BlackTree TVThe Reel Thing: The Kingdom
Monday Night Conversation with Jamie Foxx
Oscar® Award Winner, Grammy® Award Winner, and Golden Globe Award Winner makes his first appearance on BlackTree TV to discuss Superhead on the Jamie Foxx radio show and airs out Big Tigger and the alleged "encounter" that he had with Tyson Beckford. One word: Grease!!! Jamie also talks about War and his new movie, The Kingdom.
Jamie's mother, Louise, was an adopted child. When her marriage to his father failed, his grandparents, Mark and Estelle Talley, stepped in and, at age 7 months, adopted him too. He says he had a very rigid upbringing that placed him in the Boy Scouts and the church choir. During high school, he played quarterback for his high school team and was good enough that he got press in Dallas newspapers. He studied music in college. He released a music album in 1994, "Peep This" and sings the theme song for his 1999 movie, Any Given Sunday (1999). However, in 1989, his life changed when a girl friend challenged him to get up onstage at the Comedy Club. In fact, he says he took his androgynous stage name because he learned that women got preference for mike time on open stage nights. That led to his being cast in "Roc" (1991) and "In Living Color" (1990) and ultimately to his own WB network TV series. He has a daughter, Corrine, born in 1995, who lives with her mother.
Monday Night Conversation
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Produced by: Jamaal Finkley of BlackTree Media
Host: Ms. Brooke Christopher
Monday Night Conversation with Jennifer Garner
Brooke Christopher sits down with Jennifer Garner to talk about her new movie, her new baby, Broadway and her fighting skills.
Jennifer Garner, who has catapulted into stardom with her lead role on the series "Alias" (2001), has come a long way from her birthplace of Houston, Texas. Raised in Charleston, West Virginia by her mother Pat, a retired English teacher, and her father, Bill, a former chemical engineer, Jennifer was the middle sibling of three girls. She spent nine years of her adolescence studying ballet and describes her years in dance as ones characterized by determination rather than talent, being driven mostly by a love of the stage.
Jennifer took this determination with her when she enrolled at Denison University as a chemistry major, a decision that was later changed to a drama major when she found that her passions for the stage were stronger than her love of science. New York attracted the young actress after college where she worked as a hostess while pursuing a career in film and television. Her most recent move has been to Los Angeles, a decision that led to a role on the show "Felicity" (1998), where she met her future husband Scott Foley. The couple divorced in 2004.
She appears on television as Agent Sydney Bristow, who works for the CIA. For her work, Garner has received four consecutive Emmy nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She has also received four Golden Globe nominations and won once, as well as received two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, and won once.
She has appeared in numerous other television production as well as such films as Elektra (2005), 13 Going on 30 (2004), Daredevil (2003), Pearl Harbor (2001) and Dude, Where's My Car? (2000). Aside from filming "Alias" (2001), Jennifer enjoys cooking, gardening, hiking, and inspired by her character on the show, kickboxing.
Monday Night Conversation
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Produced by: Jamaal Finkley of BlackTree Media
Host: Ms. Brooke Christopher
Ashraf Barhoum Interview
Brooke Christopher sits down with Ashraf Barhom to talk about his first American picture and his audition.
BlackTree Media Production
Produced by: Jamaal Finkley of BlackTree Media
Host: Ms. Brooke Christopher
Jason Bateman Interview
Jason Bateman is an American film and television actor best known for his role as Rip Reed in action film, Smokin' Aces (2007), as well as his recurring role as Michael Bluth on the television sitcom "Arrested Development" (2003).
He was born Jason Kent Bateman on January 14, 1969, in Rye, New York, USA. His father, Kent Bateman, is a film and television director and founder of a Hollywood repertory stage company. His mother, Victoria Bateman, was a flight attendant. In 1981, at the age of 12, young Bateman made his debut on television as James Cooper Ingalls in "Little House on the Prairie: Uncle Jed" having appeared in 18 more episodes in one season. In the mid 1980s he became the DGA's youngest-ever director when he directed three episodes of "The Hogan Family" when he was 18 years old. During the 2000s Bateman's film career has been on ascensual trajectory. In 2005 he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy for "Arrested Development", and received other awards and nominations.
Bateman has been enjoying a happy family life with his wife, actress Amanda Anka, daughter of singer Paul Anka. They wed in Malibu, California, in 2003, their first child, Francesca Nora Bateman, was born in Los Angeles, on October 28, 2006. The Batemans are currently residing in Los Angeles, California.
THE KINGDOM
- Released: September 28, 2007
- Genre: Thriller
- Cast: Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Chris Cooper, Jeremy Piven, Jason Bateman, Ali Suliman, Ashraf Barhoum
- Directed by: Peter Berg
- Screenplay by: Matthew Michael Carnahan
- Based on a Story by: Peter Berg & Matthew Michael Carnahan
- Produced by: Michael Mann, Scott Stuber
- Executive Producers: Mary Parent, John Cameron, Sarah Aubrey, Steve Saeta
Director Peter Berg, who blisteringly reinterpreted the high-school sports drama with the celebrated Friday Night Lights, producer Michael Mann (Heat, The Insider, The Aviator, Miami Vice), and producer Scott Stuber (You, Me and Dupree, The Break-Up) join Oscar® winner Jamie Foxx in a timely thriller about the explosive clash that happens when Middle East meets West: The Kingdom.
Foxx stars as whip-smart FBI Special Agent Ronald Fleury, who has just received the assignment of his career: assemble an elite team (played by Jennifer Garner, Oscar® winner Chris Cooper and Jason Bateman) and go to Riyadh to hunt down and capture the terrorist mastermind behind a deadly attack on Americans working in Saudi Arabia. The feds have only one week to infiltrate and cripple a cell bent on jihad to western society.
No training could prepare Fleury and his team for the disorienting culture shock they face once inside this scorching foreign land—a byzantine maze of profiteering politicians and storefront terrorists. Bound by handlers who refuse to play ball with the U.S., the agents quickly find the local law enforcement more hindrance than help and soon grow uncertain of anybody's allegiance.
But when a sympathetic Saudi police captain helps them navigate Riyadh politics and investigate the true cause of the attack, Fleury finds an unexpected comrade-in-arms. In their lightning fast attempt to crack the case, the partners' search leads them straight to the killers' front door. Now in a fight for their own lives, two teams on opposite sides of the war on terror won't stop until vengeance is found in The Kingdom.
