As 50 Cent prepares for franchise fame with the upcoming ‘Expend4bles,' we look back at some of our favorite Black movie franchise stars.

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On Wednesday Sony Pictures Entertainment dropped the trailer for the long-awaited Bad Boys for Life, the latest installment in the hit franchise starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. Both stars previously teased about reprising their roles as Detectives Mike Lowery and Marcus Burnett in the actioner. In a video shared on Facebook by Smith, the actors revealed that the […]

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Brand familiarity isn’t everything when it comes to attracting audiences to the multiplex, and Hollywood is learning that lesson the hard way this summer with a slew of underperforming sequels and reboots. That so-called franchise fatigue came to a head this weekend with the releases of “Men in Black: International” and […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — “The Fast and the Furious” franchise has seen its share of drama outside of the films, but rumored infighting between the series’ biggest stars, Vin Diesel and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, is uncharted territory for the long-running series. The riff was put into the spotlight last year when Johnson, while shooting […]

I know people hate reboots because, why ruin a good thing?

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Whooo weee! We just saw the trailer for Furious 7 and if you’re into suspended belief of reality, then you’re about to get a cookie, if you know what we mean. The action is off the charts. Of course, the other story is the death of one of the film’s stars, Paul Walker, who’d been with the series […]

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Disney and Marvel could be one of the finest teams around. Continuing the success of their superhero franchise, “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” has set a record as the biggest domestic April release ever. The Disney sequel debuted with $96.2 million, topping the previous record-holder, 2011’s “Fast Five,” which opened with […]