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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Byron Allen Tells Gloria Allred, “I’ll See You In Court!”

Entertainment Studios is adding to their syndicated roster famed attorney Gloria Allred in what will certainly be daytime television’s most anticipated court show, "We The People with Gloria Allred."

A founding partner of the law firm Allred, Maroko, & Goldberg, the legal heavyweight will preside over outrageous small claims disputes between aggrieved parties. "I've always been passionate about the law, and I'm very excited about this show. I am fully committed to making 'We The People' a huge success," said Allred, who has also indicated that she intends to continue practicing law while she's not on the bench. Here's Saturday Night Live's take on the woman famous for her red St. John's suits:


Having been involved in some of the most controversial cases of our day, including O.J. Simpson, Michael Jackson, Scott Peterson and Tiger Woods, Allred is sure to have fans and critics alike tuning in. "It is unprecedented to have the biggest name in law come to television and be a part of one of its most successful genres – the television court show," said Byron Allen, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Entertainment Studios. "With the increasing success of our show "America's Court with Judge Ross" we are extremely proud to have Ms. Allred join our family and further demonstrate Entertainment Studios' unwavering commitment to be the number one provider of quality television content."

'We The People', Entertainment Studios 28th and newest HD television program, further cements Byron Allen's position as being one of very few independent entertainment companies run and controlled by African Americans. In the Obama era, black celebrities with entrepreneurial acumen such as Will Smith, Tyler Perry, Oprah Winfrey, Jamie Foxx, and Queen Latifah are showing Hollywood once again that in the business of show, it’s all about the green!

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

The Secret Life Of Bees Opening Oct. 17th



Directed by Gina Prince-Blythwood (Love And Basketball), we can't wait to see Alicia Keyes, Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Queen Latifah and Sophie Okonedo

Sunday, January 13, 2008

QUEEN LATIFAH ONLY AFRICAN-AMERICAN TO WIN AT 2008 GOLDEN GLOBES; All Winners Announced!

Hollywood Royalty Crowned For Best Performance By An Actress In A Miniseries Or A Motion Picture Made For Television

The on-going Hollywood writers' strike is letting show business know loud and clear that the industry's scribes AIN'T HAVIN' IT. Forced to cancel the champagne wishes and cavier dreams red carpet ceremony, The 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards were reduced to Access Hollywood's Billy Bush and Nancy O'Dell rattling off winners in a NBC telecast that was a waster of one-hour programming.

The only highlight of the otherwise anti-climatic pronounments came in the form of our girl Dana Owens, aka Queen Latifah, getting some Golden love for her role in HBO's Life Support, which she also produced. Proud to have you representing us, sistah!

Now, want to see the other winners?

LIST OF WINNERS

BEST MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA
"American Gangster"
"Atonement" (Winner)
"Eastern Promises"
"The Great Debaters"
"Michael Clayton"
"No Country for Old Men"
"There Will Be Blood"

BEST MOTION PICTURE, MUSICAL OR COMEDY
"Across the Universe"
"Charlie Wilson's War"
"Hairspray"
"Juno"
"Sweeney Todd" (Winner)

FOREIGN LANGUAGE PICTURE
"4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" (Romania)
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (France/USA) (Winner)
"The Kite Runner" (USA)
"Lust, Caution" (Taiwan)
"Persepolis" (France)

BEST DIRECTOR
Tim Burton, "Sweeney Todd"
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, "No Country for Old Men"
Julian Schnabel, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Winner)
Ridley Scott, "American Gangster"
Joe Wright, "Atonement"

BEST DRAMATIC ACTOR
George Clooney, "Michael Clayton"
Daniel Day-Lewis, "There Will Be Blood" (Winner)
James McAvoy, "Atonement"
Viggo Mortensen, "Eastern Promises"
Denzel Washington, "American Gangster"

BEST DRAMATIC ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett, "Elizabeth: The Golden Age"
Julie Christie, "Away From Her" (Winner)
Jodie Foster, "The Brave One"
Angelina Jolie, "A Mighty Heart"
Keira Knightley, "Atonement"

BEST ACTOR, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Johnny Depp, "Sweeney Todd" (Winner)
Tom Hanks, "Charlie Wilson's War"
Ryan Gosling, "Lars and the Real Girl"
Philip Seymour Hoffman, "The Savages"
John C. Reilly, "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story"

