Movies

Meagan Good Talks Whitney Houston Biopic

Meagan Good is speaking out about her involvement in a rumored Whitney Houston biopic. The actress revealed to E! Online that the project was already in the works before the singer’s untimely passing. Good also confirmed that will play Houston in the project. “We were fairly in the beginning stages,” she says, adding that she was meant to have a... Read More »

‘Good Deeds’ Hollywood Premiere: Gabrielle Union, Brian White, Thandie Newton, and more (Photos)

Tyler Perry‘s new film, Good Deeds held it’s Hollywood premiere last night at Wolfgang Puck’s 24 at the Ritz Carlton hotel in Los Angeles. The diverse cast including Perry, Thandie Newton, Brian White, Rebecca Romijn, Gabrielle Union, and child star Jordenn Thompson walked the black-carpet. Other stars of Perry’s past projects also showed up to support his... Read More »

Yasiin Bey To Star In “Jackie Brown” Prequel

Fresh off his critically acclaimed turn in Sundance’s audience award winner “The Surrogate,” John Hawkes has committed to star opposite Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) in the Elmore Leonard adaptation “Switch,” from writer-director Dan Schechter (“Supporting Characters”). The crime drama will serve as a prequel to Quentin Tarantino’s “Jackie Brown,” with Hawkes and Bey playing younger versions of Robert De Niro and Samuel L. Jackson‘s respective characters Louis Gara and... Read More »

‘Safe House’ Star Denzel Washington discusses new films, struggles of blacks in Hollywood (Video)

Veteran actor Denzel Washington sat down with The Grio to discuss his upcoming film Safe House. Washington plays a former FBI agent gone rogue in the new action flick opening next week (Feb. 10). Washington, who directed and starred in the all-black cast of The Great Debaters said that “It’s almost impossible to get $100 million to make a... Read More »

Common Cast in ‘Now You See Me;’ Wants to Be “One of the Great actors of our day”

Now that the Sundance Film Festival has ended, interviews with black talent are popping up all over the place. Rapper/Actor Common recently sat down with Movieline to discuss his new film LUV, and his upcoming projects–including a new film with legendary actor Morgan Freeman. During the discussion, the actor mentioned his involvement in Now You See Me, a heist-thriller... Read More »

Go Behind The Scenes of “Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance” with Idris Elba (Video)

Idris Elba takes us behind the scenes of his upcoming blockbuster Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance in a new video clip. Viewers get an inside look at some of the physical stunts and camera tricks it took to make such an advanced film. Elba plays Moreau, a religious but alcoholic monk. His journey in this film is to seek... Read More »