Sentences with phrase «black film actors»

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Black Panther is the first standalone film to focus on the titular character, the superhero alias of King T'Challa of the fictional country Wakanda, portrayed by actor Chadwick Boseman.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the mBlack Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the mblack actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the mBlack Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

This film, shot in black - and - white and starring French actor Jean Dujardin, was released in fewer than 2,000 theaters.

Set mostly in the fictional African nation of Wakanda, the film boasts a director and primary star who are both African - American men (director Ryan Coogler and actor Chadwick Boseman), while the cast also features numerous other notable black stars, such as Oscar winners Lupita Nyong» o and Forest Whitaker as well as Angela Bassett and Michael B. Jordan.

Recent and upcoming releases include the romance - horror hybrid Spring; the hotly - anticipated The Look Of Silence, Oppenheimer's companion piece to The Act Of Killing; The Connection, a 70's - set true crime epic and European flipside to William Friedkin's The French Connection starring Oscar ® winning Best Actor Jean Dujardin (The Artist); The Keeping Room, from director Daniel Barber (Harry Brown), based on Julia Hart's acclaimed Black List screenplay, starring Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Sam Worthington; the multiple Cannes award winning The Tribe, filmed entirely in Ukrainian Sign Language with a cast of deaf, non-professional actors; and a remastered re-release, in conjunction with Olive Films, of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animals.

After two years in which the Oscars failed to nominate a black actor in any of the acting categories, nominations this year represent a diverse pool of actors and films.

This year included nominations of six non-white-themed films and more than 10 black actors and filmmakers after two years of severe lacking.

You'd have similar cause to complain that the monkeys in the film are racist, being voiced by black actors and depicted as lazy, thuggish layabouts.

Since their notable appearance in a song and dance routine with actor Dick Van Dyck in the 1964 film Mary Poppins, these little black and white creatures have scored numerous screen roles in films like Madagascar, Cat's Don't Dance, Surf's Up, Happy Feet and this fall's sequel Happy Feet Two.

This is really the actor's moment to shine after over a decade in the black wig, working that cape like America's Next Top Model, increasingly alluring visual - kei, Jrock star styling and short appearances in each of the films.

Handsomely mounted by Creed director Ryan Coogler and starring an enviable slate of black actors that makes cameoing comics godhead Stan Lee almost seem lost, the film is provocative and satisfying in ways that are long overdue, like its ornate, culturally dense production design and the deeper subtexts of honor, compassion and destiny.

He also hired an actor to play Francis in staged scenes filmed in the style of a black - and - white silent movie from the 1920s.

As before, Bujalski's preference for nonprofessional actors, his ear for the rhythms of conversation among bright young 20 - somethings and his adept use of a roving, hand - held camera (this time shooting in fuzzy black and white) lend the film an invigorating energy.

Also impressive is director Wenders» use of his and Lisa Rinzler's shoots in Assisi, black - and - white, deliberately faded and silent film, showing an actor playing St. Francis who at the key point in his life heard God tell him to restore a dilapidated church — which I believe he did thinking that God's will is more important than his father's rage at the saint's alleged throwing away his money.

Black & White movie from 1949 which is not all that bad, it starts off like a educational film but turns into a great movie, or main actor Robert Lowery who plays Fireman Joe Martin undercover did a excellent job along with Edward Brophy.

«Chadwick Boseman was only recently confirmed to be entering the Marvel universe as the emphatic superhero the Black Panther, and while such news left many a film fan scratching their heads as to who this young actor is, it should be a question that's easier to answer when James Brown biopic Get On Up has been released; such is the sheer brilliance of the electric performance by this talented star»... Read More»

Lee then talks with this month's guest, actor and writer Michael Ian Black (Wet Hot American Summer, Ed, This Is 40, Another Period), to look at the films of writer / director / actor Sylvester Stallone.

He didn't exactly choose an easy project for a first film, as black comedy is a very difficult style of film to pull off, and with a cast of very seasoned actors to have to tell precisely what to do, Guthe very well could have lost control and focus on the project and turned in a disaster.

Apparently the studio is also looping Scarlett Johansson into the film as Black Widow, a perk of having actors sign multi-picture deals.

ET caught up with the 28 - year - old actor at the «Black Panther» premiere on Monday night, where he opened up about his Oscar nomination and starring in the new Marvel film, which hits theaters on Feb. 16.

In any case, I'm happy to see Shane Black continuing to showcase great taste in actors and I'm especially happy to see Brown continuing to land gigs in high profile films.

There were no African Americans among the 51 film actors recognized by the guild — a sharp contrast from last year, which saw black - led films like «12 Years a Slave» and «Lee Daniels» The Butler» score numerous nominations.

