‘Tis the season for Christmas movies. Just turn on Hallmark Channel or Lifetime any day of the week. Netflix also is in the holiday mood, and that is no more apparent than in their prime offering this year with the bright delights of Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey. What sets this apart from a thousand other…
EXCLUSIVE:Anika Noni Rose (Power) is set as a lead opposite Margaret Qualley and Nick Robinson in Maid, Netflix's dramedy series from writer Molly Smith Metzler, John Wells Productions, Margot Robbie's LuckyChap Entertainment and Warner Bros. Television.
Written by Metzler, Maid is inspired by Stephanie Land's…
EXCLUSIVE: Dreamgirls star Anika Noni Rose is about to be part of a horrific nightmare. The Tony Award-winning actress is set to star in the recently greenlit horror Limbo from Miramax, Barnyard Projects and Snoot Entertainment. Production is scheduled to begin in January.
The film is directed by Chris Peckover, who…
Netflix’s first live-action original musical is casting up. Emmy winner Keegan-Michael Key (Key and Peele), Phylicia Rashad (First Black actress to win a Tony for A Raisin in the Sun), Tony winner Anika Noni Rose (Caroline, or Change), and newcomer Madalen Mills have joined Forest Whitaker in Jingle Jangle, written…
Anika Noni Rose has been cast as the lead in TNT’s drama pilot,Beast Mode (working title), inspired by the life of legendary boxing trainer Ann Wolfe.
Tina Mabry (Pose) is attached to direct the pilot, written and executive produced by David Schneiderman and produced by Ann Wolfe and MACRO in association with Studio…
Tony winner Anika Noni Rose has been cast opposite Mary J. Blige and Nat Wolff in horror thriller Body Cam for Paramount Players.
Directed by Malik Vittahl, Body Cam centers around several LAPD police officers who are haunted by a malevolent spirit that is tied to the murder of a black youth at the hands of two white…
EXCLUSIVE:Anika Noni Rose is coming back to musical theater. The actress will star in an off-Broadway production of Carmen Jones, her first appearance in a musical since winning a Tony Award for 2004’s Broadway production of Tony Kushner’s Caroline, or Change.
Directing for the Classic Stage Company will be CSC's…
BET has canceled drama series The Quad less than a week after its second-season finale, a network spokesperson confirmed to Deadline.
Created by Felicia D. Henderson and Charles Holland, The Quad starred Anika Noni Rose as Dr. Eva Fletcher, a newly elected President of the fictional Georgia A&M University. Ruben…
EXCLUSIVE:Anika Noni Rose, soon to be seen as Kizzy on the History Channel’s Roots remake, will play the lead in BET's 2-hour scripted pilot The Yard. She stars, with Peyton Alex Smith, as Eva, the newly elected President of the fictional college Georgia A&M. Upon her arrival, Eva finds a bold, brazen and diverse…
EXCLUSIVE:Dreamgirls star and The Good Wife regular Anika Noni Rose is joining the cast of Starz drama series Power for a multi-episode arc. She plays LaVerne Thomas, a streetwise cop from the neighborhood where Ghost and Tommy grew up. Rose recently wrapped filming the role of Kizzy in the A&E miniseries reboot of Ro…
Anika Noni Rose has been tapped for the lead in CBS’ civil rights crime drama drama pilot For Justice, written by Law & Order veteran Rene Balcer and directed by Selma helmer Ava DuVernay.
The project, from CBS Television Studios, James Patterson Entertainment and Tribeca Productions, is based on James Patterson's…
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