MARIAH CAREY: TENNESSEE MOVIE POSTER....

Here is the official promo poster for Mariah Carey's new movie Tennessee which will be out next year. The 'We Belong Together' singer will star in the independent flick which is directed by Aaron Woodley from a script by Russell Schaumberg. In the movie, Mariah plays a waitress who sets off with two brothers to find their estranged father with hopes of getting him involved in saving their younger brother who has leukemia:

Tennessee is a 2008 drama film produced by Lee Daniels (producer of the Academy Award-winning film Monster's Ball). That actually sounds good but Glitter was just horrible, so I'm not ruling anything out. The movie has now finished filming and although it is expected to be released in 2008, there is no confirmed release date as of yet. Meanwhile, Mariah has been in the studio putting the finishing touches to her anticipated new album set for an early 2008 release. I am told we will even hear the new single as early as next week. I really hope that's true, although I think it's a bad idea if Island Def Jam are trying to put Mariah and her labelmate Janet Jackson to go head to head in the 'comeback' stakes.