The cast of the upcoming film, “Middle of Nowhere” is pictured above at the Getty Images Portrait Studio in Park City, Utah during the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Pictured above (L-R) Actress Sharon Lawrence, actress Edwina Findley, actor David Oyelowo, actor Troy Curvey III, actor Omari Hardwick, producer Howard Barish, writer/director Ava DuVernay and actress Emayatzy E. Corinealdi..
The independent film, “Middle of Nowhere” is a drama that follows a woman (Emayatzy E. Corinealdi) who changes her life in order to contend with her husband’s (Omari Hardwick) 8-year prison sentence. Check out the trailer below.
Check out the official trailer for the T.D. Jakes-produced thriller Woman Thou Art Loosed: On The 7th Day. The Codeblack Entertainment film stars Blair Underwood, Sharon Leal, Nicole Beharie, Pam Grier and more. The Neema Barnette-directed movie will be premiered at the Pan African Film Festival on February 19 and released at select AMC theaters on April 13, 2012.
A full synopsis of the motion picture is after the jump… Continue
As you all may or may not know, one of the first all-black action pictures Red Tails premiered worldwide in movie theaters today, Friday, January 20th. Earlier this month, the producer/director George Lucas stopped by The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and talked about the challenges he had while making the film, how long it took to bring his idea to life as well as who he had in mind when creating the film:
ON HOW LONG IT TOOK TO CREATE ‘RED TAILS’:
23 years. We finished it. I financed it himself. I figured I could get the prints and ads paid for by the studios and that they would release it. And I showed it to all of them and they they said, ‘No. We don’t know how to market a movie like this.’ [...] It’s because it’s an all black movie. There’s no major white roles in it at all. It’s one of the first all-black action pictures ever made.
ON WHY THE MOVIE WASN’T INITIALLY SUPPORTED:
It’s a reasonably expensive movie. Normally black movies, like a Tyler Perry movie or something, they’re very low budget. Even they won’t even release his movies. They usually go to one of the non-major distributors. And they do well, but they do a certain amount of money and they know what that is. And this [Red Tails] costs more than what those movies make. And they don’t believe there’s any foreign market for it, but that’s 60% of their profit.
ON WHY HE CREATED THE FILM:
It was presented as – which was the reason I did it – I wanted to make it inspirational for teenage boys. I wanted to show that they have heroes, that they’re real American heroes, they’re patriots that helped make the country what it is today, and it’s not Glory where you have a lot of white officers running these guys into cannon fire. They were real heroes.
Check out the official trailer for upcoming film, “DYSFUNCTIONAL FRIENDS”. The film surrounds “estranged friends who are reunited after their larger then life friend (Keith Robinson) unexpectedly dies.”
The movie has a big cast including: Stacey Dash, Meagan Good, Persia White, Tatyana Ali, Hosea Chanchez, Essence Atkins, Jason Weaver, Wesley Jonathan, Terrell Owens, Vanessa Simmons and more! Written and directed by COREY GRANT, the film opens in theaters February 3rd 2012 with a limited release in AMC theaters.
of the first all-black action pictures ever made.
