After Special K saw some creations from black filmmakers this weekend, he got inspired and came up with some creative ideas for forthcoming biopics. Check out the video above to hear about all his ideas in this funny exclusive clip from “The Rickey Smiley Morning Show.” Sign Up For Our Newsletter! RELATED: Special K’s Advice On Knowing When NOT To […]
ATL movie fans, it looks like your dreams of a sequel are finally coming true. Both unconfirmed speculation from hopeful fans and whispers from the film’s…
Actress Sanaa Lathan has maintained a consistent presence on the Hollywood scene over the last decade or so with movies including Love & Basketball, Brown…
Hello Beautiful favorite Ava DuVernay is once again making moves, but this time she’s behind the keyboard instead of behind the camera. DuVernay and over 40 of her amazing fellow Black filmmakers are participating in a Rebel-A-Thon on Twitter to raise awareness about DuVernay’s Black film collective AAFRM (specifically the #ARRAY membership drive) and to generally […]
Two filmmakers are taking bringing humor to the challenge of teaching Black kids to love their natural hair, but they might need you to chip…
Woody Allen disagrees with assumptions that he’s racist because he doesn’t tend to cast black actors in his films. Back in April, there were rumors…
Ava DuVernay dreams big and in color. After years of creating campaigns for big budget studio films, the former publicist took her life savings…
The New Voices In Black Cinema Film Festival is back for a second year at The BAM Center in Brooklyn, NY . The four day…
We all know that “tomboyish” sister or the eternal bachelor uncle who’s lived with the same male “roommate” for decades. Filmmaker Dee Rees tackles one of the hush-hush topics in our families with her feature debut, Pariah. The film is a lovely coming-of-age story about Alike, a bright and talented student (Adepero Oduye), who is […]
Based on the 1943 Broadway musical, Carmen Jones is an updated version of the George Bizet opera “Carmen” in an African-American setting. When director Otto Preminger decided to adapt it for the big screen, his goal was to make a dramatic film with music rather than a conventional film musical. Realizing that movies with an […]
Greg Carter spent the last three years scraping together $250,000 to write, direct and produce “A Gangland Love Story,” a gritty, urban retelling of “Romeo and Juliet.”
