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BlackTree TV's Brooke Christopher sits down to talk with Academy Award® Winners Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon to talk about their new picture, Invictus. ABOUT THE PRODUCTION Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, it has the power to unite people, in a way that little else does. Nelson Mandela The 1995 World Cup Final was, to most people around the world, little more than a thrilling rugby match. But to the people of South Africa, it was a turning point in their history—a shared experience that helped to heal the wounds of the past even as it gave new hope for the future. The architect of this benchmark event was the nations president, Nelson Mandela. Its builders were the members of South Africas rugby team, the Springboks, led by their captain, Francois Pienaar. Directed by Clint Eastwood, Invictus chronicles how President Mandela and Francois Pienaar joined forces to turn their individual hopes—the president, to unite his country; the captain, to lead the nations team to World Cup glory—into one shared goal with the motto One team, one country. In the film, Mandela calls upon Pienaar to lead his team to greatness, citing a poem that was a source of inspiration and strength to him during his years in prison. It is later revealed that the poem is Invictus, by William Ernest Henley. The title is translated to mean unconquered, which, Eastwood says, doesnt represent any one character element of the story. It takes on a broader meaning over the ...

BlackTree TV covers the16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards where Actor Sandra Bullock took home Best Female Lead. Screen Actors Guild Honors Outstanding Film And Television Performances at the 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® LOS ANGELES (Jan. 23, 2010) - Screen Actors Guild presented its coveted Actor® statuette for the outstanding motion picture and primetime television performances of 2009 at the 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® in ceremonies attended by film and televisions leading actors, held Saturday, Jan. 23, at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center. The 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® was simulcast by TNT and TBS at 8 pm, ET/PT, 7 pm CT and 6 pm MT. Ballots to choose the recipients were sent to the nearly 100000 active members of Screen Actors Guild nationwide. Sandra Bullock presented Betty White with Screen Actors Guilds highest honor, the 46th Annual Life Achievement Award, following a filmed tribute. Honored with individual awards were Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock, MoNique and Christoph Waltz for performances in motion pictures and Kevin Bacon, Alec Baldwin, Drew Barrymore, Tina Fey, Michael C. Hall, and Julianna Margulies for performances in television. Screen Actors Guild originated awards for the outstanding performances by a motion picture cast and by television comedy and drama ensembles. The Actor® for a motion picture cast performance went this year to Inglourious Basterds, while the Actors® for television comedy and drama ...

BET NEWS Presents HIP HOP vs. AMERICA, a Powerful Special Addressing the Current State of Hip-Hop Honest, Candid Town Hall Meeting Features Voices Across the Full Spectrum of Opinion Including Nelly, TI, Chuck D, MC Lyte, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, Reverend Al Sharpton, Stanley Crouch, Cornel West, Mike Jones, Master P, Kim Osorio, Dr. Ben Chavis, Judg Parts I and II to Premiere on Tuesday, September 25 and Wednesday, September 26 at 8:00 pm ET/PT, With Part III to Air Exclusively on BET ON BLAST NEW YORK, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Hip-hop culture and controversy have always made for familiar bedfellows. Yet, in the wake of the Imus controversy and in a year when the genre's sales have tumbled, hip-hop finds itself under an exceptional amount of scrutiny and pressure -- and the stakes have never been higher. BET NEWS takes a powerful and compelling look at the state of hip-hop today in a three-part series titled HIP HOP vs. AMERICA. Hosted by BET's own Toure and Jeff Johnson, this special showcases a candid, heated forum that will allow audiences to hear the opinions of prominent leaders in the hip-hop industry, the political realm, academia and the Black church

Ms. Jennifer Johnson makes her BlackTree TV debut while sitting down with Marlon and Shawn Wayans to talk Dance Flick. Dance Flick is a hilarious new comedy that brings together the talents of two generations of the Wayans family, the explosively funny clan who brought us the Scary Movie franchise and White Chicks, as well as the groundbreaking TV series In Living Color. The Wayans brothers Keenen Ivory, Shawn and Marlon share the spotlight with the new generation, Damien Dante, Damon Jr. and Craig Wayans, all of whom share the same inimitable brand of wild, irreverent humor. In Dance Flick, a young street dancer, Thomas Uncles (Damon Wayans, Jr.), from the wrong side of the tracks and a beautiful young woman, Megan White (Shoshana Bush), are brought together by their passion for dancing and put to the test in the mother of all dance battles. A BlackTree Media Production Produced by Jamaal Finkley Hosted by Ms. Jennifer Johnson www.blacktree.tv

A question from Chris Rocks daughter jumpstarted the making of Good Hair, but the idea for a documentary about the culture of black hair actually took root in Rocks head about 15 years ago while doing a stand-up gig in Atlanta. He noticed his hotel was packed with people, and everyone seemed...

BET NEWS Presents HIP HOP vs. AMERICA, a Powerful Special Addressing the Current State of Hip-Hop Honest, Candid Town Hall Meeting Features Voices Across the Full Spectrum of Opinion Including Nelly, TI, Chuck D, MC Lyte, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, Reverend Al Sharpton, Stanley Crouch, Cornel West, Mike Jones, Master P, Kim Osorio, Dr. Ben Chavis, Judg Parts I and II to Premiere on Tuesday, September 25 and Wednesday, September 26 at 8:00 pm ET/PT, With Part III to Air Exclusively on BET ON BLAST NEW YORK, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Hip-hop culture and controversy have always made for familiar bedfellows. Yet, in the wake of the Imus controversy and in a year when the genre's sales have tumbled, hip-hop finds itself under an exceptional amount of scrutiny and pressure -- and the stakes have never been higher. BET NEWS takes a powerful and compelling look at the state of hip-hop today in a three-part series titled HIP HOP vs. AMERICA. Hosted by BET's own Toure and Jeff Johnson, this special showcases a candid, heated forum that will allow audiences to hear the opinions of prominent leaders in the hip-hop industry, the political realm, academia and the Black church.

