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Dear Filmmakers... Invest In A Good First Trailer
It's one of those days folks... read my first Dear Filmmakers post from earlier today HERE.
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The Black Race Trophy - Black Brazil's "Oscar"
News to me, and therefore news you can use...
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Dear Black Filmmakers... Help Us Help You!
Dear black filmmakers - if I don't already know about you or your project, it certainly isn't because I'm not looking. Instead it's likely because you've never alerted me (whether via email or in person) to you or your work; or whoever is representing you isn't doing his...
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Idris Elba Confirms Nelson Mandela Project + Source Material + Expected Dates
News of Idris Elba playing Nelson Mandela has been circulating the web for at least a month or 2, and while we've known about it, we didn't (and still haven't) posted anything about it because, as far as I know, there hasn't been any confirmation of it... until now anyway.
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"I Am Legend" Prequel/Sequel Is Officially In Development
No surprise here... I've been expecting this, since I think we all heard the rumors that a sequel/prequel to that 2007 blockbuster (almost $600 million worldwide gross) was coming.
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Director Steven Frears Thinks No One Can Replace Ali For His HBO Pic
Director Stephen Frears (Interview with A Vampire) has announced that he will not cast an actor for the role of Muhammad Ali in his soon-in-production HBO film Muhammad's Ali's Greatest Fight, and will instead use achival footage of Ali for his film.
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Jim Brown Biopic In Development. Who Should Play Him?
Producer Hal Lieberman (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Vacancy) has acquired rights to football legend/actor Jim Brown's life story for a feature film that will be written by Bob Eisele (The Great Debaters) and directed by Jonathan Hock, (primarily a director of documentaries...
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Producer Of "Sparkle" Remake Says He Will Adapt Into Broadway Musical
Welll... Dreamgirls was a Broadway success (it was a Broadway musical before the film adaptation in 2006), so why not Sparkle, right? In fact, wasn't the original Sparkle movie (released in 1976) an inspiration for the initial Dreamgirls Broadway production of 1981?
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A Young Viola Davis Thought Experiment (An "Open Letter..." Rebuttal)
It’s been fascinating to read all the dissection of THE HELP and Viola Davis’s statements and career; a dissection that’s been filtered through mostly a 2011/2012 lens.
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Fox Says "Waiting To Exhale" Sequel To Go On Without Whitney Houston + Oprah Might Replace Her
With all the emphasis on whether the upcoming Sparkle remake release will at all be affected by star Whitney Houston's passing, I forgot all about that sequel to Waiting To Exhale that was officially announced in 2010, when author Terry McMillan's book (which the sequel will be based on...
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