"South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone's hit musical "The Book Of Mormon" swept the board at the 2011 Tony Awards on Sunday, scooping nine top honors including the prestigious Best Musical.

The critically-acclaimed show, about two Mormon missionaries sent to Uganda, was nominated for 14 prizes at the New York ceremony, which celebrates the best of Broadway.

Host Neil Patrick Harris opened the awards show at The Beacon Theatre with a comical song-and-dance number titled "It's Not Just For Gays Anymore," and Hugh Jackman, a previous Tony Awards host, later joined the actor onstage...

Sade is the toast of the music world again after landing four nominations for the 2011 NAACP Image Awards on Wednesday.

The sultry British singer will compete for Outstanding Female Artist, Outstanding Song and Outstanding Music Video, while her "Soldier of Love" will fight for Outstanding Album alongside releases from Kanye West and Usher, who each earned two nominations.

Will Smith's daughter Willow has nabbed her first major award nomination, landing a nod for Best New Artist and Outstanding Music Video for her debut hit "Whip My Hair."

Other multiple nominees include Herbie Hancock, ...

A good movie either needs the big screen, the big budget, or big stars to be worthy of an audience as large as Tyler Perry's. “For Colored Girls” would make a wonderful first season of a cable (or TBS) drama.

Tyler Perry's "For Colored Girls" is one of those movies that follows interconnecting stories of people going through struggles. The domestically abused, the sexually assaulted, accidentally impregnated, the barren, and hopelessly devoted. Think “Valentines Day” with rape.

The movie is not unlike that of a, or, well, six lifetime films in that it's about women who don't need men. Or ...

In their latest holiday confection, "The Princess and the Frog," the Walt Disney Animation Studios return to their traditional 2D animation roots for the first time since 2004's "Home on the Range." Directed by John Musker and Ron Clements, "The Princess and the Frog" is the 49th animated feature film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics line and is set to be released on December 11th. The film features a voice cast including Anika Noni Rose as Tiana, Bruno Campos as Prince Naveen, and Keith David as Dr. Facilier. Oprah Winfrey, Terrence Howard, and John Goodman also lend their vocal talent...

Last Tuesday I had the privilege of seeing Jason Reitman's "Up in the Air" and I have to say, it's a brilliant film. Much like he does in "Thank You for Smoking," Reitman takes a character that has the potential to be very unlikable and makes him sympathetic to the audience.

Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) is a man whose career involves laying people off around the country, which is a sensitive subject in America given the current economic state. Reitman exercises great care with Bingham, showing us that the man isn't coldhearted. Bingham inspires those he lays off to find new careers ...

Multi-platinum, 3-time Grammy Award-winning Def Jam recording artist Ne-Yo adds two new credits to his long list of successes over the last three years, starting with the announcement that his new song, "Never Knew I Needed", will be the featured end credit song in Walt Disney's "The Princess and the Frog" animated motion picture event. The single was blasted out to Urban, Urban AC and Rhythmic radio on October 14th. The soundtrack album will be available November 23rd, and the movie, whose action takes place in New Orleans and the Louisiana bayou, will open in theatres on December 11th.

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The holidays are approaching, and if people are not busy running around thinking of Christmas or Hanukkah gifts, they're considering what to do with their family when they actually have to entertain everyone.

Every year there are big blockbuster films that come out around Thanksgiving and Christmas purposely devoted to people looking to enjoy time with their families, or to escape from them for a few blissful hours.

Here's a look at some of the movies coming out for the holiday season:

November 6 - Disney's A Christmas Carol

Disney is no stranger to taking beloved tales and ma...

Yesterday, we went over the Emmy nominees who have overstayed their welcome. Those perennial TV honorees that simply don't deserve the recognition they once did or, in some cases, never did at all.

So if they're out, who's in? Surely, there can't be too many nominees waiting in the wings. After all, television professionals choose these awards; they can't possibly leave out any substantial number of qualified candidates in favor of perennial duds.

Unfortunately, that's the way it is. Voters simply don't like to change their ways with regards to voting. It almost seems that a ...

A bevy of beautiful black stars showed up at the Essence Black Women in Hollywood Luncheon on Thursday. Click through our photo slideshow, and tell us which ones looked the hottest!

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Singer/actress Jill Scott is to become a regular on TV after show producers decided to turn her small screen movie The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency into a series. The soul diva was asked to take on the role after starring as lead heroine Precious Ramotswe in the Anthony Minghella-directed TV film last year, which aired on the cable channel HBO.

The film and forthcoming 13-episode series has been adapted from Alexander McCall Smith's books, which follow the fortunes of the only female-owned detective agency in the African nation of Botswana. Dreamgirls star Anika Noni Rose will also r...

