On 2002’s “Hovi Baby,” Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter shouted out the Roc-a-Fella Records braintrust, calling it, “’The Dynasty,’ no not Ming but Shawn’s / Dame, Kareem, nigga it’s the gangsta team.” The trio of Carter, and executives Dame Dash and Kareem “Biggs” Burke are the big three behind Roc-a-Fella Records, one of rap’s most legendary movements. From Ye and rapper turned sports analyst Cam’ron to industry movers and shakers like Gee Roberson and Chaka Pilgrim, the Roc’s fingerprints are still in popular culture.
Even with Dash estranged...
Even with Dash estranged...
- 4/9/2024
- by Andre Gee
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive: D.C. Young Fly (Bmf) has been set for a role in Break the Cycle, the urban thriller from director Josh Webber.
Also new to the cast is Las Vegas Raiders running back Ameer Abdullah. Previously announced cast members include Cuba Gooding Jr., Vivica A. Fox, Vernon Davis, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, Loretta Devine, and Kym Whitley.
Gearing up for a March shoot in Memphis, the film delves into the lives of two brothers whose childhood is marred by a horribly tragic incident. Raised by their loving but stern grandmother, the brothers take radically different paths as they come of age in the gritty streets of Memphis. Jay, a gifted basketball player with dreams of making it to the NBA, is a beacon of hope for his family and a potential ticket out of their harsh reality. However, the allure of his charismatic yet troubled brother, Eddie, who’s deeply entrenched...
Also new to the cast is Las Vegas Raiders running back Ameer Abdullah. Previously announced cast members include Cuba Gooding Jr., Vivica A. Fox, Vernon Davis, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, Loretta Devine, and Kym Whitley.
Gearing up for a March shoot in Memphis, the film delves into the lives of two brothers whose childhood is marred by a horribly tragic incident. Raised by their loving but stern grandmother, the brothers take radically different paths as they come of age in the gritty streets of Memphis. Jay, a gifted basketball player with dreams of making it to the NBA, is a beacon of hope for his family and a potential ticket out of their harsh reality. However, the allure of his charismatic yet troubled brother, Eddie, who’s deeply entrenched...
- 2/26/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr. (Jerry Maguire), Vivica A. Fox (Kill Bill: Vol. 1), Vernon Davis (The Ritual Killer) and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson (The A-Team) are set to star in Break the Cycle, an urban thriller marking the first screenplay by former NBA player Jarnell Stokes.
Others in the cast include Loretta Devine (Waiting to Exhale) and Kym Whitley (Next Friday). Production kicks off in Memphis in March.
Directed by Josh Webber (Never Heard), Break the Cycle delves into the lives of two brothers whose childhood is marred by a horribly tragic incident. Raised by their loving but stern grandmother, the brothers take radically different paths as they come of age in the gritty streets of Memphis.
Jay, a gifted basketball player with dreams of making it to the NBA, is a beacon of hope for his grandmother and a potential ticket out of their harsh reality. However, the...
Others in the cast include Loretta Devine (Waiting to Exhale) and Kym Whitley (Next Friday). Production kicks off in Memphis in March.
Directed by Josh Webber (Never Heard), Break the Cycle delves into the lives of two brothers whose childhood is marred by a horribly tragic incident. Raised by their loving but stern grandmother, the brothers take radically different paths as they come of age in the gritty streets of Memphis.
Jay, a gifted basketball player with dreams of making it to the NBA, is a beacon of hope for his grandmother and a potential ticket out of their harsh reality. However, the...
- 2/2/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Former NFL tight end Vernon Davis played in the league for 14 seasons with the San Francisco 49ers, the Denver Broncos, and the Washington Commanders before retiring from the sport in 2020. After a successful career in football he transitioned into acting, released his debut rap album, and founded the production companies Reel 85 and Between the Linez Productions. You may have seen him on the small screen too as he has competed on Dancing With the Stars and served as a judge on Domino Masters.
