Actor Isaiah Washington is set to star in “Through the Eyes of a Son,” a biopic about singer Lou Rawls written by his son Lou Rawls, Jr. The movie will detail the Chicago native’s poor childhood and turbulent marriage. Rawls died in 2006.
“It’s the untold side of a glamorous life,” said Adel Nur, Washington’s manager told the Hollywood Reporter. “It’s like ‘Ray’; we knew about the beautiful music, but we didn’t know about the turmoil and chaos in (Ray Charles’) life.”
Mary J. Blige will star in the next Tyler Perry movie, “I Can Do Bad All Myself,” due out September 11, reports Billboard. She will play lead character Tanya, a nightclub manager. Academy Award nominee Taraji P. Henson is cast as Tanya’s friend April. The character Madea is also part of the cast.
Blige is also recording a new album, which is scheduled to be released later this year.
Spike Lee’s movie, “Kobe Doin’ Work,” is set to debut at the Tribeca Film Festival April 25 as part of a co-venture with the ESPN. The movie highlights Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant before, during and after a playoff game against the San Antonio Spurs last spring. The movie will then premiere at the ESPN Sports Film Festival May 16 on ESPN.
Tupac’s mother, Afeni Shakur, is expected to file a $10 million lawsuit Monday claiming that Morgan Creek Productions are trying to sabotage a movie about the late rapper, reports the Hollywood Reporter.
“Instead of negotiating in good faith, they sought to obtain the rights by concocting a non-existent ‘agreement’ and engaging in heavy-handed threats, coercion and intimidation to interfere with and ultimately destroy the film project,” claims Amaru Entertainment, Shakur’s company.
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After the success of Madea Goes to Jail, Tyler Perry has signed a deal with Lionsgate for his next two movies, reports Entertainment Weekly. Next week, Perry begins production for I Can Do Bad All by Myself , which is based on one of his plays and features the popular character Madea. The movie films at the new Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta and will be released September 2009.
The sequel Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too will go into production later this year and is set to be released Easter weekend 2010. Perry’s last seven movies have grossed more than $350 million domestically.