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According to Forbes, Tyler Perry is officially a billionaire. The details of his success are written about in a long-form article entitled From “Poor As Hell” to Billionaire: How Tyler Perry Changed Show Business Forever. If you don’t have the time, the name of that write-up should be enough to support our opening sentence.  For those who […]

Letitia Wright took to Instagram to share a moving tribute to her late Black Panther co-star Chadwick Boseman. Wright played the character Shuri in the film, the sister of Boseman’s T’Challa and a Wakandan princess that posses genius-level intellect. “A soul so beautiful, when you walked into a room, there was calm. You always moved with grace and ease,” Wright said of Boseman […]

Robin Williams died by suicide in 2014. Now, the late comedian’s widow, Susan Schneider Williams, is opening up about the pain her husband experienced leading up to his death.  During a recent appearance on TODAY, Schneider Williams described her husband’s deteriorating state to Hoda Kotb.  “Robin and I knew there was so much more going on. Robin was right when […]

A petition posted this past weekend pushing to get a Confederate statue replaced with a Chadwick Boseman memorial has generated more than 15,000 signatures. The proposed statue swap would occur in Anderson, South Carolina, the hometown of Boseman.  The star of Black Panther, Marshall, and many other films passed away on Friday due to colon cancer. He was […]

On Monday, Michael B. Jordan shared a tribute over Instagram to his Black Panther co-star Chadwick Boseman, who recently died after a battle with colon cancer. The two battled it out in the aforementioned 2018 superhero flick, with Boseman being elevated to household status as the titular character. Meanwhile, Jordan portrayed Erik Killmonger. Though that’s the film that ties the two together, […]

Congratulations are in order for Niecy Nash, who announced on Instagram Monday that she recently wed singer Jessica Betts.  Nash posted a photo of herself with Betts on her Stories with the caption, “#PlotTwist,” alongside a rainbow emoji, suggesting she’s aware that this revelation comes as a surprise to the public, especially after she filed for divorce last […]

The cast of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is getting together for an unscripted reunion special that you’ll be able to watch around Thanksgiving on HBO Max, provided you subscribe to that streamer.  According to Deadline, the get-together will include Will Smith (which it kind of has to), in addition to co-stars Tatyana Ali, Karyn Parsons, Joseph Marcell, Daphne Maxwell Reid, […]

Christopher Nolan’s Tenet saw its international opening this weekend, and despite an ongoing global health crisis, it still managed to earn a $53 million debut. The sci-fi epic landed in 41 overseas markets this weekend, with the film grossing the most in the U.K. at $7.1 million, Variety reports. It also did considerably well in France ($6.7 million), Korea […]

Black Panther director Ryan Coogler shared an emotional letter to Chadwick Boseman on Sunday. In the tribute, Coogler reveals that he “wasn’t privy to the details of the actor’s illness.” He continued, “After his family released their statement, I realized that he was living with his illness the entire time I knew him.” Coogler added, […]

The New Mutants has earned $7 million at the weekend box office during its debut weekend. The Marvel film did exceptionally well, given that only 62 percent of the nation’s theaters are open with auditorium capacity limited to 25 to 50 percent, Deadline reports. The movie brought in 66 percent men and 34 percent women, with 61 percent […]