Now, Davis has a new project he launched called Smart Picks. Showbiz Cheat Sheet caught up with him to talk about that, as well as a few of his other projects, and the news that another NFL tight end Travis Kelce may be dating Taylor Swift.
Former NFL player Vernon Davis and honorary pace car driver speaks to the media during a press conference prior to the NASCAR Cup Series | Jared C.
Now, Davis has a new project he launched called Smart Picks. Showbiz Cheat Sheet caught up with him to talk about that, as well as a few of his other projects, and the news that another NFL tight end Travis Kelce may be dating Taylor Swift.
Former NFL player Vernon Davis and honorary pace car driver speaks to the media during a press conference prior to the NASCAR Cup Series | Jared C.
- 9/29/2023
- by Michelle Kapusta
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Exclusive: Joseph Baena and Ludovica Frasca have joined the cast of Josh Webber’s family holiday film Athena Saves Christmas, which is currently shooting in California’s Lake Arrowhead area for a late 2023 release.
Having started out in real estate and bodybuilding, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s son Baena is following in the footsteps of his father onto the big screen. Further upcoming credits include American Spark and Called To Duty.
Baena is repped by Penzi and Italian-born actress Frasca is with 3sixty.
They join previously announced cast members Cuba Gooding Jr, Paxton Kubitz, Kylie Marshall, Santiago Ramirez, Richard Portnow, Mars Callahan, Glenn Plummer and Kaitlyn Raymond.
The film follows Samuel (Kubitz) and his friends Vanessa (Marshall) and Alphonso (Ramirez) as well as his trusted dog Athena, who find themselves on the adventure of a lifetime as they take on a mob boss to save Christmas for their town.
Webber is directing...
Having started out in real estate and bodybuilding, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s son Baena is following in the footsteps of his father onto the big screen. Further upcoming credits include American Spark and Called To Duty.
Baena is repped by Penzi and Italian-born actress Frasca is with 3sixty.
They join previously announced cast members Cuba Gooding Jr, Paxton Kubitz, Kylie Marshall, Santiago Ramirez, Richard Portnow, Mars Callahan, Glenn Plummer and Kaitlyn Raymond.
The film follows Samuel (Kubitz) and his friends Vanessa (Marshall) and Alphonso (Ramirez) as well as his trusted dog Athena, who find themselves on the adventure of a lifetime as they take on a mob boss to save Christmas for their town.
Webber is directing...
- 3/31/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Academy Award winner Cuba Gooding Jr. (Jerry Maguire) has joined the cast of director Josh Webber’s holiday pic Athena Saves Christmas, with Christina Cooper coming aboard as producer.
The film follows Samuel (Paxton Kubitz) and his friends, along with Sam’s trusted dog Athena, on an adventure of a lifetime, as they match wits with a mob boss and look to solve a series of riddles, in order to save Christmas for their town.
Webber is also producing for Webber Films, alongside Michael Girgenti, Henry Penzi and Cooper. Tony Mercedes and Tamara Johnson are serving as EPs, with Robert Miano (Fast & Furious), Richard Portnow (Hitchcock), Mars Callahan, Glenn Plummer, Kaitlyn Raymond and more rounding out the cast. Gooding Jr. is repped by manager and attorney Peter Toumbekis.
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Liam O’Donnell, Chad Law
Exclusive: Liam O’Donnell (XYZ Films’ Skyline franchise) has been tapped to direct the action-thriller Triggermen...
The film follows Samuel (Paxton Kubitz) and his friends, along with Sam’s trusted dog Athena, on an adventure of a lifetime, as they match wits with a mob boss and look to solve a series of riddles, in order to save Christmas for their town.
Webber is also producing for Webber Films, alongside Michael Girgenti, Henry Penzi and Cooper. Tony Mercedes and Tamara Johnson are serving as EPs, with Robert Miano (Fast & Furious), Richard Portnow (Hitchcock), Mars Callahan, Glenn Plummer, Kaitlyn Raymond and more rounding out the cast. Gooding Jr. is repped by manager and attorney Peter Toumbekis.
