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Post Malone may not have physically been at the premiere to celebrate his acting debut in “Spenser Confidential” on Thursday night in Los Angeles (due to a performance on his Runaway Tour in Washington D.C.), but the Grammy-nominated rapper was definitely there in spirit. As star Mark Wahlberg walked the black carpet outside the Regency Village Theatre, a video of Malone appeared on mini-screens at the venue.

“Sorry I couldn’t be at the premiere tonight,“ Malone said in the video. “I love you so much, but I Postmated something very special to make up for it.”

A black truck soon arrived, delivering hundreds of burgers from Wahlberg’s restaurant Wahlburgers for guests at the event.

“I didn’t know. That was a nice surprise,” Wahlberg told Variety as the burgers were being handed out. “Posty and I have been friends for a long time and I know Posty...

Six inaugural grantees unveiled.

The Tribeca Film Institute (Tfi) and Pond5 are launching a filmmaking fund to support sustainable careers for filmmakers and have announced the first six grantees.

The programme is funded by tax-deductable donations and artists will be able to apply for micro-grants three times a year. Pond5, which describes itself as the world’s largest stock video marketplace, will match donations.

The grants will address the needs of artists who lack resources during what the partners called “in-between” phases, including research, creative collaboration, festival travel, content, community screenings, outside-the-box mentorship, and extra release support.

Tfi executive director Amy Hobby,...

Film premiered in competition at SXSW under original title Dara Ju.

Orion Pictures and Samuel Goldwyn Films have secured North American rights to first-time filmmaker Anthony Onah’s drama The Price.

The story centres on a young Nigerian-American working on Wall Street who is forced to confront himself after his ambition leads him into morally dubious waters.

Aml Ameen, Lucy Griffiths, Bill Sage and Hope Olaide Wilson star alongside Michael Hyatt, Peter Vack, and Souléymane Sy Savané.

Onah also wrote the screenplay for The Price based on his short film Dara Ju. The film premiered in competition SXSW earlier this year.

Justin Begnaud, Kishori Rajan and Onah produced the film, while Tom Dolby, Susanne Filkins, Abdi Nazemian and Lynda Weinman served as executive producers.

Jennifer 8 Lee, Greg Brockman, Peter Hess Friedland, Aston Motes, and Daniel Davila also served as executive producers.

“We are very excited to be working on Anthony Onah’s feature debut. The Price is...

[Warning: The following contains spoilers from the Season 5 premiere of The Fosters! Read at your own risk!]

The Fosters Season 5 premiere marks another close call for Callie (Maia Mitchell), who narrowly escaped being raped (or worse) thanks to Diamond's (Hope Olaide Wilson) quick thinking. The two

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After drawing attention to the festival’s annual Gaming Awards, organizers behind the South by Southwest Film Festival have posted the full, comprehensive lineup, revealing that the likes of Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver and Free Fire, the riotous ensemble thriller from Ben Wheatley, are among those films that will screen for critics and attendees.

Per SXSW 2017‘s website, this year’s showcase will host “84 World Premieres, 11 North American Premieres, and 6 Us Premieres. First-time filmmakers account for 51 films, continuing our tradition of unearthing the emergent talent of tomorrow.” British auteur Ben Wheatley (Kill List, Sightseers, A Field in England) is a regular of the Texas festival, and will be rubbing shoulders with other favorites including Michael Winterbottom, Nacho Vigalondo, Michael Showalter.

SXSW 2017 begins on March 10th in Austin, Texas and you can get up to speed on everything the festival has to offer down below.

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"Solace" is inspired by writer-director Tchaiko Omawale and her personal struggles with an eating disorder and self-harm. Hope Olaidé Wilson portrays Sole, "a 17-year-old girl whom, upon the death of her father, is forced to live with her only living relative, an estranged grandmother, Irene (Lynn Whitfield). Irene eagerly attempts to make up for lost time with her reluctant granddaughter by recreating a semblance of family with her paramour, Clay (Glynn Turman). Things are further complicated by a looming deadline upon which Sole’s future hinges. In addition, the questionable influence of her new friends, neighborhood troublemaker, Jasmine (Chelsea Tavares),...

How did the most angelic woman in soap history give birth to a monster? We might get an answer when Signy Coleman appears on The Young and the Restless August 13 and 16 as blind heroine Hope Wilson. The character, who died in 2008, will return in flashbacks and a dream sequence that will shed some light on her son, Adam, and why he turned into such a conniving psychopath. Since we last saw Coleman, she's been crazy-busy...

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Constantly derided by critics, all but ignored by Hollywood, and largely unheard of in the lucrative foreign markets that over time parachute most pictures into some semblance of profitability, Tyler Perry remains one of the most important (not to mention bankable) figures working in cinema today. A one man band born of a proud African American theater tradition, Perry is a one man band who writes, produces, directs and stars in stories that capture the zeitgeist of black America, tackling such unfashionable, unmarketable issues as economic empowerment and personal responsibility to the tune of more than $400 million.

