Writer(s): Unknown Starring: Eddie Murphy Synopsis: Based on the movie Grumpy Old Men, about feuding neighbors who are competing for the attention of a college professor. Release Date: Unknown | Length: Unknown | Genre: Comedy | MPAA Rating:...
Director: Unknown Writer(s): Unknown Starring: Denzel Washington, Rami Malek Synopsis: The story follows a burned-out Kern County deputy sheriff named Deke, who teams with a crack LASD detective, Baxter, to reel in a wily serial killer. Deke’s nose for the “little...
Director: Benny Boom Writer(s): Tom White, Miles Hubley Starring: Unknown Synopsis: A dirty cop, exonerated in the murder of a high school honor student, visits the dead boy’s father at his barbershop, and while receiving a straight razor shave listens to him...
Director: Unknown Writer(s): Robb Chavis Starring: Anthony Anderson Synopsis: Inspired by the Argentinian comedy “Futbol y Yo,” the story of an obsessive soccer fan whose love of the sport causes him to lose his job and puts a strain on his marriage. This time the...
Director: Craig Brewer Writer(s): Eddie Murphy (characters), Kenya Barris, Barry W. Blaustein (earlier screenplay), David Sheffield (earlier screenplay) Starring: Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Shari Headley, John Amos, James Earl Jones Synopsis: Prince Akeem learns...
Director: Rashida Jones Writer(s): Rashida Jones (screenplay), Hope Larson & Brittany Williams (comic book) Starring: Unknown Synopsis: Created by Eisner award-winning writer Hope Larson and artist Brittney Williams, the story, set at a historical Miami resort,...
Director: Unknown Writer(s): Unknown Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Tiffany Haddish Synopsis: The story of a detective who goes undercover to crack a series of baffling casino heists in which the prime suspects are a troupe of Australian male erotic dancers. He’s forced...
Director: Spike Lee Writer(s): Roger Guenveur Smith Starring: Roger Guenveur Smith Synopsis: Smith’s one-man show begins with the actor rapping from his own text, mashing up references to slavery and contemporary life in the U.S. The performance then segues to Smith...
Director: Unknown Writer(s): Misha Green Starring: Unknown Synopsis: The female answer to James Bond. The film is a remake of the 1973 version starring Tamara Dobson. Release Date: Unknown | Length: Unknown | Genre: Action | MPAA Rating: Unknown Note: Misha Green is...
Director: Unknown Writer(s): Charles Murray Starring: Tyler Perry Synopsis: An HBO film based on the 2007 biography “Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only: The Life of America’s First Black Filmmaker” by film historian Patrick McGilligan. Release Date: Unknown | Length:...
Director: Unknown Writer(s): Ron Wimberly (graphic novel), Selwyn Sefyu Hinds Starring: Lakeith Stanfield Synopsis: The graphic novel is described as ‘80s hip-hop retelling of Shakespeare’s timeless classic Romeo & Juliet– only this time, we follow Tybalt’s...
Director: F. Gary Gray Writer(s): Greg Russo Starring: Unknown Synopsis: The story of the rise of the Third Street Saints as they battle rival gangs in an attempt to conquer the fictional cities of Stilwater and Steelport. Release Date: Unknown | Length: Unknown |...
Director: Unknown Writer(s): Tracy Oliver Starring: Kevin Hart Synopsis: The story follows a team of narcotics detectives who go undercover in a fried chicken joint to stake out an organized crime gang. But things take an unexpected turn when the detectives’ chicken...
Director: Unknown Writer(s): Joey Poach Starring: O’Shea Jackson Jr. Synopsis: A biopic about the life of baseball player Dock Ellis. Release Date: Unknown | Length: Unknown | Genre: Biography, History, Sports | MPAA Rating: Unknown Note: Still no update on this other...
Director: José Padilha Writer(s): Kevin Boyle (novel), Rodney Barnes Starring: David Oyelowo Synopsis: Based on a true story, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age details the investigation and courtroom drama of Ossian Sweet – a...
Director: Aron Gaudet, Gita Pullapilly Writer(s): Aron Gaudet, Gita Pullapilly Starring: Leslie Jones, Kristen Bell Synopsis: A dark comedy in the spirit of Thelma & Louise and I, Tonya that is based on a true story like the latter. Two Phoenix housewives who...
Director: David E. Talbert Writer(s): David E. Talbert Starring: Keegan-Michael Key, Forest Whitaker, Phylicia Rashad, Anika Noni Rose, Madalen Mills Synopsis: In Jingle Jangle, a cobblestone world comes to life in the event holiday musical tale of an embattled...
Director: Jon Watts Writer(s): Zach Dean (earlier script) Starring: Michael B. Jordan Synopsis: A man manages to stay alive for over 400 years, without showing the physical signs of age. In that time, he has accumulated vast intellectual knowledge, from multiple...
