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Singer/actress Jennifer Hudson has lost 56 lbs. for an upcoming film role, according to reports. The American Idol star and Oscar winner is set to play Nelson Mandela's former wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in a biopic entitled 'Winnie,' which is scheduled to shoot in May...

Though Beastie Boy Adam "MCA" Yauch joked with the LA Weekly that he's planning to spend the Oscars distributing "sandwiches outside the theater ... Maybe Harvey Weinstein will be hungry," his film company is very real. Oscilloscope Laboratories, Yauch's indie film distribution company, which is based in New York, has two films up for Academy Awards this year...

The independently produced Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson film 'Twelve' recently sold at Sundance Film Festival for $2 million. The film, which stars 50 alongside Gossip Girl hearthrob Chace Crawford, was written and directed by 'Lost Boys' director Joel Schumacher...

Platinum-selling Neptunes producer Pharrell Williams is reportedly composing an orchestral score for the animated film 'Despicable Me.' The N.E.R.D. member wrote the title song for the film, which can be heard towards the end of the trailer here ...

Rapper 50 Cent is taking the movie industry by storm. Having opened up his own production company, Cheetah Vision Films, earlier this year, the rapper has reportedly signed a deal with Georgia-based entrepreneur Richard Jackson and his newly-minted Action Jackson Film that will joint finance and produce up to five films per year ...

A documentary film about Wu-Tang rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard is scheduled to premiere at Harlem's National Black Theatre on Tuesday, November 10. 'Dirty: One Word Can Change the World' was directed by ODB's cousin, Raison Allah. The film chronicles the life of the gifted vocalist and hip-hop icon, and features interviews with members of the Wu, Sunz of Man, Killarmy, the Black Knights and the Brookly

According to reports, Wu-Tang member RZA is working on a martial arts film. In June, the respected rapper/producer, born Robert Diggs, said he would be making his directorial film debut helming 'The Man With the Iron Fist,' a martial arts film in the same vein as the "chopsocky" flicks that inspired Wu-Tang's many monikers and song titles, from Ghostface Killah to 'Enter the Wu-Tang (3

Brooklyn rapper Mos Def and Roc-A-Fella Records founder Damon Dash have announced that they are collaborating on a new film project. The film, a documentary about relatively unknown Detroit punk band Death, whose members were all black (not to be confused with better-known Florida metal band Death, whose members were all white), and played in the late 1970s, has already begun shooting, according

For the past year and a half, rapper/actor Common has been rumored to be up for the role of the Green Lantern in Warner Bros.' upcoming 'Green Lantern' film, which was originally dubbed as 'Justice League of America.' According to the newest reports, however, Common has officially been taken off the project ...