Aspiring actress Paris Jackson has landed her first movie role. It has been confirmed that the 19-year-old daughter of the late Michael Jackson will play a role in an upcoming feature length film for Amazon Studios. The film will be directed by Nash Edgerton, and has yet to be given a title. Jackson will play the […]
Leave it to the Internet to turn #FlashbackFriday into a potential movie pitch session. A three-year-old photo has been making its rounds on social media of Lupita Nyong’o and Rihanna sitting pretty in the front row of a Paris fashion week. Twitter pitched an entire action-comedy story-line based on the gorgeous pic. See below: Even […]
Gospel singer Fred Hammond is making a new movie to reach those who feel they’ve been forgotten by God. Hammond, the 56-year-old who was inducted into the Stellar Gospel Music Awards Hall of Fame Saturday, released the trailer for his upcoming film “The Choir” last week. In the trailer that he debuted on social media, […]
HBO is ready to explore the late and great Muhammad Ali. The premium cable network is teaming with NBA All-Star LeBron James and Antoine Fuqua for an untitled documentary focusing on the boxing legend, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The project, which will include a mix of original footage and re-creations, will explore Ali’s greatest […]
getty images: Hillsong UNITED’s highly anticipated documentary, Let Hope Rise, arrived in U.S. theaters this past weekend. The film was played in 816 locations nationwide and garnered $1.3 million in sales in opening weekend, according to THR, landing in the #13 spot on box office charts. For more information on local showings and planned international […]
*Richard T. Jones and Kim Fields are currently in production on a faith-based film from Silver Lining Entertainment. Jones and C. Thomas Howell topline “A Question of Faith,” which will focus on a diverse community that comes together following a tragic texting and driving accident, eventually uniting through prayer and their quest for forgiveness. At […]
Growing up the only child of divorced parents in rough southeast D.C., Taraji P. Henson remembers, “My mother would be sitting at the table crying over a bill, and I’d walk in and be like, ‘Mom, don’t cry, I’m going to be rich one day!’” “We never lived in the projects, but we were in the […]
Richard T. Jones has joined the cast of “A Question of Faith,” which has begun principal photography in Atlanta. C. Thomas Howell, Kim Fields, Jaci Velasquez, T.C. Stallings, Greg Alan Williams, Renee O’Connor and Donna Biscoe are also on board to star in the ensemble film. Kevan Otto is directing. Terrence “Ty” Manns is penning […]
Amanda Edwards/Getty Images Audiences at the upcoming UrbanWorld Film Festival will get a first look at the highly anticipated New Edition biopic set to premiere on BET in January 2017. The network is presenting “The New Edition Story” as a three-part miniseries that chronicles the Boston group’s upbringing and rise to fame. The film stars Bryshere […]
The 41st Toronto International Film Festival got underway Thursday with Antoine Fuqua’s remake of “The Magnificent Seven,” an old-school Western with more modern faces. The film’s Thursday night premiere kicked off North America’s largest film festival, which is set to unspool some 300 films over the next 10 days. On tap are premieres of many […]
If you’re anything like us, you’re so excited to see Morris Chestnut and Regina Hall‘s new film, When The Bough Breaks, which hits theaters nationwide on September 9th. But in case you’ve been hiking in the Sahara with no television access, engaging in a vow of internet and media silence, living under a rock or any combination of […]
Denzel Washington is circling the lead role in “Inner City,” a legal drama billed as a character study in the vein of Paul Newman’s 1982 classic “The Verdict,” according to Variety. Dan Gilroy will direct from his own script about a lawyer (Washington) in an ambulance-chasing firm who takes over when his boss falls […]
