May 24, 2013

Netflix Gets Exclusive with Queen Latifah’s Flavor Unit

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*Netflix, Inc. and Flavor Unit Entertainment, the production company owned by Queen Latifah and Shakim Compere, today announced an exclusive licensing agreement for movies in the U.S., reports Deadline.com. In the first-look deal, Netflix will have its pick of movies that will debut on the world’s leading Internet television subscription service shortly after their theatrical [...]




Nelly Joins Queen Latifah’s New CW Show ‘The Next’

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*Rapper Nelly will join singer Joe Jonas as the final two celebrity mentors to join The CW’s upcoming singing competition series “The Next: Fame is at Your Doorstep,” from executive producer Queen Latifah, along with executive producers Dave Broome (“The Biggest Loser”) and Shakim Compere. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Formerly titled “The Star Next [...]




Latifah’s ‘Star Next Door’ Coming to CW This Summer

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*Queen Latifah is bringing yet another talent competition show to television. The CW has given a series order to “The Star Next Door,” which will feature mentors including Latifah, Gloria Estefan and John Rich traveling across the country looking for the best and brightest to compete and represent their home towns when they face-off in [...]




Will Smith’s Company Producing Queen Latifah Talk Show

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*Will and Jada Pinkett Smith are bringing Queen Latifah back to daytime television. Their Overbrook Entertainment production company has joined forces with Latifah’s Flavor Unit Entertainment and Sony Pictures Television to produce a new daytime syndicated talk show to be hosted by the actress/rapper/singer, according to USA Today’s Gary Levin. Latifah previously teamed with Warner [...]




Trailer: LisaRaye and Stacey Dash Star in VH1′s ‘Single Ladies’

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*Hmm, this looks like it could be as keeper. We’re referring to VH1′s new Atlanta based dramedy show “Single Ladies.” Executive produced by Queen Latifah’s Flavor Unit Entertainment, the sexy looking hour-long series features Charity Shea, Stacey Dash, and LisaRaye McCoy. “Single Ladies” is VH1′s first foray into scripted programming and it debuts Monday, May [...]




VH1 Sets Date for Latifah’s ‘Single Ladies’ Series

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*As we reported last spring, the upcoming Queen Latifah-produced movie “Single Ladies” has been expanded into a weekly television series for VH1. Today, the cable network announces more details surrounding the project. The movie, starring Stacey Dash, LisaRaye McCoy, Charity Shea and DB Woodside, is to become an eight-episode series set to launch in July, [...]




Queen Latifah Enters Vitamin Water Market

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*Queen Latifah is expandeding her multiple streams of income like any entrepreneur should. Her Flavor Unit Entertainment recently bought into New York Spring Water Inc. “Latifah and I are really excited about this partnership. New York Spring Water is an innovative company and is definitely at the forefront of new product developments in the industry,” [...]