Brown Sista

For reasons not expounded on, singer Ciara revealed to Billboard magazine earlier this month that her new movie, Mama I Want To Sing, will not be hitting theater screens later this year, but rather will be going straight to DVD in early 2009. If you all remember, jaws dropped when news spread that the dance diva was cast in the starring role and even more questions were raised when the only clip from the movie to be released did not feature Ciara and had the title song being sung by another singer. If this news is true, (IMDB still has October 10th. 2008 listed as the release date) it is truly sad because outside of Ciara, the casting for this movie, which included Lynne Whitfield, Hill Harper, and Billy Zane, was truly spectacular.
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As previously reported, Ciara is due to star alongside Hill Harper and ­Lynn Whitfield in the big screen adaptation of the stage play “Mama Want To Sing“. We posted the trailer for this film a few months back and now BlackFilm.com has provided us with the first images from the set.
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