My Publicist Note Book

It's  Lemonade  season. By the time Beyoncé dropped  Lemonade , her feverishly-anticipated new album, on the world Saturday night via TIDAL, viewers were three-quarters of the way through her heart-stopping, hour-long HBO special of the same name. Before its premiere Saturday night, fans didn’t know what to expect from  Lemonade  Few details about  it were released. Would it be a music video? A documentary? A little bit of both? Turns out, it was a visual album featuring video treatments for the 11 new songs Bey introduced the world to en masse — as exquisite an introduction to the  Lemonade  record as we could have imagined. Here were our the main takeaways from  Lemonade , the movie: The ups and downs of marriage Well, somebody messed up. A vengeful string of songs opened the documentary as Bey traces the downfall of a relationship, leaving viewers to wonder  who was th...

Project to revisit character brought to HBO in 1998 TV film 'Always Outnumbered' Fifteen years after  Laurence Fishburne  starred as Walter Mosley‘s Socrates Fortlow in the HBO movie  Always Outnumbered  written by Mosley and directed by Michael Apted, the actor-producer is revisiting the character. Fishburne  is joining forces with  HBO  to bring back to life character Socrates Fortlow from the 1998 pic “Always Outnumbered” — this time, as a TV series.  The pay cable network is developing  The Right Mistake , a drama series from Fishburne’s Cinema Gypsy Prods and Fox Television Studios.  Fishburne will also take a behind-the-scenes role as executive producer. It is based on the series of novels by Mosley featuring Fortlow: an ex-convict who seeks redemption — while battling inner demons and external forces — after serving 27 years in prison.  The   books include  Always Outnumbered, Always Outgun...