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Released on May 25th is the third instalment of the Men in Black film series, and on the same day the Men in Black: Alien Crisis game will be released... [Read full story]

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Earth Angel has worked on the sets of commercials, televisions series, and 13 feature films — including movies like Black Panther, The Post, The Amazing Spider - Man 2, and Ghostbusters.

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Elders reading a section of the series to a child or stumbling into one of the films couldn't be blamed for not knowing who Mundungus Fletcher or Regulus Arcturus Black might be, or how, exactly, a Finite Incantatem overthrows a Furnunculus spell, or how so insignificant - looking an item as a cup could possibly be a formidable horcrux (an object into which a wizard deposits a portion of his soul to assure continued life).

We are supposed to look upon this silliness as having a profound import for the simple reason that Black Panther is the first Marvel film, as was the comic series in its time, starring a superhero of African descent.

Although the show was eventually cancelled, the actress continued to appear in a number of TV series and independent films, including Hartley's Flirt (1995), Susan Streitfeld's Female Perversions (1996), which cast her as Tilda Swinton's psychiatrist lover, and Sour Grapes (1998), a black comedy which featured her as the girlfriend of a greedy neurologist.

One by one, the film's black - antlered villainess assesses the artifacts — which include the highly sought - after blue «infinity stone» — with a series of blunt dismissals: «Fake!»

She has also appeared in a number of television series and films including «Rock of Ages» and «Black Nativity,» among others.

The story of the 1919 Chicago «Black» Sox, who threw the World Series for money, didn't become a book until 1963, and it didn't become a film until 1988, nearly 70 years later.

The voice cast for this film is unbelieveable including Tim Curry (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), Claudia Black (TV's «Stargate SG - 1,» «90210»), Ron Glass (TV's «Firefly,» «Barney Miller»), Juliet Landau (TV's «Green Lantern: The Animated Series»), Tara Strong (TV's «Ultimate Spider - Man,» «My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic»), George Takei («Star Trek» franchise), Cree Summer (TV's «The Spectacular Spider - Man,» «A Different World»), Claudia Christian (TV's «Babylon 5») and Dawnn Lewis (TV's «Futurama,» «A Different World»).

Black has written and will direct The Predator, a new film in the highly successful series that started all of the way back in 1987.

Kaluuya, who got his start on the hit British series «Skins» and is currently filming Marvel's «Black Panther» for «Creed» director Ryan Coogler, delivers a nuanced performance that builds as the dread mounts.

Diverse casts in films like Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, the Fast and the Furious series, Twilight and Hunger Games have always yielded big business, but Black Panther, with its near - total Black ensemble cast, is a groundbreaking landmark for Hollywood.

When he returned to civilian life, he immediately resumed his screen career with a series of fascinating films, including The Black Angel and James Cagney's production20of The Time of Your Life.

It's when Whedon indulges his more esoteric instincts that the film really hits its stride, particularly with a series of spell - induced nightmares shared by Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Captain America (Chris Evans), and Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson).

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And the film counts as a major, important victory for representation — not just as a rare, series - launching vehicle for a black superhero, but also as a mega-budget Hollywood tentpole starring mostly black actors, one that's explicitly about black (and African) identity.

Forman took full advantage of this by creating a series of films, beginning with «Black Peter» (1964), which commented on the lives of ordinary people with a filmmaking that combined a documentary - like style (including the use of improvisation and non-professional actors) with a biting and deeply anti-establishment sense of humor.

His live - action film «Black Dynamite» is coming to Adult Swim and becoming an animated series thanks to Titmouse, Inc..

Based on the 12th novel in James Patterson's long - running series, the studio is clearly hoping that «Alex Cross» can reboot the film franchise that stalled out after 2001's «Along Came a Spider,» but surely there was a better option to play Cross than a man whose biggest claim to fame is dressing up like a fat black woman.

