Octavia Spencer is taking on the role of a lifetime as she has been tapped to play God in the film adaptation of “The Shack.”…
Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer doesn’t get the uproar many are feeling surrounding Selma director Ana DuVernay being overlooked for a Best Director Academy-Award nomination and David…
Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer doesn’t get the uproar many are feeling surrounding Selma director Ana DuVernay being overlooked for a Best Director Academy-Award nomination and David…
Despite the uproar over “Selma” supposedly being snubbed by the Academy for this year’s Oscars, Octavia Spencer believes differently. During a sit-down interview with HipHollywood.com, the “Black or White” star weighed in on the situation, as she seemed to think folks may be overreacting with talk of “Selma” being completely overlooked. “I don’t understand what […]
Octavia Spencer is ending the year on a good note as she won her case regarding a weight- loss endorsement deal gone wrong. City News Service reports there was no lawyer from Sensa Products present in court last week when a judge granted the actress a default judgment. As a result, the judge ordered the […]
For iPhone: Octavia Spencer is probably best known for her performance in The Help as Minnie, for which she won an Academy Award. She currently stars on the medical drama Red Band Society on Fox. The Alabama native also has an upcoming movie with Kevin Costner Black and White, where she plays the grandmother of a biracial […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority is pulling ads for the Fox television show “Red Band Society” from nearly 200 buses amid complaints they are racist and offensive to women. The ads show cast members in front of a wall with graffiti describing each of their characters. A denigrating word […]
TORONTO (AP) — Most of Kevin Costner’s most famous films wouldn’t seem to be easy sells. How would it today sound to pitch a studio on a Civil War soldier befriending Sioux Indians on the South Dakota plains? Or on an Iowa farmer who hears voices? But while Costner’s industry clout was once impervious, he’s […]
Racism may be a topic to approach cautiously, but as Kevin Costner found out, it’s also a topic that many in Hollywood won’t touch. Let alone finance. During a question and answer session at the recent National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Convention in Boston, the actor revealed his struggles to get his film Black […]
Russ Par chats with Chadwick Boseman, who plays James Brown in the highly anticipated biopic “Get On Up!” in theaters August 1st, about his experience playing James Brown and all the buzz surrounding the movie! Find out how much of the movie includes actual moments from James Brown’s life, whether Chadwick got to actually sing in the […]
When it was announced a film was going to be made about the life and times of legend James Brown, music fans said, “Finally!” Now…
When it was announced a film was going to be made about the life and times of legend James Brown, music fans said, “Finally!” Now…
