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*Sean “Diddy” Combs is among the newcomers joining Kevin Costner and “42” star Chadwick Boseman in “Draft Day,” which begins production today in New York. Rosanna Arquette (“What About Brian”), David Ramsey (“Arrow”) and W. Earl Brown (“Rectify,” “The Lone Ranger”) have also been announced as part of the production from Co-producers Summit and OddLot [...]
*With “42” looking down on all competition at the box office this week, its breakout star Chadwick Boseman is looking forward to joining another sports-themed pic…this time, taking place on the gridiron. The actor is reportedly in talks for “Draft Day,” an NFL-set project from director Ivan Reitman. Kevin Costner stars as the general manager [...]
*In the latest box office update, “42” is looking even better than earlier reports, according to Deadline.com’s Nikki Finke: Exit polling for Legendary Pictures/Warner Bros’ 42 showed the audience composition was males 48%/females 52%; under age 25 was 17%, age 25 and up 83% (with a predominantly older audience), and the main reason for attending the movie was [...]
*Breakout star Chadwick Boseman – who portrays Jackie Robinson in the film “42” says there were a few things he learned and you might not have known about the first African American in the Major League. “Jackie Robinson was a legend … a Pasadena sports legend and a national legend before this moment, and I [...]
*Hailing from Anderson, South Carolina, Chadwick Boseman is an accomplished actor, scriptwriter and playwright who, until now, was probably best known for portraying the character Nate on the critically-acclaimed dramatic TV series Lincoln Heights. Prior to entering show business, Chad earned degrees at Howard University and the British American Dramatic Academy at Oxford. Here, he [...]
*While Jackie Robinson used a baseball glove and bat to battle racial injustice on the diamond, black sportswriters like Wendell Smith of the Pittsburgh Courier, fought the good fight with the power of the press. Smith was paid by the Courier and Brooklyn Dodgers’ boss Branch Rickey to accompany Robinson as he traveled with Brooklyn’s [...]
*The story of Jackie Robinson (#42) is one that every grammar school child in America has likely heard of. Those same children are just as likely to have forgotten about this triumph over adversity and bigotry by the time they become adults, acknowledging Robinson only from an athletic perspective. Not only was Robinson the first [...]
Brian Helgeland’s Warner Bros. presentation of 42 is an epic accounting of a baseball legend, arrives in theaters April 12, 2013 *Academy Award winner Brian Helgeland wrote and directed the Warner Bros. Pictures presentation of 42: The True Story of an American Legend, a bio-film based on the life of the legendary Major League baseball [...]
*G.O.O.D Music rapper Big Sean stepped out with “Glee” bad girl Naya Rivera on Tuesday, looking very much like a couple…which the two have finally confirmed. Rumors first popped up after they were spotted together over the past few months. Yesterday, they made no attempt to hide their relationship while working the red carpet of [...]
*For five hours on August 8, 1944, the young second lieutenant – Jackie Robinson, the future # 42 of the Brooklyn Dodgers - stood nervously before an all-white nine judge military jury panel at Camp (now Fort) Hood, Texas. He faced multiple charges in his court martial proceedings. His only real offense was that he had [...]
*The film “42” dramatizes the brutal racist harassment that Jackie Robinson endured as the first black player in Major League Baseball. Robinson triumphed over the hate hurled at him by white spectators, sports writers, opposing players and teammates by concentrating on his game and resisting the natural inclination to retaliate. He suppressed his temper and [...]
*Harrison Ford never really cared much for baseball. The actor, born and raised in Chicago, says he only went to Wrigley Field once as a kid, and remembers way more details about the stadium than the actual game. “It was such a vivid, visual image in my mind, still, of that square of improbable grass [...]
*The Jackie Robinson biopic “42,” about Major League Baseball’s first African American player, would not be opening in theaters next month if it weren’t for the blessing of his widow. And she had some concerns. Rachel Robinson, who owns the rights to her late husband’s story, questioned director Brian Helgeland’s vision of the biopic, which would span [...]
*A new independent film “The Kill Hole,” starring “Sons Of Anarchy‘s” Tory Kittles as an ex-Marine with a vendetta and “42‘s” Chadwick Boseman as the Iraq veteran tasked with bringing him down, has a number of parallels to ex-LAPD cop Christopher Dorner, whose vendetta against the LA Police Department led to the murders of four [...]
*For those of you that like to come home from a hard day’s work and start relaxing with a lethal, but legal sedative in the form of whisky, may soon find that there’s a small difference in the edge it takes off of your day. The bourbon some enjoy the most is made by Maker’s [...]
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