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The UASE along with partners HBO, Cinemax and Warner Brothers are bringing access and awareness to Heroes of color celebrating diversity and the multicultural achievements in the blockbuster Action genre.
by | Nov 21, 2019 | Articles | 0 Comments
In advance of the Palm Springs Film Festival, where the talents will be honored, Variety announces 10 breakout filmmakers with promising careers ahead. Before film critics start summing up the present year at the movies with a deluge of Top 10 lists, Variety gazes...
by | Nov 18, 2019 | Articles | 0 Comments
Alfre Woodard and Cynthia Erivo both star in movies helmed by black female directors this year; Woodard in Chinonye Chukwu’s “Clemency” and Erivo in Kasi Lemmons’ “Harriet.” In their “Variety Studio: Actors on Actors” conversation, the two talked about their new...
by | Nov 10, 2019 | Articles | 0 Comments
By Marc Malkin | Variety The script for “Clemency” wasn’t the only thing Aldis Hodge received from the film’s writer and director Chinonye Chukwu when she approached him about starring in the drama. “Chinonye also wrote a letter to me speaking on her supporting me in...
by | Nov 1, 2019 | Articles | 0 Comments
By Gordon Cox | Variety The actress Adrienne C. Moore came off her seven seasons in “Orange Is the New Black” wanting to do work that makes an impact — and this fall, she’s doing it with an Off Broadway revival of Ntozake Shange’s rarely-seen, landmark theater piece,...
by | Oct 23, 2019 | Articles | 0 Comments
By Brent Lang | Variety Social justice activist and attorney Bryan Stevenson has done a lot in his 59 years on this earth. He’s argued and won cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. He created a museum on the history of lynching, slavery and racial discrimination and a...
by | Oct 9, 2019 | Articles | 0 Comments
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by | Oct 8, 2019 | Articles | 0 Comments
By Variety Staff | Variety The merger of artistic gumption and shrewd business sense sets New York apart, and this list pays tribute to both qualities, with some of the year’s defining artists — “Marriage Story” director Noah Baumbach and star Scarlett Johansson;...
by | Sep 16, 2019 | Articles | 0 Comments
By Antonia Blyth | Deadline Hollywood When Kasi Lemmons saw that Cynthia Erivo was attached in the titular role of Harriet, Lemmons knew she wanted to direct the film. Then together, the pair worked hard to present an authentic picture of legendary abolitionist...
by | Sep 13, 2019 | Articles | 0 Comments
Tara Bitran | The Hollywood Reporter The University of Chicago professor will present Silent Sunday Nights starting Sept. 15. Beginning Sunday, Sept. 15, Turner Classic Movies will have a fifth host to introduce the uncut and uninterrupted films of the Silent era:...
by | Sep 12, 2019 | Articles | 0 Comments
Aramide A. Tinubu | Shadow and Act In the 1970s, comedian Rudy Ray Moore was forcefully pushed out of entertainment. Though he'd seen some minor success with a few albums and some work in comedy, doors quickly closed in his face. Against all rational sense, and with...
by | Sep 4, 2019 | Articles | 0 Comments
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