Mya, Vivica Fox, and Patti LaBelle in Down Low Film -- 'Cover'

Though an official release date hasn't been announced or whether or not the film will go to the theaters or straight to DVD, but Director Bill Duke's down-low film, 'Cover', is slated to come out this year. The film stars Vivica A. Fox, Paula Jai Parker, Leon, Lou Gossett Jr., Mya, Roger Guenveur Smith, Aujanue Ellis, Victoria Platt and Patti Labelle.

According to the movie site IMDB, when RYAN CHAMBERS is murdered on New Year's Eve, the prime suspect is VALERIE MAAS, a church-going home-maker whose life unravels when she discovers that her husband of 15 years has been leading a double life. Her strength of character and faith keeps the family alive as a deadly disease threatens to destroy all that they have known.

I spoke to Mr. Duke sometime back when he was just starting to put this film together but hadn't cast the film yet.

Bill Duke: I'm producing and directing my own movie called "Cover". It's about a young woman who comes from Atlanta with her daughter and husband and they come to LA and he's a young doctor. He has his own practice and she helps him. She's a Christian woman and after a certain point, the practice grows beyond their wildest dreams. They move to the Palisades and have a great house and in the middle of this, she finds out that her husband just viciously betrayed her. The story is how she deals with it and her redemption and also his redemption. It's also a murder mystery and who killed a certain person. It's very Hitchcockian style-wise. As the story goes along, she tells her story in a police station and we go back and forth between interrogation and the real story that happen. The screenplay is by Aaron Rahsaan Thomas.

What led you to this project?

BD: Well, a couple of things. AIDS is a very, very, very vicious disease, particularly in the black community. Black women are the number one victims of AIDS in our country right now. It's like an epidemic proportion and surely after I got involved in the project, my goddaughter came to the family and told us that she was HIV positive and she's been married for 12 years. So, that's the betrayal we're talking about.

Gotta it to Vivica Fox. She's certainly working hard these days, appearing on the big and small screen with 'Motives 2', 'The Salon', and she's about to shoot 'Three Can Play That Game', and 'Major Movie Star' with Jessica Simpson and Jill Marie Jones. As for Mya, I haven't seen her in a film since she did her thing in the Oscar winning film 'Chicago'.