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November brings both the start of holiday season and one of the year’s biggest months for new releases. In theaters, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping finally arrives, along with David Fincher’s Cliff Booth sequel, a heist comedy from David Leitch, and Disney’s latest animated film. On streaming, Prime Video premieres The Greatest, its script...

Chicago filmmaker Ben F. Locke has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the remainder of The HOA‘s first season, following a successful earlier campaign that fully funded and completed the show’s pilot episode.

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Guerilla Film Group, the independent production company led by Chris M. Rutledge, has released the official trailer for Love & Death: A Reckoning in Harlem, a seven-minute proof of concept for a planned Black film noir series. Filmed entirely in Atlanta, the project follows Charlie Goolsworth, a 1950s Harlem gangster and jazz club owner confronting a spiritual re...

Marcia Ann Gillespie, the pioneering journalist who led ESSENCE through its formative years and later became the first Black woman to serve as editor-in-chief of a mainstream American magazine, has died. She was 82. Her death was announced October 31, with tributes pouring in from colleagues who remembered her as brilliant, forthright, and endlessly supportive.

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Criminal Minds: Evolution will end with its upcoming 20th season on Paramount+, Variety reports. The decision marks the first official cancellation under new Paramount+ leadership, Co-Chair and Chief Content Officer for Skydance Direct to Consumer Casey Bloys, though sources say the call followed a recommendation from the previous Paramount+ regime, which had given t...