*Usher’s stepping back into the acting arena but this time as a champion boxer. The singer is set to star in an upcoming film “Hands of Stone,” playing the role of Sugar Ray Leonard (below). The movie is actually about Panamanian boxer Roberto Duran Leonard, but Usher has a significant part. He’s been training to become the world champion who [...]

*Eddie Murphy is set to play former Washington, DC mayor Marion Barry (pictured below). HBO Films is developing the as yet untitled television biopic. Spike Lee will be at the helm while John Ridley is attached to write the script. Murphy, Lee and Ridley are also set as executive producers of the project, the Washington Post also reported. Marion Barry [...]

Nationwide (BlackNews.com) — Urban Life Entertainment, a film production and book publishing company based in Houston, Texas has launched an impressive college tour with their hit movie, As I Die Slowly. It is a movie about choices and consequences. From beginning to end, the movie is designed to teach about the danger & reality of HIV & AIDS. The title [...]

American Idol: champ Fantasia Barrino called in exclusively to “The Wendy Williams Show” today to set the record straight about her pregnancy, relationship and rumors surrounding her involvement in the legendary gospel singer Mahalia Jackson biopic.   Tweet Share on Tumblr

*Some around the world are preparing for an apocalyptic catastrophe to hit some time next year, even porn creators. In the porn capital of the U.S., Sin, er, San Fernando Valley, Calif., porn production studio, Pink Visual is in the middle of building a post-apocalyptic underground bunker in the event of a global event. But it’s going to be more [...]

You think Wiz fan’s know who Cheech and Chong is? LOL *Building on their duet “This Weed is Mine,” rap vet Snoop Dogg and newcomer Wiz Khalifa are teaming for a new film, “High School,” which the former calls “a comedy stoner movie, a little something for the stoners.” Snoop told Billboard.com that the duo — who recorded “This Weed [...]

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*It has been confirmed that Drake will make his return in the upcoming movie Arbitrage which also stars Al Pacino and Susan Sarandon. The movie will begin shooting in spring and is set to be released sometime in 2012. IMDB’s synopsis on the movie is “A troubled hedge fund magnate desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire makes [...]

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Terry McMillian, for those who don’t know is a female African American author known best for her books turned movies, “Waiting to Exhale” and “How Stella Got Her Groove Back”. I know her best for her book “Mama”. Very good book, I was super young when I read it, google it. She said somethings on twitter in regards to Will [...]