BET NEWS Presents HIP HOP vs. AMERICA, a Powerful Special Addressing the Current State of Hip-Hop Honest, Candid Town Hall Meeting Features Voices Across the Full Spectrum of Opinion Including Nelly, TI, Chuck D, MC Lyte, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, Reverend Al Sharpton, Stanley Crouch, Cornel West, Mike Jones, Master P, Kim Osorio, Dr. Ben Chavis, Judg Parts I and II to Premiere on Tuesday, September 25 and Wednesday, September 26 at 8:00 pm ET/PT, With Part III to Air Exclusively on BET ON BLAST NEW YORK, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Hip-hop culture and controversy have always made for familiar bedfellows. Yet, in the wake of the Imus controversy and in a year when the genre's sales have tumbled, hip-hop finds itself under an exceptional amount of scrutiny and pressure -- and the stakes have never been higher. BET NEWS takes a powerful and compelling look at the state of hip-hop today in a three-part series titled HIP HOP vs. AMERICA. Hosted by BET's own Toure and Jeff Johnson, this special showcases a candid, heated forum that will allow audiences to hear the opinions of prominent leaders in the hip-hop industry, the political realm, academia and the Black church.

It Might Get Loud is the title of a 2008 documentary by filmmaker Davis Guggenheim.One of the most dynamic gatherings in music history takes place in the new film IT MIGHT GET LOUD when legends Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White come together to play, compare notes and talk about music and their mutual love of the electric guitar. Directed by Davis Guggenheim and conceived by producer Thomas Tull, the film, through the words and music of three generations of musicians, celebrates the love affair these men and countless others have with the electric guitar, perhaps the most innovative and challenging instrument ever created. IT MIGHT GET LOUD isnt like any other rockn roll documentary. Filmed through the eyes of three virtuosos from three different generations, audiences get up close and personal, discovering how a furniture upholsterer from Detroit, a studio musician and a painter from London and a seventeen-year-old Dublin schoolboy, each used the electric guitar to develop their unique sound and rise to the pantheon of superstar. Rare discussions are provoked as we travel with Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White to influential locations of their pasts. Born from the experience is intimate access to the creative genesis of each legend, such as Link Wrays Rumbles searing impression upon Jimmy Page, who surprises audiences with an impromptu air guitar performance. But thats only the beginning. While each guitarist describes his own musical rebellion, a rockn roll summit ...

Claireece Jones, the Harlem teenager at the center of Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, lives in a world of specific and overwhelming horror. She goes by her middle name, Precious, which seems like a cruel taunt, since nearly everyone around her thinks shes worthless and lets her know it. Precious mother, Mary, played with operatic fervor by the comedian MoNique, dispenses a daily ration of humiliation and abuse. The constant verbal and physical violence she directs at her daughter would be shocking even without the monstrous crime that hangs over their dim, dirty apartment like a cloud. Precious, overweight and illiterate — and played by an extraordinarily poised first-time actress named Gabourey Sidibe — has a young daughter and is pregnant for a second time. The father in both cases, who is nowhere to be seen, is Preciouss father too. This information is bluntly presented at the beginning of Sapphires 1996 novel, a first-person narrative composed in rough, stylized dialect. In Lee Danielss risky, remarkable film adaptation, written by Geoffrey Fletcher, the facts of Preciouss life are also laid out with unsparing force (though not in overly graphic detail). But just as Push achieves an eloquence that makes it far more than a fictional diary of extreme dysfunction, so too does Precious avoid the traps of well-meaning, preachy lower-depths realism. It howls and stammers, but it also sings. Mr. Daniels, directing his second feature (after the vivid and ...

BET NEWS Presents HIP HOP vs. AMERICA, a Powerful Special Addressing the Current State of Hip-Hop Honest, Candid Town Hall Meeting Features Voices Across the Full Spectrum of Opinion Including Nelly, TI, Chuck D, MC Lyte, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, Reverend Al Sharpton, Stanley Crouch, Cornel West, Mike Jones, Master P, Kim Osorio, Dr. Ben Chavis, Judg Parts I and II to Premiere on Tuesday, September 25 and Wednesday, September 26 at 8:00 pm ET/PT, With Part III to Air Exclusively on BET ON BLAST NEW YORK, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Hip-hop culture and controversy have always made for familiar bedfellows. Yet, in the wake of the Imus controversy and in a year when the genre's sales have tumbled, hip-hop finds itself under an exceptional amount of scrutiny and pressure -- and the stakes have never been higher. BET NEWS takes a powerful and compelling look at the state of hip-hop today in a three-part series titled HIP HOP vs. AMERICA. Hosted by BET's own Toure and Jeff Johnson, this special showcases a candid, heated forum that will allow audiences to hear the opinions of prominent leaders in the hip-hop industry, the political realm, academia and the Black church.