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From Mario Van Peebles , the son of filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles, comes the powerful, moving drama All Things Fall Apart starring Queens, NY native Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson , Ray Liotta and Emmy and Golden Globe winner Lynn Whitfield .

Funnyman Chris Rock has enjoyed one of the steadiest careers in comedy and film, getting his start in the early '80s as a stand-up comic at famed comedy club chain Catch A Rising Star.

It was a month ago when word first broke that The Asylum is getting back to its classical mockbuster ways with American Battleship , the company's take on this summer's mega budget board game-inspired Battleship .

Of the many stories percolating in NewsCutland this week, the one that never seemed to make much of a blip outside of Hollywood and a few others places was filmmaker George Lucas' revelation that Hollywood was skittish about his Red Tails film project because it's a mostly black cast and there's not a foreign market for it.