Welcome to Retro Rewind, the TGJ original feature carved out to celebrate TV and Film’s game-changing past.

Today, we revisit 1998’s ‘The Players Club‘!

In it, Lisa Raye plays a cash-strapped young lady in desperate of a financial come-up. Keen to save herself from ruin, she becomes a stripper and finds herself in raking it in with ease!

Alas, all is never at it seems and it isn’t long before Raye’s character finds herself forced to face the evils of the adult entertainment world when a loved one is thrown into the line of fire!

Ready to take that journey to the past to discover how the Ice Cube-penned project turned a $5 million budget into £23 million glory?

Enter the ‘Club’ below…

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Sheree Whitfield is said to have been fired from ‘The Real Housewives of Atlanta’ for the second time after siding with former ‘Housewife’ Kim Zolciak during her feud with the show’s leading ladies.

Potentially bad news for the author below…

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Halle Berry is to star a reboot of one of the wildest thrillers to impact the world of cinema.

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By way of storylines which revolve around her relationships with her fellow ‘Housewives’ Porsha Williams stands as the unassuming star of the ‘Real Housewives of Atlanta.’

So, when the first part of its new reunion special airs on Sunday fans can expect to see her dominate much of the intense debates on the cycle’s highs and lows.

One of the lows?

The demise of her friendship with Sheree Whitfield.

What happened when the ladies came face to face?

‘Bad Blood’ and broken apologies below…

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Michael B. Jordan is back with a brand new project!

The name of his first release after the smash hit movie ‘Black Panther‘? ‘Farenheit 451’.

In it, Jordan plays an emotionally unavailable firefighter struggling to regain his humanity as he battles the fires in his life and the fires which threaten to destroy his city.

The actor stands tall as one of its producers and has unlocked its very first trailer before it impacts HBO on May 19th.

Watch below….

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BET are building on the success of their New Edition biopic by honing in on the story of its most controversial member – Bobby Brown.

Aptly titled, ‘The Bobby Brown Story’ is set to blaze the box later this year and will be broadcast as a two-part event.

Anchored by Woody McClain, who reprises the role of Brown from the New Edition flick, the biopic promises a warts and all insight into the life of R&B’s most-prolific bad boy.

No stone will be left unturned. As such, viewers will see his solo run, rocky relationship with Whitney Houston (played by Gabrielle Dennis), and his struggles with drugs all play out.

Ahead of the film’s September premiere, EW have shared a first look.

Check it out below…
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Photo courtesy: ABC

Vivica A. Fox may have spent the weekend topping headlines for her reignited beef with ‘Real Housewives of Atlanta’ star Kenya Moore (who Fox’s branded a ‘toxic trick’), but the week kicked off with her in full promo mode in support of her April 3rd-released book, ‘Everyday I’m Hustling.’

Part self-help/part-memoir, the page-turner courted controversy weeks before its arrival on shelves as previews indicated Fox detailed some of her bedroom activity with former beau, rapper 50 Cent. The latest in the two’s ongoing rivalry, the news led 50 to clap back via Instagram (click here to read that).

Undeterred, this week saw Fox not only continue to openly discuss the content in her book related to 50, but also assure fans the beef between them has actually subsided (despite headlines suggesting otherwise).

Hear it from her lips inside:

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‘Black Panther‘s brilliance knows no bounds!

Brilliant news for the Ryan Coogler-created and Chadwick Boseman-fronted cinematic release after the bounce.

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Jennifer Lopez is hanging up her uniform.

For NBC have announced that the upcoming third season of her police drama ‘Shades Of Blue’ will be the last.

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The actress Viola Davis is reportedly shaken after she scared off a gang of thieves who attempted to break into her home.

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Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish are enrolling in ‘Night School.’

The duo have  bringing the funny to screens this September in the latest flick from producer Will Packer. 

A comedy cut from the same cloth as Hart and Packer’s prior pair-ups (‘Ride Along’ and ‘Think Like A Man’), the comedy follows a group of misfits who are forced to attend adult classes in the long-shot chance they’ll pass the GED exam.

‘Girls Trip’ director Malcolm D. Lee takes the helm, while Hart and Haddish are joined on the cast by Romany Malco, Rob Riggle, and Taran Killam. 

The first trailer has been unleashed. Check it out below…

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