Here's your first OFFICIAL look (above and another full pic below) at the cast all made up to look like the characters they're playing in VH1's biopic on pop/hip hop/R&B group TLC, which is currently shooting. VH1 released the image via press release this afternoon. In the telepic, Keke Palmer is Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas, Drew Sidora is Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins and and Lil' Mama is playing the late Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes. Evan Ross was cast as Dallas Austin, and Donny Boaz will play TLC's manager Bill Diggins. Carl Anthony Payne II is...

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Announced early last month, a sequel to Marlon Wayans' found-footage horror-comedy, A Haunted House, has officially been greenlit, with Open Road, the company behind the first film, returning to do the same again. And Open Road has now set an official release date for the sequel for March 28, 2014, which is currently the release date for Darren Aronofsky's biblical epic Noah, which stars Russell Crowe.Marlon Wayans co-wrote the A Haunted House, which co-starred Essence Atkins and Cedric The Entertainer. It was released in January, and went on to gross over $40 million domestic, which was huge, considering that the film's budget was just $2.5...

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It's usually a 60-minute show, but OWN announces this afternoon that the Jason Collins episode of Oprah's Next Chapter, which airs this Sunday, May 5, has been expanded to a 90-minute episode - from 7:30-9:00 p.m. ET/PT. Oprah Winfrey will speak with NBA player Jason Collins, his twin brother Jarron and family for their first interview together on the heels of Collins' public *coming out*. Something tells me this will be a ratings coup for OWN. We'll find out on Monday when the numbers are released. Below, watch an excerpt from the interview:

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According to Box Office Mojo, The Weinstein Company has moved up the release date for Fruitvale Station by 2 weeks, from the previously-announced July 26 to July 12. This is the second shift, because you might recall that it was original set to debut on October 18, before TWC moved it up by about 3 months, to July 26. No word on the reason for the movie. It has more competition on the July 12 date (Grown Ups 2, Pacific Rim, and 4 other indie films scheduled for release that weekend) than it did on the July 26 date (The Wolverine, and 1 indie), so it's an interesting move - on that I'm sure TWC has very good reasons for making. And secondly, Sony/Screen Gems has moved the...

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Attention filmmakers... read on: Call for Submissions 2013: June 30 Deadline Celebrating Our Amazing Stories in Film http://caribbeantales-events.com/ The 8th Annual CaribbeanTales Toronto Film Showcase Celebrate an explosion of films from the Caribbean Diaspora, with interactive workshops, screenings and networking sessions. September 4 - 15 2013. CaribbeanTales, produced in partnership with Harbourfront Centre, is accepting submissions until June 30, 2013 for its 2013 Film Showcase. The Caribbean is coming to voice in Film. An explosion of talent in images and sound is taking place across the Region and the world. Literally hundreds of filmmakers from the Caribbean and...

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Kampala Story is an adventure movie, set in Uganda's densely populated capital and seen through the eyes of a young girl. Young Apio lives with her small family out on the wind-swept plains, where desert dust drifts around the UN vehicles that hand out supplies to the poor. Apio's mother is pregnant, but when she becomes ill, Apio is sent to Kampala to find her father and ask him for money to pay for her hospital treatment. Alone and armed with nothing more than a piece of paper with her father's name on it, Apio sets off on a long journey towards the city. It is a labyrinthine and dangerous place, where one has to be careful about who one trusts, but where one is also forced to...

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On Monday, May 20th at 9pm ET/PT HBO Documentary Films will premiere Inside Out: The People's Art Project, a 2013 Official Tribeca Film Festival Selection, exclusively on HBO.The seemingly fascinating film tracks the evolution of the world's largest participatory art project, the wildly popular "Inside Out." Travel the globe with French artist and 2011 TED Prize winner JR as he motivates communities to define their most important causes by pasting giant black & white portraits in the street, testing the limits of what they thought possible. In capturing the process, director Alastair Siddons creates a glowing...

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Filmmaker, actress, and S&A contributor Masha Dowell has created rom-com webseries titled Heartbreak-The Series - her 2nd new media project. Her first webseries Telecommuters was an official selection at the 2012 New Media Festival in Los Angeles.Heartbreak-The Series stars Masha Dowell, Roger Payano, Monique Nicole and Marjuan Canady. The project was executive produced by Masha Dowell for Global Culture Films, and co-produced by Nicolle M. Whalen for Nhizwill Productions, and Rosalind Jackson, for Wordy Girl Entertainment. The projects synopsis reads: Sasha McDougal is in love, with her life. The thing is, she doesn't know it yet. You see, first she has...

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Popular CBBC program Wizards vs. Aliens will make its U.S. debut on The Hub network on June 1. Scott Haran stars in the lead role as 16-year-old Tom Clark, a teenager in a family of wizards. So from the show's title, you can pretty much guess what he'll be doing in the 12-episode series. Percelle Ascott plays his best friend, Benny Sherwood. Benny's parents on the show are played by British TV vets Don Gilet and Nina Sosanya. The Hub will first air Wizards vs. Aliens' two-part opener at 7PM on June 1; subsequent episodes will follow every Saturday at 7:30PM.

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Just as they did last year, South Africa's National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) will once again take a delegation of films and filmmakers to the Cannes International Film Festival, which takes place later this month - from the 15th until the 26th of May. The goal here is to demonstrate that South African cinema can compete on the international stage, and show that stories by South African filmmakers can resonate in the international cinema market place. One of the films that will be presented this year is a crime thriller titled Black South-Easter, starring Tony Kgoroge, Fana Mokoena, Yu Nan, Deon Lotz, Thomas...

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