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…