Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor has been tapped by Live Nation Productions to write an upcoming feature about Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Isiah Whitlock Jr. and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor are joining director Vicky Wight’s next film. The film is described as “a ...

EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director Vicky Wight (Happiness for Beginners) has set the cast for her new film, The Body Is Water, a project described as a cross-cultural story about loss, healing, and the ...

Live Nation Productions has announced a powerful new project honoring one of music’s greatest unsung pioneers: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the “Godmother of Rock and Roll.” The feature film will be penned ...

The “Southern Bastards” pilot at Hulu is rounding out its cast with five new additions. Variety has learned that Jonathan ...

*Aunjanue Ellis has joined the cast of the upcoming feature film “Pimp,” a drama from writer-director Christine Crokos that looks at life for women on the streets of New York amidst the hustles and ...

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and Russell Hornsby are among the newly announced cast members joining Taraji P. Henson and Joey Bada$$ in Netflix’s ‘Tis So Sweet, the Tasha Smith-directed feature produced by ...

*Aunjanue Ellis (“Quantico”) has been cast in Barry Jenkins’ next film “If Beale Street Could Talk,” while “Masters of Sex” alum Jocko Sims joins Fox’s upcoming medical drama series “The Resident,” ...

It’s not everyday that we get to hear from Oscar and Emmy-nominated actress Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, but she’s opening up like never before in an all-new interview. This time, she’s sharing her thoughts ...

Ellis-Taylor will write and Jagger will produce the movie about Tharpe, known as “the godmother of rock and roll,” a trailblazing gospel guitarist and singer. Deadline brings word that Ellis-Taylor is ...

Rosetta Tharpe was a trailblazing Black musician who found fame early on as a gospel artist before shifting to rock and roll and inspiring several future legends. Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor has been tapped ...

Oscar-nominated performer Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor is set to write a feature biopic about Sister Rosetta Tharpe for Live Nation Productions, produced by music icon Mick Jagger. According to Deadline, the ...