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Red Tails News

2009 Certificate TBC
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The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II. Read more

Starring David Oyelowo
Director Anthony Hemingway
Genres Action/Adventure, Drama

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    Ne-Yo gives fans free tickets to Red Tails screening

    • WENN Newsdesk
    • 20 Jan 2012

    R&B singer-turned-actor Ne-Yo invited fans to join him for a cinema date in New York on Friday (20Jan12) by offering up 200 free tickets to his new movie Red Tails. The So Sick hitmaker stars as one of the heroic African-American Tuskegee Airmen in George Lucas' historical big-budget epic and he decided to help boost box office profits for the movie's opening weekend by treating devotees to a free screening in Times Square. In a Twitter.com post on Friday afternoon, he writes, "Salutations fam! Read more

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    Lucas couldn't get studios to support his Red Tails movie

    • WENN Newsdesk
    • 10 Jan 2012

    Movie studio executives turned down the chance to distribute Star Wars creator George Lucas' new war movie Red Tails - because they didn't think the big-budget epic about the heroic African-American Tuskegee Airmen would be a hit overseas. Lucas spent 23 years making the patriotic period movie, which he financed himself, and when it came time to put the film out he couldn't get a major studio to support him because film bosses were convinced the movie would fail to get off the ground... Read more

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    Lucas is retiring from big budget films

    • WENN Newsdesk
    • 18 Jan 2012

    Legendary filmmaker George Lucas has announced he is retiring from Hollywood, insisting he no longer wants to make blockbuster movies. The Star Wars creator is best known for his work on the iconic sci-fi franchise, as well as the Indiana Jones films. He has most recently worked on upcoming blockbuster Red Tails, but insists unless a fifth Indiana Jones movie is made he's finished with the business and wants to instead concentrate on smaller independent projects. The 67 year old tells the New... Read more

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    Co-stars poked fun at Ne-Yo's vanishing hairline

    • WENN Newsdesk
    • 13 Jan 2012

    R&B star Ne-Yo was teased about his receding hairline on the set of new war movie Red Tails as he and his castmates passed the time at a pre-shoot bootcamp making fun of each other. The So Sick singer plays a member of the famous Tuskegee airmen in the film and joined his co-stars for a bonding exercise at a military facility. He admits they took it in turns to become the butt of jokes. He tells WENN, "We would just crack on each other. During the bootcamp there was no TV or cellphone, no iPod, Read more

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    Lucas signs star trio to new war film

    • 08 Apr 2009

    Terrence Howard, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Bryan Cranston are the latest stars to join the cast of George Lucas' new war film. The trio join an ensemble including hip-hop star Method Man and singers Ne-Yo and Jazmine Sullivan for Red Tails, a World War II action-adventure about the Tuskegee Airmen - America's first black military pilots. Actors Nate Parker, David Oyelowo, Tristan Wilds, Lee Tergesen, Elijah Kelley, Andre Royo and Jesse Williams will also star in the movie, reports Variety. Star... Read more