by | Jan 25, 2020 | 
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By Elsa Keslassy | Variety Director and activist Spike Lee will serve as jury president of the 73rd edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Lee succeeds Alejandro G. Iñárritu, whose 2019 jury awarded the Palme d’Or to Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s “Parasite,” which won...
by | Jan 18, 2020 | Articles | 0 Comments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peO7GpiShaA Laura Dern revealed that her mother didn't want her to be an actress and Sterling K. Brown talked about the importance of having a person of color in "Frozen II" during their Actors on Actors conversation.
by | Jan 1, 2020 | Articles, 
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by Shadow and Act This has been an excellent decade for the progression of Black images on screen and Black people behind the scenes. These Black filmmakers helped usher in a new era of Black cinema and defined the 2010s. 10) Tyler Perry Tyler Perry has left an...
by | Dec 25, 2019 | Articles | 0 Comments
by Shadow and Act As the 2010s come to a close, we’ve compiled a list of the Top 60 Black films of the decade! Did your fave make the cut? 60. The Equalizer Logline: Starring Denzel Washington and directed by Antoine Fuqua, Equalizer follows a man who believes he has...
by | Dec 18, 2019 | Articles | 0 Comments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55AOuvO6ll8 In their Actors on Actors conversation, Eddie Murphy talks about returning to "Saturday Night Live" and Antonio Banderas reveals how his priorities in life changed after having a heart attack in 2017.
by | Dec 9, 2019 | Articles, 
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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 | Dec 7, 2019 | Articles | 0 Comments
By Peter Debruge and Owen Gleiberman | Variety Keep in mind that we haven’t seen “Cats.” Or a single one of the half-dozen Nicolas Cage movies released “on demand” (to zero demand?) this past year. Still, in the ongoing quest to find the next masterpiece, film critics...
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...