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Liam O’Donnell, Chad Law
Exclusive: Liam O’Donnell (XYZ Films’ Skyline franchise) has been tapped to direct the action-thriller Triggermen...
- 3/3/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Actor Robert Lasardo is making his feature directorial debut with the crime thriller American Trash, starring in the pic currently in production in Los Angeles, alongside Costas Mandylor and Lorelei Linklater.
Set amidst a social crisis in the decaying world of Los Angeles, American Trash watches as the city freefalls into environmental ruin, chaos and a complete drug epidemic. Milles Carpis (Lasardo) leans on the support of some new age hippie friends as they guide him away from violence when the woman he loves (Linklater) is murdered, subsequently turning to Detective Anderson (Mandylor) for help in his search for her killer.
Diana Ramos-Santiago Carter, Josh Webber and Jerry G. Angelo are producing the film scripted by Lasardo.Lasardo is represented by Dtla Entertainment Group; Mandylor by Global Creatives Agency and Anthem Entertainment; and Linklater by Linda McAlister Talent and The Green Room.
Set amidst a social crisis in the decaying world of Los Angeles, American Trash watches as the city freefalls into environmental ruin, chaos and a complete drug epidemic. Milles Carpis (Lasardo) leans on the support of some new age hippie friends as they guide him away from violence when the woman he loves (Linklater) is murdered, subsequently turning to Detective Anderson (Mandylor) for help in his search for her killer.
Diana Ramos-Santiago Carter, Josh Webber and Jerry G. Angelo are producing the film scripted by Lasardo.Lasardo is represented by Dtla Entertainment Group; Mandylor by Global Creatives Agency and Anthem Entertainment; and Linklater by Linda McAlister Talent and The Green Room.
- 1/28/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Virtual Cannes market slate includes Wired Shut, Hudson, Student Body, All In My Power.
Los Angeles-based sales agency Motion Picture Exchange (Mpx) has hired veteran sales agent Marcy Rubin as VP of international sales on the eve of the virtual Cannes market.
Rubin will oversee Mpx’s slate of documentary and completed films including Alexander Sharp’s newly acquired horror thriller Wired Shut; road trip dramady Hudson directed by Sean D. Cunningham; female-led thriller Student Body; and documentary All In My Power, a first-hand account of healthcare workers’ response to Covid during the initial weeks of the pandemic in Manhattan.
Los Angeles-based sales agency Motion Picture Exchange (Mpx) has hired veteran sales agent Marcy Rubin as VP of international sales on the eve of the virtual Cannes market.
Rubin will oversee Mpx’s slate of documentary and completed films including Alexander Sharp’s newly acquired horror thriller Wired Shut; road trip dramady Hudson directed by Sean D. Cunningham; female-led thriller Student Body; and documentary All In My Power, a first-hand account of healthcare workers’ response to Covid during the initial weeks of the pandemic in Manhattan.
- 6/18/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Umc, the first-to-market, Black-targeted streaming subscription service launched in 2014, picked up The Available Wife out of the recently wrapped American Black Film Festival. The romance pic, which will hit the streamer on December 17, was directed by Jamal Hill and stars Kj Smith, who currently stars on the Tyler Perry BET series, Sistas. Written by Tressa Azarel Smallwood, Hill, and Kyjuan Cleveland, the drama follows Nicole Wright (Smith), a beautiful and successful music CEO whose life is about to crumble in front of her. While having an affair with the sexy artist on the rise who promises her everything (Terayle Hill), Nicole learns the hard way that looks can be deceiving and his motives are as dark as the secrets she keeps. Clifton Powell and Roger Guenveur Smith round out the cast. Smallwood produced through via her MegaMind Productions along with Audrea Topps Harjo. “Early last year, Umc premiered Tressa’s...
