Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Tracy Morgan Produces"Freshman Roommates"




30 Rock" actor Tracy Morgan will star in and produce "Freshman Roommates," a comedy feature inspired by the ubiquitous e-mail scams purporting to be sent by a Nigerian prince looking for help in accessing his fortune.

The film for Montecito and Paramount Pictures asks the question what if one of the emails isn't a scam. The story kicks off when a young man answers one such email during a drunken stupor. Soon thereafter, the spoiled son of a deposed African dictator (Morgan) shows up at his door, looking to secure his inheritance.

TJ Miller ("Cloverfield") will co-star in the film, which was written as a starring vehicle for Morgan by standup veterans John Mulaney and Nick Kroll, reports Variety.

Morgan is producing via his Street Life banner. The actor most recently appeared in the Sony comedy "First Sunday" and lends his voice to the Disney CGI picture "G-Force," which opens July 24.

Monday, December 1, 2008

Hollywood studio bosses are racist!!




Hollywood actor Danny Glover has alleged that Hollywood studio bosses are racist after he failed to secure financial aid for a biopic of revolutionary Haitian leader Toussaint L'Ouverture.According to the New York Post, Glover's project has yet to move forward due to financial woes despite Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez offering half of the $36 million budget to finance the film, reports Contactmusic.com.Glover was reportedly banking on the other $18 million from a distributor, but claims he faced rejection from financiers unsure of producing a film based on L'Ouverture, who helped to abolish slavery in Haiti in the late 1700s."Producers said it is a nice project. A great project in fact, but where are the white heroes?" Glover recently told a Paris film seminar, reports the Pan-African Newswire.He added: "I couldn't get the money here. I couldn't get the money in Britain. I went to everybody. The first question you get is: Is it a black film? All of them agree, it is not going to do good in Europe, it is not going to do good in Japan. Somebody has to prove that to be a lie".