"Community" star Donald Glover, aka Childish Gambino has released a 24-minute short film called "Clapping for the Wrong Reasons". It features Flying Lotus, Chance the Rapper, Trinidad James, PICS actress Abella Anderson, and the actress Danielle Fishel (aka Topanga from "Boy Meets World"!). Watch it below, via Line of Best Fit.

"Clapping" was written by Glover and directed by Hiro Murai, who has directed videos for Earl Sweatshirt and St. Vincent, among others. After the film, watch a segment of Pitchfork.tv's "Over/Under" with Flying Lotus and Thundercat.

Edited by Random Thoughts - Aug 16 2013 at 3:08pm

Laughing to the Bank

Release Date: September 6, 2013
Genre: Comedy
Stars: Devyn Ashley, Tabitha Brown, Darrel Cherney
A down-on-his-luck actor is frustrated with Hollywood and makes a plan to write, direct, and distribute his own project. When the money goes missing, it proves to just be the beginning of an adventure to get it back.

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The long-planned biopic of civil rights activist Martin Luther King appears to be on track, after reports emerged that producing studios Dreamworks and Warner Bros are aiming to attach actor Jamie Foxx and director Oliver Stone to the project.

With last year's Lincoln having re-established the credibility of large-scale historical biography, the director of that film, Steven Spielberg, is part of the production team on this. Foxx, who recently played an Obama-style president in White House Down, would now appear to have acquired sufficient gravitas for the role, while Stone has a record of making politically-oriented biopics, notably JFK and W.

The 50th anniversary of King's celebrated March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, in August 1963, appears to have given King-related projects fresh impetus. Aside from the Dreamworks/Warner Bros film, other planned films include Selma, focussing on another key protest led by King, and Memphis, a Paul Greengrass-scripted film about King's final days.

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/oct/11/martin-luther-king-biopic-jamie-foxx-oliver-stone

Edited by Random Thoughts - Oct 14 2013 at 4:10am

I'm tired of MLK.