May 26, 2013

Octavia Spencer Vs. Kevin Costner in ‘Black and White’

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*Octavia Spencer has been added to the cast of “Black and White,” a project that mixes racial tension with a bitter custody battle and reteams star Kevin Costner with his “Upside Of Anger” director Mike Binder. The drama focuses on attorney Elliot Anderson (Costner) who is widowed after the car crash death of his wife. [...]




Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Joins ’42′s’ Boseman in ‘Draft Day’

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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 [...]




Video: Kevin Costner Wrote Whitney Letters Offering Help

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*Kevin Costner revealed in an upcoming interview with Anderson Cooper that he reached out to Whitney Houston, his co-star in “The Bodyguard,” as she struggled with substance abuse by writing to her. “There are some people that really love Whitney, and a couple times during the last seven, eight years, asked me, would I write [...]




Whitney’s Recessional: The History of the Shoulder Mounted Coffin

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*Millions of Whitney Houston fans watched final tributes from family and friends during the live broadcast of her home going celebration at Newark’s New Hope Baptist on Saturday, February 18, 2012, just one week after her untimely passing in Beverly Hills, California due to unknown causes. It was a dignified ceremony that maintained reverence of [...]




Whitney’s ‘Bodyguard’ Kevin Costner to Speak at Funeral

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*Kevin Costner, Whitney Houston love interest in her first film “The Bodyguard,” will speak at her funeral to be held Saturday in Newark, New Jersey, reports People magazine. Costner will address those gathered at the New Hope Baptist Church to speak about the passing of his close friend and former co-star. Houston made her big-screen [...]




‘Django’: Kurt Russell Courted to Replace Costner

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*Kurt Russell is reportedly in talks to replace Kevin Costner in the Jamie Foxx film “Django Unchained.” Russell, 60, would play malicious plantation overseer Ace – a role originally given to Kevin Costner, who bowed out of the project last week due to scheduling conflicts, according to the trade magazine. The movie, which boasts an [...]




Jamie Foxx’s ‘Django’ Loses Kevin Costner

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*Quentin Tarantino just lost one of his bad guys. Kevin Costner has pulled out of the director’s Jamie Foxx-led Spaghetti Western “Django Unchained,” where he was to play a sadistic henchman, Ace Woody, to Leonardo DiCaprio’s Calvin Candie. Woody trains slaves on Candie’s plantation to battle to the death. Foxx stars as Django and Samuel [...]




Kevin Costner in Talks to Join Jamie Foxx in ‘Django Unchained’

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*Kevin Costner is in talks to play a sadistic bad guy in Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained,” an individual close to the project confirms to the AP. As previously reported, the script focuses on a German dentist-turned-bounty hunter (to be played by Christoph Waltz). He buys a slave (Foxx) who can identify a man the bounty [...]




Rihanna Not Interested in Whitney Houston’s ‘Bodyguard’ Role

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*Her name has been floating around for years in connection with a planned remake of “The Bodyguard.” But now that the movie has gotten the official green light, Rihanna is making it clear that she’s not interested in filling Whitney Houston’s shoes in the starring role. Rihanna tells OK! magazine she won’t take on the [...]




Warner Bros to Remake ‘The Bodyguard’

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*Warner Bros. has announced it will produce a remake of the 1992 hit “The Bodyguard,” which co-starred Whitney Houston opposite Kevin Costner in her first film role. The original, which spawned one of the biggest ballads of all time, “I Will Always Love You,” centered on a former Secret Service agent (Costner) hired to protect [...]