Think Like A Man Too To Open 2014 ABFF, Spike Lee Film To Close

Think Like A Man Too To Open 2014 ABFF, Spike Lee Film To ClosePosted by Wilson Morales

May 5, 2014

While the full slate of films haven’t been announced yet, Screen Gems’ Think Like A Man Too the open the 18th Annual American Black Film Festival (ABFF). Running from June 19-22, the festival will be making New York its home after being in Miami the last five years.

Spike Lee‘s Kickstarter-funded project, Da Sweet Blood Of Jesus, will be making its world premiere to close out the festival on June 22.

In the highly anticipated sequel, which was inspired by Steve Harvey’s best-selling book Act Like a Lady, Think Like A Man, all the couples are back for a wedding in Las Vegas. But plans for a romantic weekend go awry when their various misadventures get them into some compromising situations that threaten to derail the big event.

“Too” basically picks up where the first film left off, happily ever after for all the fine couples involved. Michael (Terrence Jenkins) and Candace (Regina Hall) are getting married and have decided to have their bachelor and bachelorette parties on the same weekend in Las Vegas. Great idea, right? Then everyone can make bad decisions together. The group splits into guys vs. girls, and they decide to have a friendly competition to see which gender can party hardest.

Think Like A Man Too hits theaters on June 20, 2014

An upcoming independent romantic horror comedy directed by Spike Lee ,Da Sweet Blood Of Jesus is described as “Human beings who are addicted to Blood. Funny, Sexy and Bloody. A new kind of love story (and not a remake of “Blacula”).” The film stars The Wire’s Michael K. Williams and Felicia Pearson, Stephen Tyrone Williams, Steven Hauck and Zaraah Abrahams.

This 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks project does not have a distributor as of yet.

Also coming to the festival is “A conversation with the cast and director of Universal’s upcoming James Brown biopic,’ Get On Up’.”

The Help’s Tate Taylor is directing the film with Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Nelsan Ellis, Lennie James, Jill Scott, Dan Aykroyd, Tika Sumpter, Keith Robinson, Craig Robingson, Ralph Tresvant, Lennie James, and Julius Tennon.

The film will give a fearless look inside the music, moves and moods of Brown, taking audiences on the journey from his impoverished childhood to his evolution into one of the most influential figures of the 20th century. Davis plays Brown’s mother while Spencer his Aunt Honey. Robinson is Maceo Parker, a funk and soul saxophonist who played with Brown in the 1960s.Brown died in 2006.

Get On Up is scheduled for release on August 1.