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*“Black Nativity” is in production right now with an all-star cast including Forest Whitaker, Angela Bassett, Jennifer Hudson, Tyrese, Nas and so many more. But we recently learned via Wilson Morales’ BlackFilm.com that Grace Gibson, the daughter of actress Lynn Whitfield and director Brian Gibson, was added to the cast for her feature debut. The [...]
*E! News says it has confirmed that the first “American Idol” alum turned judge will be Jennifer Hudson. The Oscar winner, according to E!, has signed a deal to join the judges panel for season 13, and the other two spots may be filled by former “Idol” contestants Kelly Clarkson and Adam Lambert or Clay [...]
*Back to acting, Jennifer Hudson is returning to the big screen for a new two-hour drama, “The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete” Critics say the singer turned actress is brilliant and shows a different, darker side. She stars alongside Jordin Sparks as women facing the harsh conditions of inner city life in Brooklyn projects. [...]
As we reported, Candace Glover is the new “American Idol.” And of course a lot of people are happy for her, but one particular person isn’t. That would be singer Natalie Cole. And why is that? Because the song 23-year-old Candace chose to sing was Natalie’s 1975 hit, “Inseparable,” which she sang with … Jennifer [...]
*After her name was called as the winner of “American Idol,” Candice Glover headed to the backstage press area and faced a swarm of reporters. [Scroll down to view performances during the finale.] According to Billboard, the South Carolina native took the podium to discuss overcoming her nerves of singing with Jennifer Hudson, performing her [...]
*LOS ANGELES — Image Entertainment, an RLJ Entertainment brand, has acquired all U.S. rights to Winnie Mandela at the 2013 Cannes International Film Festival. Budgeted at $15 million, the film is an adaptation of Anné Mariè du Preez Bezdrob’s biography Winnie Mandela: A Life and is written and directed by Darrell J. Roodt. Winnie Mandela [...]
*Codeblack Films has picked up US distribution for “The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete,” co-executive produced by Alicia Keys, directed by George Tillman Jr. and starring Jeffrey Wright, Jordin Sparks, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jennifer Hudson and Anthony Mackie. The film, which made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 25, is about two [...]
*Both Jennifer Hudson and NeNe Leakes’ NBC shows “Smash” and “The New Normal” have been dropped from the network’s primetime lineup. “The New Normal,” which featured Leakes (“Real Housewives of Atlanta”), was canceled by NBC after one season. The show, from “Glee” producer Ryan Murphy, navigated through the life of a gay couple trying to [...]
*Jennifer Hudson’s son David is set to make his film debut in his mother’s upcoming holiday movie musical “Black Nativity.” The Oscar winner plays a single mom in the retelling of the Nativity story with an all-black cast. David, her 3-year-old with fiancé David Otunga, will make a cameo. “He put himself in the film [...]
*Jennifer Hudson, Octavia Spencer, Ernie Hudson and James Avery are among the star-packed cast of Lifetime’s “Call Me Crazy: A Five Film,” an extension of the Five franchise that launched in 2011 with the Lifetime Original Movie “Five.” “Call Me Crazy,” premiering Saturday (April 20) at 8 p.m., is comprised of five shorts named after [...]
*Jennifer Hudson was honored with a special Grammy Award Wednesday night at the Recording Academy’s Grammys on the Hill ceremony in Washington. The group honored Hudson with a Recording Artist Coalition Award for her charity work. Hudson said this award stands apart from all of her others, including her Oscar. “It makes it the most [...]
*40 years young never looked so handsome! Over the weekend, Pharrell turned the big 4-0. In addition to a tricked-out colorful cake, he partied alongside with Miley Cyrus, Jennifer Hudson, Lil Wayne, Mack Maine, Teyana Taylor, Leah Labelle and T.I. at Miami’s LIV night club. Peep some of the pix. For more celebrity photos, visit theJasmineBrand.com.
*Jennifer Hudson has generated a huge successful career for herself and has managed to make a family in the midst of it all. But what about her man? David Otunga opened up in a recent interview with the Chicago Tribune about establishing his own brand. “It’s one of those things they kept bringing up no [...]
*Who knew that Jennifer Hudson‘s fiancé, David Otunga, always wanted to be an actor? And all this time we thought it was a wrestling career that David, also a Harvard trained attorney, really aspired to. Well, we was wrong! Otunga says acting has always been his dream and you’ll see what he can do in [...]
*Dieting can suck, really badly, especially when the results are short lived and the weight mysteriously reappears on the scale and bulge manages to bulk again. But weight-loss extraordinaire, Jennifer Hudson, has maintained her tiny figure since dropping what seemed like a ton of weight. She’s slim and sexy, cute and curvy. How did she [...]
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