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Win Tickets To An Advance Screening For BLACK NATIVITY In Oakland

Win Tickets To An Advance For Screening For BLACK NATIVITY on Thursday 11/21, 7:30pm – Regal Jack London Stadium, in Oakland. BLACK NATIVITY  is an upcoming 2013 American musical drama film directed by Kasi Lemmons. The script, written by Lemmons, is based on Langston Hughes' play of the same name. The film stars an ensemble cast featuring Forest Whitaker, Angela Bassett, Tyrese Gibson, Jennifer Hudson, Mary J. Blige, Jacob Latimore, Vondie Curtis-Hall, and Nas After his mother, Naima, is evicted from their Baltimore apartment, teenage Langston is sent to spend the holidays with his estranged relatives in New York City, where he embarks on a surprising and inspirational journey and along with his new friends, and a little divine intervention, he discovers the true meaning of faith, healing, and family. Make sure to LIKE SandwichJohnFilms on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for all your entertainment news and screenings. Official Website - See how to win tickets

Win Tickets To An Advance Screening For BLACK NATIVITY In San Francisco

Win Tickets To An Advance For Screening For BLACK NATIVITY on Thursday 11/21, 7:30pm in San Francisco. BLACK NATIVITY  is an upcoming 2013 American musical drama film directed by Kasi Lemmons. The script, written by Lemmons, is based on Langston Hughes' play of the same name. The film stars an ensemble cast featuring Forest Whitaker, Angela Bassett, Tyrese Gibson, Jennifer Hudson, Mary J. Blige, Jacob Latimore, Vondie Curtis-Hall, and Nas After his mother, Naima, is evicted from their Baltimore apartment, teenage Langston is sent to spend the holidays with his estranged relatives in New York City, where he embarks on a surprising and inspirational journey and along with his new friends, and a little divine intervention, he discovers the true meaning of faith, healing, and family. Make sure to LIKE SandwichJohnFilms on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for all your entertainment news and screenings. Official Website - See how to win tickets after the Jump... H

THE INEVITABLE DEFEAT OF MISTER AND PETE Opens This Friday In Sacramento & San Francisco

Summit Entertainment’s THE INEVITABLE DEFEAT OF MISTER AND PETE opens this Friday in Sacramento and San Francisco. THE INEVITABLE DEFEAT OF MISTER AND PETE stars Jennifer Hudson, Jordin Sparks, Anthony Mackie, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Jeffrey Wright . THE INEVITABLE DEFEAT OF MISTER AND PETE – In Theaters on Friday, October 11 From Codeblack Films and Lionsgate. During a sweltering summer in New York City, 13-year-old Mister's ( Brooks ) hard-living mother ( Hudson ) is apprehended by the police, leaving the boy and nine-year-old Pete ( Dizon ) alone to forage for food while dodging child protective services and the destructive scenarios of the Brooklyn projects. Faced with more than any child can be expected to bear, the resourceful Mister nevertheless feels he is an unstoppable force against seemingly unmovable obstacles. But what really keeps the pair in the survival game is much more Mister's vulnerability than his larger-than-life attitude. THE INEVITABLE D

BLACK NATIVITY Opens NOVEMBER 27, 2013

FOX SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE RELEASE OF BLACK NATIVITY OPENS NATIONWIDE ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2013. In a contemporary adaptation of Langston Hughes’ celebrated play, the holiday musical drama BLACK NATIVITY follows Langston ( JACOB LATIMORE ), a street-wise teen from Baltimore raised by a single mother, as he journeys to New York City to spend the Christmas holiday with his estranged relatives Reverend Cornell and Aretha Cobbs ( FOREST WHITAKER and ANGELA BASSETT ). Unwilling to live by the imposing Reverend Cobbs’ rules, a frustrated Langston is determined to return home to his mother, Naima ( JENNIFER HUDSON ). Langston embarks on a surprising and inspirational journey and along with new friends, and a little divine intervention, he discovers the true meaning of faith, healing, and family. Cast: Forest Whitaker, Angela Bassett, Tyrese Gibson, Mary J. Blige, Jacob Latimore, Nasir Jones, Luke James, Grace Gibson and Jennifer Hudson . Directed /

Terrence Howard And Jennifer Hudson To Star In "Winnie"

Terrence Howard And Jennifer Hudson To Star In "Winnie" First Morgan Freeman played Nelson Mandela which got him an Oscar nomination, will playing the same role give Terrence Howard his second nod. Terrence Howard ("Iron Man") is to portray Nelson Mandela in the Jennifer Hudson-starring feature " Winnie ," based on the story of Winnie Mandela, Nelson Mandela's former wife. Darrell Roodt is directing the $15 million historical drama, a South Africa-Canada co-production set to start production May 31 in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was held prisoner for 18 years. Here’s the official synopsis of the book WINNIE MANDELA: A LIFE. “Everyone has an opinion about Winnie Mandela, and usually a strong one. She has been adored, feared and hated more than any other woman in South African history. But few people know much about the life behind the headlines, myths and sound-bites. This biography is an in-depth and intimate

Sex and the City 2 Trailer

Sex and the City 2 Trailer Slip on your Manolos and grab a Cosmo, girls, because the first "Sex and the City 2" trailer is here! The nearly minute-and-a-half trailer reveals few plot points, but the sequel looks like another fun- and fashion-filled romp, centering around a girlfriend getaway to the desert. The trailer (see it after the jump!) opens with quick shots of New York City accompanied by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys' seriously apropos hit "Empire State of Mind." "It's been two years and in two years, amazing things can happen," purrs Sarah Jessica Parker. Cut to Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) sauntering down a Big Apple sidewalk, Charlotte (Kristin Davis) baking cupcakes with her 2-year-old daughter Rose and Samantha (Kim Cattrall) doing something at what appears to be a wedding (the rumored Stanford Blatch-Anthony Marantino nuptials, perhaps?). The gal pals then hop on a plane and jet to the desert to "get carried far away," which explains th

Jennifer Hudson To Play Winnie Mandela

Jennifer Hudson To Play Winnie Mandela Jennifer Hudson, the former American Idol contestant who won the oscar in her first screen role in "Dreamgirls," is ready for her next challenge. Hudson will star in “Winnie,” a drama that casts her as the former wife of South Africa’s first black president, Nelson Mandela. Hudson will play Winnie Mandela in a film that begins production May 30 in the South African locations of Johannesburg, Capt Town, and the Transkei and Robben Island where the future president spent 18 of his 27 years in prison. “Winnie” will be directed by Darrell J. Roodt, the veteran South African filmmaker whose 2006 film “Yesterday” was Africa’s Best Foreign Film nominee, and who also directed “Cry, The Beloved Country,” and “Sarafina!” Andre Pieterse, Roodt and Paul L. Johnson wrote a script based on the Anne Marie du Preez Bezdrob biography “Winnie Mandela:A Life.” Picture is being made with South African and Canadian money, with Pieterse producing with Michael