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Jay-Z’s Annie remake is still trying to put a cast together. 12-year-old Willow Smith recently exited the lead role and Southern Wild’s Quvenzhané Wallis had to step up to replace her.
Now Jamie Foxx is reportedly in talks with Sony Pictures to play Benjamin Stacks in the modern retelling of the Broadway classic, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Stacks is a modernized variation of the Daddy Warbucks character who helps the iconic orphan search for her parents. | Full Story
Hip Hop mogul Jay-Z, is no stranger to doing big things, and the next big thing the Brooklyn-born rapper is doing is his Made In America Music Festival, which runs September 1-2 in Philadelphia.
The rapper is also teaming up with Hollywood big wigs Brian Grazer and Ron Howard to turn the festival into a movie.
Grazer will produce and Howard will direct the film based on the two-day festival, which will feature such artest as Drake, Skrilles, Rick Ross, Run DMC, Miike Snow, Janellee Monae, Odd Future and Jay-Z, who will be headlining. | Full Story
Jon Hamm, the star of AMC’s Mad Men is not too famous to get a little star struck from time to time. In an interview with AV Club the star spoke about his first encounter with Hip-Hop Mogul Jay Z.
“I was in New York City and going down an elevator when the elevator stopped, and Jay-Z got on,” Hamm said. “This was a long time ago. It was pre-Beyoncé. And definitely pre-Mad Men. | Full Story
In the wake of a strong decline in sales for his Rocawear clothing line, (now at a $500 million dollar loss in sales), Jay-z unveiled on his website entitled Life and Times, a 30-second TV spot Monday in which he highlights Brooklyn NY and the mountains he climbed to get to where he is today.
In the spot titled From Marcy To Barclays, Jay-Z says, ” I want to show that artists can ascend to the executive ranks. | Full Story
Gwyneth Paltrow believes that Blue Ivy Carter is destined for stardom.
In a recent interview, the actress mentioned that she has met Beyonce and Jay-Z’s baby and that she sees a lot of star qualities in the two-month-old infant.
“For sure, she is going to be an entertainer,” Paltrow said. “She just has this glow around her like her mother.”
The actress also mentions that Beyonce is a terrific mother. Paltrow and Beyonce have been close friends for more than a decade so she claims to have witnessed Mrs. | 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
