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Urbanworld 2018 Preview: Pimp<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

September 14, 2018<\/p>\n

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Making its World Premiere at the 2018 Urbanworld Film Festival<\/strong> is ‘Pimp,’<\/strong> written and directed by Christine Crokos and starring<\/strong> Keke Palmer, Haley Ramm, Aunjanue Ellis, Edi Gathegi, Vanessa Morgan<\/strong> and newcomer Paola Lazaro<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Executive produced by Lee Daniels<\/strong>, the film looks at life for women on the streets of New York amidst the hustles and dangers facing those working in the illegal sex trade.<\/p>\n

This will be the first film executive produced by Daniels. He has directed and produced films like Precious<\/strong> and The Butler<\/strong> and is behind Fox’s TV hits Empire<\/strong> and Star<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Pimp revolves around the character Wednesday (Palmer), who is in a relationship with a woman that she has grown up with, and decides to be a pimp. She soon realizes that in order for her and her girlfriend Nikki (Haley Ramm) to obtain a better life, she has to make far more money than she is currently making. With this in mind, Wednesday decides to steal a beautiful woman from a major pimp in the neighborhood, and winds up making more money than she anticipated. She gets caught up in the \u201cpimp life,\u201d and decides to pimp out Nikki; however, problems arise when Nikki fails to make as much money as the other woman.<\/p>\n

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Ellis will be playing \u201cGloria Ray\u201d, Wednesday’s mother while DMX plays her dad. Gathegi plays a hard-core boxer-turned-pimp named Kenny Wayne. Morgan appears as a stripper who causes a rift between the two lead characters.<\/p>\n

Alexis Varouxakis of 1821 Pictures and Adrenaline Entertainment is producing, along with Victoria Bousis, with Charlie Dibe co-producing. Corey Large, Nick Garyfallos, Bader Alghanim, Gina Saracino and Gary Ousdahl are executive producing.<\/p>\n