HBO just confirmed that it has extended its working relationship with Girls creator Lena Dunham by ordering her new half-hour comedy pilot, Max.
According to Variety, the series, starring newcomer Lisa Joyce as a career-driven magazine writer, will follow her exploits as she tries to navigate the growing women’s movement that dominated the sixties.
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay has been in the movie business for quite some time but it took the immense success of the critically-acclaimed Selma, to finally catapult her into the realm of success that ordinarily eludes female minority directors.
Idris Elba may just have proven his ability to play the role of James Bond to perfection based on the harrowing tale he shares about that one time he almost lost his life while filming his upcoming film Beasts of No Nation.
Hip-hop legend, Russell Simmons has cultivated a legacy seeped in the loins of a movement that seems to be thriving now more than ever. Never one to remain idle, Simmons is now taking on an ambitious project that is undoubtedly inspired by his allegiance to a genre that for better or worse keeps evolving but the roots remain the same.