In Focus Features’ The High Note, Tracee Ellis Ross plays a middle-aged musical superstar who would rather record a new album than take her manager’s advice and headline Vegas. She finds an unlikely ally in her new (and overworked) personal assistant (Dakota Johnson).
Black-ish‘s Ellis Ross – who knows a thing or two…
Odds look good that Bryan Cranston, Tracee Ellis Ross and Mountain Dew Zero Sugar are going to be on a fair share of Best Super Bowl Commercials lists come Monday.
In a pitch-perfect re-creation of The Shining‘s famous “Heeeere’s Johnny” scene, Cranston and Ross take on the Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall parts to…
As it was revealed earlier Monday, Mariah Carey will sing the theme song of Mixed-ish, the latest spinoff of Black-ish, or, as the show’s executive producer Tracee Ellis Ross calls it, “The -Ish” universe. Being biracial herself, it is appropriate that Carey would sing and write the theme song, but her involvement in…
Black-ish star Tracee Ellis Ross is set to star in and executive produce adult animated comedy Jodie, the first in a series of spinoffs based on MTV's iconic Daria franchise. Ross will voice the title character, Jodie.
Daria, which ran for five seasons (1997-2002), came out of MTV's Beavis and Butthead based on the…
For Michelle Cole, a five-time Emmy nominee known for her work on Black-ish, the dream of a lifetime presented itself at age 14, during a performance of My Fair Lady. "I walked out of the theater and said, 'Dad, I want to be a costume designer,'" Cole recalls. Setting out to hone her craft, she began taking sewing…
Dakota Johnson and Golden Globe winner Tracee Ellis Ross of TV’s Black-ish have signed on as the leads in Covers, a comedy set among the talent, fame and fast-paced world of Hollywood's music scene from Focus Features and Working Title Films. Nisha Ganatra, whose comedy Late Night made a big splash at this year’s…
The Johnsons will be back for another go-round. ABC has picked up a sixth season of its hit comedy series black-ish for the 2019-2020 season. In addition, the network has given an early season order tomixed-ish, a spinoff about Rainbow Johnson's (Tracee Ellis Ross) experience growing up in a mixed-race family in the…
Workaholic co-creator Anders Holm, The Haves and the Have Nots star Tika Sumpter and Arica Himmel(Before You Know It) lead the cast of Black-ish‘s upcoming Bow-centric episode, which will feature flashbacks to a teen version of Tracee Ellis Ross’ character of Rainbow. Gary Cole(Veep), Ethan William Childress, Mykal-M…
The current fifth season ofBlack-ish will include a Rainbow-centric episode. The episode, which is already casting to film in March, will feature flashbacks to a teen version of Tracee Ellis Ross’ character of Rainbow. No deals are done but I hear the episode could become a backdoor pilot for a potential prequel…
The most fascinating part of Tuesday's Oscar nominations announcement will be watching to see whether someone, anyone, pops out of the bunker to say something, anything, about the issues afflicting the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of late.
In the best of circumstances, Hollywood's film Academy is about…
Hundreds of thousands of people crowded downtown Los Angeles streets on a sunny January morning to hear Hollywood stars like Constance Wu, Natalie Portman, Eva Longoria and Viola Davis issue a call to action: resist Trump.
Movements like the Women’s March and Time’s Up energized the electorate and helped send a record…
After Dr. Christine Blasey Ford shared her testimony in before the Senate Judiciary Committee ahead of the confirmation now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the country — and the world — responded first with disappointment and now hope and support.
On Wednesday, Tarana Burke, Amanda de Cadenet, Glennon Doyle, Tra…
