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Sean “P. Diddy” Combs Co-Stars in Film Adaptation Of George Pelecanos' “Shoedog”

By Emmanuel Akitobi
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October 5, 2011 1:19 AM
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To many, he’s known primarily as George Pelecanos, writer/producer of HBO’s The Wire. But before he teamed up with The Wire producer David Simon to give us the gritty depictions of Baltimore life that we’ve all come to know and love, Pelecanos was already an acclaimed novelist in his own right, crafting intricate thrillers set in our nation’s capital. Now, one of his earlier novels, Shoedog, is set to be adapted to the big screen.

By Pete Chatmon
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October 4, 2011 12:55 PM
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Entertainment Weekly has an exclusive look at the first three chapters of Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson's YA novel titled Playground, which is said to be a semi-autobiographical story about a 13-year-old bully named Butterball.

By Tambay A. Obenson
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September 28, 2011 12:02 PM
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Courtesy of our friends at Twitch:

By Cynthia Reid
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September 26, 2011 8:07 AM
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The last we heard of Canadian director Clement Virgo was back in April when we alerted you that he was working on, along with pop singer Sting's wife Trudie Styler, a remake of 1972 Jamaican crime drama classic, The Harder They Come. Now comes word he's also developing a film adaptation for author Lawrence Hill’s bestseller, The Book of Negroes.

By Sergio
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September 26, 2011 7:25 AM
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Everything old is new again; and here's another case in point. Back in the 1960 and 1970's there maybe was no more popular a writer than Jacqueline Susann, and her book Valley of the Dolls, about the self destructive lives of three women working in show business; not only was it the biggest selling book of its time, but it was also one of the biggest hit movies of 1967.

By Tambay A. Obenson
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September 20, 2011 11:15 AM
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Terry McMillan’s 2001 bestselling novel A Day Late And A Dollar Short, has been acquired by Ostar Productions to produce as a movie for Lifetime television.

By Tambay A. Obenson
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September 15, 2011 5:32 AM
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Courtesy of our friends at Twitch who just broke the story... Denzel Washington has reportedly been offered the lead role in the upcoming Warner Brothers remake of the Oscar-winning Argentine crime thriller The Secret In Their Eyes, which was directed by Juan José Campanella.

By Tambay A. Obenson
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September 12, 2011 8:26 AM
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Whoa! This is certainly an interesting development. A TV drama series based on Walter Mosley's fictional African American private investigator Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins. Not a film, but a TV series.

By Emmanuel Akitobi
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September 6, 2011 7:06 AM
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Quietly released on DVD this past spring, Viennese director Otto Preminger’s (Carmen Jones, Porgy and Bess) 1967 film, Hurry Sundown, has been called "one of the worst films of all-time."

By Tambay A. Obenson
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September 2, 2011 2:45 AM
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The book, titled Alleen Maar Nette Mensen (or Only Decent People) doesn't appear to have been translated to English yet, as I couldn't find an English-language version of it. But if anyone does, feel free to let the rest of us know.

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