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Usher received the Lifetime Achievement Award and was honoured with an epic tribute at the BET Awards 2024. The 'Yeah!' hitmaker was handed his prize by producing duo Baby Face and L.A. Reid, who co-founded the label LaFace Records, which signed Usher when he was a teen. The R'n'B icon's speech was partially censored as he was overcome with emotion. He began: "Obviously tonight is a celebration of many things being able to be recognised for this Life Achievement award that's coming. "I'm really happy to still be a part of the fight, you know what I'm saying." The 45-year-old singer, who was al...
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Eddie Murphy thought 'Beverly Hills Cop III' was destined to flop after he read the script. The 63-year-old actor considers the 1994 action-comedy film to be the weakest one in the franchise, and Eddie has now revealed that he actually feared for the movie before it was even released. He told ScreenRant: "This is when you can tell a movie's not going to work: when you have one of those lines that you've seen millions [of times] and hundreds of thousands of movies have said this line. "There was one scene where I had Uncle Dave in the back, and he was dying. I was driving, and I said, 'Don't yo...
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Eddie Murphy thinks 'Beverly Hills Cop' marked a turning point for the movie business. The 63-year-old actor played Axel Foley, a street-smart detective, in the 1984 action comedy film, and Eddie believes the movie was a landmark moment for Hollywood. Speaking to 'Extra', Eddie explained: "Before 'Beverly Hills Cop', there had never been a movie that starred a black man, black person, that was successful all around the world. Even still, to this day, when black folks, we, make movies, most of the time they work in the States and outside of the country they don't work." Eddie suggested that his...
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Jonathan Majors’ faith has been “tested” but “strengthened” by his assault and harassment convictions. The ‘Creed III’ actor, 34, is finishing a year of court-ordered domestic violence intervention program as part of his sentencing and reflected on his legal troubles while accepting the perseverance award at the 2024 Hollywood Unlocked Impact Awards. He said when picking up the trophy onstage at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles on Friday (21.06.24): “I reckon folks want to know about this last year. “As a black man in the criminal justice system, I felt anger. I felt sadness, hurt, surp...
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Jane Fonda has been left "heartbroken" by the death of the “brilliant” and “complex” Donald Sutherland. The veteran actor passed away on Thursday (20.06.24) aged 88 following a long illness and his 'Klute' co-star - who he dated around the time of making the 1971 movie - has reflected on the "adventures" they enjoyed together. She wrote on Instagram alongside a photo from the set of the movie: "I am stunned to hear that Donald Sutherland has died. He was my fascinating co-star in Klute and we loved working together. "In this photo we are on the Klute set with director Alan Pakula. "Donald was ...
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Will Smith is to lead the cast of the sci-fi film 'Resistor'. The 55-year-old actor is attached to star in the movie that is based on Daniel Suarez's book 'Influx'. Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Steve Tisch and Tony Shaw are producing the film for Escape Artists while Eric Warren Singer penning the latest draft of a script that was initially written by Zak Olkewicz. Suarez's 2014 novel is a sci-fi thriller that centres on physicist Jon Grady and his team after the discovery of a device that can reflect gravity – a triumph that promises to revolutionise physics and change the future. However, G...
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Will Smith thinks that improvements to TV shows have made things harder for the film industry. The 55-year-old star believes that the box office is struggling because the spectacle is now matched on the small screen, making it more challenging to entice audiences to the cinema. Speaking on the latest episode of Hot Ones, Will said: "The definition of a hit is still pretty much the same. Essentially, it's just harder to get one. "You used to be able to put some explosions in the trailer and a couple of good jokes and people were there. And television is so good, there are things that people jus...
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Will Smith has revealed the hardest he’s ever been hit on a movie set. The ‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’ actor’, 55, who is still dogged by the fallout from his infamous on-stage assault on Chris Rock, 59, at the 2022 Oscars, said he was struck with such force while making boxing biopic Ali his neck was “compressed” into his spinal cord. He told the ‘Hot Ones’ YouTube talk show about getting battered while playing boxing icon Muhammad Ali in director Michael Mann’s 2001 film: “My trainer was trying to get me to get the angle of my spine forward. And in this second I just was like, ‘You know what? Co...
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Will Smith has learned to cultivate a "joyful spirit" with "no women, no drugs, no money". The 'Bad Boys: Ride or Die' star has found how to carve out happiness after reaching "cliff top", which he explained he views of having achieved everything he possibly could in his life. He told the 'Full Send' podcast: “People talk about rock bottom and I coined a phrase that there’s a corresponding place, I call it ‘cliff top,’ right?... "There’s no more sex that’s going to be anything but a lateral move. There’s no more money. There’s, you know, no more success, and it’s a f****** abyss." The 55-year-...
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Michael B. Jordan is "still working on the script" for 'I Am Legend 2'. The 37-year-old actor has given a major update on plans for a sequel to Will Smith's hit 2007 blockbuster, and it's still "in the works" after first being announced as in development over two years ago. Jordan - who is set to star in the movie with Smith - told People magazine: "We're still working on the script and getting that up to par. "It doesn't have a release date or anything like that. I'm not sure exactly where we're going to be filming that one, but I'm really excited to get in front of the camera with him. "Bein...
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