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Leading independent film sales company, Wide Management, has picked up 2 new projects to represent and shop at the Marché du Film at Cannes: Senegalese director Alain Gomis' 3rd feature film titled Aujourd'hui (or Today in English, also known as Tey), which premiered at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February; and Patrik-Ian Polk's The Skinny - Polk being the director of LGBT-themed indie films Noah's Arc:Jumping the Broom and Punks, as well as the creator of the Noah's Arc series for the Logo network. Polk's Skinny has already been screening in theaters around...

Screening in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival this month - a project we've been following since I first wrote about in December. Here's your first look at Senegalese filmmaker Moussa Touré’s 3rd feature film in 20 years, La Pirogue (The Pirogue), via several clips. Recapping... its synopsis on the film, which is described briefly as a story about undocumented immigrants: La Pirogue is the moving story of a group of Senegalese men who set off for Europe on a simple fishing boat, hoping for a better life. Baye Laye is the captain of a fishing pirogue who dreams of earning a better living for his family. When he is...

Donna Summer, affectionally called Queen of Disco, passed away on the 17th of May. She was 63 and died battling cancer. While Donna Summer might...

Time flies doesn't it? I feel like it was only recently that this series made its debut on VH1, and recall a lot of you complaining about it :) Well, season 1 has long been over, and the network did renew the series for a second season, much to the disappointment of some I'm sure, and the first episode of that sophomore season is scheduled to air in exactly 10 days - May 28th! So get ready... just in time as Scandal ends :) The show, which made its debut on May 30th, 2011, averaged close to 3 million viewers each week, with a strong showing in its core 18 to 34 female demographic. I finally watched most of season 1 if only to see what exactly the draw...

The BBC/Sky 1 HD production of Sinbad - a TV series that will feature performances from the likes of Sophie Okonedo, George Harris, Ashley Walters and Estella Daniels - is scheduled to air in the UK this July. And while French network Canal+ and Canadian broadcaster Bell Media were both pre-sold local rights to air Sinbad when it finally does premiere, no word (yet) on if/when it'll reach North American shores. When Sky 1 HD announced the creation of the series back in 2010, they promised "a 21st century take on the classic 8th century iconic hero, Sinbad, reinvigorating the hero’s adventures for a contemporary...

Dorian Missick has joined the cast of Syfy's third season of Haven, based on Stephen King's novel titled The Colorado Kid, about a former FBI agent (Audrey Parker), who unravels the town's many secrets after she becomes a cop. Emily Rose will return as the lead of Audrey Parker. Missick is slated to play the role of Tommy Bowen, a street smart detective from Boston who comes to the town of Haven to investigate a case about a serial killer. Season three will be the immediate aftermath of season two's finale after Audrey's brutal kidnapping. We last told you a couple of weeks ago that Missick's Southland on TNT, starring Regina King, will be returning for a...

And that's a wrap folks!  It suddenly struck me how "post-racial" we could say the show is, in that Olivia Pope's race/skin color is really of no real bearing on the series' various narrative threads. It just is; we see her, we know she's a black woman, but it's not announced. Other than the visual reminder (can't wash it off as the saying goes), you actually almost forget that she IS black; and that's also a credit to how connected and engaged you are as a viewer of the series, with all the various parts in this assembly line working well together to keep you occupied otherwise. Whether all of that's a good thing or bad thing...

Well... I did say that, with its release date just about 5 months away, a little bird told me that we should expect to see the first teaser/trailer for Tyler Perry's Alex Cross any day now.  And while it's not here yet, we've got our first official look at the film via still images (which, as past instances tell us, are often followed by moving images, if you catch my drift).  Repeating something I've said before, I'm genuinely intrigued by this project, mostly because I have absolutely no idea what to expect. This is brand new territory for Tyler Perry, and since it was first announced that he would star in the film about a year ago, or...

The question is not "Is Lena Dunham Racist?"; it's "Is Lena Dunham any more racist than the rest of us?"

You've seen the poster, and the teaser; now here's the first full trailer for Tyler Perry's Madea's Witness Protection, which stars, alongside Tyler Perry, Eugene Levy, Denise Richards, Tom Arnold, Doris Roberts, and Danielle Campbell. It's being billed as a "New Look... New Madea." Will it work?  We'll have a better idea on opening weekend, June 29.  Here's the full trailer, hot off the presses: