BEYONCÉ TO STAR IN ANIMATED FILM, “EPIC”

B eyoncé’s summer of getting back to business just got more hectic. She’s just been named as one of the lead voices in the upcoming animated film, Epic. Beyoncé will voice the character Queen Tara – the film is described as a battle deep in the forest between the forces of good and evil. When a teenaged girl finds herself magically transported into this secret universe, she must band together with a rag-tag team of fun and whimsical characters to save that world, which in turn saves the real world. The film is being produced by 20th Century Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios–the companies responsible for Ice Age and Rio. The film already boasts a star-studded cast: Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson, Amanda Seyfried, Johnny Knoxville, Aziz Ansari, Pitbull, Jason Sudeikis and Steven Tyler have all reportedly signed on to appear in the film, which hits theaters in May 24, 2013.