by Jenelle Riley | Variety There’s something inherently terrifying about space – maybe because of the loneliness and isolation, or perhaps because it’s an unknown landscape to most of us. But it makes great fodder for films and over the decades there have been many...
By Jazz Tangcay | Variety Not many companies can say they won an Academy Award with their first film. But Lion Forge Animation’s Carl Reed and David Steward II, who formed the U.S.’s only Black-owned animation studio last year to address a lack of representation in...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsmqERS4J3I&app=desktop By Jake Kanter | Deadline Hollywood The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the...
By Variety Staff | Variety Variety has promoted Angelique Jackson to film and media reporter. In her new role, Jackson will cover the major Hollywood studios and streaming services, as well as the indie film scene. She will also contribute in-depth interviews and...
by Variety Staff | Variety Variety, the African American Film Critics Association and the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies have partnered to create the Micheaux Project, an outreach program aimed at encouraging high school students from underrepresented...
by Monique Jones | Shadow and Act Back in 2017, Mike Epps was slated to star as Richard Pryor in a biopic directed by Lee Daniels and produced by Jay Z. But so far, the project hasn't come to fruition. Epps posted to Instagram recently about his remaining hope for a...
by Angelique Jackson | Variety The world seems to be quickly coming to understand that navigating life as a Black person in America is an emotional and difficult journey. But what about paving a path in Hollywood? As support for the Black Lives Matter movement...
By Derek Lawrence | Entertainment Weekly Idris Elba is ready to bring his signature character to the big screen. Over five seasons and 10 years, the...
https://youtu.be/CBmQE7WE4UE By Jake Kanter | Deadline Hollywood The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative...
by Jordan Simon | Shadow & Act Netflix has unveiled its list of 10 most-watched original movies and films on the list include Bird Box, Spenser Confidential, 6 Underground and The Platform. Arriving in second place is the Sandra Bullock and Trevante Rhodes-led...
by Jordan Simon | Shadow & Act Viola Davis earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her role as Aibileen Clark in the 2011 film The Help. After revealing in 2018 that she regrets starring in the film, she is speaking out about the film once again....
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