BEST ACTRESS, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Amy Adams, "Enchanted"
Nikki Blonsky, "Hairspray"
Helena Bonham Carter, "Sweeney Todd"
Marion Cotillard, "La Vie en Rose" (Winner)
Ellen Page, "Juno"

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Casey Affleck, "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"
Javier Bardem, "No Country for Old Men" (Winner)
Philip Seymour Hoffman, "Charlie Wilson's War"
John Travolta, "Hairspray"
Tom Wilkinson, "Michael Clayton"

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett, "I'm Not There" (Winner)
Saoirse Ronan, "Atonement"
Julia Roberts, "Charlie Wilson's War"
Amy Ryan, "Gone Baby Gone"
Tilda Swinton, "Michael Clayton"

ANIMATED FILM
"Bee Movie"
"Ratatouille" (Winner)
"The Simpsons Movie"

SCREENPLAY
Diablo Cody, "Juno"
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, "No Country for Old Men" (Winner)
Christopher Hampton, "Atonement"
Ronald Harwood, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
Aaron Sorkin, "Charlie Wilson's War"

ORIGINAL SCORE
Dario Marianelli, "Atonement" (Winner)
Howard Shore, "Eastern Promises"
Clint Eastwood, "Grace Is Gone"
Michael Brook, Kaki King, Eddie Vedder, "Into the Wild"
Alberto Iglesias, "The Kite Runner"

SONG
"Despedida" from "Love in the Time of Cholera"
"Grace Is Gone" from "Grace Is Gone"
"Guaranteed" from "Into the Wild" (Winner)
"That's How You Know" from "Enchanted"
"Walk Hard" from "Walk Hard"


TELEVISION CATEGORIES

DRAMATIC TV SERIES
"Big Love"
"Damages"
"Grey's Anatomy"
"House"
"Mad Men"(Winner)
"The Tudors"

BEST ACTOR, TV DRAMA
Michael C. Hall, "Dexter"
John Hamm, "Mad Men" (Winner)
Hugh Laurie, "House"
Jonathan Rhys Meyers, "The Tudors"
Bill Paxton, "Big Love"

BEST ACTRESS, TV DRAMA
Patricia Arquette, "Medium"
Glenn Close, "Damages" (Winner)
Minnie Driver, "The Riches"
Edie Falco, "The Sopranos"
Sally Field, "Brothers and Sisters"
Holly Hunter, "Saving Grace"
Kyra Sedgwick, "The Closer"

TV SERIES, MUSICAL OR COMEDY
"Californication"
"Entourage"
"Extras" (Winner)
"30 Rock"
"Pushing Daisies"

BEST ACTOR, TV MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Alec Baldwin, "30 Rock"
Steve Carell, "The Office"
David Duchovny, "Californication" (Winner)
Ricky Gervais, "Extras"
Lee Pace, "Pushing Daisies"

BEST ACTRESS, TV MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Christina Applegate, "Samantha Who?"
America Ferrera, "Ugly Betty"
Tina Fey, "30 Rock" (Winner)
Anna Friel, "Pushing Daisies"
Mary-Louise Parker, "Weeds"

BEST MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee"
"The Company"
"5 Days"
"The State Within"
"Longford" (Winner)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MINISERIES OR A MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Bryce Dallas Howard, "As You Like It"
Debra Messing, "The Starter Wife"
Queen Latifah, "Life Support" (Winner)
Sissy Spacek, "Pictures of Hollis Woods"
Ruth Wilson, "Jane Eyre"

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MINISERIES OR A MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Adam Beach, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee"
Ernest Borgnine, "A Grandpa for Christmas"
Jim Broadbent, "Longford" (Winner)
Jason Isaacs, "The State Within"
James Nesbitt, "Jekyll"

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Rose Byrne, "Damages"
Rachel Griffiths, "Brothers and Sisters"
Katherine Heigl, "Grey's Anatomy"
Samantha Morton, "Longford" (Winner)
Anna Paquin, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee"
Jaime Pressly, "My Name Is Earl"

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Ted Danson, "Damages"
Kevin Dillon, "Entourage"
Jeremy Piven, "Entourage" (Winner)
Andy Serkis, "Longford"
William Shatner, "Boston Legal"
Donald Sutherland, "Dirty Sexy Money"

Monday, August 20, 2007

Usher, Eve, Will Smith and Mariah Carey Allegedly Outed By White Publicist: Is Gay The New Black?

