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*Wednesday morning in Los Angeles the Screen Actors Guild announced the nominations for the upcoming SAG Awards. Among the nominees are actors Alfre Woodard and Denzel Washington for their performances on television and in film. Woodard’s nom came for her role in the TV movie version of “Steel Magnolias,” in which she played Ouiser, a [...]
*”Flight,” “Django Unchained,” “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” “Red Tails” and “Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds” will battle for the outstanding motion picture trophy at the 44th annual NAACP Image Awards. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People announced the nominations Tuesday for the awards that honor diversity in the arts. The ceremony will [...]
*Denzel Washington will take the lead in Sony’s big-screen remake of 1980s TV series “The Equalizer.” Nicolas Winding Refn is in early talks to helm the film, which is scheduled to go into production in late spring, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Washington will play Robert McCall, a veteran covert operative who, seeking redemption for [...]
*Forbes has released its annual list of Hollywood’s most overpaid actors, and leading the pack is one-time Oscar nominee Eddie Murphy. The actor’s career seemed headed for a rebound with a 2007 best supporting actor Oscar nomination for “Dreamgirls” and an announcement that he would host the upcoming Academy Awards ceremony. But he dropped out [...]
*Denzel Washington is arguably one of the greatest actors in history. But he revealed at the Hollywood Reporter’s annual round table discussion that he wants his daughter Olivia to be like someone else. You see, Olivia Washington is studying the arts at the prestigious New York University to become an actress. Daddy Denzel shared the [...]
TV One ‘Life After’ continues with the spotlight on Regina Belle November 19, 2012 *“I’m glad they did not focus entirely on my brain tumor, there’s more to my life than what happened in 2009,” said Grammy Award winning Regina Belle about her episode on TV One’s fourth season of “Life After,” which airs Monday, [...]
*Here we go. It should be no surprise that ish has hit the fan; now that the new Denzel Washington movie, “Flight,” has been out for more than five minutes; African American women have learned that Washington shares an on-screen kiss with a white woman! In a recent Washington Post story about the film, writer Courtland Milloy, [...]
*Budweiser brewer Anheuser-Busch has reportedly asked Paramount to obscure all images of its flagship beer in the Denzel Washington movie “Flight,” reports Deadline.com. In the drama, Washington plays an airline pilot accused of drinking before captaining a plane. It includes scenes showing Washington consuming alcoholic beverages, including Budweiser and assorted vodka brands. The well-reviewed film [...]
*In a guest post for The Hollywood Reporter, Russell Simmons is firing back at calls to boycott Denzel Washington’s new film “Flight.” Some critics believe the movie reinforces black stereotypes with the depiction of an African American airline pilot as a drunk. Simmons, however, believes the film exemplifies “how Hollywood can embrace a new American [...]
*Denzel Washington has done it again. His new star vehicle, “Flight,” made $25 million after its debut in only 1900 theaters; and has already surpassed the $30 million gamble previously set by Paramount. Hot dang! And to think, the star and the film’s director, Robert Zemeckis, took a pay cut–just to be on the safe side. But these [...]
Denzel Washington learns to be free in Paramount’s Flight, arrives in theaters November 2, 2012 *Paramount’s Flight takes a look into life in the air as Academy Award winning Denzel Washington (Training Day) learns to finally be free of his addictions as pilot Whip Whitaker in the action-packed dramatic-thriller. Flight arrives in theaters November 2, [...]
*Vanity Fair magazine conducted a pretty funny poll, asking readers who’d they rather play the role of Jesus. The 60 minute survey asks a bunch of other random questions like which movie is most overplayed on TV (“A Christmas Story” was No.1), and do you have a library card (55 percent said they do). But [...]
*Can a commercial airliner actually fly upside down the way Denzel Washington’s character maneuvers his aircraft in “Flight?” The disturbing image appears in trailers for the movie, which opens nationwide on Friday (Nov. 2). In the scene, Washington’s Capt. Whip Whitaker inverts the plane in midair as a way to stabilize it following a sudden [...]
*Denzel Washington lands in theaters Nov. 2 with his latest film “Flight,” a disturbing story that follows the investigation of a pilot’s miraculous emergency landing. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The actor plays Captain “Whip” Whitaker, who manages to save nearly every soul on board with his skill and calm under pressure. However, a probe [...]
*Hollywood may have a well-deserved reputation for being a spiritual wasteland, but faith is hardly absent from Tinseltown, says beliefnet.com. The following 12 Hollywood powerhouses are at the top of their game in movies or TV, and are unabashedly proclaiming their Christian beliefs. And they are far from the exception. We chose them from dozens of candidates, in [...]
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