https://youtu.be/E4U3TeY2wtM Director: Ava DuVernay Writer(s): Madeleine L'Engle, Jennifer Lee Starring: Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Levi Miller, Deric McCabe, Chris Pine, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Zach Galifianakis, Michael Peña, André Holland,...
By Cynthia Littleton | Variety HBO is developing a biopic of pioneering African-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux that has Tyler Perry on board to star. Craig Zadan and Neil Meron are shepherding the project for Sony Pictures TV through their Storyline Entertainment...
Friends Thandie Newton ("Westworld") and Oprah Winfrey ("The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks") discuss their HBO series and reminisce about shooting "Beloved" together.
https://youtu.be/BUXxtu_szpQ Director: Nick Broomfield, Rudi Dolezal Writer(s): Nick Broomfield, Marc Hoeferlin Starring: Whitney Houston, Tony Anderson, Burt Bacharach, Michael Baker, Bobbi Kristina Brown, Bobby Brown, Tina Brown, Robyn Crawford, Doug Daniel, David...
https://youtu.be/X-jxEX1XQpY Director: George C. Wolfe Writer(s): Peter Landesman (adaptation), Rebecca Skloot (book), George C. Wolfe (screenplay), Alexander Woo (revisions) Starring: Renée Elise Goldsberry, Sylvia Grace Crim, Reed Birney, Karen Wheeling Reynolds,...
https://youtu.be/WtqIL4L8HmE Director: Daniel Kaufman Writer(s): N/A Starring: Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, Lil’ Kim, Mase, Raha Scoff, 112, Mary J. Blige, James Cruz, Ebro Darden, Clive Davis, Desiigner, DMX, Kima Raynor Dyson, Amir Epps, K’Mari Epps, Keisha Epps, Faith...
Q&A with Merle Dandridge, Keith David, Lynn Whitfield and Oprah Winfrey. Moderated by Jim Halterman, TV Guide Magazine. GREENLEAF takes viewers into the unscrupulous world of the Greenleaf family and their sprawling Memphis megachurch, where scandalous secrets and...
https://youtu.be/OSe7rkK76x4 Director: Bob Hercules, Rita Coburn Whack Writer(s): NA Starring: Maya Angelou, Cicely Tyson, Guy Johnson, Diahann Carroll, Don Martin, Louise Meriwether, Nikki Giovanni, Louis Gossett Jr., Alice Windom, Jules Feiffer, Robert Loomis,...
July 13, 2016 | shadowandact Today, the BFI (British Film Institute) announced a new initiative titled “Black Star,” an exhaustive program described as the UK’s largest ever season of film and television that will be dedicated to celebrating the range, versatility and...
by Ross A. Lincoln | Deadline Hollywood DreamWorks is now searching for a new person to helm its upcoming sci-fi thriller Intelligent Life, as Selma director Ava DuVernay has opted to move on due to scheduling conflicts, Deadline has confirmed. She originally became...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx4ZRP5ednE Director: Steve Boettcher Writer(s): Jessie Garcia-Marble, Mike Trinklein Starring: John Amos, Morey Amsterdam, Julie Andrews, Edward Asner, Lucille Ball, Jack Benny, Jerry Berman, Barbara Britton, Pat Carroll, Georgia...
Elizabeth Wagmeister | Variety Oprah Winfrey, who was selected this year as a Variety Power of Women honoree along with Salma Hayek Pinault, Anna Kendrick, Gwyneth Paltrow and YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, brought down the house at the Power of Women luncheon, presented...