This week’s videocast covered a variety of upcoming projects starting with Janelle Monáe’s new thriller/mystery film ‘Antebellum’. Janelle plays a modern-day woman who is abducted and transported to an alternate reality as an enslaved woman. The cast also includes Marque Richardson (Dear White People), Gabourey Sidibe (Empire), Kiersey Clemons (Dope), Eric Lang, Jack Huston, Tongayi Chirisa, Rob Aramayo, Lily Cowles, and Jena Malone.
Warner Bros. Animation and Array Films have teamed up to develop a family TV series based on Venezuelan-American author Tui T. Sutherland’s best-selling book series ‘Wings of Fire’ about a fictional world inhabited by dragons.
The official trailer to sequel film ‘True to the Game 2’ is out. The film picks up a year after the first installment following the lives of the characters affected by Quadir’s (Columbus Short) murder. Cast members from the original film coming back are Vivica A. Fox, Andra Fuller, Erica Peeples, Iyana Halley, and Jamaar Simon.
‘Fruits of the Heart’ directed by Coke Daniels and starring Wendy Raquel Robinson and Niatia ‘Lil Mama’ Kirkland is in post-production. They play a mother and daughter with an unbreakable bond despite their contentious relationship.
Biopic thriller ‘Escape from Pretoria’ directed by Francis Annan and starring Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Webber and Ian Hart. The film is inspired by a real-life prison break of two political captives during the tumultuous apartheid era.
‘Spenser Confidential’ starring Mark Wahlberg (Spenser/ex-cop) and Winston Duke (Hawk/UFC fighter) is a Netflix crime drama-film loosely based on a series of detective novels.
A review of ‘The Banker’ directed by George Nofi and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Anthony Mackie and Nia Long. The film is based on a true story about two of the first African-American bankers in the United States.