Last month, Cate Blanchett was confirmed to star in James Gray’s ‘Armageddon Time’ being developed at RT Features. Per confirmed news coming out, Gray has added extra strings to the cast bow alongside Blanchett. Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway, Oscar Isaac and Donald Sutherland have joined the cast sheet. Based on a real-life event in the life of Gray, the …

The Oscars, BAFTA, Film Independent Spirit Awards, have all pushed back their original scheduled dates ticked for the 2021 award season as a result of the global coronavirus pandemic. The Oscars will now take place on April 25, 2021 two months away from the previous planned date February 28. Its eligibility window for film submissions into the general categories such …

The nominations are in for the 2020 BET Awards. The annual awards show celebrates creative expression and black excellence across music, film, television, sports and philanthropy. Drake leads the nominations with six nods. The rapper is up for best male hip-hop artist and video of the year, while he earned two nods for both best collaboration and viewer’s choice for …

The African films library on Netflix will have the latest addition to its growing number as Shirley Frimpong-Manso’s critically acclaimed feature ‘The Perfect Picture 10 Years Later’ will premiere on the platform next month, July. With a stellar cast ensemble led by Jackie Appiah, Lydia Forson and Naa Ashorkor Mensah-Doku, ‘The Perfect Picture 10 Years Later’ centers around the lives of …

Nigerian film executive, Mo Abudu has scored a multi-title deal with Netflix. Under her production outfit EbonyLife TV, Abudu will bring to the streaming platform an adaptation of the novel ‘The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives’ by Lola Shoneyin and the play by Wole Soyinka ”Death and the King’s Horseman’. The former will be developed into a series, while …

Lionel Richie and Walt Disney Studios have teamed up to develop a movie based on the songs from the music legend, according to The Hollywood Reporter. With a working title of All Night Long, after his 1983 No. 1 hit, the project sees Richie producing with his manager Bruce Eskowitz as well as Dana Brunetti (Fifty Shades of Grey, Captain …

We like to think adversity brings out the best in people, but usually it only brings out the best in the best people. The worst will take any disaster as an excuse to indulge their basest impulses, regardless of the consequences to others. Americans have certainly faced a lot of adversity lately from the devastation of the pandemic to the …

Ava DuVernay’s Array media company is launching a new initiative designed to hold police officers accountable. The Law Enforcement Accountability Project, or LEAP, which DuVernay announced in an appearance on Monday’s Ellen DeGeneres Show, is a fund focused on storytelling around police violence and abuse that will commission projects across multiple forms of media including film, literature, theater, dance, fine …

“My brother, the world has changed,” Spike Lee started his conversation with Jimmy Fallon on Monday night’s edition of The Tonight Show. Though the Da 5 Bloods filmmaker was referring in the moment to the fact that he and the late-night host were speaking over video chat rather than at The Tonight Show’s 30 Rock studios, he could have just …

A great number of documentaries have exploited the global issue of racism against people of color in terms of constitutional rights, work, education privileges and the unfair brutal killings that unlawfully associate with the black race. On Monday May 25, 2020, the tally of African-Americans killed in the United States by police officers received an additional stroke when 46-year-old George …