Riddick Ousts The Butler As #1 At Box Office Once And For All
The Butler has managed to stay on top of the box office for the past 3 weeks while dusting off competition from films like One Direction: This Is Us, and The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. Last week the numbers were close, but taking the Labor Day holiday into consideration, The Butler made slightly more […]
Actor Jesse Williams Will Narrate Audiobook For The Bane Chronicles
31-Year-Old Grey’s Anatomy actor Jesse Williams is delving into fields other than acting. He’ll be narrating an audiobook that is due out April 16. The book, part of The Bane Chronicles, is titled What Really Happened In Peru. It’s a short story written by Cassandra Clare, author of The Mortal Instruments. The book is aimed […]
Showtimes “Why We Laugh: Funny Women” Features Several Black Lady Comedians
Why We Laugh: Funny Women, a documentary exploring the experiences of female comedians, aired on the Showtime television network on Thursday, March 21. Don’t worry if you missed it. The flick will be rerunning many times over the next week. Why We Laugh: Funny Women goes behind the scenes with female comedians, including notable Black funny women such as Whoopi Goldberg, Kym […]
Idris Elba Taking Break From Acting For Hip Hop Career
Despite having a burgeoning career starring in hits like last year’s Prometheus, the upcoming Pacific Rim, and a television show which earned him a Golden Globe , Idris Elba has decided that now is the time to take a break from acting. Elba, age 40, wants to work on his hip-hop career exclusively for the next […]
Kevin Hart’s HartBeat Productions Releases Teaser For Next Show
Kevin Hart’s production company, HartBeat Productions, has released a web trailer for Let Me Explain, a stand up film that will be released in theaters July 3, 2013. The comedian turned actor has received a lot of publicity lately with Real Husbands of Hollywood, his recent hosting of Saturday Night Live, and the red-band trailer release for About Last […]
Outrageously Funny Red Band Trailer For “About Last Night” With Kevin Hart
About Last Night is an upcoming Black remake of a 1986 film (originally David Mamet’s play titled Sexual Perversity In Chicago) which will star Kevin Hart, Joy Bryant, Michael Ealy, and Regina Hall. The original film adaptation stared Rob Lowe and Demi Moore, among others. The film is not scheduled to be released until February 14th, […]
Michelle Obama Speaks On Importance Of Arts Alongside Quvenzhané Wallis
Young Oscar nominated Beasts Of The Southern Wild actress Quvenzhané Wallis recently visited the White House along with director Benh Zeitlin and co-star Dwight Henry. The film was used for reference in a workshop speech in which Michelle Obama spoke to parents about the importance to art. The Hollywood Reporter provided these quotes from Michelle Obama’s speech: […]
Nicole Beharie Is Inside March Issue of Vanity Fair Magazine.
Nicole Beharie is in the March issue of Vanity Fair magazine to promote 42, the upcoming Jackie Robinson biopic in which she stars as wife of the famed athlete. Beharie is a 27-year-old American actresses who attended The Julliard School’s drama conservatory. She’s been starring in films since 2008 when she appeared in American Violet and won an African-American Film […]
Black Author On The Rise
Maxwell Divinity is a young black author on the rise. A graduate of Jackson State University with a degree in Speech Communications, Divinity is excited about his debut as an author. As a self published author, Divinity faced hardships with former publishing deals that went awry. The decision to self-publish was a long thought out […]
Blair Underwood To Star In Cop Show Remake
A reboot of the TV show Ironside is a candidate for becoming a new 2013 television show. If the show gets picked up, it will star Blair Underwood in the leading role as Robert T. Ironside according to Crave. The original Ironside television show aired way back in 1967 and ran for 8 seasons and […]
Possible New Show With Martin Lawrence And Kelsey Grammer?
Its pilot season in Hollywood. New shows are being created which may never actually get picked up for full seasons by television networks. One potential new show is an “odd-couple” sitcom that would co-star Martin Lawrence and Kelsey Grammer. Â Let’s face the facts, everyone laughs at a Black-White on screen male duo. Particularly when one […]
Tia Mowry Releases Two Workout DVDs
Tia Mowry has come out with two workout DVDs just in time for the new year. You can buy the two DVDs through the Amazon link at TiaMowryYoga.com. One DVD contains calm Yoga and runs for 50 minutes, while the other contains core Yoga and is 45 minutes long. They are are $9.95 a piece or […]
See Trailer For Off-Beat Show “Normal” Starring Stacey Dash
Stacey Dash has appeared in a trailer for a new, off-beat comedy series called Normal. The show’s makers certainly have a strange definition of “normal”. Details about the project haven’t been released, so you’ll have to piece out what the show is about from the trailer. It appears that Dash is a well off single woman (perhaps […]
Forbes Ranks Eddie Murphy #1 Most Overpaid Actor
According to a list compiled by Forbes, Eddie Murphy tops the list as Hollywood’s most overpaid actor. How did they come to this conclusion? Â They compared the money Murphy brought in with his last 3 live action movies, Imagine That, Tower Heist, and A Thousand Words. The box office total for these 3 films was […]
Taraji P. Henson on December Cover of Jet Magazine
Taraji P. Henson is on this month’s Jet magazine cover which released on December 3rd.The October 29 issue featured Kerry Washington, though the order could have been logically switched considering this months anticipated release of Django Unchained. That aside, Taraji P. Henson is doing just as well as Washington, or anyone for that matter, in the […]
Jamie Foxx On Men’s Health To Promote Django Unchained
Jamie Foxx is on the December cover of Men’s Health Magazine promoting his upcoming film Django Unchained. In the magazine he gives success tips for career and health. Jamie Foxx also talks about preparing physically to play a slave. He has worked out for years, but prepping to play a slave was different. Read the […]
Kerry Washington On Women’s Health To Promote Django Unchained
Kerry Washington is on the cover of December’s Women’s Health magazine which hit newsstands November 20th. Her career is on fire after becoming the first black female lead on a network TV drama since 1974 in her ABC show Scandal. In the magazine, she does a multi-page spread and talks about what she would be doing if she wasn’t an actress, […]
Denzel Washington & Jamie Foxx Join Roundtable Discussion
Ever wonder what Denzel Washington and Jamie Foxx would talk about at a restaurant? The pair join Matt Damon, Richard Gere, lan Arkin, and John Hawkes in an open roundtable discussion on life and their craft. Hollywood Reporter is well known for putting out these insightful interviews with actors and filmmakers who are at the top of […]
