Beyonce has been cast to play famed singer Etta James on Darnell Martin’s next film, Cadillac Records along with Cedric the Entertainer and Adrien Brody…
While speaking to Cedric the Entertainer on his latest film, ‘Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins’, he mentioned to blackfilm.com that Beyonce has been cast to play famed singer Etta James on his next film, ‘Cadillac Records’.
The story is about Leonard Chess, the legendary founder of the South Side Chicago blues label Chess Records. The period piece follows the rise and fall of Chess Records, which launched the careers of such R&B greats as Muddy Waters, Etta James and Chuck Berry. Chess, who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, scoured the South, checking out the various blues scenes and selling records from the back of his Cadillac. Cedric the Entertainer will play Willie Dixon, who wrote most of the hits records and was part of the famous company. One of his most famous songs was “Hoochie Coochie Man”.
Source: Black Film
Raven Symone was also featured in US Weekly’s “Most Powerful Girls in Hollywood” top list.
This is what they had to say about the ‘mini-mogul’.
Dubbed the $400 million woman by Ebony for the estimated revenue her ‘That’s So Raven’ show has brought Disney, Symone has a head for business - and a weakness for Gucci bags and shoes.
“I work just to get those!” she jokes.
An Oprah in the making, the ex-Cheetah girl coexecutive-produced their second movie and launched a how-to Web site, Ravensymonepresents.com.
“I define power in this business as being able to own yourself,” she tells Us.
In other words… Raven likes to make it rain on these “hoes”.
Beyonce has been cast to play famed singer Etta James on Darnell Martin’s next film, Cadillac Records along with Cedric the Entertainer and Adrien Brody…
Raven Symone was also featured in US Weekly’s “Most Powerful Girls in Hollywood” top list.
