By Marc Malkin | Variety To say Cynthia Erivo’s last few months have been nothing like she has ever experienced before would be an understatement. Let’s just get to the obvious: the British actor and singer is not only a first-time Oscar nominee, but she’s up for two...
By Marc Malkin | Variety Issa Rae says she had every reason to think she could be a filmmaker when she was growing up. “The ’90s had lots of black television and film … a lot of the shows were helmed by black people,” she recalls. “That’s what inspired me to at least...
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...
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.
https://youtu.be/aeV3v9Z4Zd4 Pearl Bowser interviewed by filmmaker/archivist Ina Archer on January 16, 2020. Produced by Donald Bogle and Bruce Goldstein. Photographed and edited by William Hohauser.
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 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...
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.
Greetings, 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. The Urban Action Showcase and Expo (UASE )has become...
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...
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...
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...