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Eye On Black Salute Event To Take Place During Academy Awards Weekend (Remember The "Black Oscars"?)
Scheduled to take place during Oscar weekend (on February 24th) a special spotlight event in Hollywood called Eye on Black, which will see a group of black directors feted, including Ava DuVernay, Bill Duke, Haile gerima, Chris Robinson, and Debbie Allen.
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Billy Connolly Joins 'The Hobbit' As Dwarf Warrior Dain Ironfoot
So just how long and massive has the production on Peter Jackson's two-part, 3D "The Hobbit" been? Well, we're nearly at a year since it first went in front of cameras, it's still shooting and yes, still casting.
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Sheldon Candis' Sundance 2012 Entry "LUV" (Starring Common) To be Acquired By Indomina
Indomina Entertainment is reportedly close to a deal to acquire Sheldon Candis' Sundance Film Festival 2012 drama LUV (starring Common) - the one film that was on my short list of films to see at the festival that I wasn't able to (hence no review of it from me).
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It's Time To Stop Drinking Hollywood's Kool-Aid
Of all the media coverage given to the Red Tails film within the last couple of weeks, one surprising belief that surfaced often was the idea that supporting the film at the box office would "send Hollywood a message" and somehow force studio executives to finally consider greenlighting more black film projects. Now, I can understand the average Joe saying this but a number of industry folks repeated this same mantra which, quite frankly, seemed idiotic. Why are we still trying to court Hollywood? Am I the only one who got the "we don't do black films anymore" Hollywood memo?
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