Anthony Anderson
He'll be the voice of a detective in Hoodwinked, an updated animated retelling of Little Red Riding Hood. Anderson has just completed a drama called The Last Stand written and directed by radio personality Russ Parr. Finally he co-stars in The Departed starring Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio.

Angela Bassett
Outside of Akeelah and the Bee, with Boyz in the Hood co-star Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett will be focusing on her biggest project yet, starting a family with husband Courtney B. Vance.

Thomas Carter
The director of Coach Carter has two projects in development: Freedom House about an organization that trains the poor to become paramedics and Marcus Dixon, the true story the high school football player whose promising college career was derailed when he was jailed for child molestation after having a consensual relationship with a white fellow high school student.

Ice Cube
He has three projects in development. The Extractors about a group of professionals who break men out of prison. Teacher of the Year, a comedy about two junior high school teachers who battle it out for the coveted award. He's also producing an untitled piece about a promising college football star that gets expelled and returns home. After a stint working as a criminal, he's enlisted by the cops to become an unofficial undercover operative.

Omar Epps
You can continue to see him on the small screen in the hit show House, FOX, Tuesday nights at 9:00 PM.

Mike Epps
He's featured in the interracial love story Something New with Saana Lathan. He's also developing a half-hour comedy series for HBO called The Unsuccessful Thug, about his early years as a young hustler who can't get it right.

Donald Faison
In addition to Scrubs, Faison is costarring in Something New. He's also in appearing in several comedies: It's Under My Skin, where he plays and African-American raised to believe he's Italian; Vegas, Baby about a road trip and bachelor party and Venus & Vegas about three crooks who deal with relationship drama in the midst of a botched burglary.

Laurence Fishburne
He's got several irons in the fire: Akeelah and the Bee and Mission Impossible III. He's also starring in the action-drama The Death and Life of Bobby Z and the drama Bobby about the assasination of Robert Kennedy. He's also producing The Beltway about an intern on Capitol Hill who uncovers a dangerous CIA plot. He's in development as the producer of A Landlord's Tale, about a man who inherits several Harlem apartment buildings and the drama that comes with them.

Vivica Fox

She still stars and co-produces Missing on Lifetime. She also has a role in the new Jean-Claude Van Damme film, The Hard Corps. She is stars in Citizen Duane about a teenager who decides to run for mayor in his small town.

Jamie Foxx
Jamie Foxx has several big movies on the horizon, Dreamgirls, with Beyonce, Eddie Murphy, Fantasia and Danny Glover and Miami Vice with Colin Farrell. He's also set to star in and produce Damage Control about a sports agent who has to perform damage control for some of his more infamous clients.

Morgan Freeman
He might be trying to challenge Sam Jackson for the James Brown award as the Hardest Working Man in Show Business. He's reprising his role as God in Evan Baxter (he also played the Almighty in Bruce Almighty). He'll co-star in Lucky Number Slevin, a case of mistaken identity and the mob. And he's in the contract about a family that encounters a hit man.  He's also executive producing a drama called Colors Straight Up and a film on WWII.

Danny Glover
In addition to Dreamgirls, Danny has two family films on the horizon, the animated Barnyard and the Shaggy Dog. Dramatically, he's starring in and producing Nujoma, about the first president of Namibia. He's also will be featured in the drama Duplicity. Mr. Glover is also featured in the powerful short P.N.O.K. (Primary Next of Kin) which is currently making it's rounds in the festival circuit. P.N.O.K. was written by me, Karyn Beach, your own DivaSoulSista!!!!!!!!

F. Gary Gray

He directed The Italian Job with Mark Wahlberg and Mos Def, now he's back directing The Brazilian Job.

Kevin Hooks
No films on the horizon but he is keeping himself busy directing the hit Fox show, Prison Break.

Samuel L. Jackson
He continues to be one of the hardest working men in show business. Mr. Jackson has Freedomland coming out in January. It’s loosely based on the Susan Smith case She claimed a black man had carjacked her and taken her kids, but then it turned out she killed them. He also has a role in Black Snake Moan, the latest film from Hustle & Flow producers John Singleton and Stephanie Allain. He also has two thrillers on deck, Poker Nights and Snakes on a Plane. He's also the voice of Fear in the upcoming animated film 2004: A light Knight's Odyssey. He's also starring in and co-producing the Afro-Samarai about a man out for revenge. He's also set to do The Jailhouse Lawyer about a convict who gets the chance to try a high-profile case.

Regina King
She will voice Kreela in Ant Bully, an animated feature about a boy who gets shrunk to ant size after destroying an ant colony.

Boris Kodjoe
He's featured in the next Tyler Perry film, Madea's Family Reunion along with Blair Underwood.

Sanna Lathan
She's starring in the romantic comedy Something New.

Queen Latifah
She was recently seen in Last Holiday. Queen Latifah is now producing the comedy Kidnapped, about a family whose children are kidnapped after they win the lottery. She's also voicing the character of Ellie in Ice Age 2: The Meltdown. She's also co-starring in the comedy/drama Stranger than Fiction with Will Ferrell and Dustin Hoffman.

Nia Long
She's be reprising her role as Sherry in the upcoming Big Momma's House 2 with Martin Lawrence.

Eddie Murphy
Yes, he's in Dreamgirls too. He's also reprising the role of Donkey in Shrek 3. He and Chris Rock are attached an as yet untitled action-comedy about two average guys who pull off the perfect crime. He's also acting (in several roles) and producing Norbit about a man (Murphy) who is engaged to a horrific woman (also played by Murphy) who meets the woman of his dreams.

Will Smith
Looks as if Will Smith is doing a lot more producing than acting these days. He's acting and producing Tonight, He Comes about a superhero that falls for a small town housewife. He's also producing The ATL starring Big Boi of Outkast fame. He's producing and starring with his son Jaden in The Pursuit of Happyness, a true story about a man and his son. In Development: He's producing and starring in the comedy Time Share with Nicolas Cage. Smith is producing the comedy Extra Protection starring Nick Cannon. He's producing the crime thriller Pursuit and the comedy Monster Hunter with Hitch co-star Kevin James.

Tim Story
He directed the Fantastic Four and is set to direct the sequel as well. In development: First Sunday, a comedy about a couple of thieves who plot to steal from the church.

Blair Underwood
In addition to Madea's Family Reunion and a co-starring role in Something New, he's starring in and producing Straight Out of Compton 2.

Gabrielle Union
All 10 episodes of her cancelled ABC series Night Stalker are set to air this summer on the Sci-Fi Channel. Also on Ms. Union's plate is a role in the drama Running with Scissors, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Annette Benning.

Denzel Washington
He stars in the Inside Man, the latest Spike Lee Joint. He's also starring in déjà vu about an FBI agent who travels back in time to save a woman's life. In development. Directing and producing an untitled Sammy Davis Jr. project and directing The Great Debaters about one of the first black debate teams.

Alfre Woodard
She's not just a Desperate Housewife, she's also a busy actress. Also appearing in Something New, she's also got Take the Lead with Antonio Banderas about a former dancer who teaches dance at a NYC public school and 16 Blocks an action-drama with Mos Def and Bruce Willis.