This week’s #FridayFeeling is all about awesome music from amazing Black films. First, Jordan Peele gifted us with this release of “I Got 5 on It (feat. Michael Marshall) [Tethered Mix from Us]” by Luniz and orchestration by Michael Abels in anticipation of the release of the full Us soundtrack. Let’s be honest–even though the Us trailer was straight fire, a […]
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In the 1982 televised version of Ntozake Shange’s classic choreopoem For Colored Girls Who’ve Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf, Alfre Woodard plays the Woman In Green. At one point her character, who incidentally, calls herself Juanita, declares, “This is a woman’s trip. I need my stuff back!” The play on which that televised adaptation was based, […]
HBO Films has released the first full-length trailer for Native Son, the adaptation of Richard Wright’s classic, controversial novel. The film debuted at Sundance and A24, who initially planned to release it theatrically, sold it to HBO. It’ll debut on the premium cabler on April 6. The adaptation is written by Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks and […]
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The Wire alums Clarke Peters and Isiah Whitlock Jr. have joined the cast of Spike Lee‘s next film Da 5 Bloods along with Norm Lewis, Mélanie Thierry and Jasper Pääkkönen, Collider has learned. Netflix is backing the film, which will also star Delroy Lindo, Chadwick Boseman, Jonathan Majors, Jean Reno, and Paul Walter Hauser, who like Whitlock and Pääkkönen, just worked with Lee on BlacKkKlansman. Read More…
If you’re a screenwriter at just about any stage of your career, you should have the ScreenCraft Writers Summit on your calendar. The professional networking and instructional event will return to Atlanta from April 5th – 8th at the historic Georgian Terrace Hotel. The Summit, which sold out in its inaugural year of 2018, brings unparalleled screenwriting […]
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Spike Lee has tapped Chadwick Boseman to join the ensemble of his next film, “Da 5 Bloods.” Netflix is in talks to distribute the movie, with Delroy Lindo and Jean Reno also in negotiations to star. Lee will also write the film with Kevin Willmott, based on an original screenplay by Danny Bilson & Paul DeMeo, and rewrite […]
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Miley Cyrus paid tribute to Janice Freeman at the late singer’s celebration of life on Monday. Freeman, who competed on season 13 of NBC’s reality competition show The Voice in 2017, tragically died on March 2 at the age of 33. A spokesperson for Freeman’s family confirmed to E! News in a statement at the time that she passed away due to combined complications of […]