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Actor/activist Jesse Williams revealed during the Denzealots pop culture podcast that he’s doing a biopic on another actor and activist, Harry Belafonte. On top of the Belafonte feature, Williams says he also producing two documentaries. One, not surprisingly, is on the Black Lives Matter movement for BET and another dealing with the school to prison […]

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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Kerry Washington says she was acutely aware of the challenge of playing Anita Hill in a miniseries dramatizing Clarence Thomas’ Supreme Court confirmation hearings. “I was terrified. Portraying somebody who’s real is a different kind of responsibility, especially when they’re alive. That significance was not lost on me,” Washington told a […]

Hollywood has got biopic fever, and we can’t blame ’em! Here are 10 biopics we would absolutely love to see, brought to you by Jasmine Sanders. Click on the audio player to hear this clip from “The D.L. Hughley Show!” Sign Up For Our Newsletter! RELATED: Guess Who’s Playing Tamar Braxton In The Toni Braxton Lifetime Biopic? […]

Castle star Tamala Jones will be behind a Tammi Terrell biopic based on the Motown singer’s tragically short life. According to Deadline.com, Jones will not star in the biopic but will produce based on the book My Sister Tommie written by Terrell’s sister, Ludie Montgomery. Although there is another production in the works produced by […]

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Ever since the Nina Simone biopic, “Nina,” was completed in 2013, folks have been waiting for a release date. Now we have an idea of when the film, with its controversial casting of Zoe Saldana, will see the light of day. While talking with The Hollywood Reporter, Ben Latham-Jones the newly named owner of Ealing […]

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Prior to Whitney Houston’s fans seeing Lifetime’s highly anticipated biopic on the late singer, the film’s director Angela Bassett screened the movie for Houston’s cousin Dionne Warwick. Chatting with TheWrap.com, Bassett mentioned that she reached out to Warwick in hopes she’d relay positive feedback on “Whitney” to the Houston family, in light of Houston’s mom […]

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While the HBO biopic still doesn’t have a release date, the network has let loose the first pictures of Queen Latifah as iconic Blues singer Bessie Smith in a small-screen…

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Basically, the Lifetime movie Aaliyah Princess of R&B, which aired on Saturday night, was an epic fail for Lifetime. Even casting director Twinkie Byrd tweeted that she’d have to “pick herself up, dust herself off and try all over again.” Black Twitter was brutal, creating the trending topics #LifetimeDisrespectsAaliyah and #LifetimeBeLike, complete with hilarious miscasting […]

Master P is a business man, and he’s about to make his next big move. According to Headkrack, the rapper/entrepreneur is set to release a…

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Disney Channel star Zendaya Coleman will portray Aaliyah in a Lifetime Original Movie about the life of the actress and R&B star who, at the height of her fame, died tragically in a plane crash. The film, with the working title Aaliyah: Princess of R&B, is based on the bestseller Aaliyah: More Than a Woman by […]

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Hollywood  starlet, Zoe Saldana is in talks to play barrier-breaking black entertainer, Eartha Kitt. No stranger to playing real-life people – her upcoming biopic about Nina Simone‘s life and career is without a release date. In fact, she’s been heavily criticized for garnering the role as Simone in the upcoming biopic, “Nina.” In an interview […]

We admit we weren’t all that excited about a James Brown movie…at first. But a glimpse at the almost 3 minute trailer for Get On Up has surely changed our mind. We thought we knew a little something about the Godfather of Soul’s life, but we didn’t know it was going to come off like […]