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Whitney Houston’s Final Film, Sparkle, Set for August Release

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1:02 pm, February 12th, 2012

(Sony)

Whitney Houston’s final movie, Sparkle, originally positioned as a huge comeback role for the singer-actress before her shocking death on Saturday, is scheduled to be released as planned in August.

The film will include the final songs ever recorded by Houston, reports Billboard.

“Like all those who knew and loved her, we are shocked and saddened and the world has lost an incomparable talent,” read a statement from Sony Pictures, the studio behind the project.

A remake of a 1976 movie, Sparkle stars Jordin Sparks as one three singing sisters who try to achieve stardom despite travails such as drug addiction.

Houston plays the girls’ mother.

Howard Rosenman, one of the producers, said on Saturday that he had just watched a rough cut of the movie, and that Houston “was unbelievably fantastic in it.”

She previously starred in The Bodyguard, Waiting to Exhale and The Preacher’s Wife.

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  • Courtney

    that isn’t surprising this kind of stuff always happens when a huge star dies her record sales are already skyrocketting her debut for example sells about 8,000 copies a year or 153 copies a week but with her death it’s going to go up about 3,000 percent in the first week after so about 5,000 copies that week alone and will probably do a few hundred thousand this year so it could conceivably go 14x platinum in the not to distnat future and the bodyguard soundtrack could get a megaboost and end up 18x platinum

  • r g

    like a Sparkle remake is just what the world needs.

  • nex

    We need some good singing for a change. During her era and the 90s was the best music ever.

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