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Forest Whitaker to direct and star in Louis Armstrong biopic

Variety reports that Forest Whitaker will direct and star in the film What a Wonderful World, a biopic on musician Louis Armstrong. Paris-based Legende, the company behind La Vie en rose, is producing the film, alongside Edward R. Pressman, and Oscar Cohen, executive of the Armstrong estate and the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation. Ron Bass ….

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street coming on Blu-ray

On October 21st, Paramount Home Entertainment will release the Golden Globe winning cinematic masterpiece from Director Tim Burton Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street on Blu-ray. Re-imagined by legendary director Tim Burton and starring Golden Globe winner (and Academy Award nominated) actor Johnny Depp, Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning Broadway hit never looked and ….

Trailer for the Fox Searchlight Biggie Smalls biopic Notorious

The first trailer for Fox Searchlight’s Biggies Smalls biopic Notorious is now online. The film traces the life and death story of Notorious B.I.G. (a.k.a. Christopher Wallace), who came out of Brooklyn to take the world of rap music by storm. George Tillman Jr. directed Notorious, which also features Angela Bassett as Biggie’s mother Voletta, ….

The Soloist film trailer

Robert Downey Jr. plays Steve Lopez, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, who stumbles upon Nathaniel Ayers, played by Jamie Foxx, a gifted and schizophrenic, homeless musician that lives in Los Angeles’ Skid Row, who was a child prodigy, and still dreams of playing at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Joe Wright, who directed last ….

Mobile video downloads mature

Cricket, a provider of unlimited wireless services, recently announced a flat-rate unlimited mobile video service that allows users to view one-to-four-minute-long video clips directly from select handsets. Videos available include music videos, artist interviews, music documentaries, sports clips from FUEL TV such as soccer and mixed martial arts, entertainment news from Hollywood Insider, movie trailers, ….

Soul Men film trailer

After more than twenty years since they last spoke to one another, two estranged soul-singing legends (Samuel L. Jackson and Bernie Mac) agree to participate in a reunion concert at the Apollo Theater to honor their recently deceased band leader. Soul Men also stars Isaac Hayes The film represents the next to last on-screen performance ….

Opera and a movie

National CineMedia, operator of the largest digital in-theatre network in North America for cinema advertising and alternative entertainment events, along with the Metropolitan Opera are partnering to bring a third season of the critically-acclaimed The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD series transmitted live, in high-definition, to more than 440 movie theatres and performing arts centers ….

Bride and Prejudice film review

Bride and Prejudice, a new film by the director of the hit Bend It Like Beckham, tries to speak to a global audience by refracting an iconic English novel through the realities of the Indian diaspora. The movie by director Gurinder Chadha takes novelist Jane Austen’s 1813 classic Pride and Prejudice and sets it in ….

The Doors film review

I figure most of us thought The Doors was plenty of movie at 138 minutes. Little did we realize that one of Oliver Stone’s least favorably received movies would call for a two-disc DVD set with 43 minutes of deleted scenes, numerous documentary extras, and a feature length commentary track from Stone. And yet here ….

Dreamgirls film review

Year: 2006 Ok, I just saw Dreamgirls…or what I like to call Behind The Music: Destiny’s Child (Just ki’in! LOL). Since the “remake” theme is the new norm for Hollywood, I can say I’ve never seen the play (Damn shame, ain’t it?), so it was a good thing and a bad thing: Good that I ….

Ray film review

Every time former Booty Call-er Jamie Foxx rasps his voice, sways gracefully on a piano bench, or hugs his own torso in triumph, we lose the actor we’ve come to know completely. Left standing in his place is the late Ray Charles, staring back at us from behind those trademark sunglasses – and yes, we ….