Tyler Perry’s first television drama The Haves and the Have Nots will premiere Tuesday, May 28th, 9/8c, on OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network.
Originally a stage play by the same name, the series has a huge and diverse ensemble cast: Aaron O’Connell, Angela Robinson, Crystal Fox, Eva Tamargo, Gavin Houston Jaclyn Betham, John Schneider, Peter Parros, Renee Lawless, Tika Sumpter, Tyler Lepley, and Perry.
Check out the preview clip.
Tina Gordon Chism releases her first feature film Peeples today in theaters nationwide. The film marks one of extremely few times a major Hollywood company backs a film directed by a black woman.
Peeples tells the story of a happily cohabitating couple who are deeply in love, except for one catch: he hasn’t met the in-laws.
Congrats to all the 2013 African Movie Academy Awards winners! The annual AMAA ceremony took place on April 20.
Below is the full list of winners, along with sneak peeks of select films:
Best Short Film: Kwaku Ananse (Ghana)
Best Diaspora Documentary: Fan Do Brasil (Brazil/Guadeloupe)
Best Animation: Adventure Of Zambezia (South Africa)
Best Film By Africans Abroad: Last Flight To Abuja (UK/Nigeria)
The documentary for Rihanna’s November 2012 777 tour aired today on Fox. Dozens of journalists and contest-winning fans pack into a 777 airliner to accompany Rihanna on the 7 day, 7 city, 7 concert around-the-world tour.
Not a bad way to promote her 7th album: Unapologetic.
The group hop to Mexico City, Toronto, Stockholm, Paris, Berlin, and London, before the final show in New York.
A snippet from each show includes performances of hits like Phresh Off the Runway, Umbrella, Stay, and Diamond. Rihanna says in the documentary, “I really love making music. I enjoy it.”
The producers of MTV’s The Real World, now on its 28th season, are hosting open casting calls for The Real World 29.
Open calls have already taken place in Tempe, AZ and Boston, MA.
Today – Saturday (April 27) – there will be casting calls in Philadelphia, Charlotte, and Atlanta. Keep reading for more info and future nationwide locations.
Some great films are on the horizon for 2013…the feature film debut by filmmaker Tina Gordon Chism. A documentary about the most dominant sisters ever in the history of women’s tennis. A young Latina entering the world of hip hop.
Check out the trailers below!
After Earth (Opens June 7)
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Cast: Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Zoe Kravitz, Sophie Okonedo
Synopsis: A father and son crash land on Earth 1,000 years into the future.
Peeples (Opens May 10)
Director: Tina Gordon Chism
Cast: Craig Robinson, Kerry Washington, David Alan Grier, S. Epatha Merkerson
Synopsis: Sparks fly when Wade Walker (Craig Robinson) crashes the preppy Peeples annual reunion in the Hamptons to ask for their precious daughter Grace’s (Kerry Washington) hand in marriage.
Venus and Serena (Opens May 10)
Director: Maiken Baird, Michelle Major
Cast: Venus Williams, Serena Williams
Synopsis: Venus and Serena takes an unfiltered look into the remarkable lives of the greatest sister-act professional tennis has ever seen.
The African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) will take place on April 20 in Bayelsa. Ghanaian actress and British television presenter Ama K. Abebrese, Nigerian actress Dakore Egbuson and comedian AY will host the ceremony.
Africa’s most prestigious motion picture award ceremony, the AMAA annually celebrates and honors filmmakers and other professionals in film across the African diaspora. In addition to highlighting the best of African movies, foreign films from America, Canada, France, Germany, Guadalupe, Italy, Jamaica, and the UK also got nominations.
Watch trailers from top films and see the full list of nominations below:
Writer/director/producer/creator R.L. Scott (Touye Pwen, Kill Point has a brand new original series… Fixer.
Move over Kerry Washington (Scandal). There’s another powerful-black-woman role in town. See for yourself.
FIXER: Official Trailer
Black Ink is an African American-owned and operated tattoo parlor in Harlem, NY. The hour-long docu-series Black Ink Crew follows the lives of Black Ink workers, Ceaser, Dutchess, Alex, Sassy, Puma, and O’ Shit, who go by their street names, of course. (Unless you thought someone’s parents would really name them O’Shit.)
How many hits to your head does it take to cause serious brain damage? If you knew, would it change anything?
These are questions explored in the Steve James-directed documentary Head Games (2012). The documentary follows former Harvard football standout turned WWE pro wrestler turned Boston University researcher Chris Nowinski, who after 19 years of playing sports that brought persistent hits to his brain, now engages in the research behind the brain injuries. Along the way, we meet other researchers, athletes, coaches, and specialists who have become entangled with the impact of brain concussions, either by profession or personal experience.
Life ain’t too sweet for Sweetness O’Hara (Zoe Kravitz).
Adolescence is supposed to be an age of innocence where teenagers can be careless and carefree and responsible parents will act, well, responsibly. But for many teens especially those of the urban inner-city upbringing, circumstances force an early exit out of adolescence and a premature entrance into lifestyles of the post PG-13.
In Yelling to the Sky, c’est la vie for Queens-bred Sweetness.
Snow on tha Bluff creeps from outside of the hood looking in, as three college students venture out of their comfort zones and into the hood – armed with all the fears, urban legends, and preconceptions of the ghetto on their sleeves. The students fear being carjacked in downtown Atlanta, but their desire to capture the real-life hood on camera and get some drugs while they’re at it, outweighs their fears. So in they go, fingers crossed and wearing nervous middle class smiles, silently reassuring themselves that nothing will go down.
They meet Curtis Snow on the street corner, who at first, seems like a pleasant enough drug dealer. Curtis hustles his way into their car and in a matter of minutes, their fears are realized when he robs them of their money and video camera, though the students do manage to escape with their health and car in tact.
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