WENN.com Posted October 15th 2011     Singer Cee Lo Green will make his big-screen acting debut alongside Jordin Sparks in a planned remake of the movie musical “Sparkle.” The original 1976 film, about three Harlem-based sisters who form a group in the late 1950s, is set for a revamp with Sparks as the title character. [...]

IMDB.com Posted October 12th 2011   Woody Allen has confessed he’d love to cast America’s First Lady Michelle Obama in his next movie – if he can write the perfect role for her. The Annie Hall director’s new film, Midnight in Paris, features a performance by Carla Bruni, the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. [...]

MovieWeb.com By Harout Harmon Posted September 15th 2011 John Boyega will join Milauna Jemai, Julito McCullum, and Kamahl Palmer in the upcoming HBO drama pilot from Spike Lee, Da Brick. John Boyega will play the lead, Donnie, who after his release from juvenile detention on his 18th birthday begins an exploration of what it means [...]

HuffingtonPost.com Posted September 11th 2011 Antonio Banderas’ career, of late, has largely seen him slip into the fur of the adventurous, flamboyant kitty, Puss in Boots, for both the “Shrek” series and his own upcoming spinoff feature. For his next live action film, though, he’s back to dealing with human skin — and in a [...]

HuffingtonPost.com Posted August 31st All good strippers need a great soundtrack. Channing Tatum, Joe Manganiello, Alex Pettyfer, Matt Bomer, Matthew McConaughey will now be relying on Gabriel Iglesias to provide those grooves. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the standup comedian has signed on to what will be by far the most star-studded and epic male [...]

HuffingtonPost.com Posted August 30th 2011 Beyonce’s pregnancy, announced Sunday night at the MTV Video Music Awards, may push back shooting on her next film. The irony? She’s due to star in a remake of the film, “A Star Is Born.” In January, the Golden Globe-nominee was cast in Clint Eastwood’s telling of the story of [...]

NewYorkTimes.com By Dave Itzkoff Posted August 22nd 2011 FOR no more than a minute Chris Tucker posed audaciously on the stage of the Shoreline Amphitheater here on Saturday night, clad in leather jacket and dark sunglasses, as he absorbed the cheers and applause of the crowd. To the 20,000 or so enthusiastic audience members at [...]

Huffington Post.com Posted August 20th 2011 Morgan Freeman’s TV series sees him investigating the unexplained secrets of the cosmos; for his next film, he may be exposing the fraudulent illusions of our terrestrial bounds. The host of the investigative series “Through The Wormhole” on the cable network Science, is according to Variety in talks to [...]

Greater Cleveland Film Commission Posted August 8th 2011 CLEVELAND – During the month of August Downtown Cleveland will be transformed into a movie set for Marvel Studio’s The Avengers, which will require road closures, intermittent traffic delays and alternate routes for motorists and pedestrians. On August 8, E. 9th Street from Euclid Avenue to Prospect [...]

HuffingtonPost.com Posted August 6th 2011 Forest Whitaker is about to go crazy. The “Last King of Scotland” Oscar-winner is set to star with Anthony Mackie in “Vipaka,” Variety reports. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film is about a disturbed man, to be played by Whitaker, who seeks out therapy from a life coach, to [...]