Andrew Whitney: Last News

MMA fighter Andrew Whitney accidentally punched a ring girl in the face following a narrow defeat in 2016. Nicknamed 'The Beast', Whitney let frustration get the better of him in the moments after his Titan Fight Championship 42 bout against Farkhad Sharipov. The 37-year-old had won four fights in a row before coming up against Sharipov and would have been expecting to extend that run to five.

Onyx has ordered a scripted comedy from 20th Television featuring Gabourey Sidibe and has made straight to series order on a docuseries about Black Twitter.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary’s Revelations Entertainment have become attached to the independent feature The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain as EPs, a movie about the 2011 brutal shooting of a 68-year old Black man by the White Plains, NY police after they responded to his accidentally triggered LifeAid medical alert.The movie, which made its world premiere at the Austin Film Festival last October and recently played the American Black Film Festival, was brought to the Oscar-winning Freeman and Emmy nominee McCreary’s attention by former Revelations executive Andrew Whitney. Revelations is currently fielding interest for the film from distributors.