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CODEBLACK ENTERPRISES LLC (CBE) was launched in 2005, by entertainment industry veteran Jeff Clanagan. CBE’s mission is to super-serve the global black community through the development of a diversified portfolio of entertainment media companies that create quality products and experiences that speaks to, engages and accurately represents the global African American experience. These companies include: Codeblack Entertainment (www.codeblackentertainment.com), a new media entertainment company that focuses on brand strategy consulting and content production and distribution; Codeblack Live, is a full service live event & concert production company focused on the packaging and promotion of live comedy concerts worldwide; Codeblack Interactive (www.codeblackinteractive.com), is focused on investing in emerging digital technology platforms and developing casual games and smart phone apps, and digital content delivery platforms and services relevant to Black Americans across the country and the world; Codeblack.com (www.codeblack.com), the eyes and ears for Black Americans looking for what's hot in black entertainment; The Comedy Shaq (www.youtube.com/comedyshaq) an online video channel showcasing the best in multi-cultural comedy programming. Since its launch, CBE has quickly become the #1 supplier of filmed and live entertainment for the African American community. CBE strategic partners include; Shaquille O'Neal, Kevin Hart’s Hartbeat Productions, T.D. Jakes Enterprises, Courvoisier, AEG Live, Lisa Raye McCoy, AMC Theaters, Warner Bros. Digital Distribution, Google/YouTube, Sony Network Entertainment, Simmons/Lathan Media Group and The Usual Suspects Productions.

Congrats to Nia Long on Her Hollywood Star.
09/17/2026

Congrats to Nia Long on Her Hollywood Star.

We gained Wi-Fi… but did we lose the block? 👀
09/16/2026

We gained Wi-Fi… but did we lose the block? 👀

🚨 BREAKING HOLLYWOOD NEWS 🚨The next major studio model may not begin on a soundstage it may begin on your phone.As repor...
09/09/2026

🚨 BREAKING HOLLYWOOD NEWS 🚨

The next major studio model may not begin on a soundstage it may begin on your phone.

As reported by Deadline, Upscale Media Films has officially launched as a full-service microdrama production company, building an end-to-end pipeline that controls the journey from published books to vertical series and potentially feature films and television.

The strategy is simple but powerful:

📚 Start with stories audiences already love
🎬 Develop, cast, shoot and edit in-house
📱 Launch them as mobile-first microdramas
📈 Use real audience response to identify what should scale

Upscale is working with Hartbeat on 20 adaptations from bestselling author Blake Karrington for aTwist. The underlying catalog has already generated more than 16.5 million book sales and 271 million page reads.

That means these stories aren’t entering the market cold. They arrive with characters, worlds and audiences already built in.

The growing slate also includes Exotic Foods, Trapstar, The King of the South, Single Ladies, Scandalous, Blindsided by Love, The Brown Family and R.I.C.O. ATL

This is bigger than short-form content.

It’s a new way to discover, produce and scale intellectual property moving stories from page to phone, and from the phone to Hollywood.

Swipe through for the full story. ➡️

Source: Deadline, “Upscale Officially Launches As One-Stop Shop For Microdramas,” reported by Jesse Whittock.

aTwist

09/09/2026

Small minds mistake proximity for competition. Being nearby doesn’t make you a player.

Haters are playing checkers.

We’re on the chessboard building empires.

Different mindset. Different table. Different level.

♟️ CODEBLACK

09/05/2026

Oakland, 1986.

By day, Dahlia Odell works in her family’s flower shop. By night, she is Black Iris a lethal operative raised inside a secret society of assassins known as the Garden.

When the man who trained her orders the murder of her entire family, Dahlia turns the weapons of the Garden against everyone who betrayed her.

THE LIFE OF A FLOWER 🌺
A synthetic concept trailer from visionary creator Young Fiction, based on an original idea by Lee Rosario. A live-action film we’re exploring.

Samurider Shaina West, we developed this concept with you in mind. Dahlia needs an actor who can embody the character’s

09/04/2026

Don’t just write the script. Shoot the proof.

Vertical storytelling gives creators a way to get seen, build an audience, and turn an idea into valuable IP.
Ready to make your move? Join us September 9–10 for and learn where the money is, how distribution works, and how to build an audience around your stories.

Register at the link in bio.

Filmmaking Codeblack

08/30/2026

SOUL SUNDAYS // CODEBLACK LIFE 🎸

Soul isn’t a decade.
It isn’t a genre.
It’s a feeling.

This week we caught 𝔪𝔦𝔯𝔞 bringing that feeling through the guitar with “CHICAGO BLUES LAB | SOTHE NIGHT SHE LEFT.”

No big production. No gimmicks. Just tone, touch and somebody who understands how to make an instrument speak.

That’s what SOUL SUNDAYS is about. Celebrating the legends, but also recognizing the next generation carrying the sound forward.

Salute to 𝔪𝔦𝔯𝔞. Keep playing. We’re listening.

SOUL SUNDAYS // CODEBLACK LIFE

Guitarist NextGeneration SoulMusic

08/22/2026

They told you the Illuminati was a conspiracy.

Maybe they just never got invited.

In this industry, every deal has a price.
Every mask hides a sin.

BLACK MASK: HALLOW QUEEN

Conspiracy… or confession? 👁️

🎥 UPSCALE

SecretSociety

08/21/2026

THEY DIDN’T JUST BURN BLACK WALL STREET.

They attacked what it represented.

Tulsa. 1921.

Greenwood was Black ownership. Black business. Black wealth. Black people building prosperity without asking permission.

Then came the violence.

But before the violence came the story.

Rumors. Fear. Lies.

And after Greenwood was destroyed came another story — one that tried to blame Black people for their own destruction.

A hundred years later, the weapon looks different.

Fake accounts. Misinformation. Algorithms. Manufactured outrage.
A bipartisan Senate investigation found Russian influence operations targeted Black Americans more than any other demographic.

Why?

Because they understood something about America:

Race is one of this country’s deepest fault lines.

If you can manipulate what Black people believe, deepen distrust, inflame our anger and turn us against each other, you don’t have to destroy the community from the outside.

Eventually, the community starts doing some of the work for you.

And now they don’t always need the fake pages.

Outrage gets reach.�Conflict gets clicks.�Division gets monetized.

Too many of our own pages, podcasts and personalities have learned the same business model — attacking each other for attention.

We need to understand something:
WE ARE STILL UNDER ATTACK.�THE WEAPONS JUST CHANGED.

In 1921, the weapon was fire, guns and airplanes.
Today, it can be misinformation, algorithms and a phone in your hand.

The most dangerous weapon may be the one you don’t recognize as a weapon.

CODEBLACK: BURIED�CHAPTER 01 — THEY BOMBED BLACK WALL STREET

History doesn’t repeat. The weapon changes.

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