Is this really anybody's business?




What do actors Cuba Gooding Jr., Jamie Fox, Henry Simmons, Will and Jada Pickett Smith, Rappers Eve, DaBrat Queen Latifah, and singers Alicia Keys, Usher and Mariah Carey all supposedly have in common?

EVE HAS A CRUSH ON ANGELINA JOLIE

A publicist new to the blog game insists that these folks, among others, are playing for both teams and has decided it's time they come out the closet.

Is this cat just a Perez Hilton wannabee, or has gay really become the new Black???

Assume for a moment that these accusations are true. Would it make you love these celebrites any less if they were gay or bisexual???

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

BIG, CURVY SISTAHS ARE NOW CLEARLY IN VOGUE!

Maybe the folks at Unilever caught on first when they launched their "Campaign for Real Beauty" Dove soap ad campaign back in 2005.

Or maybe Kohl's was ahead of the game by signing Daisy Fuentes in 2003 to design a clothing line that would appeal to "women with curves."

Whomever first saw the trend and acted on it, it seems that the appeal of the full-figured woman has moved into the mainstream these days.

Sisters, take a bow!

This past March, Vogue magazine -- one of the fashion world's style leaders -- had voluptuous Dreamgirl Jennifer Hudson on its cover, coincidentally coinciding with the runways in Milan and Madrid setting weight guidelines for models.

Hudson's far more typical of "real women" than fashion models. According to the National Institutes of Health, the average woman is 5'4" and wears a size 14. The average runway model is 5'11" and a size 0 or 2.

That might help explain the popularity and growth of Lane Bryant and the plus-size brand of Charming Shoppes as well as Dress Barn.

Even Hollywood is jumping on the big girl bandwagon, with Latifah currently staring in Hairspray, Hudson being hand picked by Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, to play her in an upcoming film, and Jill Scott currently shooting in Africa her debut film.

Saturday, August 4, 2007

QUEEN LATIFAH AND HOLLYWOOD ARE GOING SOUTH, Y'ALL

YESTERDAY IN A BEVERLY HILLS RESTAURANT… I was talking with Queen Latifah… well, okay, it was actually her hair stylist and producer friend Julie Baker… and she mentioned to me that Dana (aka Queen Latifah) was heading back to Louisiana.
“For what?” I inquired. (We at 3BAAS/Candleblack Media always ask very deep and penetrating questions.) “For another film shoot,” Julie answered.

What in the past has been a marginal Hollywood story is now becoming a center page item: Film productions are moving out of Hollywood. The story used to be that they were going to Canada. And although that is still true, the bigger and more immediate story is the explosion of film productions that are occurring in the south.

The secret of Louisiana and other southern states recent success is due in large part to a generous bevy of monetary incentives the states offer producers. Under state incentive packages, makers of feature films, television movies, documentaries, commercials, and short films receive rebates and tax breaks generally pegged to how many locals they hire and how much they spend locally.

Incentives matter to filmmakers.


Nia Long & Sandra Bullock shot "
Premonition" in Minden, Louisiana.

A group of small Los Angeles-based production companies probably wouldn't be filming in Georgia this summer without them, said David Koplan, one of the producers of the comedy film "Randy and the Mob." “It's a really big deal for a small movie. It can make the difference in [our] being able to come to a city or not” he said.

But incentives alone aren't enough. Experienced workers, caterers, and camera and equipment rental houses are essential if incentives are to have any lasting effect. Low costs alone will not sustain a film industry. Consequently, Louisiana is beginning to amass just such an infrastructure of people, facilities, and suppliers as the state's film industry matures. Mississippi has set aside a 25-acre "Film Enterprise Zone" where work is scheduled to start this year on a film crew training center.

At least for now, the South is unlikely to ever rival Hollywood or New York as a center of the film and tv industry. But when stars like Queen Latifah, Julia Roberts, Diane Keaton, Nia Long, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Sandra Bullock and the hundred of other Hollywood artisans take root in places like Shreveport, Louisiana, well, there is clearly a movement afoot.

