Pop legend Whitney Houston‘s mother Cissy is releasing a memoir about her daughter. Before it even hits shelves, movie producers are searching for the right actors to play the people around her in a biopic. When it comes to casting who will embody the role of Bobby Brown, Idris Elba is first on the list. […]
Rapper turned actor Common is showing he can do more than romantic comedies and action thrillers. In his latest film, LUV, Common has a role he can sink his teeth into and really prove himself as an actor. LUV is a film about an ex-convict who is trying to get on the straight and narrow […]
Just when you thought it was safe to watch porn with no shame, Tyga goes and partners with an adult website to create a new site based on his hit “Rack City.” According to AVN.com, the YMCMB member has teamed up with porn actor/director Justice Young have joined forces to create RackCityXXX.com. You can gain […]
In an ode to an era that provided some of the most timeless and party worthy anthems music has ever known, Rock of Ages is a non-stop 80’s party drenched in some of Hollywood’s biggest names. In the Broadway to big screen adaptation directed by famed choreographer Adam Shankman (Hairspray, So You Think You Can […]
The Dark Knight Rises. The Amazing Spider-Man. The Avengers. The summer of 2012 promises to be the year of the superhero with three comic book adaptations hitting the theaters, but where are the black superheroes? Aside from Samuel L. Jackon’s Nick Fury and last year’s X-Men: First Class which featured two black mutants (Zoe Krazitz, […]
Hollywood may continue to either whitewash or shut out actors of color in leading roles, but they know when it comes gospel music, no one does it better than the black church. Gospel music has a long and beautiful legacy in the African-American community; every song carries our tears, our pain and the love we […]
As Hollywood continues its assault on our childhood by persecuting cherished kids games with big screen adaptations like Candyland, Monopoly and the Rihanna-starring action film Battleship, we’ve thought of five other sacred board games we’d hate to see on the big screen, and their worst synopses. Operation: A whole room of wannabe doctors trying unsuccessfully […]
THEBOXHOUSTON.com – Ice Cube talks about the comedy remake, “21 Jump Street” and his role as police Captain Dickson: I don’t just wanna be loud and big, I wanna be funny too, so just making sure you can balance the loud, over the top, cliche police captain [character] with the jokes that are in the script [is […]
Taraji P. Henson is about to make Black women across America green with envy. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the actress has been cast to star opposite Idris Elba in No Good Deed, a thriller from Sony Screen Gems. Henson will play a former district attorney, turned stay-at-home mom whose family is terrorized and kidnapped […]
