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The pop-punk turned slightly country princess, Cassadee Pope, was crowned tonight’s season 3 winner of NBC’s The Voice.
The twenty-three year old West Palm Beach native left her band, Hey Monday, in hopes of breaking out as a solo artist. Tonight, Cassadee’s dreams were fulfilled as host Carson Daly announced she is the winner of a recording contract and $100,000.
Cassadee’s fellow member of Team Blake, Terry McDermott, came in second, while Team Cee Lo’s Nicholas David took third. | Full Story
The Voice is doing a little spring cleaning on their judges panel.
The hit NBC reality talent series has hired Latin singer Shakira and R&B singer Usher as coaches for the upcoming spring segment of the show. The two will replace Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green, who are slated to return to the show for the subsequent fall season.
The new judges are part NBC and producers’ plan to develop an ongoing talent stream for The Voice that can be switched out as needed. | Full Story
In the wake of the upcoming movie Sparkle, the studio has released a new trailer.
While most of the other Sparkle trailers has featured mostly late Whitney Houston, this new one shows the whole cast. First off, this trailer pushes Cee Lo Green into the light as he sings his heart out in a scene on stage. While the artist exercises his vocals, different scenes from the movie is being featured. | Full Story
Sony Pictures just released the trailer to the long awaited Motown movie Sparkle. The film is based on the iconic female singing group ‘The Supremes’, which began as three sisters who start out singing in a local church and have dreams of great succecss in the Motown music industry.
Sadly, this will be the last on-screen performance from legendary singer Whitney Houston, who struggled with a cocaine addiction during her long career. Houston died in February after her battle with drug abuse. | Full Story
Miley Cyrus joins the family that owns Hotel Transylvania. Cyrus comes in as Dracula’s desperate-to-get-out-of-the-house teen daughter. Dracula tries his best to keep his daughter within the confines of the Hotel wall, but when a young worldly chap comes along and shows her the awesomeness beyond the dark walls of the hotel she rebels and goes to explore the real world with him. Adam Sandler will be the voice of Dracula, Kevin James will be voicing Frankenstein, and Fran Drescher is voicing his bride. | Full Story
Movies have enriched Dan Schindel's life so much that he decided
the best way to give back was to become a critic. In addition to Who Got the
Role?, he writes for ScreenPicks, We Are Movie Geeks, Off to
See the Elephant, and several other sites. He spent a year watching and
reviewing a documentary every day for his blog, Days of Docs, so now he
knows everything.
The Hollywood Reporter
