Category: Film & TV

New Hulu Brand Onyx Collective Gives The Spotlight To Creators Of Color

Disney General Entertainment’s Onyx Collective will feature a curated collection of projects from creatives of color and marginalized voices. The brand will be presented on Hulu. Freeform president Tara Duncan is set to lead Onyx Collective. “We’re building a home where creators of color are inspired, empowered and have unparalleled

Issa Rae Shares Her Thoughts About The Final Season Of ‘Insecure,’ And What’s Next On The Horizon

With the final season of Insecure approaching, fans have been hoping for a spinoff series in the future. While nothing has been set in stone, Issa Rae revealed to ET in an interview that there’s certainly a possibility that season five won’t be the last time that we’ll see the

Akwaeke Emezi’s Novel ‘You Made A Fool Of Death With Your Beauty’ To Be Adapted Into A Film By Amazon Studios And Michael B. Jordan

Akwaeke Emezi’s upcoming 2022 romance novel You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty is set to be adapted as a film. Amazon Studios won the highly competitive bidding battle, and Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society will develop. This marks the first major film property acquisition for Jordan. Emezi

Little Marvin On New Series ‘Them’ And The Concept Of Home

Them, the new horror anthology series by Little Marvin, explores racial terror in 1950s America. In conversation with Shadow and Act, Little Marvin shared his thoughts on what home truly means, and how he’s creating space for more Black horror stories to be told. Witnessing the terrorization of Black people

‘THEM’: Trailer Reveals How A Black American Family Is Terrorized In New Anthology Series

Following the buzzing teaser last week, the official trailer for Amazon’s upcoming anthology series THEM has been released today, and it is bone-chilling. Executively produced by Lena Waithe and created by Little Marvin, the limited series explores racism and terror in 1950s America.  When a Black family moves from North

Octavia E. Butler’s ‘Kindred’ Is Being Adapted By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins For FX

FX has ordered a pilot for Octavia E. Butler’s 1979 classic novel Kindred, which will be written and produced by playwright and Pulitzer Prize finalist Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. According to Variety, the show will follow Dana, a young Black aspiring writer who has left her constricted familial life behind and relocated

Viola Davis Is Now The Most-Nominated Black Actress Ever––But There’s A Bigger Issue To Be Examined About Hollywood And Award Ceremonies

Viola Davis has just received her fourth career acting nomination at the Academy Awards, breaking the record for the most number of overall acting nominations for a Black actress in the history of Hollywood. Davis is also the only Black woman with two Best Actress nominations.  While Davis is very

Meet Jesse Collins, TV’s most requested producer

NEW YORK (AP) — It wasn’t “You get a car!” but Oprah Winfrey gave TV executive Jesse Collins something equally, if not even more, cool: “You get to produce the Oscars!” Emmy-nominated Collins has had success over the years with the BET Awards, the Grammy Awards and various TV specials,

Andra Day Reflects On Winning A Golden Globe And How Playing Billie Holiday Transformed Her Forever

On Sunday night, the marvelous Andra Day became just the second Black woman to win the Golden Globe for Best Drama Film Actress through her exceptional role in The United States vs. Billie Holiday.  What makes this victory even more outstanding is that The United States vs. Billie Holiday marks

Ta-Nehisi Coates to write new ‘Superman’ film

NEW YORK (AP) — Ta-Nehisi Coates, the acclaimed essayist and novelist who expanded the world of Wakanda for Marvel comics, will write the script for a new “Superman” film from Warner Bros. The studio announced Friday that Coates will pen the screenplay for an upcoming “Superman” film that’s early in

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