- 9/8/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Dove Cameron, from Disney Channel’s Liv and Maddie and the Descendants movies, will co-star opposite Rj Mitte (Breaking Bad) in Issac, a psychological thriller which is currently shooting in Los Angeles. Josh Webber is at the helm, directing from a script he co-wrote with Christopher Neil.
The Webber Studios pic follows Issac (Mitte), who meets a friendly waitress Cassi (Cameron) one night at a diner. The pair set out to commit a revenge murder together in the name of love.
Webber, Mitte, Mailene Webber, Robert Robinson, and Mike Blevins are producing the indie with executive producers Mario Azevedo, Hans Gerst, and Mike Muntaser.
Cameron, who picked up a Daytime Emmy for her duel performance in Liv and Maddie, is also a recording artist and played Cher in the Off Broadway production of Clueless: The Musical.
She’s repped by Abrams Artists Agency and Lbi Entertainment. Mitte is repped by Abrams Artists Agency,...
The Webber Studios pic follows Issac (Mitte), who meets a friendly waitress Cassi (Cameron) one night at a diner. The pair set out to commit a revenge murder together in the name of love.
Webber, Mitte, Mailene Webber, Robert Robinson, and Mike Blevins are producing the indie with executive producers Mario Azevedo, Hans Gerst, and Mike Muntaser.
Cameron, who picked up a Daytime Emmy for her duel performance in Liv and Maddie, is also a recording artist and played Cher in the Off Broadway production of Clueless: The Musical.
She’s repped by Abrams Artists Agency and Lbi Entertainment. Mitte is repped by Abrams Artists Agency,...
- 2/27/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Update (12/27): Damon Dash and Raquel Horn have responded to the $50 million lawsuit filed by photographer Monique Bunn, who alleges she was sexually assaulted by Dash in the home he and Horn share.
“This is what setting up a black man looks like live… First they come into your house then they try to rob you. When they get caught, they try to make a good guy look like a bad guy, then try to extort you,” Dash said in a statement to Rolling Stone. “#chrisbrownthelawyer is clearly the ring leader of this conspiracy.
“This is what setting up a black man looks like live… First they come into your house then they try to rob you. When they get caught, they try to make a good guy look like a bad guy, then try to extort you,” Dash said in a statement to Rolling Stone. “#chrisbrownthelawyer is clearly the ring leader of this conspiracy.
- 12/27/2019
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Damon Dash is duping the general public about an upcoming movie he claims to have ties to when he really had nothing to do with it at all ... according to a new lawsuit. The legendary hip-hop mogul is being sued by director Josh Webber and Muddy Water Pictures for allegedly trying to advertise and shop a movie he was once a part of -- but later dropped from -- and pushing it as his own...
- 1/22/2019
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
In today’s film news roundup, a documentary about the 1963 Navy football team takes shape, “Never Heard” gets a release, Tim Tebow is backing “Run the Race,” “Death on the Nile” gets a 2020 release and Martin Scorsese is honored.
Documentary Set
Michael Meredith, son of the late Dallas Cowboy quarterback Don Meredith, has signed on to direct “The President’s Team,” a documentary about the 1963 U.S. Naval Academy football team, Variety has learned exclusively.
The film, based on the 2009 book of the same title by Michael Connelly, follows the story of commitment and camaraderie among a team of young athletes attempting to revive a nation wrought with grief — 10 days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Kennedy, a Navy veteran, was scheduled to initiate the 1963 Army-Navy game with a coin toss. In the days following his assassination, with the status of the major event up in the air,...
Documentary Set
Michael Meredith, son of the late Dallas Cowboy quarterback Don Meredith, has signed on to direct “The President’s Team,” a documentary about the 1963 U.S. Naval Academy football team, Variety has learned exclusively.
The film, based on the 2009 book of the same title by Michael Connelly, follows the story of commitment and camaraderie among a team of young athletes attempting to revive a nation wrought with grief — 10 days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Kennedy, a Navy veteran, was scheduled to initiate the 1963 Army-Navy game with a coin toss. In the days following his assassination, with the status of the major event up in the air,...
- 10/17/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
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