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Garcelle Beauvais is expanding her production partnership at Lifetime with two new original movies. In an announcement on Wednesday, May 28, the network said Beauvais has signed on to executive produce and star in the films Taken at a Truck Stop: A Black Girl Missing Movie and Terry McMillan Presents: Tempted 2 Love, a sequel to the network’s hit 2024 romance drama.
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urbanhollywood411.com | Frances Faye Price
Basketball Wives star Jennifer Williams and her fiancé Christian Gold had a picture perfect wedding last September in Paris. But was the ceremony just a flex for Instagram? For months there’s been speculation that the marriage wasn’t legal. Shortly after the ceremony, former Tea GIF co-host Al Reynolds said on his YouTube channel there was no marriage certificate on record for the couple.
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2 weeks ago | 
urbanhollywood411.com | Frances Faye Price
Jussie Smollett has agreed to cut a $50,000 check to a Chicago charity, finally ending his years-long hate crime hoax case. In exchange for the donation, the city will dismiss a $130,000 lawsuit it filed against the actor over expenses for the investigation into his hate crime claims. The city’s Law Department confirmed details of the agreement in a statement to CBS Chicago on Thursday, May 22.
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2 weeks ago | 
urbanhollywood411.com | Frances Faye Price
Sterling K. Brown will star in and executive produce the Hulu limited series Washington Black about the journey from a sugar plantation to freedom in a distant land. The series is scheduled to premiere on July 23, Hulu announced this week in a press release. Based on Esi Edugyan’s bestselling novel by the same name, the eight-episode series follows the 19th-century adventures of George Washington “Wash” Black (Eddie Karanja), an 11-year-old boy born on a Barbados sugar plantation.
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2 weeks ago | 
urbanhollywood411.com | Frances Faye Price
Shemar Moore had the good fortune of securing work on the newly announced S.W.A.T. spinoff, but some fans say the actor’s comments about the rest of the cast are really unfortunate. On Monday, May 19, Moore posted a video on Instagram with his thoughts on the spinoff titled S.W.A.T Exiles. Sony Pictures Television announced the new series on May 18, just two days after the last episode of S.W.A.T. aired on CBS.
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2 weeks ago | 
urbanhollywood411.com | Frances Faye Price
Prosecutors have called Kid Cudi to testify this week in the sex trafficking trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs. CNN reports the “Day ‘n’ Nite” rapper is expected in Manhattan federal on Wednesday or Thursday. Kid Cudi, born Scott Mescudi, was mentioned in testimony on Tuesday, May 20. Regina Ventura, who is the mother of Diddy’s ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura, told the court Combs threatened to release two explicit videos of her daughter after he learned she was dating Kid Cudi.
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3 weeks ago | 
urbanhollywood411.com | Frances Faye Price
Taraji P. Henson plays a single mother who feels so hopeless that she grabs a gun and does something desperate in the upcoming Tyler Perry film Straw. Netflix released the trailer for the drama this week, showing Henson’s character as her life falls apart. She’s been evicted and has no money to buy her daughter’s medication. “I didn’t mean to do this. Something inside of me broke,” she says just before brandishing a gun in a bank.
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3 weeks ago | 
urbanhollywood411.com | Frances Faye Price
Keith D. Robinson made his debut Thursday on CBS daytime soap Beyond the Gates. The actor and singer stepped into the recast role of plastic surgeon, Dr. Ted Richardson, on episode 53 of the series. “Richardson finds himself in quite a predicament with wife Nicole (Daphnée Duplaix) having just found that he had an affair with Leslie ‘Dana’ Thomas (Trisha Mann-Grant) and paid her off. Now she is back in town seeking revenge,” according to a description of the episode.
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3 weeks ago | 
urbanhollywood411.com | Frances Faye Price
HBO Max is making a comeback. Parent company Warner Bros. Discovery made the announcement on Wednesday, May 14, in New York at its upfront presentation, telling advertisers the streaming platform’s original name will be restored this summer. In an accompanying press release, WBD said its streaming service, currently called “Max,” is experiencing “incredible momentum” and added 22 million subscribers in the past year.
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3 weeks ago | 
urbanhollywood411.com | Frances Faye Price
Ryan Murphy is bringing a new legal drama to Hulu this fall called All’s Fair. The streaming service released the teaser trailer for the original series this week, showing the attorneys at the all-female law firm will do anything to win. The ensemble cast features Emmy Award winners Niecy Nash-Betts, Sarah Paulson, and Glenn Close, alongside Kim Kardashian, Naomi Watts, Teyana Taylor, and Matthew Noszka.
