Things That Make You Go Hmm...
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The National Enquirer Gets Into Filmmaking Biz; Producing Whitney Houston Documentary
And it'll be a classy piece of non-fiction cinema I'm sure :-/
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Marlon Wayans Will Make Directorial Debut With Spoof Of Found-Footage Films Starring Essence Atkins
Essence Atkins and Marlon Wayans will star in the indie comedy/spoof titled Smart Ass, which is decribed as a spoof of all those found-footage flicks that have been released quite a bit in recent years.
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Why Did "Red Tails" Fail To Soar At The Box Office?
So even though it can't be called a box office bust grossing over $36 million so far, it is fair to say that Red Tails is a b.o. disappoinment that will have a hard struggle just making back its reported $58 million production cost. At this stage it's iffy that the film will make $...
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Denzel Washington Says He's "Hovering Around A Comedy" & Has A Thelonious Monk Film He Wants To Star In
At the moment he's "hovering" around a comedy, having not done a great many of those in his career (although, he jokes, "I've done some that have turned out to be tragedies!"). The role he'd really like to play is that of jazz legend Thelonious Monk; he has a scr...
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About That Whitney Houston Biopic That's Supposed To Be In Development...
Soooo... as we saw after Michael Jackson died, there was an immediate rush to capitalize on the man's death, with song and film. I'm FULLY expecting a similar thing to happen with Whitney Houston throughout this year, going into next year.
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BET Greenlights Hour-Long Series From Mara Brock & Salim Akil Titled "Single Black Female"
Last May we announced the mega mutil-year production deal between BET/Viacom and husband/wife team, Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil, the brains behind the network's hit series, The Game, the movie Jumping The Broom and the upcoming Sparkle remake.
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Rohan Marley Says No Actor Can Play Bob Marley In A Movie... Except His Sons
The long struggle to get a Bob Marley film made has been well documented on Shadow And Act (I recommend reading this post for the details: http://bit.ly/hEs4jj). What we have ended up with after all that is Kevin Macdonald's documentary MARLEY, which will world premiere at the Berlin Intern...
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Author Chimamanda Adichie On Adaptation Of "Half Of A Yellow Sun": "I'm Not At All Involved In The Production"
I know Tambay has been pursuing an interview with Chimamanda Adichie to talk about the controversy surrounding the casting of the film (I'm talking about Thandie Newton) that will be based on her book, but hasn't been able to lock one down he tells me. So I thought I would share this pi...
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Direct-To-DVD Market Sales In Decline
It should be no surprise that the direct-to-DVD market is taking a hit itself since there's been an overall decline in DVD sales and rentals as more viewers continue to make the shift to VOD. But I felt this needed to be said publicly since there've been many posts on Shadow And Act sin...
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Don Cornelius' Death Revitalizes Plans For A "Soul Train" Feature Film + Stage Musical + TV Show
The last time we reported anything on this project was in 2009! Obviously not much has developed since then, unless we just missed it, or wasn't reported.
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