Sentences with phrase «black women in films»

takes aim at the lack of roles for black women in films by iconic directors like Woody Allen, the Coen Brothers and Martin Scorsese.

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Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of cWoman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of cwoman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

Before she turned actress Natalie Portman into a ballerina for the film Black Swan, dancer Mary Helen Bowers was already training women all over New York City through her fitness company, Ballet Beautiful, which she founded in 2008.

Cheryl Boone Isaacs, who is the president Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a black woman, has struggled to enforce a change in diversity in film.

Actress, producer, champion for diversity and women's rights, and one of the stars of the upcoming Black Panther film, Lupita Nyong» o manages to prioritize her health and wellness while making movies in Hollywood and beyond.

Many women aspired to simple black sheath dresses similar to the black Givenchy dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in the film Breakfast at Tiffany's.

To meet black men or black women in your area, sign They started seeing each other while they were filming Spider - Man, a source tells PEOPLE of Zendaya and Tom Holland

Preaching to the Choir seeds adequately in the very fertile genre of black films about redemption, but don't expect performances on the level of last year's Diary of a Mad Black Woman or The Preacher's black films about redemption, but don't expect performances on the level of last year's Diary of a Mad Black Woman or The Preacher's Black Woman or The Preacher's Wife.

But she also felt she had found a calling greater even than her earliest wish, to be the first black American woman to play classical piano at Carnegie Hall: «I could sing to help my people,» she says in the film, «and that became the mainstay of my life.»

As with Wonder Woman last year, Black Panther is not only is a kick - ass superhero film, it uses the platform to address deeper issues, in this case racism, still - lingering colonial attitudes towards Africa, the role of science and technology in improving the lives of the disadvantaged, and what it means to be a leader.

Two years later, he could be seen in another high - profile, politically tinged thriller, this time opposite Denzel Washington in director Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate.In 2005 he made his directorial and screenwriting debut with Everything Is Illuminated, and appeared in the critically acclaimed, Golden Globe - winning HBO movie Lackawanna Blues, a life - affirming film about a selfless black woman (played by S. Epatha Merkerson) in 1950s segregated New York who provides a home and a guiding hand to the youths who come to live at her boarding house.

The women in Black Panther are all impressively realized and suitably badass, one more indication of the film's advanced level of storytelling.

Disney's adaptation of A Wrinkle In Time will mark the first time black women have helmed a $ 100 million (# 72 million) film, with Gugu joined by Storm Reid and Oprah Winfrey.

The film tells the story of three black women who were instrumental in getting America's space race off the ground, using their mathematics and computer genius during a time of prejudice and segregation.Octavia Spencer in...

It's basically a filmed play, and the drama itself is problematic (Tennessee Williams - lite), but oh what performances are given by Cher (in her first great screen role) as the no - nonsense waitress Sissy, Sandy Dennis as the delusional Mona and Karen Black as the mysterious Joanne who arrives halfway through the film and upends the lives of the women who used to know her as Joe.

A black slave, Hallie (Mae Mercer), is one of the most significant characters in the Siegel film, a woman coming into an awareness of her power.

«I love playing this character,» Johansson told Entertainment Tonight on the set of Avengers: Infinity War, before reports that a Black Widow film is in development, «and I think there is definitely an opportunity to explore the Widow as a woman who has come into her own and is making independent and active choices for herself, probably for once in her life.

Charles Gant: British - Indian retirement film draws ill - served older audience, but pales against popularity of The Woman in Black

Sharing honors from the Society Dramatic Authors and Composers, given annually to a French film in Fortnight, were two very different tales of romantic possibility in Paris: Philippe Garrel's black - and - white «Lover for a Day» («L'Amant d'un Jour»), about a 23 - year - old woman who learns that her father is dating a girl her age, and Claire Denis» «Let the Sunshine In» («Un Beau Soleil Intérieur»), starring Juliette Binoche as a divorced artist looking for love in many of the wrong placein Fortnight, were two very different tales of romantic possibility in Paris: Philippe Garrel's black - and - white «Lover for a Day» («L'Amant d'un Jour»), about a 23 - year - old woman who learns that her father is dating a girl her age, and Claire Denis» «Let the Sunshine In» («Un Beau Soleil Intérieur»), starring Juliette Binoche as a divorced artist looking for love in many of the wrong placein Paris: Philippe Garrel's black - and - white «Lover for a Day» («L'Amant d'un Jour»), about a 23 - year - old woman who learns that her father is dating a girl her age, and Claire Denis» «Let the Sunshine In» («Un Beau Soleil Intérieur»), starring Juliette Binoche as a divorced artist looking for love in many of the wrong placeIn» («Un Beau Soleil Intérieur»), starring Juliette Binoche as a divorced artist looking for love in many of the wrong placein many of the wrong places.

His latest film is a «spooky old house» flick called The Woman in Black.

Their relationship was platonic in the movie, which felt like a misstep for a film so dedicated to giving black women their full due.

Scott's comic energy helps keep the film rolling, and the gangly DJ Qualls gamely serves as a walking sight gag (sexually paired, in longstanding comic tradition, with his opposite: in this case, an obese black woman).

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A Wrinkle In Time director Ava DuVernay is the first woman of color to direct a film with a $ 100 million - plus budget, and alongside her «little brother,» Black Panther's Ryan Coogler, she crossed another milestone this past weekend, which marked the «first time films by black directors with $ 100 million plus budgets have ever placed in the first two box office spots,» as CNN puts iIn Time director Ava DuVernay is the first woman of color to direct a film with a $ 100 million - plus budget, and alongside her «little brother,» Black Panther's Ryan Coogler, she crossed another milestone this past weekend, which marked the «first time films by black directors with $ 100 million plus budgets have ever placed in the first two box office spots,» as CNN putBlack Panther's Ryan Coogler, she crossed another milestone this past weekend, which marked the «first time films by black directors with $ 100 million plus budgets have ever placed in the first two box office spots,» as CNN putblack directors with $ 100 million plus budgets have ever placed in the first two box office spots,» as CNN puts iin the first two box office spots,» as CNN puts it.

