Black Directors

Selma director Ava DuVernay is currently being courted by two separate Hollywood studios to helm their respective films. According to Deadline.com writer Mike Fleming Jr., Disney has offered her A Wrinkle In Time, an adaptation of the 1963 Madeleine L’Engle fantasy classic novel that has a script by Oscar-winning Frozen writer and co-director Jennifer Lee; […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nate Parker continued his victory lap around the 2016 Sundance Film Festival on Saturday night when “The Birth of a Nation” took both the U.S. drama grand jury prize and the Audience Award. The historical slave rebellion drama had already broken the acquisition record when Fox Searchlight scooped it up for […]

Worldwide rights to actor-director Nate Parker’s slave-rebellion drama The Birth of a Nation, were picked up by Fox Searchlight at the Sundance Film Festival for $17.5 million, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film, which premiered Monday afternoon in Park City, Utah, to multiple standing ovations, has become the highest price paid for a film […]

In the second season of John Ridley’s anthology series American Crime, the “crime” is less about race (although it will raise its head), and more about socioeconomic disparity, which plays out in the setting of an elite private high school. ABC announced today that it has made the first episode of Season 2 available for free on iTunes. […]

It was just a few hours earlier today that we announced that Mattel put its Ava DuVernay Barbie doll on sale today, just in time for the holiday gift-giving season. “All my proceeds from #AvaBarbie will be sent from @Mattel to @ColorOfChange + @WitnessOrg. A fun way to support. xo!” is what Ava tweeted out […]

Movies that reflect the revolutionary undercurrent running through society dominated this year’s voting for the 7th AAFCA Awards. Straight Outta Compton, the surprise summer box office hit centered on the 90’s rap group N.W.A., captured an overwhelming majority of the votes cast by members of the association. The Universal Pictures film earned multiple awards for […]

Lionsgate and Alex Proyas, the director of the forthcoming The Gods of Egypt have issued an apology for casting all white, European males in lead roles for the film, set for release February 26. Of course, the apology comes after the studio received criticism about the filmmakers choosing to ignore the contributions of melanated people in […]

Amazon has released the first trailer for Spike Lee’s upcoming film Chiraq, and Twitter is already giving it the side-eye. Based on the Greek comedy Lysistrata by Aristophanes, Lee’s film appears to be a modern-day version of the play, with Chicago’s infamous gang violence as the war. The trailer starts with the phrase “This is an […]

Nearly a month after Sean Penn sued “Empire” co-creator Lee Daniels for suggesting that he abused women, Daniels has asked for the case to be moved into federal court, according to Deadline.com. “Wherefore, defendant, Lee Daniels, files this Notice of Removal and respectfully requests that the Action now pending in the Supreme Court of the […]

She’s a filmmaker, a film distributor, and now a bonafide cover girl. Selma director Ava DuVernay graces the cover of Elle magazine’s November issue, one of eight commemorative “Women In Hollywood” covers celebrating the biggest, brightest talents in film right now. Photographed by Paola Kudacki, the Compton native wears a silk dress from Calvin Klein Collection and a […]

Director F. Gary Gray has officially become the highest-grossing black director of a single film in domestic sales, with his hit film Straight Outta Compton bringing in an estimated $157.5 million in the U.S. and Canada. Gray has surpassed Keenen Ivory Wayans’ classic Scary Movie, which raked in $157 million back in 2000, and Tim Story’s Fantastic […]

Thomas Carter has become a successful film and television director after beginning his career in front of the camera. Carter’s most notable screen role was the part of James “Hollywood” Hayward on CBS’ The White Shadow, and it was there when Carter also learned the craft of directing. Carter was born July 17, 1953 in […]