Aretha Franklin is known for her powerhouse vocals and being dubbed the Queen of Soul. Much of her music transcends generations and has continued to dominate the musical stratosphere. Sparkle is a ...

Steven Soderbergh's updating of "Ocean's 11" taught us that the best movies to remake are the ones we remember fondly even if the originals weren't all that great. The first "Ocean's" mainly coasts on ...

With his first feature screenplay, Joel Schumacher (who went on to direct, uh, classics like “Batman & Robin” and “The Number 23”) loaded the 1976 melodrama “Sparkle” with painfully inauthentic scenes ...

Hollywood has another remake on the cards in the form of SPARKLE, based on the 1976 original of the same name. The film is set to star Whitney Houston in her first film role since THE PREACHER’S WIFE ...

Warmly remembered corn, featuring some fantastic performers including Lonette McKee and Mary Alice, “Sparkle” (1976) starred Irene Cara as a mousy but learning to roar 15-year-old. She was one-third ...

Ruth Carter has had a glittering career. The Academy Award-nominated costume designer’s body of work includes Spike Lee’s “Malcolm X” and Steven Spielberg’s “Amistad” — and now the Springfield native ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Viewers got a first glimpse of Whitney Houston's upcoming film Monday when NBC's "Today" show premiered a trailer for the much-awaited release. A remake of the 1976 original, "Sparkle" ...

“Sparkle” is like a box of July Fourth sparklers. It sizzles briefly whenever people open their mouths to sing, flames out, then flashes to life again when someone lights another musical sparkler. In ...

The Michigan Film Office today announced incentives for "Sparkle," a remake of the 1976 blaxpoitation film, to be filmed in Metro Detroit. The original "Sparkle," which starred future Oscar winner ...