Many criticized Warner Bros. for appropriating Latinx culture in its marketing for the film: “It heightens the fear factor around a traditional practice and commodifies and exploits our culture just to get people to see their movie.”

Washington and Davis discussed their upcoming movie, adapted from August Wilson’s eponymous play, and its present-day resonance with the NBA legend and social activist for The Hollywood Reporter’s new cover story. 

The “Fences” star candidly addressed inclusion in film and television in at conversation with Tom Hanks for Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series.

August Wilson adapted his own acclaimed play about a working-class Black family in Pittsburgh for the upcoming film, directed by Washington.

Davis will team up with “Fruitvale Station” and “Dope” producer Nina Yang Bongiovi to bring the still-untitled project—based on her autobiography—to the big screen.

Director Deborah Riley Draper: “My entire life I thought Jesse was there all alone and he didn’t have any companionship and he was on that boat by himself. But that wasn’t the case.”

“Coogler’s a genius. (Did you see ‘Creed’?) I would only eff his isht up,” the author and journalist tweeted during a Twitter Q&A on July 30.

Nate Parker’s directorial debut about Nat Turner’s slave rebellion arrives in theaters on October 7.

The MC would have turned 45 today.

The ceremony will air on June 26, complete with a tribute to Prince.

Those interested can submit until May 30. 

It will be written and directed by Black men.

The film will explore what the Flint Water Advisory Task Force called “a story of government failure, intransigence, unpreparedness, delay, inaction and environmental injustice.”

Marvel previously announced that the “Creed” and “Fruitvale Station” director is set to helm the film.

Coates’ and illustrator Brian Stelfreeze’s ’Black Panther’ debuts today. 

“The Birth of a Nation” director’s new program will launch this fall at Wiley College in Marshall, Texas.

Nijla Baseema Mu’min’s Kickstarter campaign for her upcoming narrative film is just $2,000 shy of its $25,000 goal. 

Don Cheadle’s Miles Davis biopic opens in theaters on April 1.  

The women joined forces for the launch of We Do It Together. 

A new study finds that the entire industry falls short when it comes to reflecting the real America.