Movies
Holly Robinson-Peete starred as the young and beautiful Officer Judy Hoffs on the late 80s FOX series 21 Jump Street. In the upcoming film version, Officer Hoffs is undergoing an image change, from black female badass to white blonde female.
Rihanna was rumored to play the lead in a remake of Whitney Houston‘s 1992 film The Bodyguard, but the pop star is putting an end to that rumor once and for all.
Salli Richardson-Whitfield has enjoyed an enviable career in Hollywood, but even she is always seeking new challenges. “As actresses in general there’s very few roles that come around where you can stretch out a little bit and show what you can do,” the actress and director told TheUrbandaily.com about her role in Ava DuVernay’s narrative […]
As expected, Tyler Perry cleaned up big at the 42nd Annual NAACP Image Awards. The actor and director, famous for his cross-dressing Madea character, had more nominations in the categories of film and television than anyone else. WBW: Jeff Redd On Making, “You Called And Told Me” [EXCLUSIVE VIDEO] While he didn’t get much love […]
Ice-T is, and will always be a rapper first in our eyes. No matter of how many movies or television shows he does, we will remember him as one of the best rappers of his era.
“I want 50 Cent…He really has the swagger. He doesn’t look approachable but he really is. He understands my life.It was his also” Says the former champion who has had criminal problems in the past to ESPN. The champ served four years in prison after being sentenced to 18 years Hip Hop Wired.com reports that […]
Will Smith is using his Hollywood clout to develop a film which will be a modern day adaptation of the biblical story of Job. In the Bible, Job was tested by God after Satan said that Job only served God because He offered His protection to Job.
With the obvious lack of any people of color at the Oscars last night, all eyes are on black filmmakers to deliver some Oscar quality films. So when we saw the newest trailer for Tyler Perry‘s Madea’s Big Happy Family, we quickly came to the conclusions that it will be a shut out for black […]
Tune in for an all new episode of ‘Cinema in Noir’ on BlogTalkRadio tonight, Sunday February 27th at 6PM EST. The show is co-hosted by Candice Frederick (http://ticketstubz.blogspot.com) , Kimberly Renee (http://reelsistas.tumblr.com/), Invisible Woman (http://invisible-cinema.blogspot.com/) and the The Urban Daily’s ReBecca Theodore-Vachon–four film critics who discuss the latest in black film and Hollywood news. Tonight’s […]
As a fitting close to Black History Month, actor Idris Elba was the featured speaker for the Lens Project’s “Artist Spotlight” series. Held at the Paul Robeson Center of Rutgers University’s Newark campus this past Thursday evening, the lecture was moderated by Ms. Baraka Sele, the current Assistant Vice President of Programming of the New […]