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FILM/TV BITS: ‘Dreamgirls’ footage; Whitaker’s Amin film at London Film Fest; ‘Big Black Comedy’; ‘Devil’ disses UN.
*DreamWorks is offering video content from its upcoming movie musical "Dreamgirls" at the film’s official Web site www.dreamgirls.dreamworks.com. Footage includes a “Making Of” featurette containing interviews with co-stars Beyonce and Jennifer Hudson, as well as an interview with director-screenwriter Bill Condon. The film adaptation of the Tony-winning Broadway play also stars Eddie Murphy, Jamie Foxx and Danny Glover in the story of a girl group and its troubled rise to fame. The "Teaser Trailer" is also available for viewing on the Web site.
*"The Last King of Scotland," which stars Forest Whitaker as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, will open the London Film Festival on Oct. 18, organizers said Wednesday. With “Last King,” Oscar-winning documentary director Kevin Macdonald helms his first feature, which details the story of a Scottish doctor who winds up as chief physician to the Ugandan tyrant. The cast also includes James McAvoy and Gillian Anderson.
*“The Big Black Comedy Show Box Set,” a DVD boxed set featuring such comedians as Mo’Nique, Michael Colyar, John Witherspoon and Joe Torry, will be released on Oct. 17 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. The five-disc collector's set is highlighted by the never-before-released Volume 5, which includes comedians Yvette Wilson, Wanda Smith, Scruncho and Tony Tone.
*A new film about Rwanda's 1994 genocide puts the United Nations on blast for not doing enough in the early stages of the conflict. "Shake Hands with the Devil" is based on the book by Romeo Dallaire, the former Canadian general in command of U.N. forces in Rwanda at the time who was so traumatized by his failure to stop the massacres he later tried to kill himself. "It is really about the bigger issue of what the U.N. role is in situations like these," director Roger Spottiswoode told Reuters. Spottiswoode said the film was particularly timely given the calls on the U.N. to intervene to end the war in Lebanon, and the ongoing efforts to send a U.N. force to address Sudan's troubled Darfur region.
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