You lot will soon be able to sentry Nick Cannon's new film King of the Dancehall on YouTube Ruby.

Terminal year during an interview, Cannon revealed that the film volition be available to the public at the top of the new year. Seems he is making expert on his promise because The Hollywood Reporter reported on Monday that YouTube Red has acquired the rights to the flick from the actor.

Susanne Daniels, global caput of original content at YouTube, confirmed the conquering while noting that dance films perform very well on the video-sharing social media site. This would non exist surprising given that YouTube is a haven for music videos and trip the light fantastic toe classics.

"We are excited to be in business with a multi-talented creative forcefulness like Nick Cannon," Daniels said. "Whether he's acting, producing or hosting, he has an undeniable ability to make a connectedness with the audience and keep them captivated. We know our audience, especially the millions of music and trip the light fantastic fans, will exist excited to come across him back in a lead role. This drama has all the right elements to exist incredibly popular on YouTube."

King of the Dancehall is starred past Nick Cannon himself forth with enough other big names like Whoopi Goldberg, Beenie Man, Ky-Mani Marley, Louis Gossett Jr., Busta Rhymes, Kreesha Turner, Kimberly Patterson, and many other dancehall personalities making cameos in the film including Sean Paul.

In 2015, Cannon and his team traveled to Kingston Jamaica at the eye of Jamaican dancehall culture to shoot the moving-picture show. That was the first time the actor/rapper was visiting the island and he said he immediately fell in dearest with the people and the culture. He played a man from Brooklyn who ran abroad to Jamaica and fell in love with a cute island girl who then introduces him to dancehall civilisation. The rest every bit the proverb goes is history.

Nick Cannon also revealed that Vybz Kartel helped him to craft the script for the film although he is backside confined for murder. The moving picture was premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival terminal year where it received raved reviews.