Brown Sugar Will Celebrate Pam Grier’s 70th Birthday In May

Bounce TV’s Brown Sugar channel will honor the queen of action movies Pam Grier’s 70th birthday in May with a collection of her movies. Grier’s Coffy, Sheba, Baby, Friday Foster, The Big Bird Cage, The Big Doll House and Women In Cages will stream on the channel. It was during the 1970s when Grier became famous as a fierce and physical onscreen heroine with style. Her characters were fearless and would take on any villain with force and feminine power. Grier’s work paved the way for every woman who played an action hero after her including Angelia Jolie, Michelle Rodriguez, and Gal Gadot among others. She soared again in the ’90s with Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown that was created just for her. Grier will celebrate her birthday next month with Brown Sugar’s programming dedicated to her and she will also be seen in the new movie Poms which opens on May 10th. 

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Pam Grier To Host Brown Sugar Week on Bounce June 11-15

Pam Grier will return to Bounce to host a week-long series of blaxploitation films from the Brown Sugar streaming platform. Read the schedule below:

Mon. June 11 - Bucktown starring Grier and her frequent co-star Fred Williamson, who finds himself battling the racism and police corruption that ended his brother’s life.

Tues. June 12 - The Mack headlined by Richard Pryor and Max Julien as “Goldie” – the most notorious pimp in Oakland.

Weds. June 13 - Black Belt Jones – Jim Kelly plays a martial artist who must battle the Mafia to protect a karate school.

Thurs. June 14 - Super Fly directed by Gordon Parks, Jr. and starring Ron O’Neal as New York City drug kingpin “Priest”

Fri. June 15 - Three The Hard Way featuring Williamson, Kelly and Jim Brown banding together to foil a racist plot.

Brown Sugar, Bounce TV’s video-on-demand service has many films including Bounce originals Saint & Sinners, Family Time and In The Cut. Brown Sugar is available on Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Channels, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Kindle, Android and Apple smartphones and tablets and web browsers via BrownSugar.com. Brown Sugar also has Google Chromecast capabilities which allow video to play on televisions directly from mobile devices and tablets for consumers with Android and iOS devices. There is a free initial trial period for subscribers with a retail price of $3.99/month thereafter. Visit www.BrownSugar.com for more information.



Bounce TV’s Brown Sugar Will Celebrate Pam Grier’s Birthday With Brown Sugar Mamas

Bounce TV’s Brown Sugar streaming service will celebrate Pam Grier’s May 26th birthday with a section on their homepage featuring many of her classic films including Coffy, Black Mama White Mama, Friday Foster, Scream Blacula Scream, Sheba, Baby and Original Gangstas. The iconic action hero actress is also a Brown Sugar ambassador. 

Bounce TV is launching its Brown Sugar Mamas this month with a collection of films honoring mothers. 

Brown Sugar can be accessed on the Amazon Channels, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Kindle, Apple TV, Roku, Android and Apple smartphones and tablets and web browsers via BrownSugar.com.  



Pam Grier Biopic In The Works

A biopic about ’70s action film star Pam Grier is being developed and shopped. Grier’s life as the first woman to make action movies and her colorful personal life with exes like Richard Pryor and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar made her one the of the most watched and talked about stars of the era. Bennie Richburg wrote the script for the project that has the working title Pam.

According to Deadline, Jay Pharoah connected to Pam after reading the script and is slated to play Pryor. Grier had a resurgence in popularity when she starred in the Quentin Tarantino-directed Jackie Brown. Tarantino wrote the movie specifically for Grier and Robert Forster. The film just had its 20th anniversary this past December. She also had a recurring role on The L-Word.

In 2017, Grier appeared in Bad Grandmas and Rose. She was scheduled to be in an Amazon series directed by David O. Russell that has been stopped because of the Harvey Weinstein scandal.

Grier shared her life on the page when she released her autobiography Foxy: My Life In Three Acts in 2010.

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