purplethunder3121 said:

SoulAlive said:

you're brutal today!

Those old lady clothes and hairstyles don't help any.

That top picture of her in the white coat looks like the old lady on "Falcon Crest".

vainandy said:

purplethunder3121 said:

Those old lady clothes and hairstyles don't help any.

That top picture of her in the white coat looks like the old lady on "Falcon Crest".

TD3 said:

vainandy said:

That top picture of her in the white coat looks like the old lady on "Falcon Crest".

vainandy said:

SoulAlive said:

I agree,this is a pointless remake.Hollywood is so lazy these days.

Exactly. They have no ideas of their own so they remake and ruin old movies and television series. And they are extremely lazy with this one by casting Shitney in it. They didn't even put 10 minutes of effort to look for someone better. Hell, if no female actresses are available, a man in a fucking dress is better than "her". At least he'd have better legs instead of those chicken legs on her.

Whitney company 'Brownhouse' productions bought the right to Sparkle 13 yrs ago. She is the executive producer of this movie and the soundtrack so nobody picked her or is doing her any favors. I'm sure she has a very strong voice about this movie.

Whitney looks amazing! Don't understand why anyone would think rappers would be on this soundtrack. It's set in 1968, don't think rapper was popular back then. Expect a classic throwback cd. Whitney has always produced good soundtracks. Don't expect any different.

Carmen Ejogo is killing in that pose.

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Tika Sumpter Says Whitney Houston "Is Family, For Real!"

Posted January 16, 2012 by Rachel Samara for Global Grind Staff

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Tika Sumpter

Tika Sumpter shows off her talents on the sets of "Gossip Girl," "The Game," and the upcoming movie "Sparkle," where she stars alongside Whitney Houston.

Tika Smpter takes on the role of Delores in the upcoming remake of Sparkle by Salim and Mara Brock Akil.

Highly anticipated to say the least, Tika will star alongside Jordin Sparks and the legendary Whitney Houston. With her acting career blossoming with red hot roles on Gossip Girl and BET's The Game, Tika is destined to become a household name.

We caught up with Tika to discuss Sparkle and what it was like working with Ms. Houston.

Check out what she had to say below!

Since you’ve blown up on the scene you’ve become friends with everybody, what was it like to work with and be in the same room as Whitney Houston?

Oh my God! It was like a dream come true. My sisters, when they found out I got this part and Whitney was playing my mom...Whitney is like an idol to them and for me, I remember just watching her in her videos and staring at her and how beautiful she is, and her voice and everything.

It was so surreal to have her in the same room, joking around and dancing with us and laughing and talking about deep things sometimes or just hugging us and encouraging us. It was just so cool, I feel so happy to be a part of something that features Whitney in her first acting role in years. I’m excited to be a part of it and I loved every moment of being with Whitney.

You guys looked like a family on set.

Family, for real!

What’s one thing you learned about Whitney?

That she’s freaking funny as anything! She loves to have fun. She loves it. What I did love about Whitney was there was no ego, at all. If you're Whitney Houston you kind of can (have an ego). I don’t care where you've been, you’re Whitney Houston. You can come in the room and say anything, but she had none of that in her at all, at all.

Not one moment of it, and I was blown away by her and her attitude and all the love. I have no reason to have an ego ever in my life if one of the premiere superstars of our day has absolutely no ego. She’s just nice to everybody, very nice to everybody and I took that with me. She’s a human being and I think we forget that, that people are just human and are just trying to get by everyday.

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Entertainer said:

I'm shocked you had time to step away from your Shitney Shrine long enough to drop by here and come to her defense.

neonlights said:

Dren5 said:

Even that doesn't really stand a chance of matching up the original; McKee and Irene Cara are both pretty good singers in the actual movie, and then the released soundtrack had Aretha Franklin, doing all the songs.

Hah!

They should just throw in the towel, right now.

I don't recall asking for your opinion.

I don't recall caring whether you live or die.

vainandy said:

Dren5 said:

I have no interest in this movie, simply because a remake is pointless. The original is a hell of a movie and it makes absolutely no sense to me, for them to go back and remake it.