Director: Unknown Writer(s): Angie Thomas (novel) Starring: Unknown Synopsis: The novel focuses on Bri, a young rapper and the daughter of an underground hip hop legend who died just before making it big. Her father’s legend makes him a hard act to follow, but between...
Director: James Gunn Writer(s): James Gunn, Zak Penn (treatment), Adam Cozad (script), John Ostrander (comic book), Anthony Tambakis (screenplay) Starring: Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, Jared Leto, Jai Courtney, Viola Davis, Amanda Rabinowitz, John Cena Synopsis: Plot is...
Director: Joel Coen Writer(s): Joel Coen Starring: Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand Synopsis: The iconic Shakespeare tale follows a lord who’s convinced by a trio of witches that he’s destined to become the king of Scotland. With the help of his ambitious wife,...
Director: Unknown Writer(s): Eunetta T. Boone Starring: Tessa Thompson Synopsis: Story based on the life of 75 year old international jewel thief, Doris Payne, whose career spanned over five decades. Release Date: Unknown | Length: Unknown | Genre: Adventure, Crime,...
Director: Drew Goddard Writer(s): Drew Goddard, Rob Liefeld (comic), Fabian Nicieza (comic) Starring: Zazie Beetz, Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin Synopsis: A time-traveler assembles a team of mutants in order to prevent the wrecked future he came from. Release Date:...
Director: Christian Gudegast Writer(s): Christian Gudegast Starring: Gerard Butler, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Curtis Jackson, Tucker Tooley, Mark Canton, Alan Siegel, Bob Jennings Synopsis: Big Nick (Butler) on the hunt in the streets of Europe closing in on Donnie...
Director: Rick Famuyiwa Writer(s): Jay Longino (graphic novel, screenplay) Starring: Unknown Synopsis: The film will not be a remake of the Shaw Brothers classic film. It will be a contemporary Kung-Fu story that intertwines Shaolin mythology with many of the current...
Director: Gerard McMurray Writer(s): Derek Kolstad Starring: Unknown Synopsis: John Wick-esque hard-boiled action film with an African American male lead. Release Date: Unknown | Length: Unknown | Genre: Action | MPAA Rating: Unknown Note: Announced on Deadline...
Director: Unknown Writer(s): Aleshea Harris (play, screenplay) Starring: Unknown Synopsis: The play is about twin sisters who go on a revenge journey from the South to the California desert to find (and kill) their father at the request of their ailing mother, who is...
Director: Unknown Writer(s): A.J. Wolfe (novel), Fredrick Kotto (screenplay) Starring: Mahershala Ali, Viola Davis Synopsis: An undercover detective in Northern California tried so take down a dangerous drug cartel while keeping his undercover life secret from his...
Director: Unknown Writer(s): Zach Baylin Starring: Will Smith Synopsis: A look at how tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams became who they are after the coaching from their father Richard Williams. Release Date: Unknown | Length: Unknown | Genre: Biography,...
Director: Unknown Writer(s): Russell Simmons, Kenya Barris Starring: Unknown Synopsis: The story of how the legendary hip-hop music label Def Jam Recordings came to be. Release Date: Unknown | Length: Unknown | Genre: Biography, Music | MPAA Rating: Unknown...
Director: Claire McCarthy Writer(s): Claire McCarthy, Ann Weisgarber (novel) Starring: Viola Davis, Saniyya Sidney Synopsis: A heavily pregnant woman on an isolated, drought-stricken ranch is not certain if she can trust her husband to put her and their starving...
Director: Scott Cooper Writer(s): Scott Cooper, Hampton Sides Starring: Unknown Synopsis: The FBI embarks on a manhunt to find the man who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. in the spring of 1968. Release Date: Unknown | Length: Unknown | Genre: Unknown | MPAA...
Director: Unknown Writer(s): Tamara Pizzoli (book), Yamara Taylor (adaptation) Starring: Unknown Synopsis: The story centers on Tallulah, the founder and CEO of the largest teeth-collection organization on the planet. She’s a clever, diverse and wildly successful...
Director: Unknown Writer(s): Kay Oyegun Starring: Unknown Synopsis: In a concept being called Sister Act meets Mrs. Doubtfire, a thief on the run from her old crew holes up in a retirement home. Release Date: Unknown | Length: Unknown | Genre: Comedy | MPAA Rating:...
Director: Liesl Tommy Writer(s): Callie Khouri Starring: Jennifer Hudson Synopsis: The film covers the life of the late Franklin from singing as a child in her father’s church’s choir to becoming an iconic superstar and civil rights activist. Release Date: August 14,...
Director: Nzingha Stewart Writer(s): Misty Copeland, Gregory Allen Howard Starring: Unknown Synopsis: The movie will chronicle Copeland’s rise from her poor and tumultuous beginnings – she only began ballet at the late age of 13 and found herself in the middle of a...
