In the tradition of the great New York City comedic duos comes the contemporary slapstick team of 40 and Leroy. Join cousins 40oz (Lorenzo Eduardo) and Leroy (Horace Glasper), along with a host of crazy characters, as they explore the highs and lows of the life of everyday urban youth living in the city.
How crazy can things get for them? Watch this clip to find out.
Tyler Perry’s first television drama The Haves and the Have Nots will premiere Tuesday, May 28th, 9/8c, on OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network.
Originally a stage play by the same name, the series has a huge and diverse ensemble cast: Aaron O’Connell, Angela Robinson, Crystal Fox, Eva Tamargo, Gavin Houston Jaclyn Betham, John Schneider, Peter Parros, Renee Lawless, Tika Sumpter, Tyler Lepley, and Perry.
Check out the preview clip.
Tina Gordon Chism releases her first feature film Peeples today in theaters nationwide. The film marks one of extremely few times a major Hollywood company backs a film directed by a black woman.
Peeples tells the story of a happily cohabitating couple who are deeply in love, except for one catch: he hasn’t met the in-laws.
Congrats to all the 2013 African Movie Academy Awards winners! The annual AMAA ceremony took place on April 20.
Below is the full list of winners, along with sneak peeks of select films:
Best Short Film: Kwaku Ananse (Ghana)
Best Diaspora Documentary: Fan Do Brasil (Brazil/Guadeloupe)
Best Animation: Adventure Of Zambezia (South Africa)
Best Film By Africans Abroad: Last Flight To Abuja (UK/Nigeria)
The documentary for Rihanna’s November 2012 777 tour aired today on Fox. Dozens of journalists and contest-winning fans pack into a 777 airliner to accompany Rihanna on the 7 day, 7 city, 7 concert around-the-world tour.
Not a bad way to promote her 7th album: Unapologetic.
The group hop to Mexico City, Toronto, Stockholm, Paris, Berlin, and London, before the final show in New York.
A snippet from each show includes performances of hits like Phresh Off the Runway, Umbrella, Stay, and Diamond. Rihanna says in the documentary, “I really love making music. I enjoy it.”
President Barack Obama poked fun at himself and his adversaries at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington.
He tickled his audience – who included actors Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Claire Danes and South Korean singer Psy.
The president ended his speech playing a taped piece with Hollywood director Steven Spielberg who did a spoof claiming his new project would be a movie on the president called “Obama” starring Daniel Day-Lewis.
Mr Obama then appeared acting as if he were Day-Lewis preparing for the role.
The producers of MTV’s The Real World, now on its 28th season, are hosting open casting calls for The Real World 29.
Open calls have already taken place in Tempe, AZ and Boston, MA.
Today – Saturday (April 27) – there will be casting calls in Philadelphia, Charlotte, and Atlanta. Keep reading for more info and future nationwide locations.
Color of Change members want to end the dehumanizing images on the Fox television reality-based show Cops by pushing the show out of primetime. They are asking the television network and advertisers to end support of the show.
Cops has aired for 25 seasons, since 1989 and is marketed as being unbiased. However, members of Color of Change allege that dangerous, controlling stereotypes are a recurring component of the show’s message.
Cops puts a black male face on criminality, presenting a world where Black men and boys are stereotyped and punished.
Some great films are on the horizon for 2013…the feature film debut by filmmaker Tina Gordon Chism. A documentary about the most dominant sisters ever in the history of women’s tennis. A young Latina entering the world of hip hop.
Check out the trailers below!
After Earth (Opens June 7)
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Cast: Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Zoe Kravitz, Sophie Okonedo
Synopsis: A father and son crash land on Earth 1,000 years into the future.
Peeples (Opens May 10)
Director: Tina Gordon Chism
Cast: Craig Robinson, Kerry Washington, David Alan Grier, S. Epatha Merkerson
Synopsis: Sparks fly when Wade Walker (Craig Robinson) crashes the preppy Peeples annual reunion in the Hamptons to ask for their precious daughter Grace’s (Kerry Washington) hand in marriage.
Venus and Serena (Opens May 10)
Director: Maiken Baird, Michelle Major
Cast: Venus Williams, Serena Williams
Synopsis: Venus and Serena takes an unfiltered look into the remarkable lives of the greatest sister-act professional tennis has ever seen.
The African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) will take place on April 20 in Bayelsa. Ghanaian actress and British television presenter Ama K. Abebrese, Nigerian actress Dakore Egbuson and comedian AY will host the ceremony.
Africa’s most prestigious motion picture award ceremony, the AMAA annually celebrates and honors filmmakers and other professionals in film across the African diaspora. In addition to highlighting the best of African movies, foreign films from America, Canada, France, Germany, Guadalupe, Italy, Jamaica, and the UK also got nominations.
Watch trailers from top films and see the full list of nominations below:
At age 70, legendary fllm critic Roger Ebert passed earlier this week on April 4, 2013.
Ebert reported for at the Chicago Sun Times for 46 years, starting in 1967. He also starred in the wildly popular television series At the Movies with fellow film critic Gene Siskel.
Later, after Siskel’s death in 1999, Ebert ran a blog of film reviews. He wrote more than 300 reviews in 2012 alone.
In 1975 Roger Ebert became the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. And in 2007, Forbes magazine called Ebert the most powerful critic. He’s also the only film critic with a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Throughout his career, he wrote over 15 books about movies.
The movie ‘polymath’ Tyler Perry has stepped up to the pulpit in his new Temptation. This film is perhaps Tyler Perry’s biggest stamp on his belief in conservative marriage and family structure.
There’s no doubt that Tyler Perry’s work has long proclaimed religion, thrusting Christian principles at the center of most of his films and triumphantly upholding those value systems in his movies.
But perhaps never have those biases been entrenched more so than in this floppy fable he has under his eloquent erudition decided single-handedly to call, “Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor.”
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