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Will Packer’s ‘Girls Trip’ Has Another Big Week At Box Office
Girls Trip is one of the ‘funniest movies’ ever, stars, Queen Lat- ifah, Regina Hall, Jada Pinkett-Smith, and Tiffany Haddish.
Tribe Called Quest Announce NY Fest Was Last Performance In Hometown
Last year, A Tribe Called Quest presented We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service, their final album as a group.
The legendary Hip Hop collective was part of the lineup for New York City’s Panorama festival on Sun- day.
Q-Tip, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, and Jarobi White used the occasion to announce the set would be their final performance in their hometown.
“This is our last show here in New York. That’s it as Tribe. You know, we gotta honor our brother, Phife Dawg,” said Q-Tip.
ATCQ member Q-Tip onstage with the late Phife Dawg on the screen behind him at Sunday’s concert.
ATCQ founding member Malik “Phife Dawg” Tay- lor passed away from dia- betes complications in March 2016.
“We want to thank everybody in New York City for supporting A Tribe Called Quest since 1988 up to now,” Q-Tip also ex- pressed to the NYC crowd.
St. Petersburg native and super producer Will Packer and director Malcolm D. Lee’s Girls Trip had a terrific second-weekend hold.
The Universal/Comcast Corp. release (penned by Erica Rivinoja, Kenya Bar- ris and Tracy Oliver) earned $20.086 million in its second weekend, dropping just 36% from its $31m debut last week.
That brings the $20m com- edy’s ten-day total to $65.5m.
The movie debuted as the highest-grossing R-rated com- edy in two years, bringing in $31 million its first weekend.
Packer in a interview with the Hollywood Reporter said, ’It really is time people realize that good content is good con- tent," says the 'Girls Trip' pro- ducer as he also discusses the future for midbudget features and how he gets A-listers into ensembles.
"It keeps me out of the
Mariah Carey Announces Release Of Second Christmas Movie And New Song
The Roots Executive Producing Documentary Series On Hip Hop
WILL PACKER
bubble.’ The producer, 43, has built a lucrative career pro- ducing midbudget movies with African-American talent — including Think Like a Man, Straight Outta Comp- ton and the Ride Along series — for an audience base that Hollywood has historically ig- nored.
Mariah Carey is the “Queen of Christmas,” having written and performed the most famous, original holi- day single ” All I Want For Christmas Is You.”
She continues her reign as “Christmas queen” with the announcement of a new Christmas single titled “The Star” that’ coincides with a Christmas film of the same name.
The animated film will hu- morously tell the nativity story and feature voice-overs from Oprah Winfrey, Kelly Clarkson, Tyler Perry, Tracy Mor- gan, and more.
This Christmas project is
Mariah Carey will release a new Christmas song to coincide with animated movie.
another one Carey is in- volved with. She also has a movie based on her hit single
“All I Want For Christmas Is You,” announced earlier this year being release.
The Roots’ Black Thought and Questlove.
Fans of ABC’s reality dating series “The Bachelorette” are breathlessly awaiting to find out who Rachel Lindsay will choose to award that final rose.
Last week’s episode ended on a cliffhanger: instead of narrowing down her choices to two, Rachel went off to Spain for final one-on-one dates with Bryan, Eric, and Peter, sav- ing her decision for the season finale.
In recent polls, 53% begged Rachel not to choose Bryan Abasolo a chiropractor in Miami, (although according to a former contestant and friend, this is who she chose).
As the series enters its final
First Black ‘Bachelorette’ To Reveal Her Pick On August 7th
Black Thought and Questlove are teaming up to create a new documentary se- ries on hip-hop with AMC.
AMC is producing a series of documentaries focusing on telling untold stories from a variety of genres.
One of those happens to be hip-hop, and Black Thought and Questlove will executive produce a doc- umentary series called “AMC Visionairies: Rap Yearbook.”
Questlove and Black Thought are working with
Oscar/Emmy Award winning producer Alex Gibney to make a six-part series explor- ing Hip-Hop.
The series will be based on
Shea Serrano’s New York Times best-selling book “The Rap Yearbook.”
Each episode is centered on the story of one key song and features a special guest MC as well as a select group of core contributors including leg- endary rap artists, acclaimed music experts and other fresh voices.
Atty. Rachel Lindsey will choose between 3 bachelors, Bryan, Peter and Eric on the finale on ABC, August 7th.
2 weeks that means that this week is the Men’s Tell All Spe- cial. Cast-offs from throughout the season will sound off and reflect on the season. In addi- tion, Lindsay will sit down and speak her mind to her for-
mer flames.
Lindsay will be addressing
race during the Men’s Tell All and she told Entertainment Tonight that she has some choice words in mind for one specific contestant.
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