Actress Garcelle Beauvais and producer Lisa L. Wilson have teamed up to form Beauvais Wilson Productions, a new multimedia production company. BWP’s aim is to focus on developing and producing stories with a diverse voice in television, film, digital and…

Chris Brancato, the co-creator of Narcos, is developing a prequel series to the film American Gangster. Producer/writer Brancato. The project is called The Godfather Of Harlem and is based on the life of mob boss Bumpy Johnson. 

Describing…

 

 

This Michael K.Williams video on type casting in roles as posed to 
himself is brilliant. Take a look 



Source: The Atlantic 
 

Check out this great conversation on creativity in music, movies, TV,  theater, writing
and more with Issa Rae, Donald Glover, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Damien Chazelle and
Jon Favreau. It should be a weekly program. 



Source: The Hollywood Reporter

With her new movie, Disney's "A Wrinkle in Time" starring Oprah Winfrey, director Ava DuVernay is now the the first black woman to direct a $100 million-budgeted live-action movie.  The milestone became public when the film, which is a fantasy…

Michael Vick has been through it all. The dual-threat playmaker was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2001 NFL draft, set numerous quarterback rushing records, made four Pro Bowls and amassed a fortune playing football. Then it all disappeared…

Nas may not have been putting out a lot of music lately but he's been making his rounds as an investor and now as Executive producer on the IFC film "The Land." 

Here's the synopsis and watch the trailer below:

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A familiar face has signed on to the film "Hidden Figures," which tells the story of the black women who helped NASA win the space race. Pharrell Williams will produce and score music for the film. The woman is Katherine…

In what will be one of the most anticipated memoirs in music history, Prince has revealed that he is working on an autobiography that his publishers Spiegel & Grau describe as "an unconventional and poetic journey through his life and…

Sony is set to buy out the Michael Jackson estate’s half stake in the Sony/ATV song catalogue for $750 million. The total “includes a lump sum payment by SCA of approximately $733 million as well as distributions previously committed to…

As further proof that there is nothing new under the sun, the documentary “Manchild” tells the story of Schea Cotton who came before LeBron James. He came up during the time of Kobe Bryant and Kevin Garnett but had the…

Creed helmer and co-writer w has been appointed as the first Warner Bros Creative Talent Ambassador. The studio’s program supports the next generation of UK talent, with scholarships that provide work placements, mentoring, apprenticeships and training courses. 

Coogler himself was…

Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios, Inc., has announced the independent producer/distributor's first motion picture acquisition - "Friend Request" - for North American distribution through its recently-purchased theatrical distribution company Freestyle Releasing. 

The horror/thriller film "Friend Request" marks the first official acquisition…

Hollywood is taking another step toward the normalization of the relations between the U.S. and Cuba. Showtime’s dark comedy series House Of Lies is heading to the Caribbean island to film its fifth-season finale, marking the first time an American…

Tidal, the streaming-music subscription service launched by Jay Z, is expanding its content mix to include
original scripted and unscripted programming. The company has ordered two new series: Brooklyn street-life
drama “Money & Violence” season 2, with new episodes slated…

Nicki Minaj is set to executive produce and appear in a scripted comedy series for ABC
Family based on the rap star’s life growing up in Queens, New York. The project, from
Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment, will film a pilot…

Many tend to forget the accomplishments and achievements that Arthur Ashe has
won in his years as a man, athlete, philanthropist. Ashe remains the only black man
to win the singles title at Wimbledon, the US Open, or Australian Open.…

Omar Epps is on a mission to shatter the myths surrounding black fatherhood. Epps is the executive producer
of the full-length documentary Daddy Don’t Go, which takes a look at fatherhood through the lives of four New
York City fathers.…

Amy Poehler is reteaming with Ike Barinholtz for an untitled basketball comedy just picked up by Universal.
Poehler will star and produce the comedy via her Paper Kite Productions banner.  Poehler will play a once
promising basketball coach who is…

Dave Chappelle's return to the comedy stage comes at a racially charged time in the U.S. But the comedian,
who has never shied away from racial issues, says that's just a coincidence. He says now is a "surprisingly
emotionally charged…

Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson is alleging that AT&T is "racist." In three separate Instagram posts on 7/18, the rapper
and Southpaw actor made the claims in response to the ongoing negotiations between Starz and AT&T U-verse,
which puts half a…

Streaming services like Netflix are great, but you often end up watching the same blockbuster movies showing
how a white man will save the world. Meet Afrostream, a niche movie streaming service that only features African
and African-American content. Launching…