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After being accepted into a business program, the producer has his eyes on campus housing. Harvard is, once again, proving that it’s a hotbed for nurturing hip-hop culture. Last summer, the school kicked off a fellowship program in honor of Queens’ finest, Nasir “Nas” Jones . Then, just months later, the school crowned L.L. Cool J, “Artist of the Year,” during the Harvard Foundation’s annual ceremony. And now, producer Swizz Beatz is getting ready to pack his bags and head to the prestigious university for a summer course focused on all things business. “This might be one of the happiest days of my life. From the [Bronx] to Harvard,” Beatz, who’s real name is Kasseem Dean, wrote on Instagram on April 16, after posting a photo of an email sent from school officials  letting him know he was accepted into the Harvard Business School’s Owner/President Management Program . The nine-week course, taught in three-week sections over three years, costs accepted “clien...

Duo could join Idris Elba on vocal duties Jon Favreau's adaptation of The Jungle Book could be about to land some more star power, with Heat Vision reporting that Disney is in talks with both Scarlett Johansson and Lupita Nyong'o. Both actors have been lined up to lend their voices to the forthcoming project, which already has Idris Elba in place to voice the tiger, Shere Khan. Johansson is expected to lend her sultry tones to Kaa, the hypnotic python, while Nyong'o has been earmarked to voice Rakcha, the mother wolf who looks after Mowgli. Favreau's film will be a hybrid of live-action and CGI, although it remains unclear whether the film will make the same use of motion-capture as is being favoured by Warner's competing adaptation, to be directed by Andy Serkis. Production is set to get underway in the coming months, with The Jungle Book set to open in the US on 29 October 2015. Source: Heat Vision Would Johansson and Ny...

More actresses join Abrams' cast   Lupita Nyong'o and Gwendoline Christie have joined the cast of J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: Episode VII , Lucasfilm has confirmed. Nyong'o saw her profile rise stratospherically after her turn in 12 Years A Slave , for which she earned an Oscar. She has been rumour-linked to the mega-sequel for some time, with early reports suggesting she'd be playing a Sith. Christie, meanwhile, is best known as the imposing Brienne of Tarth in TV phenomen Game Of Thrones . Star Wars won't be her first big blockbuster movie though, as she has already secured a key role in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Parts 1 & 2 . No word on who Christie will be playing, but given her GOT stature, expect it to be someone thoroughly badass. The pair join the likes of Adam Driver, Domhnall Gleeson and John Boyega alongside franchise stalwarts Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher. Star Wars: Episode VII will open in th...