Huey's Acting Career

Maui Homicide 2000

Huey plays...: A crack-addicted police detective hot on the trail of DJ Doublemilk, who is wanted for a drugs scam.

Fast plays...: A police detective hot on the trail of DJ Doublemilk, who is wanted for a drugs scam.
Mackie plays...: A police chief hot on the trail of DJ Doublemilk, who is wanted for a drugs scam.
Mateo plays...: DJ Doublemilk!
Current state: Released on DVD
Release date (US):?
Release date (UK): Released on DVD 27th August 2001

Genre: Crime, Comedy
Starring:Huey, Fast, Mackie, Mateo, several golf carts, a kid's money-safe pouch and large quantities of white powder.
Filming Location(s):Maui, Miami Beach
Directed by: Huey and Fast
Written by: Huey and Fast
Studio: DiFontaine Films

Production: DiFontaine Films

Once in the Life (R)

Onceinthelife.com

Huey plays...: A Puerto-Rican drug-dealer who gets shot and dies!

Genre: Crime, drama
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Titus Williver, Eamonn Walker, Paul Calderone, Michael Paul Chan, Dominic Chianese, Jr., Sue Costello, Gregory Hines, Annabella Sciorra
Filming Location(s): NYC, NY, USA
Directed by: Laurence Fishburne, 1999
Written by: Laurence Fishburne
Studio: Lions Gate Films

Production: The Shooting Gallery
Soundtrack:Available in the US from 10th October 2000.
Track Listings
1. Nautilus (MAWtilus) - Nuyorican Soul 2. Things I've Seen - Spooks 3. Shadup Ya Face - KRS-1 4. Rafiki - Zap Mama (Hard mix) 5. Train Whistle - The Congregation 6. Fearless Misery - Vernon Reid 7. Breakfast @ Denny's - Buckshot LeFonque/Branford Marsalis 8. Young Thugs: Ballad Of Youth - Roscoe/Ritchie Sambora 9. No Dinero, No Rispeto - Latin Frozz 10. Livin' It Up - Big Pimpin' 11. Choices - Guru/N'Dea Davenport/Bobbi Humphries 12. Home - Kevin Sandbloom/Brian Rife/Steve Welch/Rich Owens 13. Yes Yes Y'all - Schooly-D 14. Once In The Life - Black Sheep 15. Without Vertigo - Glen Scott
Trivia: Fishburne adapted the screenplay for 'Once' from his own play, "Riff Raff", which ran at New York's Circle Rep Theater.
Lions Gate Films also distributed American Psycho and Dogma.

From Mr Showbiz

August 8, 2000
Fishburne Drives Once to Theaters

At long last, actor Laurence Fishburne's directorial debut will hit theaters. The Matrix co-star's Once in the Life, a streetwise drama based on his successful off-Broadway play, Riff Raff, will bow in October,[actually it's November 3rd now!] Variety reports.
Fishburne wrote, directed, produced, and stars in the project, which has been his baby since he gained acclaim for it at New York's Circle Rep Theater in 1995. Once in the Life is the tale of a criminal and a junkie who discover that brotherhood can sometimes mean "once in the life, always in the life."
Once also features Titus Welliver (who starred in the stage version), Oz's Eamonn Walker, Annabella Sciorra, and Gregory Hines [and Huey Morgan].
Fishburne was last seen as the morally astute Morpheus in The Matrix, a role he's expected to recap in the film's two upcoming sequels. He received an Academy Award nomination in 1993 for his turn as abusive spouse Ike Turner in What's Love Got to Do With It.