Director: Deon Taylor Writer(s): Joe Bockol, Deon Taylor Starring: Tyrin Turner Synopsis: The story about five professional football players who pull a heist during the season. Release Date: Unknown | Length: Unknown | Genre: Action, Thriller | MPAA Rating: Unknown...
Director: Unknown Writer(s): Eisa Davis, Kay Oyegun Starring: Unknown Synopsis: Unknown Release Date: Unknown | Length: Unknown | Genre: Biography, History | MPAA Rating: Unknown Note: Forest Whitaker an Angela Davis are executive producers on this project. So far no...
Director: Nia DaCosta Writer(s): Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld Starring: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Synopsis: A reboot of Candyman, the 1992 horror classic adapted from Clive Barker’s short story The Forbidden. The new Candyman is being billed as a “spiritual sequel” to the...
Director: Unknown Writer(s): Monica Beletsky (screenplay), Karin Tanabe (novel) Starring: Zendaya Synopsis: A light-skinned African-American woman convinces the admissions board at Vassar College that she’s Caucasian in order to attend school there Release Date:...
Director: James Erskine Writer(s): Linda Lipnak Kuehl Starring: Billie Holiday, Tony Bennett, Sarah Vaughan, Charles Mingus Synopsis: The documentary will explore Holiday’s life through the eyes of journalist Linda Lipnak Kuehl. Billie will include tape-recorded...
Director: Lee Daniels Writer(s): Johann Hari (novel), Suzan-Lori Parks Starring: Andra Day, Lakeith Stanfield Synopsis: Biopic about the life of Billie Holiday. Release Date: Unknown | Length: Unknown | Genre: Biography, Drama, Music | MPAA Rating: Unknown Note: There...
Director: Denzel Washington Writer(s): Virgil Williams (screenplay), Dana Canedy (novel) Starring: Michael B. Jordan Synopsis: The novel tells the true story of Pulitzer-winning journalist Canedy and her love affair with First Sgt. Charles Monroe King, who kept a...
Director: Unknown Writer(s): Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (novel and script) Starring: Unknown Synopsis: The novel explores the inhumanity, injustice and a hope that persists in black American life, often with a surrealist eye. Release Date: Unknown | Length: Unknown |...
Director: Shaka King Writer(s): Will Berson, Charles D. King, Shaka King, The Lucas Brothers (Keith Lucas, Kenneth Lucas) Starring: Daniel Kaluuya, Lakeith Stanfield Synopsis: The film will follow the rise and untimely demise of Fred Hampton as seen through the eyes...
Director: Gerard McMurray Writer(s): Derek Haas (book), Frank Baldwin (screenplay) Starring: Michael B. Jordan Synopsis: The formative story of a man who becomes the most feared and respected hit man in the criminal underworld. Release Date: Unknown | Length: Unknown...
Director: Aisha Tyler Writer(s): Irwin Winkler, Jose Ruisanchez Starring: Unknown Synopsis: A socially charged #MeToo era thriller that follows the journey of a young woman who, after suffering a brutal attack, channels her anger and grief into protecting others....
Director: Deborah Riley Draper Writer(s): Deborah Riley Draper, April Sinclair (novel) Starring: Gabrielle Union, Octavia Spencer Synopsis: The story follows a smart, funny and naive African American teenage girl finding her voice as she navigates conflicting...
Director: Rick Famuyiwa Writer(s): Rick Famuyiwa, Charles Burn (graphic novel), Roger Avary (earlier screenplay), Neil Gaiman (earlier screenplay) Starring: Unknown Synopsis: Set in the Pacific Northwest during the 1970s, Black Hole follows a group of high schoolers...
Director: Unknown Writer(s): Unknown Starring: Aretha Franklin Synopsis: Part of the NatGeo Genius series. The anthology series will explore Franklin’s musical genius, incomparable career and the immeasurable impact and lasting influence she had around the world and...
Director: RZA Writer(s): Ghostface Killah (story), Matt Leslie, Stephen J. Smith Starring: Unknown Synopsis: Casey is a normal yet exceptionally smart teenager and talented rapper but after the mysterious death of his parents he’s been forced to grow up in NY’s...
Director: Chiwetel Ejiofor Writer(s): Jeff Hobbs (book) Starring: Unknown Synopsis: The true story centers on Peace, a young African-American man who left the crime-ridden streets of Newark to attend Yale. There, he studied molecular biochemistry and biophysics and...
Director: Charles Burnett Writer(s): Andy Froemke Starring: Unknown Synopsis: A film about the daring theft and escape of Robert Smalls, a slave in 1862 Charleston, SC. With a crew of fellow slaves, their families and Smalls’ own wife and children on board, the...
