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*Laz Alonso’s career is on fire. The 37-year-old Washington DC native, whose recent credits include “Avatar,” “Jumping the Broom” and A&E’s “Breakout Kings,” says his ability to make critically-acclaimed footprints in Hollywood has just as much to do with the films he turns down as the ones he takes. “Looking at my career, in the [...]
*Zoe Saldana is showing off her agility as an actress with her latest production, “Colombiana.” She tells the NY Daily News that the tough role was something she was ready for, as well as the guns. “I grew up around a family of hunters in the Caribbean and guns were always around,” she says. “Now, [...]
*Guess whose the new face of Latina magazine? Well, we’ll tell you. Afro-Latina actress Zoe Saldana is on the cover of the magazine’s fall style issue. The 33-year-old Dominican and Puerto Rican is also the star in this month’s much talked about “Colombiana.” Her new role comes after her success in last year’s Avatar. “The [...]
*The Black Eyed Peas are reportedly looking to give movie fans a 3D experience of their current world tour. According to Hollywood News, the pop group is said to have chosen “Avatar” director James Cameron to helm the project. “We have the biggest director, because we are the biggest group on the planet,” will.i.am told [...]
*”Avatar” star Zoe Saldana is engaged to her boyfriend of 10 years, Keith Britton, Us Weekly is reporting. A source says the 32-year-old actress “is thrilled” to be tying the knot. “They’ve been together forever. They’re a great couple.” Britton, 33, is an actor and CEO of My Fashion Database. Saldana has tried her best [...]
*”Avatar” star Zoe Saldana is in early talks to topline “Columbiana,” a Luc Besson-produced drama set in Latin America and the U.S. Saldana The actress would play a young woman who, after witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a [...]
*If you’re a fan of action/adventure movies, you’re probably already looking forward to this Friday’s (04-02-10) opening of “Clash of the Titans” (filmed in 3D) starring Sam Worthington (“Avatar”). Our colleagues at GO TV spoke with Worthington about the Warner Bros. Pictures film and some other interesting things. Check out what he has to say [...]
*”Avatar” star Zoe Saldana is speaking out about the Hollywood shuffle that black actors and actresses still encounter in pursuit of quality film roles. The actress told Nylon magazine that discrimination still exists in casting offices, but the agents are just more subtle about it. “When they say, ‘We want to go white,’ they have [...]
The April 2010 issue of Essence hits stands today with “Avatar” star Zoe Saldana featured on the cover. The actress “gets real on power, sex and her guilty pleasures” in the issue’s lead article, titled “From A to Zoe.” In fact, the 31-year-old goes on and on and on about the wonders of getting it [...]
*The Iraq War drama “The Hurt Locker” won best picture and five other prizes Sunday at the Academy Awards, its haul including best director for Kathryn Bigelow. Bigelow is the first woman in the 82-year history of the Oscars to earn Hollywood’s top prize for filmmakers. “There’s no other way to describe it. It’s the [...]
*The Iraq War drama “The Hurt Locker” won best picture and five other prizes Sunday at the Academy Awards, its haul including best director for Kathryn Bigelow. Bigelow is the first woman in the 82-year history of the Oscars to earn Hollywood’s top prize for filmmakers. “There’s no other way to describe it. It’s the [...]
*In the hit film Avatar, Zoe Saldana is the color blue. No sooner than the film, premiered the world wanted to know more about the lead female warrior character in the James Cameron film. People are learning that the talented actress, Saldana is Afro-Latina. Born and reared in the United States until she was [...]
*Although Avatar and The Hurt Locker landed 9 Academy Award nominations each, I foresee the former and director James Cameron enjoying a clean sweep. Breaking all box-office records, Avatar is a juggernaut that nobody will be able to stop on Oscar night. This means that The Hurt Locker, which was directed by Cameron’s ex-wife, Kathryn [...]
*As the James Cameron epic Avatar careens toward cinematic immortality as the top grossing film of all time, conservative detractors continue to complain as to the “messages” contained within the movie. Avatar, among other things has been incessantly branded as “Liberal propaganda.” Really? You mean to say that Avatar is the first movie to blend [...]
*Until the 1970s, every time the United States military decided upon a goal, that goal was attained. When the goal was solidifying American sovereignty in 1812, the nation became defined; when the goal was acquiring colonies in 1898, Cuba became an unofficial colony; when the goal was defending democracy in 1914 and 1945; the United [...]
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