How’d they convince Henry Hill to sign up for this shit?! We’re getting our first look at Things Fall Apart — the cinema drama which prompted 50 Cent to undergo a drastic 60-pound weight loss to play a college football player stricken with cancer.
Taraji P. Henson — who won an Oscar nomination for her supporting role alongside Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button — is headed to the small screen as the female lead in Lost creator J.J. Abrams’ CBS pilot, Person of Interest, New York Magazine’s Vulture Blog has learned. that the show centers around “an ex-CIA agent who is recruited by a crazy billionaire to help fight crime in New York City,” the site writes.
Henson has been cast as a detective.
Check out this new trailer for Madea’s Big Happy Family, the latest film from writer/producer/director/Man in a Dress Tyler Perry.
We’ve got your first look at the return of Everyone’s Favorite Pistol-Totin’ Granny in this trailer for Tyler Perry’s new comedy, Madea’s Big Happy Family.
Is an Oscar on the horizon for troubled former American Idol champ Fantasia Barrino?
Well — this is about as close as Tyler’s going to get to the Oscars! The actor/director/philanthropist Tyler Perry is rolling out the cinematic red carpet for yet another African-American horror story — this one titled Madea’s Big Happy Family.
Willow Smith is being courted to take center stage in a remake of the classic movie musical Annie, Variety has learned.
The Queen of Hip-Hop/Soul is taking this acting thing seriously — now if only she could get crackin’ on production!
Mary J. Blige has opened up about her upcoming role in a biopic about jazz legend Nina Simone. During an interview with NBC The TODAY Show last week, Blige revealed that producers have held the project up even after she learned French and took acting lessons to master the part.
“They keep pushing it back. It’s not my fault. I’m ready. I went to the acting class, I learned ‘Ne Me Quitte Pas.’ I know all French, whatever — so I’m doing my job.”
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Eminem will make his return to the big screen in the boxing flick Southpaw. The multi-awarded lyrical assassin will star as a welterweight boxer whose career ends abruptly. He faces hard times as he tries to reunite with his daughter in the film, which was created by Kurt Sutter (Sons of Anarchy) and will be distributed by Universal/DreamWorks.
Former hip-hop hitmaker Ja Rule has pleaded guilty in New York to attempted criminal possession of a weapon, The Associated Press reports.
