B13 Peer Review

Scott Mendelson  ,  CONTRIBUTOR I cover the film industry.     Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Walt Disney 'Black Panther' Thanks to  Black Panther  and holdover business from  Star Wars: The Last Jedi ,  Coco  and  Thor: Ragnarok , Walt Disney has already topped the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office in just 52 days. And $491 million of that has come from  Black Panther  alone, as the MCU superhero flick races past $500m worldwide sometime today. For what it’s worth, I would argue that every dime that  Black Panther  earns means one less dime that  Solo  needs to make to keep the whole market share thing in play. Yes, there is supreme irony in the African-set superhero movie potentially helping Disney save face if (and this is a big “if”) the Han Solo flick underperforms, but I’m not going to knock the studio that is releasing  Black Panther ...

It’s been over 14 years since  Bad Boys II  invaded Cuba, and while Sony has been eager for  Bad Boys 3  (aka  Bad Boys For Life ), the film has stalled out time and again. There was a time when it looked like the pieces were falling into place with  Will Smith  and  Martin Lawrence  set to return with  Joe Carnahan  directing for a 2018 release date, but then Carnahan left the project, the movie lost any release date, and now it’s stuck in limbo. Lawrence recently spoke to  EW , and he didn’t sound too optimistic about an upcoming third installment. “I don’t think we’re going to get one, not the way everything’s turning out. Will is off doing another movie, and I don’t think it’s going to happen.” For his part, Lawrence is eager to return, but with Smith’s busy schedule and no director attached, the project remains in development hell. Personally, while I would have loved to have seen Carnahan’s take on a  Bad Boy...

Singer  Ginuwine  has sparked a heated debate on Twitter after a recent episode of  Celebrity Big Brother UK . In the latest episode, Ginuwine seemingly rejected fellow housemate  India Willoughby . The controversy stems from a conversation between Willoughby and the “Pony” singer, in which she asked whether he would date a trans woman. “You would date me, yeah,” Willoughby, who is a trans woman herself, asked. “Not if you were trans,” Ginuwine replied. After Ginuwine replied that he would not date a trans woman, Willoughby attempted to plant a kiss on the singer. When her advance was rejected, Willoughby stormed off. 01:26   01:39 WINDOW NOW Twitter has split into two sides. One side is outraged by Ginuwine’s rejection, suggesting that his unwillingness to date trans women is transpho...

The first & pioneer of all female hip-hop Groups   Hailing straight from Columbia, SC “The Sequence” first all-girl hip hop female group childhood friends—Cheryl Cook (Cheryl the Pearl), Gwendolyn (Blondy) Chisolm and Angie Brown Stone (Angie B)— who were high school cheerleaders. The Sequence asked Sylvia Robinson, CEO of the noted Sugar Hill Records Label for a chance to audition backstage at a Sugar Hill Gang concert held right in their city at Township Auditorium 1979 where they performed original written song in high-school “Funk You Up”.   The Sequence, were discovered immediately by Sylvia Robinson, she took them under her wings making the most of opportunity for childhood friends to become stars. After being the 2 nd  group signed by Sugar Hill in 1979, The Sequence’s first single “Funk You Up” went gold in just three weeks’ time and sold over 500,000 units of a 12’ inch single 1st of all female hip-hip groups i...