Category: News

News about current and upcoming genre media projects that include people of color. Info about historical projects, as well.

Lost’s Carlton Cuse is Turning Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez’s Locke & Key Into a TV Series

Read all about it at Digitalspy.com.

Cover of Locke & Key: Welcome To Lovecraft 1 (February 2008).

Will Smith In Talks For Genie Role In Disney’s Live-Action ‘Aladdin’

Read about it at Deadline.com.

David Oyelowo Joins Blumhouse’s Time-travel Thriller “Only You’ from Jacob Estes!

Read all about it at Comingsoon.net.

Actor David Oyelowo

Colson Whitehead Wins Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for ‘The Underground Railroad’

Read at Bookriot.com.

Colson Whitehead is the author of Zone One, a “literary” treatment of zombies.

Colson Whitehead at the 2009 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas. – Photo by Larry D. Moore

Azteca America Builds ‘The Wall’; Border-Set Drama Gets 50-Episode Commitment

Click here to read at Deadline.com.

Also to come: Relatos Misteriosos (Mystical Tales), which, according to Deadline.com, is going to give viewers a “documentary-style” series about mysterious (and possibly supernatural) occurrences.

‘Sleeping Beauties’: Stephen King and Owen King’s Novel to Become Series

Click here to read at Comingsoon.net.

“What do you guys think of the premise for Sleeping Beauties?” 

YASSSSSS.

“Are you excited at the prospect of more work from Stephen King hitting your TV?”

Yes. Hope it’s as good as it sounds.

“Are you interested in reading his work with his son Owen?”

Oh God, yes.

“Are you looking forward to IT and The Dark Tower?”

LAWD, YES.

 

 

BET Programming Head Fired While on Leave for Breast Cancer

Read all about it at Variety.com.

Zola Mashariki

After ‘Get Out’ Success Jordan Peele May Direct Akira Live-Action Adaptation

Check out the news at Dreadcentral.com.

Ghibli Films Showing in Theaters Nationwide Over the Next 6 Months

Read all about it at Firstshowing.net.

NYC: “Beyond Godzilla” Highlights Lesser-Known Japanese Sci-Fi/Fantasy Films

LINK: A film series screening at Japan Society