Tim Story is one of Hollywood’s best kept secrets. While the fight for more Black directors behind the camera continues, Story has helmed a major…
On January 17th Ice Cube and Kevin Hart’s buddy cop comedy “Ride Along” will be in theaters. TheUrbanDaily.com was invited to hang out on the set…
The Ohio State University Marching Band is out to prove they are the dopest marching band around. After a mesmerizing halftime show paying tribute…
Keke Palmer is Black Hollywood’s sweetheart. Making her big screen debut in 2006′s ”Akeelah and The Bee” the lovely actress has grown up before our…
While Oscar-nominated actor Terrence Howard is busy promoting his upcoming film “Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” his ex-wife is telling the police that he assaulted…
In a sit-down interview with The Grio’s Chris Witherspoon, actor Denzel Washington shared his views on the invisible ceiling black actors and directors hit when it comes to funding black films. “Tyler Perry can make movies up to a certain budget, and then he hits a ceiling….it’s more they (Hollywood) don’t want to take a […]
From: thegrio.com By Donovan X. Ramsey Director George Lucas talked with The Daily Show‘s Jon Stewart Monday about the difficulty of getting his latest project, Red Tails to the big screen screen. Red Tails stars a virtually all-black cast. It tells the story of the famed Tuskegee Airmen fighter pilots from World War II. They were the first black pilots […]
Anthony Mackie (The Night Catches Us, Million Dollar Baby) and Lance Gross (Our Family Wedding, House of Payne) may or may not strike you as acting newcomers. But when you compare them to Laurence Fishburne and Denzel Washington, they’re definitely Hollywood babies. Samuel L. Jackson has been around since Spike Lee’s breakout films and Laurence […]
The prestigious Hollywood Black Film Festival, dubbed “The Black Sundance” has announced its lineup for the 2011 Festival which will happen October 27-30th. The Festival will screen 51 films, including 9 feature films, 11 documentaries and 27 short films. The feature films include, “Rocksteady” a movie about the son of a Jamaican immigrant who becomes […]
Ever since Avatar premiered in 2009 Hollywood has been cranking out more 3-D movies than we can stand. Even movies that don’t have much action are given the 3-D treatment to rake in more revenue. However, Actor Wesley Jonathan thinks this trend will take a turn for the best soon. His new movie Cobu 3D […]
Georgia is now considered one of the top five states in the country for film and TV production with more than 274 projects shot in the state since July 2010, reports the AJC.com. TV shows shot in Georgia include BET’s “The Game,” MTV’s “Teen Wolf,” the Discovery Channel’s “Auction Kings” and AMC’s critically-acclaimed hit shot […]
Actress Garcelle Beauvais joined the Steve Harvey Morning Show today to talk about her role in the new series “Franklin & Bash,” premiering on TNT on June 1st! She also talked about her Haitian mother, what it means to be an attractive, black woman in Hollywood and whether or not she’s like her character on […]
