Codeblack Enterprises was founded by Jeff Clanagan in 2005, who became CEO of the company. In 2013, Codeblack acquired the rights to produce films from the
Flyy Girl book trilogy by
Omar Tyree. It was later announced that
Sanaa Lathan would be starring as Tracy Ellison in the movie adaptation written by
Geoffrey S. Fletcher and Nicole Jefferson-Asher and produced by
Effie T. Brown. Codeblack released
Why We Laugh: Funny Women, a film about female comedians narrated and produced by
Joan Rivers, in 2013. That same year, it acquired
Frankie & Alice, a drama starring
Halle Berry, after its delayed release. Codeblack released
Repentance, a
psychological thriller about a life coach who is abducted by one of his clients, in February 2014. The film was directed by Philippe Caland, who wrote the script alongside Shintaro Shimosawa and worked with
Nina Yang Bongiovi to produce the film. The film
Addicted was released by Codeblack in 2014. It was shown on a limited 846 screens. Codeblack signed an agreement with Times Media Films in October 2014 to distribute its films to South Africa. That same month, Codeblack produced a game show series on
Instagram similar to "
The Newlywed Game" called "The Perfect Match" before the release of the film,
The Perfect Match. In April 2017, the first trailer was released for
All Eyez on Me, a biopic about rapper
Tupac Shakur distributed by Codeblack which would be released in June on what would have been his 46th birthday. The movie was featured as the closing film at the 2017 American Black Film Festival. On January 11, 2019, Lionsgate announced the end of the partnership with Codeblack Films, while also being separated from the former company and continue to operated independently. ==References==