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Exclusive: Romantic drama The Perfect Love Storm has added three to its ensemble cast.

Cocoa Brown, Chrystale Wilson and Clifton Powell have joined the film, which Christina Cooper is directing.

They join leads Leslie Black and Norman Towns and an ensemble cast also including Nzinga Imani (Tyler Perry’s Zatima), director Cooper (South Central Love) Orvalle Williams (Law & Order: Organized Crime), Zachariah Rogers (P-Valley), and Nicole Crump (Rap Sh!t).

Adapted from the bestselling novel of the same name by Anna Black, the romantic drama follows a playboy bachelor (Towns) who helps a grieving full-figured widow (Black) to learn to love again, but her heart is broken once more after his true intentions are exposed. Briana Cole wrote the screenplay.

Towns and Black are also co-executive producers. Christopher and Margo Speight of Camie Entertainment are EPs alongside Shawanda ‘N’Tyse’ Williams of Black Odyssey & Boss Magnet Media.

Producers are Shauna D. Balfour (Bid for Love), Kreceda ‘Untamed’ Tyler (No Better Love), and C. Nathaniel Brown (Chi Nu Legacy).

Production is set for March in Atlanta, Georgia.

Exclusive: Victoria Rowell’s hit web series The Rich and the Ruthless has a new home at BET+. The upcoming fourth season of the drama series premieres May 13, joining Seasons 1-3, which are currently streaming on the ViacomCBS platform.

Created by, starring and directed by Rowell, The Rich and the Ruthless is a behind the scenes, dram-com soap that follows the fictional story of the first black owned family sudser on broadcast television, stopping at nothing to stay in power. The series hails from Rowell and Days Ferry Productions.

In addition to Rowell, the series also stars Richard Brooks (Good Trouble; Shameless), Alesha Renee (Kenan), Robert Ri’chard (Harlem), Chrystale Wilson (All the Queens Men), Michael Colyar (BET’s Hollywood Heartbreak), Dawnn Lewis (Star Trek; Lower Decks), Vivian Lamolli (All the Queens Men), Kristen Mako (The Big Rant), Bryton James (The Young & The Restless) and new talent Akilah Releford.

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