Making his feature-film debut as actor and writer, Daniel Beaty stars as a reformed gang leader trying to make a better life for himself in Chapter & Verse, arriving on Digital HD May 30 and on DVD and On Demand June 13 from Anchor Bay Entertainment. Co-written and directed by Jamal Joseph (Knights of the South Bronx, Hughes’ Dream Harlem), the emotional drama also stars Loretta Devine, Omari Hardwick, Justin Martin, and Selenis Leyva. Hailed as a “powerful movie” by TheNew York Times, the Chapter & Verse DVD will be available for the suggested retail price of $19.98.
After serving eight years in prison, reformed gang leader S. Lance Ingram (Beaty) reenters society and struggles to adapt to a changed Harlem. Living under the tough supervision of a parole officer in a halfway house, and unable to find a job that will let him use the technological skills he gained in prison, Lance is forced to take a job delivering for a food pantry. He befriends Ms. Maddy (Devine), a strong and spirited grandmother, and assumes responsibility for her 15-year-old grandson, Ty, a promising student who is pulled into a dangerous street gang. When gang members decide to punish Ty for disobeying the “law of the streets,” Lance risks sacrificing his “second chance” at freedom so that Ty can have a “first chance” at a better life. CAST
Daniel Beaty Writer for TV’s “House of Payne”
Omari Hardwick The A-Team, Starz’s “Power”
Loretta Devine I Am Sam, Death at a Funeral
Selenis Leyva Netflix’s “Orange is the New Black” and TV’s “Madam Secretary”
Justin Martin Flight, The Soloist
See what it’s like to live in NORM’s world with a day of winter ice skating fun at Steinberg Skating Rink!
NORM OF THE NORTH opens theatres on January 15. It’s the story of a polar bear of many words, Norm’s greatest gripe is simple: there is no room for tourists in the Arctic. But when a maniacal developer threatens to build luxury condos in his own backyard, Norm does what all normal polar bears would do…he heads to New York City to stop it. With a cast of ragtag lemmings at his side, Norm takes on the big apple, big business and a big identity crisis to save the day. The voice cast for NORM OF THE NORTH includes Rob Schneider, Heather Graham, Ken Jeong, Gabriel Iglesias, Loretta Devine, Michael McElhatton, Colm Meaney and Bill Nighy.
Be one of the first 50 guests to stop by the NORM OF THE NORTH table at Steinberg Skating Rink! starting at 1:00PM this Saturday, January 9th and receive free skate admission in honor of the new film, NORM OF THE NORTH. Guests will also be entered to receive prizes from the film.
Steinberg Skating Rink in Forest Park is located at 400 Jefferson Drive, St. Louis MO 63110.
Check out this hilarious trailer for NORM OF THE NORTH!
As we head into the Christmas holiday this week, it’s time to shake your bear thing with the arctic’s chillest bear – NORM! Hilarious, right?
Learn the “Arctic Shake” in this all-new clip with Norm before he heads to theaters in the heart-warming family adventure NORM OF THE NORTH.
A polar bear of many words, Norm’s greatest gripe is simple: there is no room for tourists in the Arctic. With a cast of ragtag lemmings at his side, Norm takes on the big apple, big business and a big identity crisis to save the day. (Trailer)
Starring Rob Schneider, Heather Graham, Ken Jeong, Gabriel Iglesias, Loretta Devine, Michael McElhatton, Colm Meaney and Bill Nighy this exciting adventure hits theaters January 15, 2016.
Check out these fun activity DOWNLOADS for NORM OF THE NORTH now, plus help Norm and his band of lemmings save the arctic in the exciting NEW web game called LEMMINGS LAUNCH.
Catch this sneak peek at Norm’s city adventure before he heads to the big apple to hopefully save the day. The film opens in theaters on January 15, 2016.
A polar bear of many words, Norm’s greatest gripe is simple: there is no room for tourists in the Arctic. But when a maniacal developer threatens to build luxury condos in his own backyard, Norm does what all normal polar bears would do…he heads to New York City to stop it.
With a cast of ragtag lemmings at his side, Norm takes on the big apple, big business and a big identity crisis to save the day.
The voice cast includes Rob Schneider, Heather Graham, Ken Jeong, Gabriel Iglesias, Loretta Devine, Michael McElhatton, Colm Meaney and Bill Nighy.
Lionsgate has released the first trailer for the upcoming animated film, NORM OF THE NORTH.
A polar bear of many words, Norm’s greatest gripe is simple: there is no room for tourists in the Arctic. But when a maniacal developer threatens to build luxury condos in his own backyard, Norm does what all normal polar bears would do…he heads to New York City to stop it.
With a cast of ragtag lemmings at his side, Norm takes on the big apple, big business and a big identity crisis to save the day.
