The Queen Latifah/Flavor Unit-produced drama, "Brotherly Love," written and directed by Jamal Hill, with Eric D. Hill Jr., Cory Hardrict, and Keke Palmer starring, opened on Friday, April 24th, in a healthy 200 theaters, and ended the weekend with a $246,902 take, for a per screen average of roughly $1,235, which isn't very strong for an opening. But it some times takes smaller, lesser known films like this, without the massive studio marketing budgets, a little longer to find an audience. So it might have legs, and grow over time, especially if it expands into other markets. The Overbrook High School, Philly-set film follows...
- 4/27/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
The Queen Latifah/Flavor Unit-produced drama, "Brotherly Love," is written and directed by Jamal Hill, with Eric D. Hill Jr., Cory Hardrict, and Keke Palmer starring. The Overbrook High School, Philly-set film follows basketball star Sergio Taylor (Eric D. Hill Jr.) and his struggles navigating the fame that comes with being a star athlete. Hardict plays his older brother June, and Palmer plays his sister Jackie - both siblings who saw their own dreams and ambitions sidetracked by their father's death. Romeo Miller, Logan Browning, Eric Hill, Quincy Brown, Faizon Love, Macy Gray, and Malik Yoba round out...
- 4/24/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Keke Palmer shared the above poster on her Instagram page without a caption, so it didn't immediately register with me. But, thanks to the S&A archives, I have the all the necessary info on the project. In brief, it's a feature film we profiled in 2013, when it was said to be in post-production. The Queen Latifah/Flavor Unit-produced drama is titled "Brotherly Love," as you can see in the poster, is written and directed by Jamal Hill, with Eric D. Hill Jr., Cory Hardrict, and Keke Palmer starring. The Overbrook High School, Philly-set film follows basketball star Sergio Taylor (Eric D. Hill Jr.) and his struggles navigating the...
- 2/4/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
The insanity caused by Vee (Lorraine Toussaint) continues in episode 12. The Golden Girls decide they can use stabbing the wrong person as a message to Vee, so she doesn’t think they were trying to kill her. Poussey (Samira Wiley), highly intoxicated again, smashes all the cans of tobacco that Vee stored for her cigarette business. After Taystee (Danielle Brooks) takes the fall for Poussey and is kicked out of the “family," she finally sees Vee’s evil ways.
Through flashbacks, we see how quickly Vee really can turn on the people she calls her family. The audience finds out that Vee, with the help of a police officer, found out that Rj (Eric D. Hill Jr.) has been starting his own business. She confronted Rj and pretended to forgive him when he offered her a percentage of his profits. Vee pretends to forgive him, sleeps with him and then...
Through flashbacks, we see how quickly Vee really can turn on the people she calls her family. The audience finds out that Vee, with the help of a police officer, found out that Rj (Eric D. Hill Jr.) has been starting his own business. She confronted Rj and pretended to forgive him when he offered her a percentage of his profits. Vee pretends to forgive him, sleeps with him and then...
- 6/30/2014
- Uinterview
Currently in post-production is the Queen Latifah/Flavor Unit-produced drama Brotherly Love, written and directed by Jamal Hill, with Eric D. Hill Jr., Cory Hardrict, and Keke Palmer starring. The Overbrook High School, Philly-set film follows basketball star Sergio Taylor (Eric D. Hill Jr.) and his struggles navigating the fame that comes with being a star athlete. Hardict plays his older brother June, and Palmer plays his sister Jackie - both siblings who saw their own dreams and ambitions sidetracked by their father's death for the former, and love for the latter. By the way, Overbrook High School counts Will Smith as one of its alums. Romeo Miller,...
- 11/13/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Exclusive: Bet has assembled the cast of Y.M.O.C. aka Young Man On Campus, a comedy pilot starring Jacob Latimore as a 15-year-old college prodigy Jacob Matthews who is the youngest man on campus, sharing a dorm at Mt. Pleasant University with his basketball star cousin Marco. The main characters from Y.M.O.C., Latimore’s Jacob Matthews, his mother and his cousin Marco, were introduced in an episode of Bet’s comedy series Reed Between The Lines, which aired in December. Latimore and Eric D. Hill, Jr., who played Marco, will reprise their roles in the pilot, while the role of Jacob’s widow mom Trishelle is being recast. The Steve Harvey Show alumna Terri Vaughn has been tapped for the part, described as an earthy mama bear who truly wants Jacob to have every advantage in life that she didn’t. She got a second...
- 4/2/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
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