And I can already tell it's a turd from that pic of them in the dresses - she's supposed to be playing "Sista"? Oh, no way. No way.

Exactly!

I keep watching this trend of remaking classics, expecting it to end one day, but at this point I don't see that happening anytime soon.

I agree too with SoulAlive that this is about laziness, pure and simple. They don't want to get up off their asses and think of original ideas so at this point they're going back into the past, finding what worked, and just repackaging it - in the process, screwing up the legacy of the originals, and failing to match them in quality.

It's just fucking lame and I wish they'd stop already.

Terrib3Towel said:

Lawd, why even post Whitney news here? The 3 fans of her's here (me included) probably already get the news from elsewhere.

i'll take a vote 10 to 1 that the remake will be a flop. the soulfulness and creative rawness of the original cannot be matched. lonette mckee was beautiful, sexy and totally carried the movie. for those of you who have not seen the original 'sparkle' movie, pls check it out b4 u see the remake.

Dren5 said:

I have no interest in this movie, simply because a remake is pointless. The original is a hell of a movie and it makes absolutely no sense to me, for them to go back and remake it.

And I can already tell it's a turd from that pic of them in the dresses - she's supposed to be playing "Sista"? Oh, no way. No way.

I agree with you 100%

I'm sure this movie will flop, but I give up as that's not even the point. I'm just tired of them remaking classics. I throw in the towel. I say, let them have them ALL. Let them even do a re make of Purple Rain Or Under The Cherry Moon. Nothing is sacred anyway. I no longer care. It's the younger generation who's going to see this stuff, that will be missing out. We've seen the real deal.

I wish they would just go for the jugular already and re do Purple Rain. Something tell's me that someone has, or already is, thinking about this. They should let me recast it, that would be fun! Especially since I wouldn't need the ability to pick talented people, or even need talented people at all for that matter.

I can already see Bruno Mars as Prince and Kim Kardashian as Apollonia.

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the problem with Sparkle is that....it just got kinda cheezy at the end in my opinion after Sister was gone

WaterInYourBath said:

I hope the producers totally renovated this movie, 'cause the original was awful.

Right...Awful movie that was saved by a decent soundtrack.

Dren5 said:

neonlights said:

I don't recall asking for your opinion.

I failed.

None of her movies have flopped. This won't be the exception. Trust this will be a hit at the boxoffice where it counts not with critics .

BTW, the original Sparkle was nothing more than a made for tv/lifetime movie. The editing and lighting were so cheaply shot. There's much to be improved. Lonette McKee's portrayal and the music saved it. This wasn't even a hit at the boxoffice. It got a 2nd wind when the movie was released on vhs/dvd. So much for revisionism.

Terrib3Towel said:

Lawd, why even post Whitney news here? The 3 fans of her's here (me included) probably already get the news from elsewhere.

Congrats to the haters, lol, they stay on their job. Let them keep working cuz it keeps the thread at the top of the page, lol! Last laugh and all

I can't get over how FUCKING BEAUTIFUL Whitney looks! Jordin looks good too..lol.

Terrib3Towel said:

I can't get over how FUCKING BEAUTIFUL Whitney looks!

Yep! Boy! I tell ya! That Revlon works wonders!!!!

Whitney still looks good...but it is yawns department as far as her music and movies go.

The thing is, Hollywood remakes aren't anything new, they've been remaking movies since the silent era. The problem, this generation of screenwriters, producers, directors, and editors, they don't have ANY FUCKIN' TALENT. As the Entertainer mentioned, this movie was a low budget hot mess 35 years ago. I'll see it tho', I'm sure my beautician will be showing it a week befo' it opens up in theaters.

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TD3 said:

The thing is, Hollywood remakes aren't anything new, they've been remaking movies since the silent era. The problem, this generation of screenwriters, producers, directors, and editors, they don't have ANY FUCKIN' TALENT. As the Entertainer mentioned, this movie was a low budget hot mess 35 years ago. I'll see it tho', I'm sure my beautician will be showing it a week befo' it opens up in theaters.

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Hell, this movie was done on a low-budget aswell. And at your beautician. I remember one day at the barber shop Jumping The Broom was playing while it was still in theaters lmao. Gotta the hood. LOL!

