Amazon today announced its first Amazon Original Special “An American Girl Story–Melody 1963: Love Has to Win” is scheduled to premiere on Friday, October 21 on Prime Video in the US and UK. The first of four original “American Girl” specials for Prime Video stars Marsai Martin (“Black-ish”) as the title character Melody, Frankie Faison […]
Denzel Washington and Viola Davis are standing in the same spot in the very first trailer for Fences, Washington’s latest directorial effort. Based on the play by August Wilson, a revival of which Washington and Davis starred in six years ago, Fences tells the story of a retired baseball player and his family in […]
getty images: Hillsong UNITED’s highly anticipated documentary, Let Hope Rise, arrived in U.S. theaters this past weekend. The film was played in 816 locations nationwide and garnered $1.3 million in sales in opening weekend, according to THR, landing in the #13 spot on box office charts. For more information on local showings and planned international […]
*Richard T. Jones and Kim Fields are currently in production on a faith-based film from Silver Lining Entertainment. Jones and C. Thomas Howell topline “A Question of Faith,” which will focus on a diverse community that comes together following a tragic texting and driving accident, eventually uniting through prayer and their quest for forgiveness. At […]
Growing up the only child of divorced parents in rough southeast D.C., Taraji P. Henson remembers, “My mother would be sitting at the table crying over a bill, and I’d walk in and be like, ‘Mom, don’t cry, I’m going to be rich one day!’” “We never lived in the projects, but we were in the […]
Richard T. Jones has joined the cast of “A Question of Faith,” which has begun principal photography in Atlanta. C. Thomas Howell, Kim Fields, Jaci Velasquez, T.C. Stallings, Greg Alan Williams, Renee O’Connor and Donna Biscoe are also on board to star in the ensemble film. Kevan Otto is directing. Terrence “Ty” Manns is penning […]
Amanda Edwards/Getty Images Audiences at the upcoming UrbanWorld Film Festival will get a first look at the highly anticipated New Edition biopic set to premiere on BET in January 2017. The network is presenting “The New Edition Story” as a three-part miniseries that chronicles the Boston group’s upbringing and rise to fame. The film stars Bryshere […]
The 41st Toronto International Film Festival got underway Thursday with Antoine Fuqua’s remake of “The Magnificent Seven,” an old-school Western with more modern faces. The film’s Thursday night premiere kicked off North America’s largest film festival, which is set to unspool some 300 films over the next 10 days. On tap are premieres of many […]
Denzel Washington is circling the lead role in “Inner City,” a legal drama billed as a character study in the vein of Paul Newman’s 1982 classic “The Verdict,” according to Variety. Dan Gilroy will direct from his own script about a lawyer (Washington) in an ambulance-chasing firm who takes over when his boss falls […]
Tika Sumpter has produced her first film, and stars in it, too. Southside With You is a romantic drama, in theaters Friday, about a fictionalized first date between the real president and first lady. Sumpter plays Michelle Robinson, a standout young legal associate who agrees to spend an afternoon with her junior colleague, Barack Obama. […]
Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman said that he remains an agnostic ahead of this week’s release of his next film, faith-infused “Ben Hur,” but said nonetheless that the movie offers virtues such as redemption, tolerance and love that inform humankind. Freeman admitted in an interview with AFP in Los Angeles that he is still an agnostic, but […]
getty images: We finally have a chance to see Janelle Monae help the U.S. win the first major battle in the race to leave Earth’s orbit. In the new trailer for the Ted Melfi-directed movie Hidden Figures — based on Margo Lee Shetterly’s upcoming book Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race […]
