Tag Archives: Movie News

IT’S OFFICIAL: ASHANTI TO PLAY DOROTHY IN ‘THE WIZ’…

First of all, put the folding chair down. Take a deep breath and just listen…
A remake of The Wiz has been in early development for years – held up by one important thing – Casting. Here’s where ASHANTI comes in. The former Murder Inc. singer has been on the short list for years to play [...]

EDDIE (AND NOT DAVE) TO PLAY RICHARD PRYOR…

FOX Searchlight (the studio currently celebrating Slumdog Millionaire’s 8 Oscar wins) has announced that they will be backing the long-fabled Richard Pryor biopic – with a few changes. 
The script, originally written more than ten years ago, has been bouncing around Hollywood trying desperately to find the right package. Though everyone thought the anticipated film would finally [...]

CINE FIRST LOOK: 50 CENT’S ‘DEAD MAN RUNNING’

Here’s the official trailer for CURTIS ‘50 Cent’ JACKSON’S new flick Dead Man Running, which details a criminal world as hard hit by the recession as Wall Street.
Set in London, the film centers on an ex-con trying to go straight and given 24 hours to raise $150,000 to pay off Jackson’s loan shark or become a [...]

DIDDY WANTS TO TAKE YOU WITH HIM ON THE ‘LAST TRAIN TO PARIS’…

Never one to do anything small, DIDDY is taking his next album to a whole new art-form – film. 
His first solo disc since 2007’s Press Play, Diddy described Last Train To Paris to MTV last week, saying the disc is high on concept and one hell of a storyline. 
Last Train is conceptually the tale of [...]

SO NOBODY CALLED TERRENCE HOWARD AND TOLD HIM HE WAS FIRED?

TERRENCE HOWARD says he learned about being cut from Iron Man 2 just like we did: from the trades. “A Shock of a lifetime” was how Howard described reading his role in the highly anticipated single had been given to fellow Oscar Nominee Don Cheadle. (To read the original story CLICK HERE)
He went on to [...]