Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B Pulls In Over 3M Viewers!

Even though we all have or had several negative comments the numbers were shooting through the roofs for high ratings.

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Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B raked in an average 3.2 million viewers during its premiere telecast. That puts it as the No. 2 cable telepic of 2014, behind fellow Lifetime effort Flowers in the Attic. The film was also a hit online. Nielsen Media's mutable Twitter ratings put the pic at the top of its weekly chart, 997,000 tweets and a unique audience of 3.4 million.

Lifetime also fared well in the demographics, skewing young with 1.7 million adults 18-49 and 1.3 million women 18-49.

I guess Congrats huh .....

Wendy Williams Says Aaliyah Biopic May Air When?

Talk-show Host Wendy Williams talks about the family of Aaliyah, the R&B singer killed in a 2001 plane crash. The relatives are up in arms over an upcoming made-for-TV biopic.

Williams recently joined the Lifetime project as an executive producer and doesn’t think the family, which wants a theatrical film, understands how powerful television can be.

“In my opinion, TV trumps motion picture,” Williams

Cissy Houston Speaks Out About Whitney's Biopic

According to ETOnline.com

The late Whitney Houston's family is not supporting Lifetime's highly anticipated biopic on the legendary singer.

On Tuesday, Whitney's mother Cissy Houston told ET exclusively that the family is "exhausted" by the "continuing misinformation and comments offered by people who did not know her," and pleaded with fans to "please let her rest."

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"Lifetime has chosen to go ahead with the movie about Whitney in spite of my family's objections. No one connected with this movie knew Whitney or anything about her relationship with Bobby," she said in a statement to ET. "In the two years since Whitney's death, many people have stepped forward to speak about their close relationship with her. I find it difficult to believe people who knew and supposedly loved her would participate in a movie about her done by folks who didn't know her. We are exhausted by the continuing misinformation and comments offered by people who did not know her. Please please let her rest."

Well Cissy has spoke but that will not stop the biopic nonetheless. I want to see it and will be watching it.

See Who Will Be Playing Aaliyah & Wendy Williams Will Exc Producer

So Lifetime has finally found there replacement — actress Alexandra Shipp.  

Although she isn’t a huge name yet, the 23-year old Phoenix native has appeared on a small number of Nick shows including House of Anubis, and is the star of VH1′s Drumline sequel coming this fall.   Day Time Talk show queen Wendy Williams has also stepped in as the executive producer of the biopic!

Alexandra is also biracial, and it seems as though she is already prepared for the “she’s not Black enough” backlash that Zendaya endured before dropping out of the film. She hopped on Twitter recently and posted a photo of her mom, while letting folks know that they are just going to have to deal.

Wendy has been a fan of both the movie idea and Zendaya playing the songbird from jump. However, when Zendaya dropped out, Wendy went in on Aaliyah fans for forcing Z to “chicken out” and cave into the “she’s not Black enough” pressures. 

Production resumes in a few weeks and should be on track for Lifetime to air next fall.

So now we know she can act and bi racial will you all give this girl a chance so we can see this Biopic?? 

Maybe?? New Girl In Talks To Be Aaliyah in Biopic.. See Who

Even though Zendaya decided to give her role up as Aaliyah for the singer’s biopic, someone better might have taken her spot.

Allegedly Erika Perry has snatched up the role and she looks just like babygirl! Allegedly an exclusive email went out that said: “Lifetime may have already found a replacement for their upcoming Aaliyah film in a relatively unknown new talent. Erika Perry, a 20-year-old Atlanta-native performed with her sisters as part of the group Amor Kismet at the BET Experience on Saturday. Although Zendaya’s departure wasn’t announced yet, Lifetime execs were already in the know and scoped out Perry’s performance. So impressed with her talent and likeness to Aaliyah, they immediately set up additional meetings for Perry that weekend in Los Angeles.

Things are expected to move even faster this week to keep production on schedule.” Well, I guess we’ll have to see if this is really true but visually she is a better look! Hopefully ya'll don't try to run this girl away from the film too because we need to see this biopic.

Check out some of her pics from Instagram...

Angela Bassett Set To Direct Whitney Houston Film For Lifetime

I'm kind of happy to hear the news today that Angela Bassett has signed on to direct a television movie about Whitney Houston and her relationship with Bobby Brown for Lifetime. The film, tentatively titledWhitney Houston, will span from the time they first met at the very height of their celebrity, to their courtship and tumultuous marriage. 

Bassett, who co-starred with Houston in the 1995 film Waiting to Exhale, promises to avoid sensationalizing the late pop icon's tragic life. “I have such regard for both Whitney’s and Bobby’s amazing talents and accomplishments; and I feel a responsibility in the telling of their story,” said Bassett in a press release. “Their humanity and bond fascinates us all. I’m beyond excited to have this opportunity to go behind the camera and into their world.”

I hope this will be good.

[TRAILER] Jennifer Hudson Stars in Lifetime's Call Me Crazy: A Five Film

I am so excited that our girl JHud will be in this upcoming Lifetime film.

It focuses on five characters–Lucy, Eddie, Allison, Grace and Maggie—, the film will serve up five short visuals depicting how “powerful relationships built on hope and triumph raise a new understanding of what happens when a loved one struggles with mental illness,”according to the network.

J-Hud will play the role of Maggie, a veteran returning home from the war and now finds herself battling post-traumatic stress disorder. Other cast members include Chelsea Handler, Octavia Spencer, Brittany Snow and Melissa Leo.

Call Me Crazy is set to air April 20 at 8pm.

 I will definitely be  watching