Kelly Rowland, Trevante Rhodes & Others Set For New Tyler Perry Netflix Film ‘Mea Culpa’

Law Roach, the stylist to Zendaya, Kerry Washington, Issa Rae, and many others, is retiring.

EXCLUSIVE: Drift director Anthony Chen is gearing up to direct his first US-set project, Heartbeat: A New York Story, about the rarely-told experiences of the Asian gay community during the AIDS epidemic in 1980s New York.

reported on Friday. The company was founded in 2021 by Travis Montaque, Richelieu Dennis and Bonin Bough and recently put in a bid of $400 million for Vice Media.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor After nearly 10 years on Netflix, comedy “New Girl” will be leaving the streaming service to get a new dual home on Hulu and Peacock. “New Girl” will be available on Hulu and Peacock beginning April 17, 2023. Under a shared agreement between Disney and NBCUniversal, Peacock and Hulu will share streaming rights to all seven season of the show, comprising 146 episodes in total. “New Girl,” starring Zooey Deschanel, first began streaming on Netflix in the U.S. in the summer of 2013. The show’s ensemble cast includes Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield, Lamorne Morris and Hannah Simone. “New Girl” originally aired on Fox from 2011-2018.

Taylor Swift in the Stanford University!

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed fast-rising British actor Spike Fearn for representation in all areas.

Tyler Perry is in talks to purchase a majority stake of BET Media Group amid reports that parent company Paramount Global is exploring a sale of the asset, Variety has confirmed. Perry currently owns a minority stake in the operation run by CEO Scott Mills, which includes cablers BET and VH1, and also produces a large portion of the programming available on BET and streamer BET+, which he helped launch in 2019. Also among BET’s divisions is production company BET Studios, which counts Kenya Barris, Rashida Jones and Aaron Rahsaan Thomas as minority stake holders. Perry and BET have a long history, as the network helped fund his first feature, 2005’s “Diary of a Mad Black Woman.” In 2017, Perry endeavored on a long-term film deal with Paramount, with a TV deal that began in May 2020. The partnership has been a lucrative and successful endeavor for Perry, Paramount Global president and CEO Bob Bakish and BET Networks president Scott Mills.

A dress to remember! Kerry Washington paid homage to an icon at the 5th American Black Film Festival Honors on Sunday, March 5. 

UPDATED with Tyler Perry interest: Paramount Global is talking with Tyler Perry about a deal for BET Media as the conglom explores a sale of a majority stake in the division.

Kelly Rowland is a girl's girl! The 42-year-old musician attended the 2023 Kids' Choice Awards in Los Angeles over the weekend, where she couldn't help but gush about the famous women in her life.After recently posing alongside pal Kim Kardashian at the gym, Rowland shared what led to that moment with the reality star and fellow mom.«We have been buddies for a very long time. I saw her in the gym and I said, 'I wanna come!' Because she's lifting heavy, and she looks amazing,» Rowland told ET's Deidre Behar about the mother of four.

Bootylicious. Watch the video below to see Kelly's 2002 look.WATCH: Kelly Rowland looks fierce in 2002 throwback videoFor the smash hit music video, Kelly wore a cut-out yellow dress, extremely similar to the crop top she wore on the red carpet this week, proving that she's barely aged a day in over 20 years.

Kerry Washington paid homage to an icon at the 2023 American Black Film Festival Awards. The actress channeled the late Whitney Houston by donning the same velvet Marc Bouwer dress the singer originally wore at the BET Walk of Fame Awards Gala in 1996. Before Washington took to the red carpet, she posted a playful video on Instagram showing off the dress and paying tribute to the late singer.

Kim Kardashian is feeling the burn, and she’s joined at the gym by Kelly Rowland.

Kim Kardashian has teamed up with popstar Kelly Rowland as they hit the gym together - a friendship many fans were unaware of. The two 42-year-olds posed for Kim’s Instagram story as they broke a sweat with Kim’s personal trainer, Senada Greca.

EXCLUSIVE: Cazzie David (The Umbrella Academy), Jon Rudnitsky (SNL), Karan Soni (Deadpool franchise), Oliver Cooper (Red Oaks), Taylor Hill (Babylon) and Jason Alexander (Seinfeld) will lead the heist comedy Stealing Pulp Fiction, marking the feature debut of writer-director Danny Turkiewicz, which has wrapped production in Los Angeles.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Audible announced that Grammy-winning artists Sara Bareilles and Kelly Rowland have signed on to judge “Breakthrough,” billed as the first singing competition series launch exclusively as a podcast. Bareilles and Rowland will mentor and guide the performances as well as the artistic development of five artists through a season of musical challenges. The series is hosted by actor-singer Daveed Diggs, who narrate the contestants’ journeys over nine episodes. With the audio-only format of “Breakthrough,” the physical appearance of the performers is hidden from the audience and the judges — the idea is that the quality of the musical performance is the entire basis for the competition, which will culminate in one artist crowned the winner.

Shamier Anderson is known for going to inordinate lengths to prepare for his movie roles, from embedding himself in street gangs to sleeping in the desert.

Lil Nas X changed up his look four times while on the set of a new project on Wednesday (February 22) in Los Angeles.

Angelique Jackson Tyler Perry has set his latest movie with Netflix, with plans to write, direct and produce “Mea Culpa” for the streamer. Kelly Rowland will star in and produce the film, which centers on a criminal defense attorney who, in the hopes of becoming partner, takes on the case of an artist who may or may not have murdered his girlfriend. The ensemble cast also features Trevante Rhodes (“Moonlight,” “Birdbox,” “Bruiser”) Sean Sagar (“The Gentleman,” “The Covenant,” “Sistas”), Nick Sagar (“The Princess Switch” trilogy, “Run the World”), and RonReaco Lee (“Nappily Ever After,” “Coffee and Kareem”). The new project is set to begin filming this spring.

“Six Triple Eight.” Starring Kerry Washington, Susan Sarandon and Oprah Winfrey, the film will tell the story of World War II’s only all-Black female battalion.