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Lifetime has extended its partnership with journalist Robin Roberts for four new movies and they are about to fuel the soul with Robin Roberts Presents: The Mahalia Jackson Story. The movie will star Tony Award nominee, SAG and Grammy Award-winning actress Danielle Brooks (Orange is the New Black, Broadway’s The Color…

Clemency director-writer Chinonye Chukwu and the film’s stars Alfre Woodard, Danielle Brooks, Richard Schiff, and Aldis Hodge are today’s guests for the Stella Artois and Deadline Sundance Series. They spoke to Deadline’s Anthony D’Alessandro about making of the film and more. As Chukwu’s second feature, the story…

Today marks Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, which goes beyond the confines of Hollywood. #BlackWomensEqualPayDay is set for Aug. 7 because black women had to work all of 2017 until this day in 2018 to catch up with what white men earned in 2017. Shonda Rhimes, Kerry Washington, Robin Thede and other Hollywood insiders…

EXCLUSIVE: Actress Danielle Brooks, known for her breakout role as Taystee on Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black series, has inked with UTA for agency representation. Brooks, who was previously with Innovative, picked up three SAG awards for performance by an ensemble in a comedy series for OITNB. She has also…

Anna Kendrick and Orange Is the New Black's Danielle Brooks are set to star in the latest directorial effort from Four Lions helmer Chris Morris. I hear that the long-awaited but secretive project was filmed in the Dominican Republic during the summer. It is understood that the untitled film, which would be Morris'…