Directed by Trevor Wall, the movie features the voices of Rob Schneider, Heather Graham, Ken Jeong, Gabriel Iglesias, Loretta Devine, Michael McElhatton, Colm Meaney, and Bill Nighy.
Wall won a Daytime Emmy for “Individual Achievement in Animation” for his storyboard work in Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks, in 2007.
Find out how the adventure ends when NORM OF THE NORTH hits the big screen January 15, 2016.
Watch the new trailer for MADEA’S BIG HAPPY FAMILY. What’s the funniest thing that happened when your whole family got together?
Synopsis:
Madea, everyone’s favorite wise-cracking, take-no-prisoners grandma, jumps into action when her niece, Shirley, receives distressing news about her health. All Shirley wants is to gather her three adult children around her and share the news as a family. But Tammy, Kimberly and Byron are too distracted by their own problems: Tammy can’t manage her unruly children or her broken marriage; Kimberly is gripped with anger and takes it out on her husband; and Byron, after spending two years in jail, is under pressure to deal drugs again. It’s up to Madea, with the help of the equally rambunctious Aunt Bam, to gather the clan together and make things right the only way she knows how: with a lot of tough love, laughter…and the revelation of a long-buried family secret.
Tyler Perry – screenwriter, director and two-time star (as Madea and her brother, Joe) – returns with another tender and hilarious look at love and family ties with MADEA’S BIG HAPPY FAMILY, also starring Loretta Devine, Shad “Bow Wow” Moss, David Mann, Cassi Davis, Tamela Mann, Lauren London, Isaiah Mustafa, Rodney Perry, Shannon Kane, Teyana Taylor and Natalie Desselle Reid. Lionsgate and Tyler Perry Studios present a Tyler Perry Studios/Lionsgate production, a Reuben Cannon production.
WAMG is giving aways passes to see Tyler Perry’s new film FOR COLORED GIRLS on MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2010 at the ESQUIRE THEATER in St. Louis, 7pm.
OFFICIAL RULES:
1. You must be in the St. Louis area on the day of the screening.
2. Fill out your name and e-mail address in the comment section below. (Your information will not be shared.)
3. Answer the following question: What is your favorite Tyler Perry movie and why?
PASSES WILL NOT BE EXCHANGED OR SUBSTITUTED!
NO PURCHASEÂ NECESSARY!
Synopsis: Based on Ntozake Shange’s award-winning 1975 play, which consists of a series of poems performed through a cast of nameless women, known only by a color. It deals with such subjects as love, abandonment, rape, and abortion. It later morphed into an Emmy Award-nominated television special and is still being performed around the world.
Lionsgaterecently released their film schedule for the upcoming holiday season. Earlier in September, Lionsgate announced that it has acquired the North American distribution rights to RABBIT HOLE starring Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart & directed by John Cameron Mitchell (HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH). RABBIT HOLE made its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday, September 13. The film is the first release from Kidman’s Blossom Films. For more on all of Lionsgate’s upcoming films, check ’em out on Facebook here.
Starring: Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine, Michael Ealy, Kimberly Elise, Omari Hardwick, Hill Harper, Thandie Newton, Phylicia Rashad, Anika Noni Rose, Tessa Thompson, Kerry Washington, and Whoopi Goldberg, Macy Gracy, Khalil Kain, Richard Lawson
Directed by: Tyler Perry
Screenplay by: Tyler Perry
Based on the stage play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf” by: Ntozake Shange.
In 1974, Ntozake Shange’s choreopoem “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf” made its stage debut, combining poetry, dance and music, and most significantly, placing the black female experience center stage. In lyrical, honest, angry, funny and tender language, Shange’s “colored girl” evoked the feelings woven into the fabric of black female life in America. Within two years, the play became a Broadway sensation, won an Obie and Tony Award, and would eventually be produced in regional theaters throughout the country. Now, thirty six years later, filmmaker Tyler Perry adapts this landmark work for the big screen, integrating the vivid language of Shange’s poems into a contemporary narrative that explores what it means to be a woman of color – and a woman of any color – in this world.
FOR COLORED GIRLS weaves together the stories of nine different women – Joanna, Tangie, Crystal, Gilda, Kelly, Juanita, Yasmine, Nyla and Alice – as they move into and out of one another’s existences; some are well known to one another, others are as yet strangers. Crises, heartbreaks and crimes will ultimately bring these nine women fully into the same orbit where they will find commonality and understanding. Each will speak her truth as never before. And each will know that she is complete as a human being, glorious and divine in all her colors.
