(Black PR Wire) Los Angeles, CA – The “Queen of Hip Hop Soul,” would be the queen of this summer season with two new authentic motion pictures impressed by Mary J. Blige’s greatest hits — Mary J. Blige’s Actual Love and Mary J. Blige’s Energy of a Lady, set to premiere on back-to-back Saturdays, starting June 10 at 8p/7c. The 2-pack of flicks are headlined by Ajiona Alexus (Empire, 13 Causes Why) and Da’Vinchi (BMF, All American) with Princess Davis, Austin Anozie, Millan Tesfazgi, Shiraine Haas, Garfield Wilson and Hamza Fouad rounding out the forged, and portrays the highs and lows of younger Black love.
Actual Love follows 18-year-old Kendra (Alexus) as she units off on her personal for the primary time at an HBCU in North Carolina. Attending on a scholarship, Kendra is set to deal with college whereas balancing work examine and holding issues skilled with Ben (Da’Vinchi), her picture class companion. Regardless of disapproving dad and mom, monetary hardship, and even an surprising being pregnant, Kendra and Ben discover themselves falling exhausting for one another and in the end studying the which means of “Actual Love.” Even when Kendra realizes that as a way to pursue her goals, she should depart Ben behind, it’s sure that their story isn’t over….
The story of Kendra and Ben continues in Mary J. Blige’s Energy of a Lady, leaping forward greater than 15 years. Now a profitable photographer, Kendra finds herself in a failing marriage and should reckon with the selections she made for the life she thought she needed. When Ben unexpectedly comes again into her life, she is pressured to a disaster level and should dig deep to search out the power to take management of her life and settle for the love Ben could also be providing once more.
In help of the content material, Lifetime has partnered with Take Again The Evening Basis®, a global occasion and non-profit group with the mission of ending all types of sexual violence, together with sexual assault, sexual abuse, trafficking, stalking, gender harassment, and relationship violence, and to help survivors of their therapeutic journeys.
Helming each motion pictures as govt producers are John Davis and Jordan Davis of Davis Leisure. Jordan just lately produced Lifetime’s extremely rated movie, Love You to Demise, impressed by the story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard. Jordan can also be a producer on Netflix’s upcoming science-fiction/fantasy movie The Uglies, starring Joey King and Laverne Cox. Set to be launched this 12 months, growth on the challenge dates again to 2006 because it was a favourite novel of Jordan and her daughter’s. Veteran movie, tv and award-winning producer John Davis is understood for greater than 115 prime grossing characteristic movies together with Jungle Cruise, Predator, Grumpy Outdated Males, Waterworld and most just lately Prey, to call a number of.
Mary J. Blige additionally serves as an govt producer on each authentic movies by way of her personal manufacturing banner, Blue Butterfly with Ashaunna Okay. Ayars and Q. Nicole Jackson as co-producers. Blige has a confirmed monitor file of resonating with Lifetime’s audiences, having beforehand govt produced Lifetime’s top-rated authentic film of 2020, The Clark Sisters: The First Women of Gospel alongside fellow EPs Queen Latifah and Missy Elliott. In 2020, The Clark Sisters reached greater than 13.9 million Complete Viewers and was 2020’s #1 authentic film on cable. Blige additionally starred as Dr. Betty Shabazz in her first film function within the Lifetime civil rights biopic Betty & Coretta, with Angela Bassett.
As well as, Mary J. Blige’s Actual Love and Mary J. Blige’s Energy of a Lady are additionally produced by Entrance Avenue Footage and are being distributed by Sony Footage Tv. Camrus Johnson directs Actual Love from a script written by Sonja Warfield and Rachel Ingram, and Shari Lynette Carpenter directs Energy of a Lady from a script written by Ingram.
