“Coach Carter” (As Kyra)
Release Date: January 14th, 2005 [PG-13]
Director: Thomas Carter
Written By: Mark Schwahn, John Gatins
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Rob Brown, Robert Ri’chard, Ashanti Douglas, Channing Tatum
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Genre: Drama | Official Website
Opening Weekend: (#1) $24,182,961
Movie Gross: $67,264,877 (Domestic) | Worldwide: $76,669,806
Production Budget: $30,000,000
Movie Synopsis: Inspired by a true-life story, “Coach Carter” is an inspirational account of a controversial high school basketball coach, who received both high praise and staunch criticism when he made national news in 1999 for benching his entire undefeated basketball team for poor academic performance.

“Bride & Prejudice” (As Herself)
Release Date: February 11th, 2005
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Written By: Paul Mayeda Berges, Gurinder Chadha
Cast: Martin Henderson, Aishwarya Rai, Daniel Gillies, Naveen Andrews
Studio: Miramax Films
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance | Official Website
Movie Gross: $6,605,592 (Domestic) | Worldwide: $24,716,440
Production Budget: $7,000,000
Movie Synopsis: ”Bride and Prejudice” puts an entirely different spin on Jane Austen’s story of spirited courtship – Bollywood-style. Music, dance and spectacle merge with love, vanity and social pressures, as director Gurinder Chadha transports the comic tale of a witty young woman trying to find a suitable husband to a cross-cultural setting that spans 21st century India, London and America. It all begins in a modest Indian village when the determined Mrs. Bakshi sets out to find marriage matches for her four beautiful daughters while there’s a lavish wedding party in town. Right away, the smart and headstrong Lalita (Rai) announces she will only marry for love, giving her mother nightmares. Then Lalita meets the wealthy American Will Darcy (Henderson) and sparks immediately fly. But is it love or hate? Darcy comes off to Lalita as an arrogant California snob. Lalita looks to Darcy like a small-town Indian beauty who knows nothing of the world. Alternately enchanted by and suspicious of one another, Lalita and Darcy nearly fall prey to assumptions, gossip and a comedy of errors… until pride is humbled and prejudice overcome so that love can triumph.

“The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz” (As Dorothy)
Release Date: May 20, 2005 (ABC TV-Movie)
Director: Kirk R. Thatcher
Written By: Debra Frank, Steve L. Hayes, Tom Martin, Adam F. Goldberg
Cast: Ashanti, Queen Latifah, Quentin Tarantino, David Alan Grier
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Genre: Children/Family | Official Website
Audience: 7.75 million (Television Premiere)
Movie Synopsis: Dorothy Gale lives with her Auntie Em and Uncle Henry in a trailer park in Kansas. Dorothy has dreams of becoming a famous singer, but when a tornado hits Kansas and Dorothy rushes to save Toto, her prawn (she couldn’t afford a dog), she is whisked away to Oz where she meets the four witches (all played by Miss Piggy) and the Munchkins of Oz (the rats). On her way to see the Wizard, she meets the Scarecrow (Kermit), the Tin Thing (Gonzo), and the Cowardly Lion (Fozzie) who all wish to have something given by the wizard. On their way to Emerald City, they are captured by the Wicked Witch of the West (of course, Miss Piggy) and her flying monkeys (other muppets). When they finally make it back to Emerald City, the Wizard is really a man from Hollywood. But he “grants” their wishes, but what they wanted they already had inside (there’s a lesson there). When Dorothy finally is back in Kansas, she becomes what she had wanted, a famous singer and on the Muppets Star Search show.

“John Tucker Must Die” (As Heather)
Release Date: July 28th, 2006 [PG-13]
Director: Betty Thomas
Written By: Jeff Lowell
Cast: Jesse Metcalfe, Brittany Snow, Ashanti Douglas, Sophia Bush
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Genre: Comedy, Romance | Official Website
Opening Weekend: (#3) $14,276,534
Total Gross: $41,011,711 (Domestic) – Worldwide: $68,824,526
Production Budget: $18,000,000
Movie Synopsis: When three popular girls from different cliques discover they’ve all been dating the school stud, they band together to seek revenge. Despite the jerk’s charm and ever-growing popularity, the girls cleverly scheme with the help of the inconspicuous new girl in town, to soil his reputation and break his heart.

“Resident Evil: Extinction” (As Nurse Betty)
Release Date: September 21, 2007 [R]
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Written By: Paul W.S. Anderson
Cast: Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Oded Fehr, Ashanti, Mike Epps, Matthew Marsden
Studio: Sony/Screen Gems
Genre: Action, Horror | Official Website
Opening Weekend: (#1) $23,678,580
Total Gross: $50,648,6791 (Domestic) – Worldwide: $147,717,833
Production Budget: $45 million (estimated)
Movie Synopsis: Years after the Raccoon City disaster, Alice is on her own; aware that she has become a liability and could endanger those around her, she is struggling to survive and bring down the Umbrella Corporation led by the sinister Albert Wesker and head researcher Dr. Isaacs. Meanwhile, traveling through the Nevada Desert and the ruins of Las Vegas, Carlos Olivera, L.J., and new survivors K-Mart, Claire Redfield, and Nurse Betty must fight to survive extinction against hordes of zombies, killer crows and the most terrifying creatures created as a result of the deadly T-Virus that has killed millions.