Lionsgate and Tyler Perry Studios present A 34th Street Films / Lionsgate production. FOR COLORED GIRLS stars Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine, Michael Ealy, Kimberly Elise, Omari Hardwick, Hill Harper, Thandie Newton, Phylicia Rashad, Anika Noni Rose, Tessa Thompson, Kerry Washington and Whoopi Goldberg. FOR COLORED GIRLS is written for the screen and directed by Tyler Perry, and based on the stage play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf” written by Ntozake Shange. The film is produced by Tyler Perry, Paul Hall and Roger M. Bobb.
Click here to see WAMG’s story including posters from the film.
Starring: Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Brian Dennehy, Olivia Wilde and Liam Neeson
Directed by: Paul Haggis
Screenplay by: Paul Haggis
Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a gruesome murder she says she didn’t commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison. Refusing to be deterred by impossible odds or his own inexperience, John devises an elaborate escape plot and plunges into a dangerous and unfamiliar world, ultimately risking everything for the woman he loves.
Lionsgate presents a Highway 61 Films / Lionsgate production. THE NEXT THREE DAYS is directed by Paul Haggis from a screenplay by Paul Haggis.
Click here to see WAMG’s story on the newest poster for THE NEXT THREE DAYS. Check out the film’s official site here and on Facebook here.
Release Date: December 17, 2010 (limited); December 25, 2010 (expansion); January 14, 2011 (expansion)
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart, Dianne Wiest, Tammy Blanchard, Miles Teller, Giancarlo Esposito, Jon Tenney and Sandra Oh
Directed by: John Cameron Mitchell
Screenplay by: David Lindsay-Abaire
Based on his play “Rabbit Hole”
The screen adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by David Lindsay-Abaire, RABBIT HOLE is about a husband and wife who fight to save their marriage after the deepest form of loss. The film is a vivid, honest and unexpectedly funny portrait of a family searching for what remains possible in the most impossible of situations.
Lionsgate presents an Olympus Pictures, Blossom Films, Oddlot Entertainment production.
Movieline has debuted this lovely new poster for Tyler Perry’s FOR COLORED GIRLS. Lionsgate moved the release date of the film to November of this year to be eligible come Academy Awards time. You can see the other gorgeous posters from the film here.
Synopsis:
In 1974, Ntozake Shange’s choreopoem “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf” made its stage debut, combining poetry, dance and music, and most significantly, placing the black female experience center stage. In lyrical, honest, angry, funny and tender language, Shange’s “colored girl” evoked the feelings woven into the fabric of black female life in America. Within two years, the play became a Broadway sensation, won an Obie and Tony Award, and would eventually be produced in regional theaters throughout the country. Now, thirty six years later, filmmaker Tyler Perry adapts this landmark work for the big screen, integrating the vivid language of Shange’s poems into a contemporary narrative that explores what it means to be a woman of color – and a woman of any color – in this world.
FOR COLORED GIRLS weaves together the stories of nine different women – Joanna, Tangie, Crystal, Gilda, Kelly, Juanita, Yasmine, Nyla and Alice – as they move into and out of one another’s existences; some are well known to one another, others are as yet strangers. Crises, heartbreaks and crimes will ultimately bring these nine women fully into the same orbit where they will find commonality and understanding. Each will speak her truth as never before. And each will know that she is complete as a human being, glorious and divine in all her colors.
Lionsgate and Tyler Perry Studios present A 34th Street Films / Lionsgate production. FOR COLORED GIRLS stars Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine, Michael Ealy, Kimberly Elise, Omari Hardwick, Hill Harper, Thandie Newton, Phylicia Rashad, Anika Noni Rose, Tessa Thompson, Kerry Washington and Whoopi Goldberg. FOR COLORED GIRLS is written for the screen and directed by Tyler Perry, and based on the stage play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf” written by Ntozake Shange. The film is produced by Tyler Perry, Paul Hall and Roger M. Bobb.
From Lionsgate Films, FOR COLORED GIRLS will be in theaters on November 5, 2010.
Hat-tip tip to Candice over at Reel Talk for pointing us to the new trailer for Tyler Perry’s FOR COLORED GIRLS.
Synopsis:
FOR COLORED GIRLS brings to the screen Ntozake Shange’s Obie Award-winning play, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf,” a poetic exploration of what is to be of color and a female in this world.
These staggeringly gorgeous posters of Whoopi Goldberg, Loretta Devine, Kimberly Elise, Kerry Washington, Phylicia Rashad, Anika Noni Rose, Thandie Newton and Janet Jackson have also been released. Essence.comreports, “Though the film adaptation’s synopsis is being kept top secret, each of the movie’s eight stars get their own teaser on the poster. Janet Jackson looks fierce in red, while Whoopi Goldberg — rumored to be playing God — is featured in all-white…” With this impressive cast of actresses, let the Oscar talk begin.
From Lionsgate Films, FOR COLORED GIRLS will be in theaters on November 5, 2010.
