Keys and manager Jeff Robinson signed a film production deal to develop live-action and animated projects with Disney.
Their first film will be a remake of the 1958 comedy Bell, Book and Candle and will star Keys as a witch who casts a love spell to lure a rival's fiancé.
Keys and Robinson also formed a television production company called Big Pita.
Keys and Robinson will develop live-action and animated projects from their company, Big Pita and Little Pita, with Keys as producer, thespian, banner spearheading soundtrack and music supervision.
Keys is expected to play a 1940s biracial piano child prodigy, Philippa Schuyler, in an upcoming film entitled Compositions in Black and White. It is based on a 1995 biographical book of the same name by Kathryn Talalay.
She collaborated with record producer Swizz Beatz to write and produce "Million Dollar Bill" for Whitney Houston's seventh studio album, I Look to You.
Keys had approached Clive Davis for permission to submit a song for the album.Keys also collaborated with recording artist Jay-Z on the song "Empire State of Mind" from his 2009 album, The Blueprint 3. The song peaked at three on the Billboard Hot 100.
She performed the song with Jay-Z before the start of Game 2 of the 2009 World Series at Yankee Stadium
In June 2009, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers honored Keys with the Golden Note Award, an award given to artists "who have achieved extraordinary career milestones".
Keys will release her fourth studio album, The Element of Freedom, on December 15, 2009. As part of the promotional drive for the album, she will be performing at the Cayman Island Jazz Festival on December 5, the final night of the three day festival which will be broadcast on Black Entertainment Television (BET).
The album's lead single, "Doesn't Mean Anything", has peaked at number 60 on the
Billboard Hot 100.
Listen to Doesn't Mean Anything, please click on the link given below :]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH4zkly0k5k
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