After the Ball

Thornton and Berry re-team for “Tulia”

“Monster’s Ball” stars Billy Bob Thornton and Halle Berry will re-team for the Carl ‘’ Franklin-directed “Tulia”, says Variety.

Great movie on Berry’s part, whom I believe, has been sinking into a black hole of shit lately… that fucked-up “X-Men 3” didn’t help her much… and, of course, with Thornton onboard, you can pretty much guarantee (granted, this coming from the only guy on the planet that enjoyed “School for Scoundrels”) it’ll be a solid pic. He barely ever signs up for spilt sugar. So yeah, sounds like this could be her return to form (though “Perfect Stranger” might be OK, too – in that ‘guilty pleasure’ sorta way).

This new flick is about an ACLU lawyer’s efforts to expose a corrupt and racially motivated rash of drug convictions in rural Tulia, Texas, in 1999. Its an adaptation of the Nate Blakeslee book “Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town.”

Shooting begins April 30 in and around New Orleans.