Oscar nominated filmmaker Lee Daniels became the barer of bad news Sunday, May 9, when it was announced that he was abandoning his role at the helm of the long anticipated Richard Pryor biopic. Sources for the 56-year-old executive producer of Fox‘s “Empire” cited scheduling difficulties as the reason he will be side stepping the…
When you have as much star power and influence as Denzel and Pauletta Washington and it’s put to good use, amazing things happen. While Barack Obama was giving his final speech at the White House Correspondents’ dinner Saturday night, the Washingtons were throwing a lavish party with some of Hollywood’s biggest names, all in support…
It seemed like only yesterday when the new Kardashian family addition, Blac Chyna, announced her engagement to Rob Kardashian, via Instagram. Along with her ring-finger donning a ginormous 7-carat rock, Friday (May 6), the couple posted an Instagram emoji of a look-a-like Blac Chyna with a huge baby bump, confirming their baby news. 👶🏽🎉 A photo posted…
Kanye recently chopped it up with Steve Harvey, where he spoke about a plethora of topics including his new album, The Life of Pablo, his beef with Wiz Khalifa, and how his wife Kim Kardashian, deserves respect. When speaking about his new project, Kanye revealed that he hasn’t read a single review of T.L.O.P., explaining, “You…
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Vanessa Williams is joining the third season of TNT’s “The Librarians,” Variety has learned. Williams joins in a recurring role, playing General Rockwell, the tough, brilliant head of the top secret, black ops secret government agency, known as D.O.S.A. Investigating “Statistical Anomalies,” Williams’ character sets her sights on apprehending the Librarians and obtaining the magical…
Like many people, we still haven’t recovered from Lemonade. Ever since h HBO special debuted on Saturday, the visual album is all anyone can talk about and now there’s more info to add to the discussion because HBO plans to submit the special for Emmy consideration. Variety reports that HBO is working out the details,…
WGN America has renewed “Underground” for a second season, the network announced Monday. The series, created by Misha Green and Joe Pokaski, is currently averaging over 1 million viewers per episode in live-plus-same-day ratings and 3 million viewers in live-plus-seven. It was also the sixth highest-rated scripted series premiere of any cable drama this season.…
Cash Money Records co-founders and brothers Bryan “Baby” Williams and Ronald “Slim” Williams are currently developing a script for a biopic about the history of the New Orleans based label. The duo announced their recent undertaking during a speaking engagement at Brooklyn Law School. Baby expressed his enthusiasm about the project saying, “I’m excited about…
Yara Shahidi is young, Black Hollywood on the rise. The 16-year-old Black-ish star is building a successful career. In addition to juggling AP classes (currently she’s plunged herself into biochemistry classes), a tv series, appearing on other series (she plays a young Olivia Pope on ABC’s Scandal)…she can add model to the list. Yara has…