WHitney Houston,s final movie , 'Sparkle' originally positioned as a huge comeback role for the singer-actress before her shocking death on Saturday , is scheduled to be released as planned in August .The film will include the final songs ever recorded by Houston , reports Billboard.
"Like all those who knew and loved her , we are shocked and saddened and the world has lost an incomparable talent ," read a statement from Sony Pictures , the studio behind the project .
A remake of a 1976 movie , Sparkle stars Jordin Sparks as one of the three singing sisters who try to achieve stardom despite travels such as drug addiction .
Houston plays the girls' mother .
Howard Roseman , one of the producers , said on Saturday that he had just watched a rough cut of the movie , and that Houston "was unbelievably fantastic in it ."
She previously starred in the 'Bodyguard , Waiting to Exhale and The Preacher's Wife ."
The movie is set for release in August .
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