According to CNN.com's Marquee, Missy Elliott is hoping that a biopic of her friend and colleague Aaliyah will be led by R&B singer Ciara. The producer of some of the songs on Aaliyah's 1996 hit album "One in a Million" says that she still mourns the loss of her friend from her fatal plane crash in the Bahamas in 2001. [picappgallerysingle id="3361322"] In an interview with MTV,

Last month Jennifer Hudson announced that she will play Winnie Manikizela-Mandela in the Equinoxe Film WINNIE (due out in 2011). The Creative Workers Union of South Africa (CWUSA) promptly issued a statement to South African newspaper The Citizen protesting the fact that a South African was not cast in the role, and locals haven't been sought to star in or work on the film.

Post-"Precious" there's another rumor circulating about the dynamic duo producers Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry: They will be producing a screen version of radical poet Ntozake Shange's Obie Award-winning choreopoem, "for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf." Rumors are also circulating that superstars Halle Berry, Lynn Whitfield, Angela Bassett, and Jill Scott will star. There are even murmurings that the queen herself

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Step aside Uhura! Zoe Saldana is back with yet another sci-fi role that's fit for the big screen. Aside from her role in the 3-D spectacle "Avatar" (due out in December 2009), Ms. Saldana will star as the character Aisha, alongside heart-throbs and alpha males Jeffrey Dean Morgan ("Watchmen") and Idris Alba ("The Unborn," "The Wire"). The name of her new film is named "The

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Former television girlfriend of "The Office" character Jim Halpert, the "real life" Rashida Jones, has scored another sweet spot on NBC! She'll be starring alongside SNL's Amy Poehler in another quirky sitcom called "Park and Recreation." Staying on her quirky streak, she plays the "straight girl" to the wackiness of Paul Rudd and Jason Segel, in the comedy "I Love You Man." Paul Rudd is box office

Retro, horror king Rob Zombie has just completed his animated film The Haunted World of El Superbeasto, due for release in 2009. The animated feature will star Rosario Dawson --star of Seven Pounds with Will Smith-- who gets top billing as the voice of Velvet Von Black.Paul Giamatti will play Dr. Satan. In usual Rob Zombie-style, his wife Sheri Moon Zombie is cast as El Superbeasto's