Three weeks after a court demanded that the state of Michigan send bottled water to residents who are still impacted by contaminated water, state officials are still trying to fight that order.
Matt Damon's politically incorrect standpoint on diversity has added to the ongoing conversation of racial inequality in Hollywood.
Romantic thriller The Perfect Guy exceeded predictions at the box office, opening strong and taking the top spot in ticket sales over the weekend. According to…
Word on the “Black cinema” streets is that Brotherly Love is the new Juice or Boyz N The Hood. Based on the trailer, the homage is…
We have compiled a list of ten black [and some not so black] films that shifted not only the world of cinema but culture as…
David E. Talbert is taking a different approach to casting for his next film. Instead of holding a typical casting call in L.A., he tells…
Director and producer David E. Talbert contributed to a list full of successful Black films released last year. He talks to “The Rickey Smiley Morning…
It’s difficult to keep an audience’s attention long enough to do a sequel a year or two after a hit movie, but making one almost…
Last week film producer/director George Lucas made waves when he went to The Daily Show to explain why it took 23 years to make the upcoming film “Red Tails” about the Tuskegee Airmen. Lucas spoke candidly about the difficulty of getting a film with an all-black cast to garner the backing of major studios and […]
Via: www.newsone.com // From BlackVoices.com: Entertainment mogul Tyler Perry is mad as heck these days. Someone stole his credit cards and racked up nearly $30,000 in charges. The New Jack artist of many trades wrote on his website last Friday that he had been robbed and sent out a plea for his fans to alert […]
Via: www.newsone.com // From TheRoot.com: HBO Films announced that it has acquired the rights to Rebecca Skloot’s non-fiction bestseller “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” and will develop a film for HBO based on the book. Oprah Winfrey is among the project’s executive producers and her Harpo Films production company is on board. The book, […]
Via: www.newsone.com // From BlackVoices.com: Lionsgate has announced that director-producer Tyler Perry will reprise his signature role as the straight-shooting Madea in ‘Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family.’ The film is adapted from his new stage play, ‘Madea’s Happy Family,’ which is currently on tour in the United States. “It’s very important to me to […]
