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Jennifer Hudson is still into drama and giving her fans goosebumps with her exciting performances but she’s just on a smaller screen now. The singer/actress is set to premiere on the second season of the hit show Smash.
In Smash, Hudson plays Tony award-winning actress, Veronica Moore, who learns there is a price to pay to reach her dreams on Broadway. It is unclear exactly how many episodes the starlet will appear in, but as reported by E! | Full Story
On the heels of announcing Adele’s musical performance in the James Bond tribute, the 85th Annual Academy Awards will also feature a tribute to musicals over the last ten years. Chicago, Dreamgirls, and, of course, Les Misérables will be featured in the segment.
“The musical as a motion picture genre has had a remarkable renaissance in the last decade,” said producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron as seen on Coming Soon. | Full Story
Jennifer Hudson and Octavia Spencer signed on to star in the Lifetime anthology movie Five 2. The two have join the cast which include Melissa Leo and Sarah Hyland.
Five 2 chronicles the lives of various characters dealing with breast cancer. Like its first breast cancer-themed installment, Five 2 will consist of five short films featuring great talent both in front and behind the camera. The sequel will also tackle mental illness. | Full Story
Jennifer Hudson is the latest recruit to sign on to the cast of NBC’s musical drama series, Smash.
The Oscar winning actress is set to appear in a multi-episode arc in Season 2 of the show.
Her stint on the show will begin with the season premier, where she will play Veronica Moore, a Tony Award-winning Broadway star who significantly impacts the lives of Karen (Katharine McPhee) and Ivy (Megan Hilty). | Full Story
Jennifer Hudson returns to the big screen to play Winnie, the wife of former South African leader Nelson Mandela, played by Terrance Howard.
Winnie focuses on her relationship with Mandela during the political struggle under the vicious apartheid system, a system very similar to the Jim Crow laws that were enforced in America post slavery. The film just recently wrapped in Cape Town, South Africa but no release date has been set. | Full Story
The 54th annual Grammy Awards show surged in ratings on Sunday night during the music industry’s last minute televised tribute to Whitney Houston.
The three-and-a-half hour telecast attracted an impressive 39.9 million viewers, achieving the Grammys’ largest audience since 1984 and second-biggest viewership numbers ever.
The 2012 Grammys delivered a 14.1 adults 18-49 rating in primetime, up 41 percent from last year and matching its best since 1990.
One of the highlights of the ceremony was Jennifer Hudson singing “I Will Always Love You” as a tribute to Whitney Houston, who died Saturday afternoon at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. | Full Story
The Classic silliness is out of the bag! Today the official trailer was revealed for the classic comedy ‘The Three Stooges.’ A slapstick knuckle-headed comedy about Larry, Curly and Moe being drop on the door step of a nunnery and growing up with no manners, class or intelligence, stumbling, fumbling through their lives and manages to become suspects in a murder plot the moving on to starring on a successful reality TV show.
Starring: Sean Hayes, Will Sasso, Chris Diamantopoulos, Jane Lynch, Jennifer Hudson, Sofia Vergara, Craig Bierko, Stephen Collins and Larry David
Written and directed by brothers Peter and Bobby Farrelly. | 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.
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