Release Date:  January 13, 2012

The 42nd NAACP Image Awards

The 42nd NAACP Image Awards will air this Friday, March 4th on FOX TV at 8 p.m.  Here are some of the nominees...

Outstanding Motion Picture
For Colored Girls
Lionsgate/34th Street Films

Just Wright
Fox Searchlight Pictures

The Book of Eli
Warner Bros. Pictures

The Kids Are All Right
Focus Features

Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too?
Lionsgate

Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
Anthony Mackie
Night Catches Us
Magnolia Pictures

Common
Just Wright
Fox Searchlight Pictures

Denzel Washington
The Book of Eli
Warner Bros. Pictures

Jaden Smith
The Karate Kid
Columbia Pictures

Morgan Freeman
Red
Summit Entertainment

Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
Halle Berry
Frankie & Alice
Freestyle Releasing

Janet Jackson
Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too?
Lionsgate

Kerry Washington
Night Catches Us
Magnolia Pictures

Queen Latifah
Just Wright

JOYFUL NOISE

Synopsis:  After a Gospel choir in a small town is threatened to be shut down due to budget cuts, an unlikely duo (Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah) team up to try and save it.  The hip-hop superstar and country icon start out as rivals in this musically-driven film.  Latifah plays a mother who replaces the choir's director after his death.  Parton plays the widow of the director who also wants to be the leader of the choir.

Release Date:  The release date is unknown.  The movie is now in pre-production.

Love and Basketball Part II?....maybe

Queen Latifah is putting her producer hat back on as well as starring in a new romantic comedy alongside the rapper-turned-actor Common.  Just Wright is directed by Sanaa Hamri and was written by Michael Elliot.  Queen Latifah is Leslie Wright, a sport trainer who gets the opportunity to work alongside NBA All-Star Scott McKnight played by Common.

Their working relationship is going along smoothly until Wright realizes that she actually has feelings for the handsome athlete.  But these feelings are interrupted by an attraction McKnight has to Wright's beautiful childhood friend Morgan (played by Paula Patton).  And Morgan seems more than willing to be on the arm of the NBA star.  So what is Ms. Wright to do?

As you can see the cast has an All-Star lineup.  Some others making an appearance in the film are Phylicia Rashad, John Legend, and Pam Grier.  The storyline does sound similar to other movies we've seen before.  But that is no surprise since Michael Elliot is responsible for the hugely popular movie Brown Sugar Sanaa Hamri directed Something New.