Title: Joyful Noise Director: Todd Graff (‘Bandslam’) Starring: Queen Latifah, Dolly Parton, Keke Palmer (‘Akeelah and the Bee’) and Jeremy Jordan (TV’s ‘Law & Order: Special Victims Unit’) People don’t always know how to agree on running groups, but their determination to do what’s best for their community leads them to try to work together. This is the main motivating factor among the choir members, particularly the leaders, in the new musical comedy ‘Joyful Noise.’ The newly-appointed Divinity Church Choir director Vi Rose Hill clashes with the church’s largest beneficiary, G.G. Sparrow, over what to sing to win the Joyful Noise competition. But the two ultimately agree they have to…

If you’re familiar with the entertainment business, it’s probably no real surprise that “Joyful Noise” wasn’t going to garner any favoritism from the critics. There were a lot of elements–the January release date being one of them–that pointed to the critics giving this a tongue-lashing, and they did. According to Rotten Tomatoes, the film, starring Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton, garnered a measly 38% rating, while audiences gave it a passing 75%. Overall, the critics felt that aside from Parton and Latifah’s on-screen chemistry and musical numbers, the film was flat. Let’s see what the critics had to say individually. “This overlong and forgettable comedy about a gospel choir is…

Title: Joyful Noise Studio: Warner Bros Director: Todd Graff Screenwriter: Todd Graff Cast: Queen Latifah, Dolly Parton, Keke Palmer, Jeremy Jordan, Dexter Darden, Courtney B. Vance, Jesse L. Martin Screened at: AMC Empire, NYC, 1/9/12 Opens: January 13, 2012 Neither character-driven nor plot-driven, Todd Graff’s “Joyful Noise” can best be called propelled by its music–a variety of styles including gospel, rhythm and blues, country and pop. The movie features performances from Dolly Parton in her first lead role in 20 years and especially Queen Latifah, whose character embraces hostility to her husband, her pretty daughter and her rival in the church choir of a depressed southern town in Georgia. Yes,…

Queen Latifah is soon going to be a part of the daytime talk show game again! According to The Hollywood Reporter, Latifah will star as the host of a new daytime talk show that will air in 2013. Her production company, Flavor Unit will produce along with Will Smith’s Overbrook Entertainment. Both companies will be working with Sony Pictures Television. This show would be Latifah’s latest daytime show since her first stint in daytime television in 1999, “The Queen Latifah Show.” According to the article, Overbrook’s Miguel Melendez and Flavor Unit co-founder Shakim Compere helped secure the deal, and both Melendez and Compere will be executive producers of the upcoming…

Kaley Cuoco has been hired to host the 2012 People’s Choice Awards, which are scheduled to air on January 11, Deadline is reporting. ‘The Big Bang Theory’ star, who also hosted this year’s Teen Choice Awards in August, will replace Queen Latifah. The ‘Ice Age: Continental Drift’ star hosted the awards show, for which award recipients are voted for by the general public, for the past five years. CBS’ Executive Vice President for specials, Jack Sussman, said Cuoco has chosen to succeed Queen Latifah because she’s “sexy, funny and smart-everything you want in a host-everything you get to see each week on ‘The Big Bang Theory.’” The CBS series is…

Queen Latifah is a rapper, actress, singer, Cover Girl, and now movie mogul. She, her Flavor Unit Entertainment partner Shakim Compere and Eric Tomosunas are producing drama “Percentage,” according to Deadline. Latifah and Compere will also finance the film along with actor/rapper Cam’ron. The film will star Cam’ron as well as Omar Gooding as two hustlers from New York who are running from a bad drug deal. The two end up in Miami, where they become part of the underworld of credit fraud, which only brings them the feds’ attention as well as the attention of some of Miami’s scariest criminals to run across. Basically, things go from bad to…

Read our exclusive interview with actor Travis Winfrey, who’s presently playing Omar on VH1′s first scripted series ‘Single Ladies.’ The comedy follows three women, including Val, April and Keisha, and their romantic relationships. Omar is the one constant male presence in the women’s lives, as he works at Val’s boutique. ‘Single Ladies’ has been renewed for a second season, after its first season drew a consistent 1.8 to 1.9 million viewers every week since it premiered in May 2011. Winfrey, who has appeared on a variety of different television series, including ‘Dexter’ and ‘The Secret Life of the American Teenager,’ discuses with us, among other things, what Omar’s relationship is…

While the Cheat Sheet is normally packed with the usual suspects – The Hunger Games, The Dark Knight Rises and Twilight, just to name a few – this time around, we’ve got some rather unique stories to share. Unfortunately for Howard Stern, he’s part of the bunch as a hole in his team led to the leaking of Super 8. Another punch to the gut also goes out to 3D technology, as a recent study proves the extra dimension does nothing to enhance a story, rather only offers the potential for discomfort. On the brighter side, Kenny Ortega snagged a dream of a gig, as he’s been recruited to direct…

Title: Valentine’s Day Directed by: Garry Marshall Starring: Taylor Lautner (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse), Bradley Cooper (The A-Team), Anne Hathaway (Alice in Wonderland), Jessica Biel, Taylor Swift, Julia Roberts, Ashton Kutcher and Jessica Alba. The power of a consumer driven holiday is frustratingly overwhelming. We’re weakened to the point that we’re willing to drop hundreds of dollars on overpriced meals, greeting cards and flowers even though a simple ‘I Love You’ would have sufficed. Not only have I conceded and bought gifts, flowers, cards and candy, but I haven been suckered into enjoying one of the most poorly made films of the year, Valentine’s Day. Brace yourself; this is no…

20th Century Fox Studios recently released another brand new international movie poster from the upcoming animated film ” Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs ” aka Ice Age 3 by director Carlos Saldanha (Robots) and starring John Leguizamo (Righteous Kill), Queen Latifah, Denis Leary and Ray Romano (Everybody Loves Raymond). The production company behind the film is Blue Sky Studions, who is also producing The Fantastic Mr. Fox. Synopsis: Ice Age: Dawn of The Dinosaurs follows Diego, Manny and Sid in the third film in the popular animated children’s series Ice Age. Stay tuned to Toxic Shock TV for the latest Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs movie news…