Here’s a first look at Beyonce as Etta James. The Grammy Award-winning Dangerously in Love star was caught on the set of the upcoming movie Cadillac Records, where she will appear as the legendary At Last songstress.
Beyoncé will hit the big screen in a new thriller entitled Obsessed. Beyoncé will portray the glamorous wife of a successful asset manager whose co-worker (Heroes star Ali Larter) begins stalking him.
Street Kings in theaters April 11th.
Jamal Woolard, a Brooklyn-based rapper best known as “Gravy,” has been tapped to play rap icon Biggie Smalls, in the upcoming biopic Notorious, which is set for a January 2008 release. Gravy is perhaps best known for being shot before a radio appearance outside New York’s Hot 97 in 2005. Read the rest of this entry »
Rita Marley’s 2004 autobiography, No Woman No Cry: My Life With Bob Marley, is being turned into a motion picture.
“I’ve waited a long time to tell this story, about growing up in Jamaica and meeting Bob and making our music and falling in love and making our family. All that, and all that we went through, went into this. Now is that time. This is my story,” the wife of the reggae star said in a statement on Monday.
In commemoration of Black History Month, Time Magazine and CNN have teamed up to compile a list of the century’s Most Important Films on Race. Read the rest of this entry »
Promotional poster and trailer for Ciara’s debut film Mama, I Want To Sing, co-starring Patti Labelle and Lynn Whitfield.
Mary J. Blige is in talks to portray music legend Nina Simone in an upcoming MTV Original biopic about the jazz singer.
MJB says of the role: Yes. I’ve got the script and I’ve been waiting a while to see if and when they will call back. I’m very excited.
