4/22/24 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings | Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones and More

Top baseball pitcher Bingo Long (Billy Dee Williams) is fed up with how his Negro League team owner treats him, so he forms his own lineup, recruiting big-hitting Leon Carter (James Earl Jones) and Charlie Snow (Richard Pryor), who dreams of playing in the majors.  Continue reading

5/4/23 O&A NYC WITH WALESTYLEZ MOVIE TRAILER: Fast X | Open Road | Official Trailer

Fast X and Universal Pictures has released yet another trailer. This time, titled Open Road the trailer follows the dramatic dynamic between Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto and Michelle Rodriguez‘s Letty Ortiz.The final installment of the Fast & Furious saga tells the street racer love story, which has now become one of the most iconic relationships in the past decade of film.Fast & Furious X arrives in theaters on May 19. Continue reading

8/11/22 O&A NYC WITH WALESTYLEZ MOVIE TRAILER: BEAST – Striking Back Featurette

Idris Alba and Universal Pictures are bringing one more summer thriller to close off the season later this month.The British actor stars in the new survival thriller, Beast directed by Baltasar Kormákur as Dr. Nate Samuels, a father who takes his two daughters on a journey to South Africa.Idris Elba takes audiences on a behind the scenes look at filming, going in depth as to what the film actually means. Continue reading

7/21/19 O&A NYC WITH WALESTYLEZ MOVIE TRAILER: CATS – Official Trailer

By Adewale Adekanbi Jr

Acclaimed filmmaker Tom Hooper and Universal Pictures have released the trailer for the upcoming Cats film. Based on the musical of the same name which takes its material from T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, the forthcoming film sees Jason Derulo, Jennifer Hudson, Idris Alba, Jennifer Hudson, Taylor Swift and Judi Dench becoming anthropomorphic cats. The film hits theaters later this year on December 20,2019. Continue reading

11/2/18 O&A NYC SHALL WE DANCE FRIDAY: Lindy Hop Hellzapoppin

Hellzapoppin (1941) the Universal Pictures adaptation of the Broadway musical  directed by H.C. Potter with a cast that includes Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson who produced and starred in it on Broadway) and Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers. Continue reading

3/20/17 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY CELEBRATING WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH: The Wiz- Mable King, Diana Ross and Lena Horne

Hollywood Mondays

The-Wiz

The Wiz, the 1978 urbanized retelling of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and a big screen version of the Tony Award winning Broadway musical The Wiz produced in collaboration between Motown Productions and Universal Pictures. Continue reading