While the likes of the Hughes Brothers simple retell the same story of urban oppression, poverty, and gentrification in a variety of different genres, Tyler Perry shows there is much more to black cinema than guns and gangs, forging an instantly recognizable brand as perhaps the only mainstream American filmmaker to directly engage with the African American middle-class.

Tyler Perry is a hit-making machine, and his most recent film, Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself (2009), ranks not only as yet another box office success, but also as one of his better, more mature and most emotionally relatable (and fulfilling) productions. Out now on DVD and Blu-ray from Lionsgate, the film stars the superb Taraji P. Henson, building on her strong, Oscar-nominated turn opposite Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008). Here, she plays April, a hard-drinking nightclub singer who's involved with a married man, Randy (Brian White), and is suddenly saddled with the burden of caring for her late sister's three children (Hope Olaide Wilson, Kwesi Boakye, and Frederick Siglar) after the gun-toting Madea (Perry) snags them looting her home. April doesn't want the kids, but she soon relents and begins the slow process of building a family, a process that's sped up...

Moon: "Moon may not be right up there with the best that the genre has to offer, but it's damn good. And given the usual crop of crap science fiction that's thrown at us, it's a welcome relief. No aliens, dystopic futures, or killer robots. Just a dude living on the moon. That dude would be Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell), a contracted employee of a company called Lunar Industries, which has mostly solved Earth's energy crisis by figuring out how to harvest helium from sun-soaked moon rocks. Most of the process is automatic, but the company needs someone chilling out on the moon, overseeing operations and getting canisters of the wonderful He3 back to Earth." - Seth Freilich

Halloween II: "Rob Zombie, who not only directed but also wrote this latest installment in the Halloween franchise, has clearly intended to separate his vision from that of the legendary John Carpenter.

The cast of Fox's "Glee" will be presented the Favorite New Television Cast Ensemble Award at the Multicultural Motion Picture Assn.'s 17th annual Diversity Awards on Nov. 22 at the Beverly Hills Hotel.The event will also honor NBC's "Parks and Recreation" as Favorite New Comedy Ensemble; CBS' "Ncsi: Los Angeles" as Favorite New Television Action Drama; ABC Family's "Lincoln Heights" as Favorite Family Drama Ensemble Cast; and HBO as the 2009 Diversity Programming Network.Justin Chon will be recognized with the Male Nova Award, while Hope Olaide Wilson is set to receive the Female Nova Award.Taraji P. Henson will be honored as best actress in a drama for the film "I Can Do Bad All By Myself." Masi Oka has been named best actor in a TV drama for "Heroes."Scott Hamilton Kennedy, who directed "The Garden," will be celebrated as audience favorite -- best documentary feature director.

The cast of Fox's "Glee" will be presented the Favorite New Television Cast Ensemble Award at the Multicultural Motion Picture Assn.'s 17th annual Diversity Awards on Nov. 22 at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

The event will also honor NBC's "Parks and Recreation" as Favorite New Comedy Ensemble; CBS' "Ncsi: Los Angeles" as Favorite New Television Action Drama; ABC Family's "Lincoln Heights" as Favorite Family Drama Ensemble Cast; and HBO as the 2009 Diversity Programming Network.

Justin Chon will be recognized with the Male Nova Award, while Hope Olaide Wilson is set to receive the Female Nova Award.

Taraji P. Henson will be honored as best actress in a drama for the film "I Can Do Bad All By Myself." Masi Oka has been named best actor in a TV drama for "Heroes."

Scott Hamilton Kennedy, who directed "The Garden," will be celebrated as audience favorite -- best documentary feature director.

Rolling on with the behind-the-scenes coverage of Tyler Perry’s new movie featuring the pistol-packing granny Madea (played by Mr. Perry in a fat suit) - this time, the tale turns poignant when children are in need and someone has to step up to re-prioritize their life - which comes from the help of a stranger in ‘I Can Do Bad All By Myself.’

Madea (Tyler Perry) greets the children at the door with a warning

In this clip ‘The Kid Whisperer‘ April (Taraji P. Henson) drops off her sister’s kids Jennifer (Hope Olaide Wilson), Manny (Kwesi Boakye) and Byron (Frederick Siglar) at Madea’s (Tyler Perry) house and Madea lays down the law straight away to the chagrin and alarm of the youths.

‘I Can Do Bad All By Myself’ Synopsis When Madea, America’s favorite pistol-packing grandma, catches sixteen-year-old Jennifer and her two younger brothers looting her home,...

See a new clip from "Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself," starring Tyler Perry, Taraji P. Henson, Brian J. White, Mary J. Blige and Hope Olaide Wilson. Reuben Cannon produces alongside Perry. Catch it on September 11th via Lionsgate. When Madea, America’s favorite pistol-packing grandma, catches sixteen-year-old Jennifer and her two younger brothers looting her home, she decides to take matters into her own hands and delivers the young delinquents to the only relative they have: their aunt April. A heavy-drinking nightclub singer who lives off of Raymond, her married boyfriend...

In Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself, Taraji P. Hinson's character isn't by herself for long. After some prodding from Madea, she takes in her sister's troubled children, including Jennifer, played by newcomer Hope Olaide Wilson. Wilson's own story could teach a Perry heroine a thing or two about overcoming adversity: She grew up between England and Nigeria and sold eggs to help her family stay afloat until a green card lottery gave them all the opportunity to move to the United States. Compounding the culture shock was Wilson's graduation from high school at age 15 and subsequent decision to move to California to pursue acting, but as she told Movieline last week, neither of those events seem as scary as watching herself perform on a 40-foot-high movie screen.

London born actress Hope Olaide Wilson is breaking into the acting scene and she has scored some good roles to prove it.

Wilson sat down with Celebrity News Service to discuss her new roles and upcoming movies. She will next be seen on the big screen in Tyler Perry's "I Can Do Bad All By Myself" as a delinquent teen caught breaking into Madea's house. She co-stars in the film with Taraji P. Henson, Adam Rodriguez, Brian White, Mary J. Blige, Gladys Knight, Pastor Marvin Winans and Tyler Perry.

Wilson described her role as Jennifer, telling Cns, "She's a young girl that has had a troubled childhood and not really had anyone except for herself to take care of her younger brothers. She's never really been able to count on anyone for support."

Working with big names was exciting for Wilson. She explained saying, "I had the opportunity to...

No she didn't...

I have something to admit: I kinda enjoy Tyler Perry’s movies. Though many consider him to be an exploitation director, I find his themes of family, religion and heart to be universal and not just for African-Americans.

With that said, here’s the second trailer for Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All by Myself starring Tyler Perry as Madea, Taraji P. Henson, Adam Rodriguez, Mary J. Blige and Hope Olaide Wilson.

Written and directed by Perry, the movie arrives in theaters on September 11th.

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Tyler Perry has released a new full version theatrical movie trailer (below) for his latest comedy movie "I Can Do Bad All By Myself". Along with Tyler Perry,it will also star: Taraji P. Henson, Brian White, Hope Olaide Wilson, Adam Rodriguez, Kwesi Nii-Lante Boakye, Frederick Siglar. In this latest Madea installment, Madea (Tyler Perry) catches some kids looting her home.

Here is the teaser poster for Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself! Starring Tyler Perry, Taraji P. Henson, Adam Rodriguez, Brian J. White, Hope Olaide Wilson, Kwesi Boakye, Frederick Siglar, Gladys Knight and Mary J. Blige. The movie opens in theaters September 11, 2009 When Madea, America’s favorite pistol-packing grandma, catches sixteen-year-old Jennifer and her two younger brothers looting her home, she decides to take matters into her own hands and delivers the young delinquents to the only relative they have: their aunt April. Initially wanting nothing to do with the kids, April learns along the way that she [...]...

Here is the teaser trailer for Lionsgate’s upcoming film Tyler Perry’s I Can do Bad All By Myself. Madea is back in this hilarious and uplifting comedy starring Tyler Perry, Taraji P. Henson, Brian White, Hope Olaide Wilson, Adam Rodriguez, Kwesi Nii-Lante Boakye and Frederick Siglar. When Madea, America’s favorite pistol-packing grandma, catches sixteen-year-old Jennifer and her two younger brothers looting her home, she decides to take matters into her own hands and delivers the young delinquents to the only relative they have: their aunt April. A heavy-drinking nightclub singer who lives off of Raymond, her married boyfriend, April [...]...

Music legend Gladys Knight is joining Tyler Perry's forthcoming Madea-starrer presentation, "I Can Do Bad All By Myself," from Lionsgate.

The Grammy Award winner, along with gospel performance winner Marvin Winans and "CSI: Miami" star Adam Rodriguez, will be joining Perry, Taraji P. Henson, Brian White, Hope Olaide Wilson, Kwesi Nii-Lante Boakye and Frederick Siglar in the project.

As per The Hollywood Reporter, the film's storyline, based on Perry's 1999 play of the same name, will follow what happens when Perry's iconic character, Madea, discovers a 16-year-old girl, to be played by Wilson, and her brothers looting her home and sends them to live with their Aunt April (Henson), a hard-drinking nightclub singer.

Knight will play Wilma, a neighborhood matriarch and singer at the church where Madea also goes.

Tyler Perry has Grammy fever.

The writer-director has added seven-time winner Gladys Knight and gospel performance winner Marvin Winans to the cast of his latest film, "I Can Do Bad All by Myself." Perry already had cast Mary J. Blige, who's got nine Grammy statuettes on her mantel.

"CSI: Miami" star Adam Rodriguez also has come on board the Lionsgate project.

Perry, Oscar nominee Taraji P. Henson, Brian White, Hope Olaide Wilson, Kwesi Nii-Lante Boakye and Frederick Siglar also will appear in Perry's adaptation of one of his early plays. The story line follows what happens when Perry's iconic Madea character discovers a 16-year-old girl (Wilson) and her brothers looting her home and sends them to live with their Aunt April (Henson), a hard-drinking nightclub singer.

Knight will play Wilma, a kind of matriarch of the neighborhood and singer at Marshall Baptist Church, where Madea also circulates. Knight, Winans and...