As Hollywood continues its assault on our childhood by persecuting cherished kids games with big screen adaptations like Candyland, Monopoly and the Rihanna-starring action film…

THEBOXHOUSTON.com - Ice Cube talks about the comedy remake, “21 Jump Street” and his role as police Captain Dickson: I don’t just wanna be loud and big,…

It’s been a week since Whitney Houston was laid to rest, but the pop diva’s music legacy lives on.  Houston was poised to make her…

Comcast, the nation’s largest cable provider with more than 22 million subscribers, will distribute networks owned by NBA superstar Magic Johnson, musical artist and entrepreneur Sean “Diddy” Combsand Hollywood director Robert Rodriguez. The announcement came Tuesday from David L. Cohen, executive vp of Comcast Corporation. Johnson’s Aspire, a partnership with GMC TV that is set to launch this summer, […]

Rihanna’s dropping the sexy outfits she’s known for in favor of camouflage gear and fatigues in her upcoming movie Battleship.  In the war on water movie the Bajan singer plays Raikes, a Naval weapons officer. To prep for it Rihanna got some expert assistance from an actual Navy weapons official, which she referred to as […]

Rihanna is out to save the world in the upcoming alien invasion blockbuster Battleship. Based on the Milton Bradley board game, the movie will be an epic sci-fi war film, in which an international naval fleet go to battle against The Regents, an alien race out to conquer the world.  When asked why Rihanna was […]

Pop quiz–Can you name at least two current black action stars, excluding Will Smith and Denzel Washington?  Or the last time you saw an interracial couple on the big screen where the storyline didn’t revolve around the color of their skin and/or didn’t end as tragically as a Shakespearean play? Columnist J.F. Sargent at humor […]

Immortals starring Henry Cavill, Freida Pinto and Mickey Rourke opens in theaters nationwide today. Director Tarsem Singh offers a visually stunning retelling of the story of Theseus (Cavill),  a heroic young man who must save the world against the bloodthirsty and power hungry King Hyperion (Rourke). Watch trailer below: With Hollywood’s everlasting love affair with […]

Actress Adepero Oduye was an honoree at this year’s NextGen 2011 event this past weekend.  The Hollywood Reporter’s Next Gen list features a select group of 35 people working in the industry under the age of 35.  Oduye was singled out for her riveting performance in Pariah, a moving story of a Brooklyn teenager coming to […]

(via The Hollywood Reporter) Looks like Hollywood has finally gotten the memo on the lack of diversity on the big screen.  Director George Tillman (Notorious, Soul Food) has been commissioned to develop and direct a film adaptation of jazz legend Miles Davis.  The movie will be loosely based on the book, “Dark Magus: The Jekyll […]

Queen Latifah and country music icon Dolly Parton get their praise on in the upcoming comedy Joyful Noise. Latifah plays Vi Rose, whose traditional style of choir directing, rubs rival G.G. Sparrow (Parton) the wrong way.  Shaking things up even more is the arrival of G.G.’s rebellious grandson Randy (Jeremy Jordan), who has his eye […]

Denzel Washington is back in fighting form in the upcoming spy thriller Safe House. Washington plays Tobin Frost, the most dangerous renegade from the CIA, who comes out of hiding after a decade on the run. When the South African safe house he’s remanded to is attacked by mercenaries, a rookie operative (Ryan Reynolds) escapes […]