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Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg assemble a star-studded cast for their Apple comedy series The Studio, satirizing the film industry.

CHICAGO — Not gonna lie, Dewayne Perkins, the multi-hyphenate entertainer (comedian, writer, actor, producer) has been on the Tribune’s radar for quite some time.

The Blackening is the latest addition to the horror-comedy genre. Here's your look at the cast bringing the film to life.

Comedy shorts have played the role of the new vaudeville for years now. The short-film format serves as the modern-day Orpheum Circuit, a proving ground where expandable ideas and distinctive talent can be developed into feature films or a streaming series.

The stereotype of Black characters dying first in horror movies is put to the test in a funny and incisive Juneteenth-set slasher

Horror-comedy “The Blackening” started as a way to skewer a tired trope: the frequency with which Black characters are killed first in horror movies. Though this cliche has been called out frequently by horror fans and Black audiences, here it serves as the entire premise for a feature film, posing…

It may feel a bit slowly paced in the beginning, but the confidence and speed [The Blackening] moves with as it goes along certainly makes up for lost time.

Villain puts friends’ racial status to the test in satirical take on those frightful nights in the woods.