Black to Basics: Binder's Safely Bland Racial Message Movie The latest film from actor / director / screenwriter Mike Binder,...

Mudbound, which features both black and white actors, has a 97 % on Rotten Tomatoes, making it already one of the best - reviewed films of the year.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Olivia Munn is an actor, author and activist and will next be seen on film, as the lead in the action - thriller Hummingbird and starring in Shane Black's The Predator opposite Keegan - Michael Key and Sterling K. Brown.

Spoiler alert: this is an «old» (some would say ancient) black and white film with actors you've never heard of in a style that some might consider stagey and I consider -LSB-...]

On the other hand, you'd really have to go out of your way to complain that the show's two biggest roles have been given to black actors — but if you check the comments sections of online references to the film, you'll find plenty of people going out of their way.

But the voice of a Shane Black («Iron Man 3») or a James Gunn («Guardians Of The Galaxy») is plainly missing, and as gifted as the cast is, it's a little disheartening to see actors that could and should be carrying their own films (superhero or otherwise) relegated to background duty.

Actors Lupita Nyong «o, Chadwick Boseman and Letitia Wright star in the groundbreaking Marvel film Black Panther.

Along with his starring role in the upcoming Craig Brewer flick, «Black Snake Moan,» the veteran actor is also set to appear in the Stephen King horror film «1408,» the Doug Liman - directed sci - fi adventure «Jumper,» the thriller «Cleaner.»

Black Hat is a movie that relies on star power to make the film, Chris Hemsworth in the lead roll did a adamant job in his roll but he was about the only memorable actor in the film.

We spoke to Kaluuya, who knew he'd «kill it» in the role as soon as he read the script, about the prejudice depicted in the film, his own experiences of racism, and Samuel L Jackson's recent criticism of black British actors taking African American roles in Hollywood films.

Set to play one of the villains in Black Panther alongside Michael B. Jordan's Erik Killmonger, actor Winston Duke's M'Baku, aka Man - Ape, appears to play a role in the highly - anticipated third Avengers film.

Red Christmas is both written and directed by Australian actor - filmmaker Craig Anderson, making his feature directorial debut after numerous short films and TV work including «Double the Fist», «Black Comedy», and «How Not to Behave».

His character, Lazarus, is a «very serious Oscar - winning actor» who is cast for a role originally written for a black man in the most expensive Vietnam war epic ever filmed.

Among reasons cited for the underrepresentation of blacks and other minorities in starring film and TV roles is a perceived resistance to nonwhite actors in foreign markets, where distribution accounts for a growing share of revenues.

An actor from Marvel's upcoming Black Panther film appears to have joined the cast of Avengers: Infinity War.

Indiewire recently sat down with Black, who also co-wrote the screenplay for the film, to talk about how the experience of making «Nice Guys» compared to directing «Iron Man 3» and what to expect from his upcoming project, the remake of 1987's «Predator» (in which Black had a supporting actor role).

Solondz takes another hilariously pitch - black exploration of human behaviour with a film populated by excellent actors playing seriously messed - up characters.

If you remember, the Bride in Black was in the first Insidious film as a secondary villain and she was portrayed by male actor Philip Friedman.

Solidarity: Aussie actor Chris Hemsworth, best known for his roles in the Thor films, chose to wear all - black in solidarity with the women of Hollywood

The new recruits — who «represent the best in our global film community» — include stars like America Ferrera, Brie Larson, Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman, Idris Elba, Star Wars: A Force Awakens actor John Boyega, and Michael B. Jordan.

Mike White — «Year of the Dog» Maybe one of the purest expressions of «screenwriter - turned - director» (though he's also an actor given to appearing in character roles in some of his films) Mike White had, in years leading to 2007, carved out quite a distinctive place for himself as an indie screenwriter dealing more in low - key human dramedy than some of the more bombastic Shane Black - types, or more mainstream Steve Zaillian - types on our list.

The actor recently finished filming a role in the upcoming Baywatch reboot, which co-stars DC's upcoming Black Adam, Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson.

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.

The film most like it from that year is David Fincher's Fight Club, in that both aspire to be plangent black satires but ultimately end on flaccid off - notes: the one with the idea of an organized posse of anarchists destroying our financial infrastructure, the other with a homophobic Republican gunning down gay Best Actor winner Kevin Spacey in his last role as accidental Christ before he took on the crown and sandals permanently and on purpose.

Aquaman director James Wan, with some help from actor Yahya Abdul - Mateen II, confirms a detail about Black Manta's appearance in the film.

, which shows black - and - white B - roll footage of an aged Curtiz (this was one of his last films) directing his actors on the set.

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.