Actress Keshia Knight Pulliam, best known for her role as Rudy in the 1980s sitcom The Cosby Show, has signed on to appear in Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes To Jail. In the big screen adaptation of Tyler’s successful play, Keshia’s character, a hooker named Candy, is aided by Madea, who finds herself in jail due to her crazy antics. Earlier in the season Keshia also appeared on Tyler’s TBS series House of Pain and is said to be launching her own Atlanta based production company. Madea Goes To Jail starts principle shooting this September and is scheduled for an early 2009 release.
Meagan Good, has been reported to be joining the cast of horror thriller “Saw V”. According to Bloody-Disgusting, the 26-year-old starlet has nailed the role of Luba, a city planner who comes from a rich family.
The “One Missed Call” actress will showcase her acting skills alongside the cast ensemble of the Lions Gate Film’s tidbit that include Scott Patterson, Julie Benz, Tobin Bell and Costas Mandylor. Reportedly, Good has joined the feature film project as the fifth installment of the movie about serial puzzle killer is taking its principal photography which was started on March 17 in Toronto, Canada.
Created by producers James Wan and Leigh Whannell, “Saw V” still resolves around the serial killing done by Jigsaw as he sets another mischievous lethal traps for new victims. This time, the thriller film which picks up David Hackl to carry on the helmer role will follow an on-assignment investigative journalist who gets involved in Jigsaw’s game.
Apparently, rapper 50 Cent will do anything to get a movie role as he has been spotted with a skinnier appearance. Answering the questions put up by 50’s fans about the hip-hop artist’s weight loss, MTV revealed that the rapper has been shedding his bulky feature to sport a regular shape for a role in an indie drama “Microwave Park”.
The information reportedly came from the rapper himself on Tuesday, April 15. Now weighing at about 185 pounds, 50 let out that he has to tone down his beefy-look because he has been set to play a New Orleans, Louisiana police officer in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Further, he also confessed that to do justice to the character he has to grow his hair out into an Afro.
Singing, writing, and now Snoop Dogg is giving acting a first try. The rap bad boy has signed on to star in ABC’s soap opera “One Life to Live”, about to appear in its two episodes next month. The episodes which Snoop will star in will see the rap artist attends a bachelorette party and performs two singles; “Sensual Seduction” and “Life of Da Party”, from his LP “Ego Trippin’”.
On his upcoming appearance on the soap opera, Snoop gushed “I’ve been a fan of ‘One Life To Live’ since I was a baby” adding, “My momma always had it on the tube in the crib growing up.” In addition to starring in and singing, Snoop has also been tapped to rework the theme song to the TV show. The new tune he creates will replace the original theme on the episodes in which he features.
Alicia Keys says she is the “best wall builder that ever lived.” In a recent interview with “Blender” magazine, the singer blames her tendency to shut people out on her early days in music. When she was just eleven, Alicia says she would get work offers from strip-club owners and pimps as she walked home from music lessons. Alicia signed her first record deal at age 16. She claims music producers tried to bed her, or use her talent to further their careers. Alicia says she began to build walls that kept everyone out of her personal feelings, including her mom and her manager. Last year, Alicia took a solo trip to Egypt to clear her head. She says of the need for the journey, quote, “I was hanging off the edge of a cliff. Something had to give, or I was gonna lose my mind.” The full interview with Alicia is in the current issue of “Blender,” on newsstands now.
Defiant rapper FOXY BROWN has slammed the officials who sentenced her to a year-long prison spell at New York’s notorious Riker’s Island jail, insisting the punishment did not match the crime.
Brown, real name Inga Marchand, was released four months early on Friday (18Apr08), and insisted her first priority was to find a church and thank God for supporting her.
Kanye West has filed legal papers in the estate of his mom, Donda, who tragically died after a plastic surgery procedure last November.
In the legal papers, filed today in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Donda’s assets are listed at $150,000. Interesting, since Donda worked as Kanye’s manager.
Donda died without a will. Kanye is the sole beneficiary, and has asked that family friend Shawn Gee, a music industry exec, be named as the co-administrator of the estate.
Rapper Foxy Brown was released from prison today, after serving eight months of her 12 month sentence:
“As soon as she was released from prison, she was greeted by her mother Judith Marchand and lawyer New York City Councilman Charles Barron, as well as hundreds of reporters and fans, some with posters and pink balloons, others with ‘Free Foxy Brown’ T-shirts. Brown wore a leather jacket, jeans, a black shirt, designer pumps and a stylish Fendi designer doo rag over her hair.
Brown’s entourage arrived in a fleet of luxury vehicles that included three Rolls Royce’s, a number of SUV’s and a Maybach, that was filled with clothes. Her family, friends, managers and a hair stylist and makeup artist were all part of the group of people that greeted Brown.”