Her upcoming film A Wrinkle in Time made her the first black woman to direct a live - action movie with a budget that surpassed $ 100 million.

It is a film that subverts expectations — and at the heart of it all is star - on - the - rise Jessie Buckley, who delivers a mesmerising turn as Moll, a young woman who finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the black sheep of her community.

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

Notable examples of people of color representation in the nominations pool come in the documentary category where the black male director of «Strong Island,» Yance Ford, is the first openly trans person to have a film nominated, and in foreign - language film where «A Fantastic Woman,» starring Chilean trans actress Daniela Vega, is a possible winner.

The decision to wear black was orchestrated by powerful British women in film and yesterday, a group of actresses from the UK and Ireland, including Saoirse Ronan, who pledged their support for the new UK Justice and Equality Fund in an open letter published in The Observer.

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.

Directed by Eden Lake's James Watkins and adapted by Kick - Ass co-writer Jane Goldman from Susan Hill's novel, The Woman in Black is the latest film from the newly reconstituted Hammer Films team, and also features Ciaran Hinds and Janet McTeer.

Other than the house and the Woman in Black (though we never really see her clearly enough to even establish that) there is no link to the first film.

Blige, who earned a Globe nomination for her supporting role in «Mudbound,» said the Time's Up campaign and the wear - black protest are important «because there's so many women that don't get a chance to speak in other industries that are not the film industry, the music industry.

The film about race: «Get Out» harks back to the situation depicted in «Guess Who's Coming to Dinner,» with its story of a white woman bringing home her black boyfriend to meet her white liberal parents.

She was and is an older black actress playing an older black woman — meaning, not twenty - five — in a film centred on that experience.

If Candyman is a sociological horror film, it's also a scatological one steeped in shit and piss and, by the end, courageous enough to martyr its martyrs (educated women and defenseless children) and re-imagine its avatar as something more current in modern conversation than a black man murdered for love.

Disney has released a new Captain America: Civil War featurette to People magazine, focusing on the women of the film, including Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow, Elizabeth Olsen's Scarlet Witch and even Emily VanCamp's Agent 13 (who promises she has more to do in this movie).

Blu - ray extras: Director's intro; «From Page to Screen: A Roundtable Discussion» delves into the film's making; «Crowning of a New King» explores the world of «Black Panther» in all its color and complexity; «The Warriors Within»: the Wakanda's women and the actors who portray them; «The Hidden Kingdom Revealed»; «Wakanda Revealed: Exploring the Technology»; deleted scenes; gag reel»; exclusive sneak peek at «Ant - Man and The Wasp»; «Marvel Studios the First Ten Years: Connecting the Universe»; director's commentary.

While movies such as Moonlight, Wonder Woman, Black Panther and A Quiet Place are pushing the envelope, research indicates that there was little year - on - year rise in inclusion in US films in the 10 years to 2016.

With an A + Cinemascore, a culture quake in the making, a healing film for black men and women whose representation in the genre has been minimal, and on its way to becoming a massive blockbuster, isn't it time for the Academy to think in...

The black film canon; Relevance of «Weiner»; Executive pay higher when women are on boards; Fate of female - driven Wall Street movie; Nate Moore puts Marvel in the black.

«The film centers on a disgraced black ops agent tasked with a dead - end job of protecting a young woman in the middle of the Nevada desert.

In one example from the film, when Dillon's racist cop happens upon a serious traffic accident, he risks his own life to save the life of a black woman trapped inside her car.

Four of five films vying for Best Documentary were made by black filmmakers, including the poignant 13th from Ava DuVernay, the first black woman to be nominated in this category.

Until Silver & Black drops, you can check out Wonder Woman helmed by Patty Jenkins and await the debut of Ryan Coogler's Black Panther and Ava DuVernay's $ 100 million dollar film, A Wrinkle in Time.

Here's the latest official movie poster for the upcoming action film «Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance» aka Ghost Rider 2 by directors Mark Neveldine (Crank: High Voltage, Crank, Gamer) and Brian Taylor and starring Nicolas Cage (Drive Angry 3D, Trespass, The Croods), Violante Placido (The American, Sleepless), Idris Elba (Thor, The Big C), Ciaran Hinds (Above Suspicion: Deadly Intent, The Woman in Black) and Christopher Lambert (The Chauffeur, Highlander).

«Woman, Thou Art Loosed,» which opens today nationwide, is the first theatrical film in 13 years from Mr. Schultz, one of the first black filmmakers to penetrate mainstream Hollywood in the heady 1970's.

Overall, the weekend is running about 15 percent behind Super Bowl weekend last year, when the sci - fi fantasy «Chronicle» opened to $ 22 million and the Daniel Radcliffe horror film «Woman in Black» debuted to nearly $ 21 million.

In a film that doesn't even try to explain the blindness (not that it could), there's room for nothing but symbols and metaphors and the well - diversified group we identify with, which includes an Asian couple (Yusuke Iseya and Yoshino Kimura), the doctor and his wife (Mark Ruffalo and Moore), a wise old black man (Danny Glover), a single woman (Alice Braga), a boy (Mitchell Nye) and a dog (uncredited).

CBS Films released this brand new movie poster for the upcoming film «The Woman in Black» by director James Watkins (Eden Lake) and starring Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II), Ciaran Hinds (John Carter of Mars, The Eclipse), Janet McTeer (Psychoville, Island, Roadkill) and Lucy May Barker.