Good Lord! Ja Rule’s going straight-to-DVD.
The once platinum-selling rapper has been cast as an ex-con-turned-pastor in a gospel-inspired film, featuring Adrienne Bailon of Cheetah Girls and 3LW fame.
Do we smell another Oscar win for Jennifer Hudson? The American Idol-turned-Oscar-winning actress’ return to the big screen will be the portrayal of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela opposite Oscar-nominee Terrence Howard as Nelson Mandela in the highly-anticipated biopic Winnie. The film — which some South African protesters argue should feature a South African-born actress in the lead role making its debut at various film festivals next year.
A newly-released promo trailer issued by Equinoxe Films on Tuesday shows Hudson as a young Winnie, her wedding to civil rights worker Nelson Mandela, his 27-year incarceration, and her years as an activist.
Hudson won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of Effie White in the 2006 movie-musical Dreamgirls.
Winnie is due in theaters in 2011.
Martin Lawrence has done it again. This February, the comedy genius resurrects the fat suit for a third installment of the Big Momma’s House franchise — this one titled Big Momma’s Like Father, Like Son.
(In our best Eddie Lover voice…) C’mon son!
Co-starring Faizon Love and Ana Ortiz.
The cast of Tyler Perry’s new drama For Colored Girls grace the cover of the December 2010 issue of Essence Magazine in a rainbow of beautiful gowns for an exclusive portrait for the magazine’s annual Hot List Issue.
The Starting Lineup consists of: Thandie Newton (Orange), Kimberly Elise (Silver), Phylicia Rashad (Peach), Anika Noni Rose (Yellow), Kerry Washington (Blue), Loretta Devine (Green), Janet Jackson (Red), Tessa Thompson (Purple), and Whoopi Goldberg (White).
Rose, who starred in Disney’s 2009 animated hit The Princess & The Frog, has high hopes for the movie, which is adapted from playwright Ntozake Shange’s 1974 Broadway classic For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf.
“I want this film to awaken people to the power of Black actresses,” says Rose. “I want people to know there are things that Black women go through that aren’t slavery or hip-hop. I want people to know Black women as Americans.”
Precious star Gabourey Sidibe has landed a new job in a comedy starring Eddie Murphy and Ben Stiller.
Is one of the best-grossing African-American-themed motion pictures of all-time getting the spinoff treatment? Oh hell yes!
The first theatrical trailer for For Colored Girls…., the latest directorial effort from writer/producer/director Tyler Perry, debuted online early Wednesday.
The upcoming film is based on a 1975 play which features a series of 20 poems telling stories of love, abandonment, domestic abuse, and other issues faced by women of color.
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf has a star-studded cast ensemble which consists of Janet Jackson, Thandie Newton, Whoopi Goldberg, Phylicia Rashad, Kimberly Elise, Kerry Washington, Loretta Devine, and Anika Noni Rose.
The film is set for release in the US on Nov. 5.
Rihanna has signed up to make her film debut in upcoming blockbuster Battleship.
We’ve got your first look at award-winning actress Jennifer Hudson and Hustle & Flow star Terrence Howard as Winnie and Nelson Mandela on the South African set of the controversial new biopic Winnie.
Stomp the Yard is back with a new twist. Sorta. The hit 2007 film is being reincarnated in the form of a straight-to-DVD effort Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming: featuring cameos by Teyana Taylor, Kiely “The Sex Was Spectaculah” Williams, and Lil Duval.
Synopsis: In the countdown to a national step-off, rivalries at Truth University run red hot. The Theta Nus are counting on new pledge Chance Harris (Collins Pennie) to lead the team to victory. But he’s too caught up in his own problems to focus. At odds with his father, caught up in romantic troubles and targeted by a street gang for an unpaid debt, Chance must decide what is truly important and make the choices that will shape his life. Stomp the Yard: Homecoming unites a powerful cast featuring Terrence J and Pooch Hall with a soundtrack packed with pulse-pounding tracks.
Directed by Rob Hardy (The Gospel), Stomp the Yard: Homecoming is from a story by Albert Leon and a screenplay by Albert Leon and Meena Payne. Columbus Short served as executive producer, with William Packer producing.
Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming, available on DVD and Blu-Ray.
