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Eminem, Bruno and MTV Movie Awards

June 1, 2009

I’m sure you’ve seen, or at least heard about the incident at last night’s MTV Movie Awards Show between Eminem and Bruno, Sasha Baron Cohen’s Austrian gay model character from the upcoming film of the same name. If you haven’t, here’s a brief rundown.
Bruno was being flown out (wings and all) over the crowd on a [...]

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Terminator Salvation: Quick Review

May 26, 2009

Common’s new film, Terminator Salvation brought in $43 million over the past weekend, coming in second behind Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian’s $53.5 million.

…For the most part, it just seemed like Common dressed up in some post-apocalyptic army gear, acting out the part, but not becoming Barnes.

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Beastie Boys on Jimmy Fallon

May 26, 2009

Beastie Boys on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night performing “Check Your Head” with The Roots.

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Ludacris in ‘Gamer’ Trailer

May 25, 2009

Check out the new trailer for the upcoming fall action flick, Gamer, starring Gerard Butler and Ludacris. This looks like an updated take on the 80s action packed Arnold Schwarenegger joint The Running Man.
The official plot summary:
Set in a future-world where humans can control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online gaming environments, a star player [...]

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Will Takes on Katrina

May 24, 2009

Cinematical is reporting that Will Smith’s production company, Overbrook Entertaiment, and Sony have bought the rights to the life sory of Hurricane Karina hero John “The Can Man” Keller. The film, The American Can is being helmed by John Lee Hancock.
Keller, who was a resident of the American Can Company at the time of the [...]

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Common and McG Talk Terminator Salvation

May 21, 2009

Your boy Common is making rounds talking about his role as Barnes in the new film Terminator Salvation. Check out the MySpace video (after the jump) as he talks with the director McG about his role as John Connor’s (Christian Bale) right hand man in his war aganist the machines and future possibilities for his [...]

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Common as Dow Jones

May 21, 2009

Check out Common starring in a blaxploitation trailer spoof, Down Jones on Funny or Die. Com looks like he can play this role too.

Common has a big day today with Terminator Salvation opening today. It should be a big Memorial Day opening although reviews for the film are coming in kind of stale (35% on [...]

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Jimmy Fallon as TuSpock?

May 18, 2009

Yes you read it right, Tuspock. Jimmy Fallon has taken on aspects of Hip-Hop culture as part of his late night flavor much like Arsenio Hall did when his late night show was on the air. Starting off with The Roots as his house band that, not only plays music, but also participates in a [...]

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50 Cent & Forest Whitaker are Jekyll and Hyde

May 14, 2009

Hmmm, this morning is starting off to be an interesting day. News just came around that a new Jekyll and Hyde film is in the works (actually two are, but we’ll just focus on this one). Yes, and you read the title correctly 50 Cent is set to take on the role of Dr. Jekyll [...]

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Jimmy Fallon Dance Contest

May 13, 2009

Last night Late Night with Jimmy Fallon held a dance contest to come up with a dance for the show. The Roots put together a track for the new Late Night Dance. They also broke out into the ever so popular Stanky Leg (smh at grown men doing this).
You can go to the website, download [...]

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Hip Hop & Country Music

May 13, 2009

First, multi-platinum country artist Dierks Bentley got “Sideways” with country radio with his latest hit from his new CD, Feel That Fire. And now, he’s following suit with country fans with a just-unleashed music video in honor of the “Sideways” hit.
Bentley filmed his brand-new video at a Nashville nightclub, with help from director Michael Saloman [...]

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Rapper’s Wives on E! Tonight

May 13, 2009

There is a new E! True Hollywood Stories’ Wednesday night and the subject is Rapper’s Wives. The show airs tonight at 10 p.m. ET/PT. The new special will give an inside and candid look on hip-hop’s family men and their relationships with their leading ladies. It will focus on rappers DMX, Mos Def, Paul Wall, Luke [...]

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