Director: Charles Stone III Writer(s): Unknown Starring: Gina Rodriguez Synopsis: The story follows Sue, who after being raised among five rowdy brothers in blue-collar South Boston, is a scrappy, headstrong young lawyer who lands a career-making case with an upper...
Director: Deon Taylor Writer(s): Peter A. Dowling Starring: Naomie Harris, Frank Grillo, Mike Colter, Reid Scott, Beau Knapp, Tyrese Gibson, Nafessa Williams Synopsis: Exposure follows a rookie Detroit African-American female cop who stumbles upon corrupt officers who...
Director: Kenny Leon Writer(s): Christopher Demos-Brown (play) Starring: Kerry Washington, Steven Pasquale, Jeremy Jordan, Eugene Lee Synopsis: The story centers on interracial parents who reunite in a Florida police station to search for answers about their missing...
Director: David Yates Writer(s): J.K. Rowling Starring: Unknown Synopsis: The third installment of the ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ series which follows the adventures of Newt Scamander. Release Date: November 20, 2020 | Length: Unknown |...
Director: Michael B. Jordan Writer(s): David Barclay Moore (novel, screenplay) Starring: Unknown Synopsis: In the wake of his brother’s death, a young African American youth tries to steer a safe path through the projects in Harlem, aided by his imagination and the...
Director: William Grobler Writer(s): William Grobler Starring: Unknown Synopsis: Across the gangs of Cape Town and city suburbs, a reformed gangster-turned pastor and a volatile detective cross paths after an act of brutal violence sets them on a collision course with...
Director: Unknown Writer(s): Gary Goldman, W.D. Richter & David Z. Weinstein (characters), Ashley Miller & Zack Stentz (screenplay) Starring: Dwayne Johnson Synopsis: A truck driver and his friend get drawn into an unexpected battle with an ancient sorcerer in...
Director: Shane Black Writer(s): Anthony Bagarozzi, Shane Black & Chuck Mondry (screenplay), Lester Dent, John L. Nanovic & Henry W. Ralston (characters) Starring: Dwayne Johnson Synopsis: Doc Savage, the man of bronze, was raised from childhood by a team of...
Director: Brad Peyton Writer(s): Gavin James, Neil Widener Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Alexandra Daddario, Carla Gugino, Paul Giamatti Synopsis: A sequel to the 2015 action film ‘San Andreas,’ in which a rescue helicopter pilot tries to save his family from...
Director: Unknown Writer(s): William Kinsolving (novel) Starring: Unknown Synopsis: The real life story of the 1925 divorce trial of Leonard Rhinelander, an upper-class man from New Rochelle, New York and Alice Jones Rhinelander, a working-class woman with...
Director: Unknown Writer(s): Jay Longino Starring: Lil’ Rel Howery, Don Cheadle, Kevin Hart Synopsis: A comedy about rival brother jockeys Release Date: Unknown | Length: Unknown | Genre: Comedy, Sports | MPAA Rating: Unknown Note: This film is not currently listed on...
Director: Emmett and Brendan Malloy Writer(s): N/A Starring: Christopher “The Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace Synopsis: The life and times of Christopher “Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace, who was gunned down on March 9, 1997 – a death that remains shrouded in mystery. Release...
Director: Unknown Writer(s): Randall Green Starring: Kevin Hart, Tristan Cantave, Teena Lewis Synopsis: The movie, a remake of the 1988 comedy, follows a family whose vacation is interrupted by their annoying in-laws. Release Date: Unknown | Length: Unknown | Genre:...
Director: Tim Story Writer(s): Phil Hay, Matt Manfredi Starring: Ice Cube, Kevin Hart, Tika Sumpter Synopsis: The third installment of the ‘Ride Along’ comedy series. Release Date: Unknown | Length: Unknown | Genre: Action, Comedy | MPAA Rating: Unknown...
Director: Unknown Writer(s): Unknown Starring: Unknown Synopsis: The story of Sandra Bundy, the first woman to fight against sexual harassment in the workplace. The film will highlight Bundy’s historic court case, Bundy v. Jackson, which determined that sexual...
Director: Unknown Writer(s): Jodi Picoult (novel) Starring: Viola Davis, Julia Roberts Synopsis: The novel follows Ruth Jefferson, a veteran African America delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital who is assigned to a new case, only to find out the that the patient’s...
Director: Unknown Writer(s): Charles Fuller (screenplay) Starring: Unknown Synopsis: A Film About The First Black Pilots To Fly Across America in 1932. The movie will follow James Herman Banning and Thomas C. Allen as they traverse the elements, encounter the Ku Klux...
Director: Unknown Writer(s): Joe Robert Cole (screenplay), F.J. Desanto and Todd Farmer (comic) Starring: Michael B. Jordan Synopsis: The story of John Ravane, a legendary insurgent hunter who thought he had executed the last nanotech-enhanced super soldier, in a...