The upcoming action film is written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber («Central Intelligence») and stars Johnson, Neve Campbell («Scream» series), Chin Han («Contagion»), Noah Taylor («Game of Thrones»), Roland Møller («Atomic Blonde»), Byron Mann («The Big Short»), Pablo Schreiber («Orange Is the New Black») and Hannah Quinlivan («The Shanghai Job»).

Plus, a popular YouTube series is casting background actors for funeral and party scenes, a student film about a fraternity hazing seeks male talent, and a spy movie needs black tie guests.

The intentional changing or at least ignoring of it in casting the role of MCU lynchpin Nick Fury and producing a Black Panther film for 2018 and a Luke Cage television series for later this year doesn't bestow upon them immunity by any stretch of the imagination, but the Marvel Cinematic Universe seems relatively inclusive if at the same time mostly faithful to the mostly mid-20th Century created comic book origins - depictions of their headline characters.

The Men in Black reboot, directed by Straight Outta Compton, Friday and Fate of the Furious director F. Gary Gray, will feature brand new Agents as opposed to series protagonists J and K. Unlike the first three films, which were set in and around New York, the spinoff will be much more global, and more of an ensemble piece.

While the film isn't based on any single Black Panther comic, much of the storyline seems influenced by Ta - Nehisi Coates's current Black Panther series, which began in the spring of 2016.

I still remember my astonishment, sustained throughout the film, at his feature debut The Element of Crime — this blasted black - and - white world served up in curry - sauce monochrome, with an obviously English detective making his way through an obviously not - English city trying to solve a series of crimes — a climate of crime, really — which as I recall never did reach any identifiable conclusion.

Sony's hard at work on a spinoff for their»90s sci - fi comedy film series Men in Black, but now it's looking a little more like a reunion for the stars of Thor: Ragnarok.

Loosely adapted from a little - known comic book series, which itself was based on old UFO folklore, Men in Black had sci - fi legend Steven Spielberg producing at the height of his prowess (while simultaneously directing the summer's second - biggest film, The Lost World: Jurassic Park).

Fresh from filming «Creed,» the boxing spin - off of the «Rocky» series that starred Jordan, Coogler grappled with his own cultural identity and found himself in the midst of a personal journey when he began conversations to direct «Black Panther.»

Indeed, a description of footage from the film screened Saturday at Disney's D23 Expo indicated Winter Soldier and Black Panther were seen in a series of quick shots that also depicted Star - Lord, Doctor Strange, Spider - Man, The Vision, Captain America, Iron Man and Black Widow.

Despite Iron Man 3 bringing a new vulnerable side to Iron Man, Shane Black has been able to retain the original jocosity of the series in his film.

Premiering in 2016, Lethal Weapon is an adaptation of the iconic buddy - cop film series of the same name by Shane Black.

But as with her queerness, her pop inclinations are a feature, not a bug, and it is difficult to separate Dirty Computer from the larger narrative of resistance across the arts today; from A Wrinkle in Time, a film dedicated above all else to instilling wonder and empowering young viewers; from Gabby Rivera's (now sadly discontinued) America comic book series, one centering a young, queer Latina, America Chavez, who repeatedly declares she is America; from An American Marriage, Tayari Jones's latest novel that emphasizes to be black is to be American.

This series of vignettes filmed in glossy, nostalgic black and white examines ten different conversations that on the surface have nothing in common... Read More»

This action - packed, thriller stars Bruce Willis (The Die Hard series, RED 2) as Eddie, Mark - Paul Gosselaar (Heist, TV's Franklin & Bash) and Claire Forlani (Meet Joe Black, TV's NCIS: Los Angeles), and we've got a new poster and clip from the film -LSB-...]

Programmes like BLACK BOOKS, ASYLUM and DOCTOR WHO feature heavily from this cavalcade of stars, as do films such as THE HITCHHIKER»S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY and even the HARRY POTTER series.

