Just 24, actor/comedian Lil’ JJ has accomplished more in that time than most people have twice his age. He won BET’s Coming To The Stage competition at 11 years old, then moved on the Nickelodeon’s Just Jordan and All That. As the second-most famous Little Rock, Arkansas native in the U.S., JJ born James […]
Comedian Chris Tucker is heading out to a city near you. The actor/comedian was dormant for a while, but he’s still paying off the IRS so he’s been on the road. Naaah, he’s settled with the tax man and has just resumed doing what he loves to do. He’s in Houston this weekend and […]
Mike Epps is having a pretty good career these days. Unlike a lot of comedian/actors, he still does standup. He’s also starring as Uncle Julius on the new Starz hit Survivor’s Remorse is appearing on Being Mary Jane and has a role in the Bessie biopic for HBO. He’s also finally going to […]
Whoever it is that hacked Sony Pictures is not playing. The latest salvo from the mystery hackers includes a couple of memos/emails about two big name celebs that’s going to cause a lot of awkwardness, to say the least. In one email, Kevin Hart was referred to as a whore. Senior studio exec Clint Culpepper was […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Will Smith, Jared Leto and Tom Hardy are suiting up for DC Comics’ supervillain team-up film “Suicide Squad.” Warner Bros. confirmed the much anticipated casting of the film in an announcement Tuesday. Smith will star as Deadshot, Hardy will play the group’s leader, Rick Flagg, and Leto will take on the […]
Gabrielle Union plays a self-absorbed, self-obsessed reality TV star in Chris Rock’s upcoming film Top Five, and a little digging below the surface reveals some common ground between the character and the actress. “With my character, and also with me in real life, it’s an addiction to please, and to want to be liked, and to […]
Actor Evan Ross has a famous mother, a famous sister and a famous wife. Fortunately he’s doing big things, too. The son of Diana Ross, brother to Tracee Ellis Ross and new husband to Ashlee Simpson, Ross, 26, is starring in the latest incarnation of The Hunger Games franchise The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Pt. […]
Idris Elba is involved in an effort to bring his critically-acclaimed BBC series “Luther” to American television. Although the British series aired for three seasons on U.S. cable channel BBC America immediately following its BBC runs, Fox has given a put-pilot commitment for an American remake of the Emmy-nominated drama, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. […]
Orlando Jones is a native of Mobile, Alabama in case you didn’t know. That’s where the Tom Joyner Morning Show is today. Jones is a native of Pritchard and says he had fun growing up there. “My grandmother said once they got rid of porches that’s when things went downhill. You ain’t prone […]
Before he becomes the Black Panther in 2016’s Captain America: Civil War, actor Chadwick Boseman will star as a South African man out for vengeance in Message From The King reports Deadline.com. Belgian’s Fabrice du Welz is directing the revenge thriller about Jacob King, who arrives from South Africa in search of his younger sister […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Nick Cannon remembers when youngsters often approached him, telling him that the 2002 film Drumline influenced them to attend a historically black college and university. Cannon believes the sequel could have the same impact. “People told me back then they went to an HBCU because of that movie,” said Cannon, who starred […]
Eddie Murphy will be returning to the big screen in his first major film since 2011’s Tower Heist with the New Orleans-set dramedy, Cook. Murphy has been taking a break from the entertainment industry, but since he’s a huge box office heavyweight, he can afford to do that. Nevertheless, one of the hardest working men in showbiz, […]
