The Underdoggs (2024)
Comedy | Sport
Jaycen "Two Js" Jennings is a washed-up ex-professional football star who has hit rock bottom. When Jaycen is sentenced to community service coaching an unruly pee-wee football team, he sees it as an opportunity to turn his life around.
Starring: Snoop Dogg, Tika Sumpter, Andrew Schulz, Mike Epps, George Lopez
Director: Charles Stone III
Uncle Drew (2018)
Comedy | Sport
After draining his life savings to enter a team in the Rucker Classic street ball tournament in Harlem, Dax is dealt a series of unfortunate setbacks, including losing his team to his longtime rival. Desperate to win the tournament and the cash prize, Dax stumbles upon the man, the myth, the legend UNCLE DREW and convinces him to return to the court one more time. The two men embark on a road trip to round up Drew's old basketball squad and prove that a group of septuagenarians can still win the big one. After a successful five years as a fan-favorite digital episodic series, originally conceived by Pepsi, UNCLE DREW, will hit theaters June 29, 2018. UNCLE DREW is a Summit Entertainment release produced by Temple Hill in association with PepsiCo's Creators League Studios.
Starring: Kyrie Irving, Shaquille O'Neal, Reggie Miller, Chris Webber, Lisa Leslie, Lil Rel Howery, Erica Ash, Nick Kroll, Nate Robinson, Tiffany Haddish
Director: Charles Stone III
Step Sisters / Ain't No Half Steppin' (2018)
Comedy
Jamilah has her whole life figured out. She's the president of her sorority, captain of their champion step dance crew, is student liaison to the college dean, and her next move is on to Harvard Law School. She's got it all, right? But when the hard-partying white girls from Sigma Beta Beta embarrass the school, Jamilah is ordered to come to the rescue. Her mission is to not only teach the rhythmically-challenged girls how to step dance, but to win the Steptacular, the most competitive of dance competitions. With the SBBs reputations and charter on the line, and Jamilah's dream of attending Harvard in jeopardy, these outcast screw-ups and their unlikely teacher stumble through one hilarious misstep after another. Cultures clash, romance blossoms, and sisterhood prevails as everyone steps out of their comfort zones.
Starring: Eden Sher, Alessandra Torresani, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Gage Golightly, Matt McGorry, Naturi Naughton
Director: Charles Stone III
Lila & Eve (2015)
Drama | Thriller
When teenage Stephon is killed in a drive-by shooting, his mother, Lila, slips into a paralyzing grief. She joins a support group for women who have lost children to crime and meets Eve, a woman whose little girl was killed the same night as Stephon. Lila and Eve form a friendship, and Lila begins to crawl out of her depression. She develops a burning desire to find justice for her son, and she presses the authorities for answers, but they are slow-moving and ineffective. It's Eve who has the idea first-join together, find the drug dealers who shot Stephon dead, and bring them to justice themselves.
Starring: Viola Davis, Jennifer Lopez, Shea Whigham, Aml Ameen, Chris Chalk, Andre Royo
Director: Charles Stone III
Lila & Eve (2015)
Drama | Thriller
When teenage Stephon is killed in a drive-by shooting, his mother, Lila, slips into a paralyzing grief. She joins a support group for women who have lost children to crime and meets Eve, a woman whose little girl was killed the same night as Stephon. Lila and Eve form a friendship, and Lila begins to crawl out of her depression. She develops a burning desire to find justice for her son, and she presses the authorities for answers, but they are slow-moving and ineffective. It's Eve who has the idea first-join together, find the drug dealers who shot Stephon dead, and bring them to justice themselves.
Starring: Viola Davis, Jennifer Lopez, Shea Whigham, Aml Ameen, Chris Chalk, Andre Royo
Director: Charles Stone III
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Drumline (2002)
Comedy | Drama | Music | Romance
A squad of players, some 300 strong and armed with musical instruments, takes over the field, commanding attention with their stirring, spectacular display of choreography and musicianship. The football contest's controlled mayhem makes way for the blaring sound of trumpets and the heart-thumping rhythm of drums. Into this rigorous, ritualistic world comes a kid from a different culture. Devon Miles, a young, gifted hip-hop drummer from Harlem, wins a full music scholarship to Atlanta A&T University with the hopes of gaining a spot as a drummer on the school's renowned marching band's drumline. Devon, sporting a talent that is both raw and undisciplined, has one problem: He marches to the beat of his own drum. Surmounting overwhelming odds, he snares a spot as a starter, much to the disdain of a resentful senior class band member, Sean Taylor, who dismisses the freshman's skills as bogus. When Taylor discovers something amiss about Devon's abilities, he alerts Dr. Lee, the school's demanding, dedicated band director, who suspects that the upstart talent may have duped the school into awarding him his scholarship. That situation threatens not Devon's future at the school but, more immediately, his spot on the band's drumline just before the heralded Big Southern Classic, one of the region's most popular musical competition, spotlighting some of the area's best college bands and the winner-take-all jackpot of $100,000 for the school. Now, with so much money, and possibly his own job, at stake, can Dr. Lee afford to pass up such a prize by keeping his star drummer on the sidelines?
Starring: Nick Cannon, Zoe Saldana, Orlando Jones, Leonard Roberts, GQ
Director: Charles Stone III
Crazy Sexy Cool: The TLC Story (2013)
Biography
The story of Legendary hip hop/r&b/pop trio TLC. The group rose to fame in 1991 when they signed to LaFace Records, releasing their multi-platinum debut. Their 1994 follow-up, CrazySexyCool sold over 22 million copies, and Fanmail sold over 10 million copies in 1999. This group experienced bankruptcy, illness, group fights, and death. All the way dominating the charts and the music industry.
Starring: Drew Sidora, Keke Palmer, Rochelle Aytes, Lil Mama, Evan Ross, Carl Anthony Payne II, Rico Ball
Director: Charles Stone III
