Tag Archives: Black Hollywood

DENZEL WASHINGTON PREMIERES FILM BOOK OF ELI

Last night, while we were winding down or switching gears, Hollywood was poppin’. DENZEL WASHINGTON premiered his film Book of Eli at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. He showed up with wife Pauletta Washington and one of their four children.

Long lost hottie LARENZ TATE was at the event. He was looking quite renaissance dapper and I [...]

JENNIFER HUDSON TO PLAY WINNIE MANDELA CAUSES UNREST

WINNIE MANDELA (nee Winnie Madikizela-Mandela) is one of the world’s most prominent women of color. She was widely admired as being a symbol of anti-apartheid. She suffered many transgressions because of her husband’s (Nelson Mandela) political beliefs and persecution. Here the newled is pictured above in 1957. No new bride could ever imagine her happily [...]

JENNIFER HUDSON TO PLAY WINNIE MANDELA…NO, REALLY

I’m kinda don’t know what to say to this, but Oscar/Grammy Winner JENNIFER HUDSON has signed on to play the iconic (and then disgraced) South African figure in the new movie Winnie.
“I was compelled and moved when I read the script. Winnie Mandela is a complex and extraordinary woman, and I’m honored to be the actress [...]

MOST OF YOU WILL HAVE TO WAIT EVEN LONGER TO SEE PRECIOUS…

So what that it’s one of the most anticipated movies of the year, you think that’s going to solve cash-flow problems?
Despite the unprecedented preview weekend, the TYLER PERRY and OPRAH WINFREY backed Precious isn’t a safe enough bet for Lionsgate to just release the film wide. Instead execs are determined to ’stay the course’ and continue with [...]

FLY FILM REVIEW: PRECIOUS

Unflinching. Uncomfortable. Unapologetic. Heartbreaking. To call Precious a difficult film to watch sounds like an understatement that only Kanye could make.
Within the first five minutes director Lee Daniels uproots the audience and drops us into the nightmarish world of Clareece Precious Jones – the sixteen year old mother of two. Precious can barely read, despite [...]

MO’NIQUE BACK PEDDLES: SAYS SHE’S GRATEFUL FOR ‘PRECIOUS’ OSCAR BUZZ…

Looks like somebody got a call from OPRAH.
After famously thumbing her nose at the Academy of Arts And Sciences for the buzz surrounding her performance in the dark indie drama Precious, seems like MO’NIQUE is now (begrudgingly) singing a different tune.
“Any buzz, I’m appreciative of,” is what the comedian turned actor turned talk show host [...]

FIRST LOOK: TYLER PERRY’S ‘WHY DID I GET MARRIED 2′ & JANET TALKS MJ & JD

Here’s your first look at TYLER PERRY’S sequel to his successful 2007 film Why Did I Get Married – trading the snow for an exotic locale, the follow-up looks to have a little more drama than the fist one.
With JANET JACKSON, JILL SCOTT, MICHAEL JAI WHITE, TASHA SMITH and MAALIK YOBA all returning, the film [...]