Variety reported on Thursday that the 2016 Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures—which starred Taraji P. Henson, Janelle Monáe, Octavia Spencer, Kirsten Dunst, and Jim Parsons—is being developed into a possible TV series. Nat Geo is developing a series inspired by the film, which was already once adapted from a book of…

After Hidden Figures was released last year, an unprecedented amount of US embassies were reportedly calling the State Department requesting the film. Eventually the movie was screened to nearly 80 locations overseas and because of all those screenings a new, publicly funded exchange program will bring women from…

Oscar nominee (and predicted winner) Mahershala Ali is on the cover of next week’s issue of The Hollywood Reporter, looking about as good as an actor is capable as looking, which is to say he looks like he looks as amazing as he normally does. But beyond the fact that I want to frame this cover and put it on my desk…

Weekend box office numbers helped push Hidden Figures past La La Land to become 2016's highest-grossing Oscar nominee, with a total of $119.5 million. La La Land, still a success, stands at $118.2 million. Per EW, Hidden Figures’ SAG Awards win could give it an Oscar boost for best picture.

To our ongoing delight, Janelle Monáe’s star continues to rise beyond the music world, and last night she made a stop at Conan to discuss her Oscar-nominated films Moonlight and Hidden Figures. Still, Conan felt the need to school his viewers on her music career (can you imagine!) so he asked her when she first…

As some people learned at Sunday night’s Golden Globe Awards, Fences and Hidden Figures are two separate films with primarily black casts. Jenna Bush Hager and Michael Keaton made the mistake of mixing the two projects up and merging them into one incredibly poignant project that doesn’t exist—Hidden Fences, otherwise…

There are plenty of movies up for awards tonight most people haven’t seen—show me someone who heard of Lion before the broadcast began and I’ll show you a liar or a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press. But one familiar-sounding movie that keeps coming up is one that never existed at all: Hidden Fences.

After a video of her calling homosexuals “perverted” during a church sermon emerged late last week, gospel singer Kim Burrell’s scheduled appearance on Thursday’s episode of Ellen has officially been canceled.

The upcoming film Hidden Figures focuses on the lives of three black female NASA employees whose work was integral to astronaut John Glenn’s orbit around Earth in 1962. It’s also just one part of of a larger story. Katherine Johnson (played by Taraji P. Henson in the movie), Dorothy Vaughn (Octavia Spencer) and Mary…

The cast of the upcoming crowd-pleaser Hidden Figures went to Washington, DC on Thursday “to highlight the stories of Americans who defied stereotypes and broke glass ceilings to advance human space flight, science, and innovation.” But, if a picture uploaded by the official White House Instagram account is any…

Hidden Figures, the upcoming dramedy starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monae as NASA employees preparing for John Glenn’s world-changing orbit, has a new trailer that suggests it will be a delightful, moving, and perhaps even healing romp through some very recent history.

NASA’s long under-celebrated black female mathematicians are getting a belated profile boost thanks to the movie Hidden Figures. But even as their names become more recognizable, maybe even household names, some of the genius women portrayed in the film have remained modest about the historical significance of their…

In the trailer for Hidden Figures—a long overdue science movie with black women as the focal point—Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe portray NASA mathematicians whose contributions to space travel were historically under-celebrated.