Legendary Film Producer Robert Townsend is participating in the 2016 Allstate Tom Joyner Family Reunion. He talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about his latest project and what member of The Five Heartbeats cast is coming to Orlando in September! “I’m looking forward to it. We’re going to do The Five Heartbeats karaoke again. […]

  Playin’ For Love will be released on DVD tomorrow and the star-studded film features Salli Richardson Whitfield, Jenifer Lewis and Robert Townsend. Movie veteran Robert…

  Before the world knew Harry Lennix as Assistant FBI Director Harold Cooper on NBC’s crime thriller, Blacklist, many of us knew the talented actor…

  Robert Townsend will host a showing of the film The Five Heartbeats on the 2016 Tom Joyner Fantastic Voyage presented by Ford in celebration of…

  Robert Townsend has been a film and TV director for many years but in his new film Playing For Love premiering on Up TV on…

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I bet if you close your eyes and listen, you’d think this was Beyonce talking but it’s not! It’s Robert Townsend‘s daughter Skye Townsend. She’s…

For Robert Townsend, working with Bill Cosby was a chance to get paid and learn at the same time. Townsend directed Far From Finished, Cosby’s first…

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Aspiring screenwriter, Suntrana T. Allen attended the American Black Film Festival’s (ABFF) Master Class: Robert Townsend’s “The Ultimate Pitch”.  She was delighted to be selected to pitch her story idea entitled “That’s My Child”. ABFF: Black Cinema’s Annual Retreat Returns To Miami Check out this video clip of “What’s Up With Downes?”  Hosted by Robin […]

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The 2011 BET Award Show celebrated the 20th Anniversary of the release of the feature film, “The Five Heartbeats”.  The audience was surprised and delighted by a performance collaboration with the original cast of the movie “The Five Heartbeats” and the singing group “After 7”.   Filmmaker, Robert Townsend, felt that it was a “surreal 20 […]