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Latifah Gets Welfare, First-Look Deals
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Did you know that Queen Latifah has co-owned her own
production company for 17 years? You did? Oh. Well, it's news to me. Flavor Unit, which started out in music management
but has since produced films including Bringing Down the
House and Beauty Shop, has signed a first-look
deal with Rogue Pictures, the incredibly active genre arm of Focus Features. According to the terms of the deal, Flavor
Unit will produce films (with "modest" budgets) through both Focus and Rogue, with the goal of making about
three every year; already on the table for the company are Welfare Queen, Reality Sucks (yes, that's a parody
of reality TV), and the obviously awesome Horror in the Hamptons which, according to Latifah, is "about a
bunch of 16-year-olds chopping each other up." Oh hell yes!The first product of the collaboration will be the aforementioned Welfare Queen, a based-on-a-true-story drama about a woman named Dorothy Woods, who "scammed the welfare system out of a fortune." The film will star Latifah as Woods, and the script is current being written.
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