Black Celebrity Men

T.I. (along with Keri Hilson) took to the stage last night to perform at the Takers premiere after-party at club Boulevard. Chris Brown also showed off his moves to a packed house as he performed a medley of a couple of his top 10 hits.

However, it's Chris' performance as Jesse Attica in the movie that has everyone talking. For those of you who don't know, the singer did the majority of his stunt after convincing producers to allow him to leap through windows, scale buildings and jump on cars while filming a heated chase. He told MTV News:

"The most thrilling part about this movie is probably the stunts. I do, like, 96 per cent of my stunts. Some stunts they wanna use the doubles; I don't wanna use the double! And they're like, 'We have to for safety and insurance issues.' I think the most exciting parts are the stunts, getting to blow stuff up, shoot guns, you know what I'm saying. It's all fun!

When acting, I feel like it's cool to use your strengths, but it's also cool to use your other abilities as well. I didn't just wanna do movies that had consistent dancing and singing. I wanted to do stuff that pushes me as an actor at the end of the day. Because you have people like T.I. and Common that do stuff that's not around what they do in the entertainment industry as far as music, and they succeeded. So I just wanna branch over to that, especially like Will Smith. He comes from rapping and going right into the acting thing, so I wanna come from the singing parts and go into acting, and people can tell the difference. I think that with this role, it was more intense, more action, more stuff that I love to do, what I love to see in movies.

TO WATCH ONE OF CHRIS' ACTION SCENES, CLICK HERE AND SCROLL DOWN.

TO SEE MORE PICS PLUS VIDEOS OF T.I. & CHRIS BROWN PERFORMANCES AT THE AFTER-PARTY, CLICK THE RED LINK BELOW!

Martin Lawrence is going to be busy, busy, busy in 2010. He's executive producing TVOne's sitcom Love That Girl (which I had a really hard time watching) starring Tatyana Ali, he and Will have agreed to film Bad Boys III, there's talk of him hitting the road to embark on a comedy tour AND last but not least, in April Martin will begin shooting Big Momma's House 3 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Big Momma's House was originally released in 2000 and Big Momma's House 2 was released in 2006. The film was originally about an FBI agent (Lawrence) who disguises himself as an old lady to protect a beautiful federal witness and her son. The first film made $174 million worldwide on a budget of only $30 million, while its sequel made $138 million on a $40 million budget.
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Mike Lowwwwwwwwry and Marcus Bennett are back! I was beyond excited when I learned that Martin Lawrence and Will Smith have both signed on to film the third installment of their Bad Boys movie series which will be called Bad Boys III. According to HM magazine, Martin, who was the first to come aboard, discussed the new film with Will and from then on it was on. They've even started talking about a storyline. If they're going have heart-stopping scenes such as the freeway scene in Bad Boys II and the scene in the original Bad Boys where Will is running down the street with his shirt wide open (he was so fine) and had to push Martin out of the path of an oncoming car, I'm going to be the first one in the theater.

Anyhoo, no word yet on who will write the film or also star, but as of this writing it’s a good bet that the film is moving forward and with the star power that both Martin and Will possess, there's no doubt that this movie will make as much money as the last two. The first one cost $19 million to make, and made over $140 million worldwide; the second one’s budget ballooned to a whopping $130 million (that freeway scene I mentioned earlier costs millions) but still ended up making over $270 million worldwide.
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New Orleans Saints football player Reggie Bush and his attention-whoring girlfriend Kim Kardashian were ranked #32 on Zimbio.com's 100 hottest couples list. Their rank was based on their levels of success, attractiveness, popularity and staying power. I literally laughed out loud when I read about what Zimbio.com thought of their relationship...and then I laughed out loud even louder when I read about how Kim was so 'honored' to be ranked on their list. Either Kim couldn't comprehend that they were bashing her OR she just chose to overlook it. Check out how they ranked below:

Success.
Kim got about $5 million from Vivid Entertainment for her sex tape scandal, but that was back in 2007. Since then, she's relied on bits like Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Dancing With the Stars, and Disaster Movie. Reggie, on the other hand, won a Heisman in 2005 and is set to earn $2.6 million in 2009 from the New Orleans Saints. By 2011, he'll be raking in 11.8 million dollars a year.

Staying Power.
This couple has been together since 2007, and engagement rumors are constantly surrounding them. Unlike many couples, they don't have a huge laundry list of high-profile relationships, though Kim famously dated R&B singer Ray J. It seems like things could go either way for these two, but the tension between Reggie's shyness and Kim's lust for media attention could get nasty. For the moment, he's trying to play along.

Compatibility.
Kim's a free-spirited Libra, in contrast to Reggie, who's a soulful Pisces. Although they attract each other at first, Bush may get sick of Kardashian's need to be constantly adored. Sometimes astrology is eerie, no?

She was honored by all of that? Jesus, please be a bucket of common sense and pour it over her head! Maybe she and window-licking Reggie are meant to be together because Lord knows they're both the most simpleminded couple in this industry.

In the meantime and in between time, Mariah and Nick Cannon came in at #54; Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith and Jay-Z and Beyonce were ranked #6 and #2, respectively.
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Will Smith's movie I Am Legend had me on edge of my seat and shedding tears by the time the closing credits started rolling....yes, I was that moved by it because I didn't expect him to die in the movie. So needless to say, I was excited when I learned that the actor has signed on to resurrect his role as scientist Robert Neville in a prequel to the blockbuster movie. According to Variety, Warner Bros. the flick starts off as news about a plague-ridden virus begins to spread. Giving audience members a grasp on I Am Legend’s background, the follow-up movie is expected to answer all of the unclear questions brought up in the 2007 box office hit - which reportedly made over $536 million worldwide. While a script is currently in the works, no release date has been announced as of yet. In related news, Will has a slew of other films that he's currently working on including Seven Pounds and The Last Pharaoh. In Seven Pounds, Smith takes on the role of a depressed IRS agent who goes on a mission to help out seven strangers. The flick is expected to hit theaters this winter. Check out the trailer below.

I'm hearing that Jamie Foxx's new movie The Soloist may garner him his third Academy Award nomination and his second Academy Award win. The movie revolves around a schizophrenic (played by Foxx) who is also a homeless musician who dreams of playing at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Through "chance," he meets a journalist (played by Robert Downey Jr.), who tries to help this mentally disturbed man get "back on his feet" and make his dreams come true. The two eventually forged a surprising and unbreakable friendship. It's been said that Jamie lost 30 lbs for the role. The movie trailer is below.