Select Fox Television Stations will air a five-week run of Central Avenue, an entertainment news strip, starting Nov. 4. The show will be produced by Lionsgate-owned Debmar Mercury in partnership with Will Packer Media. If the show does well during…

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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…

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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…

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Aspire TV has announced that they will be premiering Butter + Brown, a culinary series created and co-executive produced by Issa Rae. Issa Rae is the creator and star of HBO’s Insecure, a dramedy series developed from one of…

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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

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…

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Apple’s ambitions to go head to head with Netflix and create its own lineup of exclusive movies and TV shows has long been the subject of much chatter and speculation. But its first original TV project a nonscripted series about…

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“Creed” director Ryan Coogler, “Short Term 12” helmer Destin Daniel Cretton and production company Macro (founded by Charles King) are teaming to develop a new TV series, “Minors,” Variety has learned. 

Created by Coogler, Cretton and writer Chinaka Hodge, “Minors”…

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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…

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Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios has a carriage deal with AT&T and DirecTV a little more than a year after it joined in a $10 billion lawsuit that accused the distributors of carrying too few minority-owned services. 
  
The telco’s DirecTV picked…

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50 Cent is reportedly developing a new comedy TV series based on the day-to-day of a member
of his crew. The veteran rapper (real name Curtis Jackson) is teaming with Will Packer to produce
the My Friend 50 comedy for…Read more

There's child prodigies, and then there's child prodigies: DJ Arch Jnr, the three-year-old DJ
from South Africa who just became the youngest winner ever of South Africa's Got Talent, is
giving new meaning to the term. The toddler, whose already-enviable…Read more

Lifetime is getting into the hip-hop game. Following the success of Fox's Empire, the female-skewing
cable network is teaming with Queen Latifah and Jermaine Dupri for a new unscripted series called
The Rap Game. The eight-episode series, set to premiere…Read more

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…Read more

Fusion has made a TV development deal with The Root, the number one African-American news
and commentary site, Variety has learned exclusively. The Root will make its debut on the cable
net in 2016. With the new partnership, the cabler…Read more

Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key are coming back to TV. The comedy duo is following up
their hit series Key and Peele by executive producing a new TV series starring Vine personality
King Bach (real name Andrew Bachelor). The single-camera…Read more

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…Read more

NBA fans who want to watch out-of-market games that are not on national television can now do so by the
game. The league will announce July 22 that, for the first time, fans can pay $6.99 to buy any NBA…Read more

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…Read more

In 2014 former Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals running back Rashard Mendenhall retired
at age 26, walking away from millions in potential earnings. While Mendenhall may no longer be playing,
he's still drawing on his NFL experience as a part…Read more