Sony Pictures Entertainment is renaming one of its movie theaters after the late Oscar-nominated director of “Boyz N the Hood.” The John Singleton Theater is Sony’s primary employee and public screening theater on the Culver City lot. It will be used by filmmakers to view their work during post-production and VIP screenings. Singleton’s career began […]
Family and friends of director John Singleton will gather today for a private funeral service. The Oscar-nominated director died April 29th at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles at the age of 51. Singleton went to the hospital complaining of leg pain and suffered a massive stroke on April 17th. His family later made the […]
It seems that John Singleton’s stroke last week was far more severe than originally reported. The Boyz N The Hood and Higher Learning director is currently in a medically induced coma according to TMZ and the family is in the process of establishing a conservatorship for him. Singleton returned from Costa Rica last week and complained of problems with his […]
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Director John Singleton isn’t ready to comment about the status of a Tupac biopic he’s attached to. While serving on a panel in celebration of the Grammy Museum’s Tupac-themed exhibit, “All Eyex on Me,” when he said he preferred to “dodge” a question about when the film might get going. According to “Billboard,” he explained […]
Director John Singleton is coming out in support of Sony Pictures co-chairwoman Amy Pascal and Hollywood mega producer Scott Rudin, in the wake of their…
*John Singleton is developing a Miami-set drama at HBO under the cable channel’s production deal with Russell Simmons, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The…
Director John Singleton received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. At age 24, Singleton became the youngest director ever to be nominated for an Oscar with 1991’s “Boyz In The Hood.” He’s gone on to direct other well known films like “Poetic Justice”, “Higher Learning” , “2 Fast 2 Furious”, and “Rosewood”
