Spike Lee’s had a pretty good couple of weeks — Green Book winning the Best Picture Oscar notwithstanding — and today Netflix has revealed the Season 2 premiere date for its series based on his first movie. The streamer said today that the updated take on She’s Gotta Have It, which the BlacKkKlansman filmmaker created…

Director Stella Meghie isn’t giving up on the romantic comedy genre, giving it a “fresh spin” with her latest film, The Weekend, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival.

“For a while, people were saying it was out of fashion but I’m like ‘how?'”  said Meghie about the debate over the status of the rom-com. “I thin…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a first look at Stella Meghie’s new film The Weekend, a romantic comedy that is prepping for its world premiere this week as a Special Presentation at the Toronto Film Festival.

SNL alum Sasheer Zamata stars as Zadie, an acerbic stand-up comic who, still friendly with her ex Bradford (Tone Bell)…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed DeWanda Wise, star of Spike Lee’s Netflix series She’s Gotta Have It.

Wise, who was at UTA, plays the lead, Nola Darling, on She's Gotta Have It, a reimagining of Lee’s influential 1986 movie, which has been renewed for a second season to premiere next year.  Her series credits also include Sh…

Before DeWanda Wise took the lead role of Nola Darling in Spike Lee’s Netflix revival of his 1986 film She’s Gotta Have It, she had a storied career which ranged from cutting her teeth on the theater scene in New York to auditioning for roles in Avatar and Children of Men.

Wise stopped by the New Hollywood Podcast…

Making a name for herself over the last several years with films including How to Tell You’re a Douchebag and plays like LAByrinth Theater’s Sunset Baby, actress DeWanda Wise found she made a strong impression in particular with the executives at Netflix, who suggested her to Spike Lee for his television adaptation of…

DeWanda Wise is no longer attached to Disney’s Captain Marvel, the MCU superhero tentpole that stars Brie Larson. Scheduling conflicts with her Netflix series She’s Gotta Have It are the culprit here, we’re told by sources close to the production.

She’s Gotta Have It, based on Spike Lee’s 1986 film and starring Wise…

EXCLUSIVE: Everything, Everything director Stella Meghie has set the cast for her next film The Weekend. Former SNL castmember Sasheer Zamata, Disjointed‘s Tone Bell, She’s Gotta Have It star DeWanda Wise, Kym Whitley and Y'lan Noel have boarded the comedy, which is being produced and financed by Marada Pictures…

EXCLUSIVE: She’s Gotta Have It star DeWanda Wise has landed a co-star role opposite Brie Larson in Captain Marvel, the Anna Boden-Ryan Fleck-directed Marvel superhero pic. She’ll co-star opposite Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Jude Law and Ben Mendelsohn. Wise takes the role just as Netflix…

She’s Gotta Have It is about to get some more. The show’s creator Spike Lee and star DeWanda Wise, who plays Nola Darling in the TV adaptation of Lee’s 1986 indie film, made the announcement that the series has been renewed for a second season.

Lee rang in the new year by making the announcement via an Instagram video…

Launching on November 23 on Netflix, Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It the TV series is something you've gotta watch. Hell, between turkey or whatever you'll be binging next week, you should also binge the fully Lee-directed and DeWanda Wise-starring show based on Lee’s first feature film, as I say in my video review…

Netflix has released the official trailer for Spike Lee’s upcoming Netflix series She’s Gotta Have It, a contemporary update of his groundbreaking 1986 indie film.

It opens with Spike himself as the original Mars Blackmon before he introduces the new Nola Darling (DeWanda Wise) and her three lovers: Greer Childs…