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Blair Underwood (American Crime Story), Victoria Pedretti (You), Isha Blaaker (The Flight Attendant) and Finn Wittrock (Ratched) are among the final major additions to Academy Award nominee Ava DuVernay’s latest film Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, based on the bestseller of the same name by…

Six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald and Best Actor in a Musical Tony winner Myles Frost have joined the cast of Ava DuVernay's latest film inspired by Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson's Caste: The Origins of our Discontents. The two join previously announced cast Aunjanue Ellis, who is…

EXCLUSIVE: Jeff Tobler, Array’s Chief Marketing Officer, is joining Expedia Group as Head of Global Media Relations. He will be responsible for leading communications strategy for the Expedia Brands, including Expedia, VRBO and Hotels.com.  “We are thrilled to welcome Jeff to the Expedia Group team,&#8221…

Ava DuVernay’s feature adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents has just added Niecy Nash-Betts, Jon Bernthal, Vera Farmiga, Nick Offerman, Jasmine Cephas Jones and Connie Nielsen to the movie, which is shooting in Georgia. The group joins King Rich…

Aunjanue Ellis has been cast as the lead in Ava DuVernay's adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson's Caste. The addition of the King Richard veteran and Academy Award nominee to the film is a When They See Us reunion of sorts between the director and the actress. Ellis portrayed Sharonne Salaam, the…

An Afro-European woman connects with her roots in Bantú Mama, the Dominican Republic's entry for the Best International Feature Film Oscar. Co-written and directed by Ivan Herrera, it's was picked up by Ava DuVernay's Array Releasing. It's a compelling drama featuring a strong performance from Clarisse…

Ava DuVernay’s Array Releasing has partnered with JetBlue on an exclusive in-flight pop-up channel, offering a curated selection of 12 independent features from artists of color and women directors. The films will be accompanied by a special video introduction from DuVernay, debuting across select…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s series penultimate episode of Queen Sugar on OWN. EXCLUSIVE: "You just have to look just a little past making the money of producing a show, a movie, and you look at how to make change," says Queen Sugar creator Ava DuVernay of the near end…

Anthony Fauci said that when he was approached by the National Portrait Gallery of an “unusual person” they suggested to create his portrait, “not only was I not reluctant about it, I got very excited about it.” The result, a five-minute stop-motion drawing animation of Fauci’s career, is perhaps the…

EXCLUSIVE: Ava DuVernay’s Array Releasing has acquired Ivan Herrera’s drama Bantú Mama for distribution in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. The company will be presenting the film — which has been named as the Dominican Republic’s 2023 entry for the Best…

Film Academy chief executive Bill Kramer dropped a reminder in Toronto on Saturday, that his group's movie museum will in February devote space to the late director John Singleton's Boyz N The Hood. So here's a gentle plea to the museum: Do this one without apology. For the moment, the Academy and its museum are in…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of the Hillary Clinton & Chelsea Clinton Gutsy docuseries, which debuted today on Apple TV+. "I hope it really starts a lot of conversations and opens a lot of eyes and some hearts and minds to the variety of people and the different stories that we can all learn from,"…