Friday, July 20, 2007

HAIRSPRAY THE MOVIE OPENS TODAY, AND SURPRISE ... THEY WANT YOU BLACK FOLKS TO COME!


Why else would all the advertisement include Queen Latifah and the other Black cast members, 'cause the original movie and the Broadway musical sure as hell didn't!

What am I talking about? I'm saying producers of the HAIRSPRAY franchise have finally made a conscious decision to go after a Black audience and our big black dollars. Something they didn't do in the past.

Now let me first state for the record, I am not making a review or comment about the quality of HAIRSPRAY the new movie. In fact I hope it is as good as the Broadway and national "union" tours. That said, I'm talking about the business aspect of this and other theatrical shows that could easily be marketed to a Black audience, but are not. 'Cause Blackness will scare away other "White" Patrons who presumably have deeper pockets.

Case in point, THE LION KING the Broadway musical. When it first came out(be honest now), how many of you knew the cast was 3/4 Black folks. Yes, a lot of them are from Africa and other islands, but they're black folks. So how many of you knew there were so many quality Black folks performing in the show. 'Cause Disney in its "Original" marketing, neglected to mention that fact.

Years ago I went to The Lion King, two days before it's first national tour was to leave Los Angeles. I knew the animated story because that is what Disney pushed. I went because I love musical theatre and animation was my thing back in the day. My first thought sitting there was, "Hey no one told me all these Black Folks were in the show." Then I looked at the audience; very few Black folks. My next thought: I go to a large local church population aprox. 15,000. In the past, I have put together theatre parties for shows that speak to our people and "Damn I could have got 6 bus loads to this show!" But me and my Black face weren't equated into the marketing.

Producers will sacrifice our green dollars in fear that the production will be labeled a "Black thing" and scare White patrons away.

Second case in point: the Hairspray franchise. Before you saw Queen Latifah pumping the movie on talk shows and the Black kids in the poster and TV ads, I ask, how many of you Black folks were interested? Now, when I tell you half the movie cast is Black and the plot of the story centers around the competition between a White TV dance shows ala' American Bandstand and a Black dance show, similarly looking a lot like Soul Train, and how they both become integrated; I bet I got your attention now!
It charged me! And once again, because it wasn't marketed to Black folks I waited and saw the Hairspray national Broadway tour, two days before it left Los Angeles. And again, I said wow, I could have got a truck load of people to this show.

What has changed is that they found a "Safe Negro" in Queen Latifah to front the campaign.
I'm not saying she's not talented. I'm saying with her work in that good Steve Martin movie, that bad taxi cab movie, TV's LIVING SINGLE and the movie CHICAGO, she is a "Safe Negro", not an angry rapper or "SET IT OFF" gangsta; she will not scare White folks away. And they think the Queen will attract an acceptable "type" of Negro, therefore these Hairspray producers finally want your Black dollars ... for now.

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

LATIFAH IS A BLACK WOMAN WHO TAKES HER BURGERS WELL PAID! ALL HAIL THE QUEEN!


For those of you who don't know, FatBurgers is a L.A. phenomena that has gone global.

And now it looks like our resident queen has decided to jump on the bandwagon.

Queen Latifah, aka Dana Elaine Owens, has just lockdowned a FatBurger franchise in Miami. You go grrrl!

Not that the New York born raptress needs any more fries to go with that shake if you know what I mean, but we do applaud her business acumen.

Latifah, 37, is starring in "Hairspray," but it looks like what she'll really need is a hairnet!

For your next franchise Dana, how about "Salads To Go?"

Photo courtesy TMZ.

Monday, July 16, 2007

OUR BLACK QUEEN LATIFAH SINGS THE BLUES, OVER GENARLOW AND THE GHETTO MESS WE KNOW AS BET!

Latifah Goes Blue On New Album After Hollywood Bowl Gig

Are You Cool With BET Sticking With 'Hot Ghetto Mess?'

Thousands In Atlanta To Support Genarlow - No Justice...

Black Community Is Feeling Their Growing Voter Influence

So is Senator Barack Obama, Who Just Banked $34m

GOP in Freefall, So Bush Honors Jackie Robinson At The "House"

Penny Proud's Dad Tommy Davidson Stops Clownin' Over Africa

Racism Will Get You A** Hurt... Literally


COURTESY OF BLACK REPORT