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Lionsgate presents Uncle Drew and ‘The Melody Trice Show’ Reaches 1.9 million. (Uncle Drew Photo by Quantrell Colbert) *Living legends score big in the Lionsgate presentation of Uncle Drew, a sports comedy centered on street ball. Sports legends grace the screen in Uncle Drew providing tons of laughs with an underlining theme that age doesn’t […]

*Shaquille O’Neal and Lil Rel Howery are in talks to join Kyrie Irving of the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers in the basketball drama “ Uncle Drew,” reports Variety. The film is based on Irving’s “Uncle Drew” Pepsi Max commercials, which showed the baller as 70-year-old Uncle Drew, who would show up to pick-up basketball games and […]

*Nearly 1.7 million people saw the movie “ Uncle Drew” during its opening weekend, paying money to watch what some consider to be a 105-minute-long Pepsi commercial. Experts say this probably won’t be the last time we can expect audiences to pay to see branded content. The film, which Pepsi co-produced, features Pepsi’s logo prominently […]

*The character that basketball lovers have known and loved since 2012, “ Uncle Drew,” has made its way from the Pepsi Max mini-series all the way to the big screen. Kyrie Irving, point guard for NBA’s Boston Celtics, is the man and creator behind the endearing character. Robin Ayers of EURweb sat with Irving to […]

“ Uncle Drew” starring Lil Rel Howery is a hilarious family film about an ex-basketball player, Dax, who drained his life savings to enter a team in the Rucker Classic streetball tournament in Harlem. Desperate to win the tournament and the cash prize, Dax stumbles upon the man, the myth, the legend UNCLE DREW (NBA […]

“ Uncle Drew” is an ingenious idea that combines young and old adversaries, old school and new school, R&B classics and Hip Hop for a hilarious film with a message of friendship and inspiration. Although the game in “Uncle Drew” is basketball and the game in “Tag” is tag, both movies utilize the adage, “You […]

[…] Wee Kirkland and Earl “The Goat” Manigault. Upon retiring, Jabbar referred to The Goat (aka Greatest of All Time) as the best player he’d ever competed against. Uncle Drew is a hilarious hoops flick which pays tribute to Rucker Park as well as to the acrobatic athletes who have mesmerized generations of adoring fans attending […]

[…] Black Folks ‘Something To Tune-In For’ In related news, Chris Webber is making the move from former NBA star to movie star with the new film “ Uncle Drew.” He told Page Six at the film’s premiere: “This woman reached out to me on Facebook with a picture of my nephew and said that that was our baby. She […]

*Hulu has released the official trailer for the highly anticipated documentary “Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told.” As earlier reported, Jermaine Dupri and Uncle Luke teamed up to executive produce the project that chronicles the “rise and fall of a small Atlanta HBCU picnic that exploded into an influential street party and spotlighted ATL […]

*WASHINGTON — In the middle of the night on Aug. 28, 1955, 14-year old Emmett Till was snatched from his great uncle’s home in Drew, Mississippi, deep in the river delta, by the enraged husband of the white woman Till was accused of offending a few days earlier. The husband and his brother beat […]

[…] Don Cheadle and Kevin Hart. Howery and Cheadle will play the lead siblings, according to Deadline. Jay Longino, who most recently scripted Lil Rel’s basketball comedy “ Uncle Drew,” will pen the screenplay. Deals are still under negotiation, but Hart and John Cheng are producing through Hartbeat Productions along with Temple Hill’s Marty Bowen and […]

[…] Jackson and Dupri broke up due to his cheating.  Elsewhere in the interview (see the clip above), JD promoted the upcoming “Freaknik” documentary. The music mogul teamed Uncle Luke to executive produce the project for Hulu. Per the synopsis: “Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told is a celebratory exploration of the boisterous times of […]

[…] of Japan. However, before that collaboration with Ray, Dr. Stef Minatee was approached by the CEO of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Larry Goldman, and her uncle Councilman and Civil Rights Activist Donald K. Tucker to create a choir for NJPAC. She took on the task that currently boasts over 300 members in […]

[…] Dukes of Hazzard”), to Olivia Pope (“Scandal”). Some even said he reminded them of Miss Piggy. Oh Lawd! Let’s see what da peoples has to say about Uncle Steve … The OG pic.twitter.com/ZSirKT8Hwo — His Royal Highness, Max Awfuls III The Great (@MaxAwfuls) January 1, 2018 Steve Harvey looking like he got Hoes in […]

[…] War of 1812 was. I really did not know, because it wasn’t relevant to me.” In March 2019, her family gathered for the funeral of her great uncle, but the ground was so rutty and pocked with groundhog holes that they struggled getting his wife’s wheelchair graveside. They eventually prevailed because “she would not […]