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Niecy Nash talks on ‘The Soul Man’ debut airing June 19, 2013 and her new book release *“’The Soul Man,’ we’re taking the show in a different direction,” said Los Angeles born actress/author Niecy Nash about the June 19, 2013 premiere of the TV Land comedy series “The Soul Man” starring and executively produced by [...]
*Los Angeles Lakers star Dwight Howard has joined the voice cast of Relativity and Reel FX’s “Free Birds,” about a bunch of turkeys who travel back in time to try and get turkeys off the Thanksgiving Day menu. Howard plays Cold Turkey, one of the Wild Turkeys that Jake (voiced by Woody Harrelson) and Reggie [...]
*Golden Globe winner Idris Elba is one of four producers behind the film “One Square Mile,” to be directed by Michael Caton-Jones (“Shooting Dogs”). The plot is being kept under wraps but is billed as “four people, four extraordinary stories, all lived out within one square mile.” The movie is set to shoot at the [...]
*Sandra Bullock is in early talks to join Jamie Foxx and Quvenzhane Wallis in “Annie,” the update of the classic comic strip-turned-musical that Sony is making with producers Will Smith and Jay-Z. Bullock would play Miss Hannigan, the mean lady who runs the orphanage inhabited by Annie (Wallis) and her friends. Carol Burnett memorably played [...]
*Picture, if you will, Mariah Carey as a slave. A field slave named Hattie Pearl at that. Actually you don’t have to wrap your brain around that thought at all ’cause the photo above is all you need to reference. But really, what are we talking about? Once again, Carey is hooking up with Director [...]
*Step aside Eddie Murphy, there’s a new designated black comedian in Tinseltown—and his name is Kevin Hart. Seemingly overnight, the Philadelphia native, and master purveyor of slapstick humor, has become one of Hollywood’s hottest entrees. Next up for Hart is a new untitled comedy written by Jeremy Garelick and Jay Lavander, co-creators of “The Break-Up,” [...]
*Forest Whitaker does his thug-thizzle in new movie, “Zulu,” a controversial film portraying the violent side of South African gang culture. Playing the role of a cop in search of a murderer of a white teenager, Whitaker shared with the Associated Press the type of preparation he did for the role. “I met the actual [...]
*It started in 2007 as “Jay And Seth Versus The Apocalypse,” a YouTube short featuring Seth Rogen and Jay Baruchel as themselves, as if they were roommates during the apocalypse. Six years later, the short has expanded to a full length film titled, “This is The End,” in theaters June 12, with an expanded cast [...]
*The new Superman film is almost in theaters, and it features one hell of a cast. Zack Snyder’s “Man of Steel” features Henry Cavill as Clark Kent/ Superman, the villainous General Zod, played by Michael Shannon, Superman’s father, Jor-El, portrayed by Russell Crowe, Amy Adams as Daily Planet journalist Lois Lane, and Laurence Fishburne as [...]
*With less than three weeks to go until the June 28 release of “White House Down,” Sony is stepping up its promotion with a fresh four-plus minute trailer. Jamie Foxx stars as the U.S. President in the action thriller, with Channing Tatum as a father on a White House tour with his daughter when terrorists [...]
*Kevin Hart will play a best-man-for-hire who helps out a socially awkward Josh Gad in a currently untitled comedy for Screen Gems and Miramax, reports Deadline.com. The film follows Jimmy (Hart) who provides best man services for men who don’t have best friends. Groom Doug (Gad) is a socially awkward guy who finds himself without [...]
*The controversial Lawrence Hill novel The Book of Negroes will be adapted into a miniseries for BET in the U.S. and the CBC in Canada, after earlier plans for a big-screen adaptation fell through. Canadian producer Conquering Lion Pictures initially optioned the film rights to the award-winning novel in 2009, with Clement Virgo on board [...]
*Zombielicious heart throb Brad Pitt is all over the place promoting his latest project, the zombie thriller “World War Z,” to be released by Paramount Pictures, UTV Motion Pictures and Skydance Productions June 21, 2013. Produced by Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment, the story revolves around United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Pitt), who traverses the world [...]
*To my generation, Superman was just “a strange visitor from another planet” who was “faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound“ in “a never-ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way.” But in this age of information, audiences want to know [...]
*Ludacris joined the “Fast and Furious” franchise in 2003 for its John Singleton-directed second installment, “2 Fast 2 Furious.” A decade later, the rapper, born Christopher Bridges, is back for his third at-bat as Tej Parker following his “Fast Five” return in 2011. In the current sixth effort, “Fast & Furious 6” (he’s also confirmed [...]
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