Entertainer said:

vainandy said:

Exactly. They have no ideas of their own so they remake and ruin old movies and television series. And they are extremely lazy with this one by casting Shitney in it. They didn't even put 10 minutes of effort to look for someone better. Hell, if no female actresses are available, a man in a fucking dress is better than "her". At least he'd have better legs instead of those chicken legs on her.

Whitney company 'Brownhouse' productions bought the right to Sparkle 13 yrs ago. She is the executive producer of this movie and the soundtrack so nobody picked her or is doing her any favors. I'm sure she has a very strong voice about this movie.

So she basically picked herself for the part.

Terrib3Towel said:

TD3 said:

The thing is, Hollywood remakes aren't anything new, they've been remaking movies since the silent era. The problem, this generation of screenwriters, producers, directors, and editors, they don't have ANY FUCKIN' TALENT. As the Entertainer mentioned, this movie was a low budget hot mess 35 years ago. I'll see it tho', I'm sure my beautician will be showing it a week befo' it opens up in theaters.

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Hell, this movie was done on a low-budget aswell. And at your beautician. I remember one day at the barber shop Jumping The Broom was playing while it was still in theaters lmao. Gotta the hood. LOL!

Oh, hell yeah, you know how "we" roll.

Sista has the 52" Vizio TV with Bose surround sound.

I'm impressed our "DVD man"... who use to be known as 8-track man, then the cassette man, then the VHS man, has really stepped up his game. His shit is in HD, this isn't our father's bootleg products. I'm sure the next for him, will be "the Cloud".

TD3 said:

The thing is, Hollywood remakes aren't anything new, they've been remaking movies since the silent era. The problem, this generation of screenwriters, producers, directors, and editors, they don't have ANY FUCKIN' TALENT. As the Entertainer mentioned, this movie was a low budget hot mess 35 years ago. I'll see it tho', I'm sure my beautician will be showing it a week befo' it opens up in theaters.

I can relate to that Several years ago,I went to a barber shop to get a haircut.There's a TV in there and they were showing a film that I didn't recognize.Denzil Washington was in it,so I figured it was just one of his old movies that I had never seen.A lady walks inside and asks "What are you guys watching?" One of the barbers says "Oh,that's 'American Gangster'....it'll be in theatres next week...this is a bootleg copy".

I was aware that new CDs leak all the time,but dayum......movies too?!

SoulAlive said:

TD3 said:

The thing is, Hollywood remakes aren't anything new, they've been remaking movies since the silent era. The problem, this generation of screenwriters, producers, directors, and editors, they don't have ANY FUCKIN' TALENT. As the Entertainer mentioned, this movie was a low budget hot mess 35 years ago. I'll see it tho', I'm sure my beautician will be showing it a week befo' it opens up in theaters.

I can relate to that Several years ago,I went to a barber shop to get a haircut.There's a TV in there and they were showing a film that I didn't recognize.Denzil Washington was in it,so I figured it was just one of his old movies that I had never seen.A lady walks inside and asks "What are you guys watching?" One of the barbers says "Oh,that's 'American Gangster'....it'll be in theatres next week...this is a bootleg copy".

I was aware that new CDs leak all the time,but dayum......movies too?!

LMAO Barbershops and Hair Salons ALWAYS get bootlegs for their shops....this aint new at least the black ones anyway lol

Terrib3Towel said:

I can't get over how FUCKING BEAUTIFUL Whitney looks! Jordin looks good too..lol.

Whitney looks amazing.. yep yep

mjscarousal said:

SoulAlive said:

I can relate to that Several years ago,I went to a barber shop to get a haircut.There's a TV in there and they were showing a film that I didn't recognize.Denzil Washington was in it,so I figured it was just one of his old movies that I had never seen.A lady walks inside and asks "What are you guys watching?" One of the barbers says "Oh,that's 'American Gangster'....it'll be in theatres next week...this is a bootleg copy".

I was aware that new CDs leak all the time,but dayum......movies too?!

LMAO Barbershops and Hair Salons ALWAYS get bootlegs for their shops....this aint new at least the black ones anyway lol

lol...that's true