Vanessa Williams has bagged a leading role in a Science Fiction release!

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

Today, we revisit 1972 to celebrate ‘Lady Sings the Blues’, the Billie Holiday  biographical drama loosely based on her 1956 autobiography.

Starring Diana Ross, the movie told Holiday’s painful tale following her passing in 1952 and saw Ross portray the performer with support from her co-stars Richard Pryor, Billy Dee Williams, Virginia Capers and Paulene Myers.

The movie stood as one of many film projects launched to propel Ross into Hollywood and was nominated for five Academy Awards after picking up $19,726,490 at the Box Office with support from a $14 million budget.

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MTV’s ‘The Real Wold: Go Big or Go Home’ has been met by a racism shocker after an African-American contestant was asked to “pick cotton” during her time on the series.

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Nick Jonas is everywhere.

As if excitement for his sophomore album, ‘Last Year Was Complicated,’ wasn’t already brewing enough, now the singer puts on his acting hat once again to show his chops on the big screen.  His latest foray comes in the form of ‘Careful What You Wish For’ – an erotic thriller that sees the ‘Jealous’ singer play a young man who’s having an affair with a married woman.  Things go from sugar to sh*t after her husband learns of her extramarital excursion.

Set for release on the same day as his forthcoming album (June 10th), get into the trailer for the suspenseful flick below and tell us your thoughts:

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“Hellur!”

Tyler Perry‘s Madea franchise is back and heading to movie theaters.

‘Boo! A Madea Halloween’ hits the big screen on October 21st and is billed as sees the much loved matriarch spend “a hilarious, haunted Halloween fending off killers, paranormal poltergeists, ghosts, ghouls, and zombies while keeping a watchful eye on a group of misbehaving teens.”

Perry will write, produce, direct, and star in the film – the origins of which date back to when Perry and Chris Rock conspired to include a spoof Madea Halloween movie in Rock’s film ‘Top Five.‘ Thereafter, Lionsgate approached Perry to make the movie for real.

Watch the first trailer below…

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Sales of Mariah Carey‘s music may have slowed, but the songbird is accelerating full speed as a media mogul.

It’s been announced that she is building on last year’s partnership with Hallmark, this week signing a multi-year partnership with the network.

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‘Love & Hip Hop Atlanta’s latest season continues to make moves for VH1 on a ratings front.

Still celebrating news that it had received over 19 million views following the airing of last week’s episode, its cast are to learn just how many viewers tuned in to catch Monday night’s offering.

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Shame and disgrace continues to befall Bill Cosby.

Good news for his alleged sexual assault victims below…

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Not even an all-star lineup featuring the likes of Queen of Pop Madonna, Celine Dion, Britney Spears, Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber, and Rihanna were enough to save the 2016 Billboard Music Awards from tanking.

Its highly anticipated performers list and tribute to late pop icon Prince drummed up what was once perceived as ample buzz, final ratings report indicate the exact opposite.

Giving the annual awards showing its lowest viewership in 4 years, tuck in below to find out just how many people tuned in to the Ludacris & Ciara-hosted affair:

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The reports following the highly reported axing of Tamar Braxton from FOX daytime tak show ‘The Real’ have gotten real ugly on social media.

After wielding an “official statement” on Sunday, the story was sent into overdrive after Braxton’s former assistant took to Twitter to pop all the way off on his take on “the real reason” the singer was let go.  Following his rant, her fans – affectionately christened #Tamartians – went on the attack by slamming her co-hosts Loni Love and Jeannie Mai.

To add to the fury, Love (who recently visited the ‘Wendy Williams Show’), was believed to have known about the ousting before Braxton did.  Well, the comedienne was not exactly in a laughing mood in response to the allegation and took to social media to offer her take on the ongoing drama.

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Chadwick Boseman‘s ‘Black Panther’ is undeniably one of Hollywood’s most hotly anticipated projects.

Steered by the director Ryan Coogler and co-starring Michael B. Jordan and Lupita Nyong’o, the release will claw its way into theatres in 2018 and extend Marvel’s tradition of pushing and promoting diversity within its films.

How Boseman is preparing for what may be the role of a lifetime?

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