{"id":80718,"date":"2023-03-11T02:41:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T02:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/11\/vivica-fox-to-direct-bet-film-the-first-lady-of-bmf-the-tonesa-welch-story\/"},"modified":"2023-03-11T02:41:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T02:41:50","slug":"vivica-fox-to-direct-bet-film-the-first-lady-of-bmf-the-tonesa-welch-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/11\/vivica-fox-to-direct-bet-film-the-first-lady-of-bmf-the-tonesa-welch-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivica Fox to Direct BET+ Film \u201cThe First Lady Of BMF: The Tonesa Welch Story\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Vivica Fox is stepping behind the digicam for BET as soon as once more. The \u201cKill Bill\u201d actress directed the 2021 brief \u201cThrough Her Eyes\u201d for BET Her and can comply with it up by helming BET+\u2019s \u201cThe First Lady of BMF: The Tonesa Welch Story.\u201d Deadline confirmed<\/a> that the movie has been greenlit.<\/p>\n

Written by Gabrielle Collins (\u201cMerry Switchmas\u201d), the pic is \u201cinspired by the true life of Detroit native Tonesa Welch, which was first chronicled in American Gangster: Trap Queens, also from the streamer,\u201d per the supply. \u201cThe biopic charts Welch\u2019s rise from teen mom to drug dealer to being labeled by federal prosecutors as \u2018The First Lady of BMF.\u2019 Dreams and desires, craftiness and creativity, hustle and hard work, Welch tells a harrowing story about riches, remorse, personal responsibility, and redemption set amidst the lavishness and extreme violence of Detroit\u2019s crack era and America\u2019s \u2018war on drugs.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe First Lady of BMF: The Tonesa Welch Story\u201d is about to debut on BET+ later this 12 months.<\/p>\n

Fox\u2019s on-screen credit embody \u201cIndependence Day,\u201d \u201cBooty Call,\u201d and \u201cEmpire.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[ad_1] Vivica Fox is stepping behind the digicam for BET as soon as once more. The \u201cKill Bill\u201d actress directed the 2021 brief \u201cThrough Her Eyes\u201d for BET Her and can comply with it up by helming BET+\u2019s \u201cThe First Lady of BMF: The Tonesa Welch Story.\u201d Deadline confirmed that the movie has been greenlit. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}