Beyoncé's starred in several major productions but the first film was an MTV made for TV movie, Carmen: A Hip Hopera. The cast was all-Black and received fair reviews from critics. But MTV executives ...

However, that’s about to change, as today, Netflix announced that the film would be coming to the platform this weekend, June 1. That means that for the first time, many young members of the Hive will ...

Beyoncé Knowles Carter was visibly shaking during her first acting audition at age 19 according to director Robert Townsend who cast her in MTV’s 2001 film Carmen: A Hip Hopera. The filmmaker recently ...

The tag line for MTV’s new rap-flavored version of Bizet’s “Carmen” is not “This is not your father’s ‘Carmen.’ ” But it very well could have been. With a bass-heavy beat and a rhythmic flow ...

Robert Townsend wanted to blindly hire Beyoncé to star as Carmen Brown in the MTV film, Carmen: A Hip Hopera, and watched Queen Bey “blossom” right before his eyes. In conversation with Lena Waithe ...

NEW YORK — “MTV’s Hip-Hopera: Carmen” chalked up the second-best Nielsen numbers for an original movie in the history of MTV, delivering a 2.8 rating, which translates into 2.2 million cable homes — ...