OutKast Takes Off in 2006 With New IDLEWILD Album and Movie
By ph. diddy on Jun 20, 2006 in Music
Three years since the release of 5-time Grammy Award-winner OutKast’s landmark RIAA diamond-certified #1 double-CD Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, Antwan ‘Big Boi’ Patton and Andre ‘3000′ Benjamin return this August with the new album, IDLEWILD, set for August 22nd release on LaFace/Zomba Music Group.
Three days after the release of the IDLEWILD album, Universal Pictures and HBO Films will open wide with Idlewild, a Mosaic Media Group and Forensic Films Production starring Antwan Patton and Andre Benjamin in their first movie together. (They have acted separately, Big Boi in ATL, and Dre in Be Cool and Four Brothers.) Set amidst the backdrop of a 1930s rural Georgia speakeasy known as The Church, the film follows its two lead characters, lifelong friends Percival (Dre), the club’s piano player, and Rooster (Big Boi), the club’s lead performer and manager, through intersecting stories of love and ambition.
