Taken from an article from last weekend’s Cannes Film Festival In France…

And Beyonce: when the lights went up, she was crying. “I can’t believe it,” she told me, shaking her head. She will be a movie star. She told me that working on the movie spurred her to finish a new album. “We did it in two weeks,” she said, “Wait ‘til you hear it. It comes out on my birthday, Sept. 4, and it’s called ‘B Day.’ Making this movie really inspired me.” Rodney Jerkins produced much of it and wrote a lot of the material, a real R&B album. Maybe “Dreamgirls” has already had a good effect on the culture.