Halloween III: Season of the Witch is the black sheep of the whole franchise, as it's the only film that doesn't feature Myers, but it also stands out as being the best sequel in the series that creates its own mythology.

That sounds so stupid... Because Black previously confirmed that the film remains in the continuity of the first two movies and isn't a full reboot of the series.

Shot in a stark black and white, with the actors repeatedly isolated in their own frames, some really creepy images of crazy nuns (the long early sequence wherein the nuns are interrogated and exorcised is a miniature masterpiece) and a series of subjective tracking shots implicating the audience in the chaos, the film reaches a high point when the priest consults the local rabbi (also played by Voit) in a series of head - on medium shots.

Everyone is based on something in Marvel lore, be it iconic comic book storylines or films and TV; Charlie Cox's Daredevil from the Netflix series is a playable character, as are Vulture, Killmonger, Hela, and «Gladiator» Hulk and Thor from movies like Spider - Man: Homecoming, Black Panther, and Thor: Ragnarok.

It was announced that Common will executive produce and star in «Black Samurai» a TV adaption of Marc Olden's 1974 book series, which inspired the 1977 film of the same name.

Before being selected to direct Black Panther, the director, now 31 years old, had only made two feature films: Fruitvale Station, which won accolades at Sundance in 2013, and Creed, the seventh installment in the Rocky series, which garnered rave reviews in 2015.

Though it is by no means the first film to have as its center a black superhero (as BAMcinématek's excellent series demonstrated), it is the first of note since the rise of the juggernaut known as the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2009.

An entertaining yet pervasively superficial documentary, I Am Chris Farley charts the eponymous comedian's early years through to his work on Saturday Night Live and in movies like Tommy Boy and Black Sheep - with the film's myriad of clips augmented by a series of interviews with Farley's peers and family members.

Riddick easily puts the series back on track, with its much - needed R - rating and cheesy one - liners, but a majority of the film feels like rehashed segments lifted directly from Pitch Black, without much creativity.

It's not only a proper sequel to Captain America The Winter Soldier, and if anything improves on the spy thriller tone within it, but it's also a proper follow up to Age of Ultron, with an even bigger cast of heroes than in any previous team up films in the series, and it introduces both Black Panther and Peter Parker's Spider - Man to the MCU, all within a reasonable run - time.

In spite of its theatricality however, the film cements itself as an art house gem through its stylish black - and - white aesthetic and an engagingly thorough series of twists that expertly grips its audience into the numerous primary and secondary dramas boiling underneath this ensemble of intellectuals.

With Javier Bardem installed in the role as chief nemesis, Captain Salazar, the plot involving the unlikely bond between Sparrow and two unlikely heroes definitely evokes feelings of the first film in the series, The Curse of the Black Pearl.

The fourth and final film in the blockbuster series took in a reported $ 21.2 million on Black Friday: the unofficial start of the holiday movie season.

The list of icons making appearances was truly unprecedented: Superman soars twice — once in the «return» and the other as Ben Affleck; Crockett and Tubbs exude cool; Ethan Hunt falls short; Captain Jack Sparrow sets the stage for the finale; Jack Black sometimes wears stretchy pants; Huey Long is resurrected and somehow over-played by Sean Penn; the mass appeal of the DaVinci Code novel fizzled onscreen; Robert Altman's amazing career ended with an excellent adaptation of a radio series starring Garrison Keillor's made for radio face; Johnny Depp tried to untrack his career with The Libertine; Nicolas Cage was front and center in the disastrous remake of The Wicker Man, but if the preview is any indication, his sleep - walk was merely a tune - up for this year's Ghost Rider; Woody Allen (with Scarlett Johansson as his muse) re-emerged with his best comedy since Crimes and Misdemeanors; amazingly, Jen and Vince's real life break - up was more entertaining than the film version; and while on - set hook - ups seem to the norm, how could the dreadful You, Me and Dupree have been an aphrodisiac for Kate and Owen?