From IMDb.com, here are the credits:

Full Cast and Crew for Once in the Life (2000)

Cast (in alphabetical order): Paul Calderon, Michael Paul Chan, Dominic Chianese Jr., Sue Costello, Laurence Fishburne, Alan Francis (III) .... Strip Club Patron (uncredited), Gregory Hines, Annabella Sciorra, Eamonn Walker, Titus Welliver.
Produced by: David L. Bushell, Steve Carlis (executive), Laurence Fishburne, Larry Meistrich (executive), Helen Sugland.
Cinematography by : Richard Turner (IV).
Film Editing by: Bill Pankow.
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director: William Paul Clark .... first assistant director.
Art Department: Mark Sexton (I) .... storyboard artist.
Other crew: Barry Cole .... music supervisor, Christopher Covert .... music supervisor, Abrams Jared .... second assistant camera.

From MTV.com:
KRS-One, Schoolly D, Guru Tapped For "Once In The Life"

KRS-One, Guru from Gang Starr, Schoolly D, Black Sheep, and Vernon Reid are among the artists that have contributed new or unreleased songs to the soundtrack for "Once In The Life," an upcoming film starring and being directed by Laurence Fishburne.
KRS-One's cut, "Shutupa Yo' Face," will mark his first solo release since the 1997 LP "I Got Next." In the interim, the former Boogie Down Productions frontman has mostly made guest appearances on other artists' records, including Snoop Dogg's "Da Game Is To Be Sold, Not To Be Told," and Digital Underground's "Who Got The Gravy?" KRS-One has also logged time as an A&R rep for Reprise Records.
For the "Once In The Life" LP, Guru has teamed up with the Brand New Heavies' N'Dea Davenport on "Choices," while rapper Roscoe -- otherwise known as Kurupt's younger brother -- has hooked up with Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora for a hip-hip version of "Ballad Of Youth," a song that originally appeared on Sambora's 1991 solo album, "Stranger In This Town."
The soundtrack for "Once In The Life" is due out on Antra records in April, while the film is tentatively due to arrive on screens in the late spring or early summer. The movie is being produced by The Shooting Gallery, the same company that handled "Sling Blade," "Niagara, Niagara," and "Dee Snider's Strangeland."
"Once In The Life" is based on Fishburne's recent off-Broadway play, "Riff Raff," about a heist gone wrong, and also features Gregory Hines, Paul Calderon, and Sue Costello.

Huey plays...: ? Don't even know if he'll act in it yet!
Current state: Pre-pre-pre production
Release date (US):?
Release date (UK): ?

Genre: Comedy?
Starring:
Directed by: Huey Morgan and Joel Pront (Aussie Director)
Written by: Huey Morgan
Studio:DiFontaine Films/ Zinc Films ?

From Level Magazine June-July 1999

"I wrote a script for this film that we're probably going to be shooting here in London. It's a pretty good idea. It's got a dead rock star, his widow, a mad scientist and a time machine that looks like a New York cab. It's kind of like Ghost meets Back to the Future meets Bad Lieutenant." Sounds like a pretty straightforward plot to me, but how does someone whose music is so influenced filmically come up with such a mixed bag of reference, and then convince a film company to give them to the money to make it? "Joel (Pront) and I did a video for a song called Big Night Out. It was kind of like Raging Bull and a social critique at the same time. We always try and include hidden meanings in our music, like it you play it backwards and all that. The production company thought we'd made a good job on the video and approached us with a pretty nice sum of money to make a feature film, and that bag of money snowballed into a whole big bag of money - we're gonna take the big bag of money and split it in half. That's half to make the movie, and the other half to have a good time for the next six months. It sounds crazy, but they give you the money up front."

Swashbucklin’ In Brooklyn

Huey plays...: (?)

Fast plays...: Hopefully someone in uniform...(?)
Mackie plays...: Probably someone with guns who shoots people (?)
Mateo plays...: Please God a pirate working in a seafood restaurant! (?)
Current state: Pre pre pre production!
Release date (US):?
Release date (UK): ?

Genre: Crime, Comedy
Starring:A pirate costume, seafood and ‘the herb’.
Filming Location(s):Brooklyn
Directed by: Huey and Fast?
Written by: Huey and Fast?
Studio: DiFontaine Films

Production: DiFontaine Films