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Oprah Was Lee Daniels’ First Choice For Mother Precious; Plus She Confirms For Colored Girls Casting & Writing

I’m not sure if this was previously revealed on this blog…
In a recent interview with Black Voices (BV), Oprah Winfrey revealed that Lee Daniels wanted her to play the role that Mo’Nique assumes in Precious – the abusive mother; that obviously didn’t happen, because she apparently never got a copy of the script. However, in [...]

Review – Michael Jackson’s This Is It

As I expressed previously on this blog, I wasn’t sure if I would see it, given my profound disapproval of Sony’s obviously exploitative decision to produce and release the documentary, especially so soon after Michael Jackson’s death. Alas, my love for MJ trumped my disgust for Sony, and I acquiesced, and saw the film on [...]

Watch Now – 60 Minutes Tackles Film Piracy

Interesting piece… didn’t realize organized crime and drug cartels had stakes in this.

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Survey – Where & How Are You Watching? (New Media VS Old Media)

Over the last year or so, there’ve been numerous editorials by various industry insiders and outsiders, so-called experts, declaring a shift in the way audiences are consuming content, and thus, how content creators are, or should be delivering their content.
Some have even been so bold as to predict the death of cinema as we’ve known [...]

$150 Million Mohammed Feature In Development

Per Variety, Qatari media company Al Noor Holdings used Sunday’s closing of the Doha Tribeca Film Festival to announce its launch into the movie biz with a $150 million feature about the Prophet Mohammed, to be produced by Barrie Osborne (Lord of the Rings, The Matrix). Osborne and Al Noor execs are in discussions with a [...]

Watch Now – Cornell West On The Colbert Report

It’s rare that a guest on The Colbert Report is able to stifle and even silence Stephen Colbert as well as Cornell West does here. I’m a fan of both men, and this was fun to watch…

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Trailer – Junkyard Dog (Vivica Fox Channels Her Inner Clarice Starling)

The story goes… inspired by actual events, Junkyard Dog tells the terror-filled tale of Audra Buckman, a nineteen year-old college co-ed, trapped in a month-long nightmare, struggling to stay alive and uneaten, while being held captive, left half-starved and repeatedly savaged by JYD, an oddly charismatic, vicious man-eating monster. Audra’s only hope of escape from [...]

Morgan Freeman Plays “Dirty” Wingman… Again.

Warner Bros. is pre-emptively picking up an untitled comedy spec to which Morgan Freeman is attached to star.
The script, with a working title of Dirty Old Men, revolves around an aging playboy who finally meets the love of his life and his best friend and wingman for the past 40 years (Freeman) who does everything [...]

Trailer – Wanga Woman

This was sent to me over the weekend. Now folks, for all I know, this actually may very well be an AMAZING movie; it could be a work of artistic genius. However, the trailer just DOES NOT make me even the slightest bit interested in finding out! We could say maybe this isn’t a movie [...]