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'Precious' Oscar Winner Mo'Nique Joins Tom Sherak To Unveil Noms January 25
Beverly Hills, CA – Nominations for the 83rd Academy Awards® will be announced on Tuesday, January 25, by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak and Oscar-winning actress and...
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83rd Annual Academy Award Nominations: 'King's Speech' Leads With 12; 'True...
BEVERLY HILLS: Beverly Hills, CA (January 25, 2011) – Nominations for the 83rd Academy Awards were announced today (Tuesday, January 25) by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom...
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‘Precious’ Oscar Winner Mo’Nique Returns To Screen In Indie ‘Blackbird’
EXCLUSIVE: In her first screen starring turn since the ferocious portrayal as an abusive mother in 2009’s Precious won her the Best Supporting Actress Oscar, Mo'Nique has joined Isaiah Washington in...
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Isaiah Washington & Mo’Nique To Star In Indie ‘We Are Family’, David Harewood...
Isaiah Washington and Mo’Nique will star in the indie drama We Are Family for writer-director Choice Skinner (Brotherly Love), who also is producing with Washington. The plot follows five siblings and...
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Mo’Nique & Khandi Alexander Join HBO Films’ Bessie Smith Biopic
EXCLUSIVE: Mo'Nique (Precious) and Khandi Alexander (Scandal) will co-star opposite Queen Latifah in Bessie, HBO’s film about iconic blues singer Bessie Smith (Queen Latifah). Written and directed by...
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Emmy Noms Set Record With 64% Gain For African-American Actors
The Primetime Emmys showed substantial progress this year in recognizing African-American thesps, who received 18 nominations across all acting categories — easily eclipsing last year’s record high of...
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Mo’Nique Signs With ICM Partners
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Mo’Nique has inked with ICM Partners. She scored a Supporting Actress Academy Award and Golden Globe as the abusive mother of Gabourey Sidibe’s title character in the 2009 indie...
View ArticleMo’Nique Calls For Netflix Boycott Over Alleged Gender And Race Pay Disparity
As the #MeToo and Time’s Up movement continues to gain momentum in Hollywood, so does the issue of gender pay disparity. More than that, the issue of race and gender pay disparity has surfaced. Actress...
View ArticleMo’Nique and Steve Harvey Get Into Tense Exchange Over Hollywood Blackball...
Mo’Nique sat down for an interview with Steve Harvey Wednesday and things got tense between the two longtime friends. The actress and comedian appeared on Steve to discuss her claims that she was...
View ArticleNetflix Hit With Sex & Racial Discrimination Suit By Mo’Nique Over Comedy...
(UPDATED WITH NETFLIX STATEMENT) As the streaming wars heat up, Netflix now faces some very serious allegations of institutional racial and sex discrimination from Mo’Nique over a comedy special that...
View ArticleMo’Nique Strikes Deal With Endemol Shine North America To Develop Unscripted...
EXCLUSIVE: Precious and Bessie star Mo’Nique is to develop a range of unscripted projects after striking a deal Endemol Shine North America. The deal reunites the actress and comedian with Cris Abrego,...
View ArticleMo’Nique & Lee Daniels Patch ‘Precious’ Feud; She’ll Replace Octavia Spencer...
EXCLUSIVE: After not speaking for 13 years, Oscar-winning Precious star Mo’Nique has been set by that film’s director Lee Daniels to replace Octavia Spencer in Demon House, an exorcism film package...
View ArticleLee Daniels Crashes Mo’Nique’s April Fools’ Day Event, Apologizes To...
Lee Daniels and Mo’Nique again demonstrated that they’ve moved on from their longtime feud on Friday night, with the former crashing a New York comedy event put on by his Precious star, and teasing...
View Article‘BMF’: Mo’Nique Joins Season 2 Of Starz Drama
Academy Award-winning actress and comedian Mo’Nique has joined the Season 2 cast of the Starz drama BMF in a recurring role. Mo’Nique will portray the character Goldie, a sophisticated Atlanta strip...
View ArticleMo’Nique Stand-Up Special Finally Happening For Netflix; Comedienne Settled...
After settling a lawsuit filed by the comedienne that claimed racial and gender bias, Netflix today announced that Mo’Nique will film her first stand-up comedy special for the streamer this year in...
View ArticleMo’Nique Thwacks Paramount, CBS Over “Wrongfully Withheld” Profits From ‘The...
In Mo’Nique’s new Netflix stand-up special, the Academy Award winner spends some time talking and joking about her stint on The Parkers. However, a profit participation suit filed today against...
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