Terrence Howard is to head up an all-African-American production of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" on Broadway in March.

The actor will perform alongside thespian Phylicia Rashad in the play, which will be directed by Debbie Allen. Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, which made it to the big screen and starred Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor, has been revived on Broadway four times before, but this production marks the first African-American production approved by Williams' estate for the Broadway stage.

The show will also feature Anika Noni Rose and...

Check out Dreamgirls, now on DVD. The time is the 1960s, and singers Effie (Jennifer Hudson), Lorrell (Anika Noni Rose), and Deena (Beyoncé Knowles) are about to find out just what it's like to have their wildest dreams come true. Also in stores: The Hitcher, Happily N'Ever After, Alpha Dog & Little Children.

Hip-hop star LL Cool J is in talks to play the lead role in a stage revival of Tennessee Williams 1950s classic movie Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. The rapper hopes to land the role as Brick, an alcoholic ex-American football player whose father is dying of cancer, played by Paul Newman in the original film.

The star, real name James Todd Smith, has proved his acting talent in movie Deep Blue Sea and sitcom In The House.

Cat On A Hot Tin Roof will be produced by Stephen Byrd and directed by Debbie Allen.

Other stars in talks to appear in the show include Debbie Allen's sister, Phyli...

Dreamgirls star Anika Noni Rose has been chosen to make Disney history as the voice of the movie studio's first black princess. The actress/singer beat the likes of Oscar-winning Dreamgirls co-star Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys and Tyra Banks, who all reportedly auditioned for the role.

According to celebrity blogger Marc Malkin, Rose will voice Maddy, the teenage heroine in The Frog Princess.

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Dreamgirls star Eddie Murphy was so devastated after losing the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award to Alan Arkin he stormed out of the ceremony, according to press reports. Murphy was the favorite to win the Oscar, which instead was awarded to Little Miss Sunshine star Arkin.

The 45-year-old tried to downplay his disappointment telling Us Weekly, "It's fine. It happens. It's OK."

But shortly thereafter, Murphy and girlfriend Tracey Edmonds left the show and didn't return. Murphy missed out on his Dreamgirls castmates Beyonce Knowles, Jennifer Hudson and Anoki Noni Rose performi...

Dreamgirls star Anika Noni Rose will wear designer Stuart Weitzman's Diamond Dream Shoe to the 79th Academy Awards on Sunday. The actress, who will perform Best Song nominee "Patience" at the Oscars, was selected as Weitzman's personal model at this year's award show for her "grace and charm."

Weitzman has created a silver evening shoe with a stiletto heel, adorned with 1,420 individual brilliant cut Kwiat diamonds, set in platinum circles, exclusively for Rose. The shoe is valued at $500,000.

Past stars who have been selected by Weitzman to wear his one-of-a-kind shoes on the O...

The Dreamgirls are to reunite for the Oscars.

Jennifer Hudson has already confirmed she'll be performing solo at the Academy Awards on February 25, and now she'll team up with Beyonce Knowles and Anika Noni Rose for another stunning performance.

Speaking at the Oscars luncheon on Monday, Hudson revealed Dreamgirls director Bill Condon will co-ordinate the performance.

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Movie musical Dreamgirls looks set to steal the major accolades at the 38th NAACP Image Awards after landing seven nominations yesterday. The movie was among the Outstanding Motion Picture nominees, while the "Dreamgirls" soundtrack was nominated for Outstanding Album at the annual National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People ceremony.

Stars Beyoncé Knowles, Jamie Foxx, Danny Glover, Jennifer Hudson and Anika Noni Rose all claimed top acting nods.

Medical drama Grey's Anatomy landed four nominations, while Ugly Betty picked up three.

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Beyoncé Knowles feels she and Jennifer Hudson were destined to star in movie musical Dreamgirls because they were born the year the project hit Broadway. Both stars are 25 - something that Knowles feels links them spiritually to the beloved stage show, which has now been turned into a major movie.

She explains, "I know that it's no coincidence that not only was I born 25 years ago, but so was Dreamgirls. And so was Jennifer Hudson. I think we were both born for these roles. I don't think it's just a coincidence that we were brought on this earth in the same year. I've been preparing f...

Music World Entertainment announced today that Music World Music/Sony Urban Music/Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax will release Dreamgirls -- Music From the Motion Picture, the official soundtrack album for the avidly awaited DreamWorks/ Paramount film Dreamgirls, on Tuesday, December 5.

Twenty-five years after first bringing Broadway audiences to their feet, the Tony Award-winning musical sensation "Dreamgirls" comes to the big screen starring Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx, Beyonce Knowles, Danny Glover, newcomer Jennifer Hudson, Tony Award winner Anika Noni Rose and Eddie Murphy.

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