'Winnie' biopic blasted before it's even released
theGRIO REPORT - 'Winnie,' a film about Winnie Mandela will soon make it debut at the Toronto Film Festival, but Mandela does not support the film....
'Help' moves upstairs with $20.5M, No. 1 weekend
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The DreamWorks Pictures film starring Viola Davis, Emma Stone and Octavia Spencer in a drama about Southern black maids had debuted in second-place a week earlier...
Watch Tyler Perry lunge into action in clip from 'I, Alex Cross'
Though I thought he said he had lost a bunch of weight and added on pounds of muscle in preparation for the part. I can't really tell...
Judge asked to reconsider 'The Help' lawsuit
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) - 'The Help' is based on relationships between white families in Mississippi and the black women who worked for them in the 1960s...
How Steve Harvey has grown his media empire
OPINION - By mingling a formula that is mostly Tyler Perry with a little bit of Oprah, Harvey has ascended to the entertainment mountaintop...
From playing maids to calling the shots: Black women’s Hollywood evolution
Black leading ladies and execs behind the scenes in the feature film industry still lag far behind their Caucasian counterparts...
Are black men not allowed to be sexy on film?
OPINION - There are certain ways in which black men are viewed and categorized that differs from their white counterparts...
Should Will Smith return to the world of rapping?
OPINION - Now he's thinking he can reclaim the crown in 2011? A loooong shot buddy. Sounds more like a mid-life crisis to me...
Anne Hathaway spits rhymes Lil Wayne-style on 'Conan'
"With all the stuff that's been going on with Batman, the paparazzi attention's been a little intense. So I actually wrote a rap song about it," Hathaway told Conan O'Brien...
Shaquille O'Neal, just call him the big director
Shaq is about to complete the Filmmaking Conservatory at the New York Film Academy's branch at Universal Studios Hollywood...
