Year: 2017

TV ONE(NEW YORK) --  Real life married couple Boris Kudjoe and Nicole Ari Parker play husband and wife in TV One's original film, Downsized. The film, which was the winner of 2016's American Black Film Festival Screenplay Competition, tells the story two high school sweethearts who, after two kids and 25 years of marriage, decide to go their separate ways. "When we read the script it really touched us because it captured a moment about […]

ABC Radio(NEW YORK) -- One of network TV's breakout successes this year has been the NBC family drama This Is Us. Now headed into its second season, the show's been lauded for its freshman outing with Emmy nominations for stars Milo Ventimiglia and Sterling K. Brown, as well as a nomination for best drama.  Chris Sullivan, who plays Toby on the show, says he and his fellow cast members knew right from the start […]

Netflix/Pax Thien Jolie Pitt(NEW YORK) -- Angelina Jolie hopes the her new film, First They Killed My Father, depicts the suffering, and the resilience, of the Cambodian people "in a way that they deserve to be seen." The drama, which the Oscar-winner produced and directed, debuts today on Netflix and in select theaters. It's based on the memoir by Cambodian author Loung Ung, a survivor of the murderous Communist Pol Pot regime. "Cambodia has a beautiful, […]

ABC Radio(NEW YORK) -- Another year, another Emmy nomination for black-ish star Anthony Anderson.  The actor is nominated for a third straight year in the category of Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series at Sunday night's 69th Primetime Emmy Awards.  So will the third time be the charm for Anderson?  He doesn't really care. "Growing up as a kid in Compton, with a dream of being where I am […]

ABC/Paula Lobo(NEW YORK) -- Whoopi Goldberg put on her habit Thursday morning for a live performance on The View with her former Sister Act co-stars. Goldberg, who played lounge singer Deloris Van-Cartier and later Sister Mary Clarence in the movie, says directing the nuns on stage brought back a lot of memories. "Twenty-five years...you don't want to think about stuff like that," Goldberg tells ABC Radio. "But, suddenly you look up and you see...folks singing and "Oh, […]

CBS ©2017 CBS Broadcasting, Inc./John Filo(LOS ANGELES) -- The stars will be out Sunday night for the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards.  Where once the annual TV awards took a Hollywood backseat to the Academy Awards, the growing prestige of television has drawn more and more big names to the small screen.This year, nominations for movie stars abound. Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer are each up for awards for their […]

ABC/Kevin Mazur(LOS ANGELES) -- Jennifer Garner really recommends the musical Hamilton -- especially when under the influence of dental anesthetic.  She proved this with a post-dental surgery throwback video she posted to Instagram. The video shows a very emotional Garner talking on her phone to an unknown someone, waxing not-so eloquently about Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway phenomenon, the soundtrack of which was apparently playing at the dentist's office. "They did the sad part […]

Lionsgate/Christian Black (LOS ANGELES) -- Opening nationwide on Friday: * American Assassin -- A veteran Cold War CIA agent and a CIA black ops recruit -- played by Michael Keaton and Dylan O'Brien, respectively -- join forces with a dangerous Turkish agent -- portrayed by Shiva Negar -- to stop a series of attacks on military and civilian targets. Rated R. * mother! -- Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem star in this psychological thriller from Requiem for a Dream and Black Swan director […]