Sentences with phrase «by a black director»

Here's the Marvel movie even non-Marvel fans are prepared to root for, the rare black superhero film, one boasting not only an almost all - black cast but helmed by a black director as well.

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 it.

Then there's the fact that an independent movie by a black director — a black queer story filtered through something other than the white gaze — rose to win the industry's most coveted prize (not to mention the adapted screenplay Oscar won by the film's writers, Tarell Alvin McCraney and director Barry Jenkins).

Co-written and directed by Ryan Coogler, «Black Panther» is already the highest grossing movie by a black director.

Highest grossing film by a Black Director: It has been a watershed year for black filmmakers, with Barry Jenkins» «Moonlight» winning Best Picture, Jordan Peele getting a Best Director Oscar nomination for «Get Out» and F. Gary Gray directing a billion - dollar hit with «The Fate of the Furious.»

The film, helmed by a black director, can not be faulted for this approach, as it taps into a current, honest sense of disenfranchisement.

Get Out star Daniel Kaluuya will be starring in another film by a black director that is probably going to break a sh-t ton of box office records: Black Panther.

I actually don't think I ever dreamed this big — that a film about an African nation, with an all - black cast and helmed by a black director would get this much of a celebration.

F. Gary Gray's «The Fate of the Furious» had a domestic debut of $ 98.8 million last April, but «Black Panther» will give Ryan Coogler the biggest North American opening by a black director.

As «Black Panther» racks up the box office over many weeks, it could even top the biggest film ever by a black director: The 1980 comedy «Stir Crazy,» directed by Sidney Poitier, grossed $ 345.7 million domestically when adjusting for inflation.

No other film by a black director cracks the adjusted Top 250, according to Box Office Mojo.

December 30, 2013 • This year's 11 top - grossing films starring black actors and by black directors almost doubles the number of last year's slate of comparable films.

Directed by Ryan Coogler and starring Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong» o, Forest Whitaker, Angela Bassett, Danai Gurira, and Letitia Wright, the film is the first of its kind — a Marvel film led by a black director and a primarily black cast.

«Black Panther» instantly became the top - grossing film in history by a black director (Ryan Coogler) and featuring a largely black cast.

But both high - profile films are directed by black directors and this is the first time that pics by African - American directors have held the first and second place spots at the U.S. box office.

Not exact matches

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 color.

When I was preparing to speak to a group of Black corporate directors several years ago, I was asked a straightforward question: How much money does the foundation I run invest with firms owned by women or minorities?

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.

His business dealings are being probed by his directors; later Black will be tried and imprisoned.

Not long after the Civil War, John Wesley Work, an African American church choir director and scholar in Nashville, Tennessee, realized that the rising generation of black southerners might best understand the importance of spirituality by learning the songs their ancestors sang during the days of....

Against a black - and - white spell - out in the 9th June, 2017 letter by Finance Minister, Ken Ofori - Atta, which ordered the Managing Director of the Agriculture Development Bank (ADB) to dole out some Ghc10.4 million to McDan, Mr. McKorley's claim that he has no supply contract with the Ghana Cocoa Board hangs out as the alternative fact.

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, the latest film by director Stanley Nelson, masterfully tells the story of the rise and subsequent fall of the Black Panther Party...

From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., the vice president for administration and finance of CUNY's Stella and Charles Guttman Community College, Mary Coleman, Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone President and CEO Kenneth Knuckles, Food Bank For New York President and CEO Margarette Purvis and Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice Executive Director David Shuffler, will be honored by Rep. Jose Serrano and state Sen. Jose M. Serrano a Black History Month event; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1040 Grand Concourse, the Bronx.

Black voters approve 5 - 1; Hispanic voters approve by 19 percentage points and white voters disapprove almost 2 - 1,» Quinnipiac University Poll Assistant Director Maurice Carroll said in a statement.

Other candidates are Lorna Johnson, the honorary consul for Jamaica in Los Angeles; Latoia Jones, assistant director of human rights for the American Federation of Teachers and co-founder of Black & Engaged; Rick Palacio, chairman of the Colorado Democratic Party; and Adam Parkhomenko, co-founder of Ready for Hillary and was appointed by DNC Interim Chairwoman Donna Brazile to serve as the DNC's national field director for the general election.

Black voters still approve of de Blasio by a lot; white voters don't,» Quinnipiac University Poll Assistant Director Maurice Carroll said in a statement.

State Budget Director Bob Megna sent a harshly - worded letter to NYRA CEO Charlie Hayward today, questioning the racing association's ability to bring its operations into the black and calling for a complete review of its books by state Inspector General Ellen Biben.

Black Westchester presents The People Before Politics Radio Show with Damon K. Jones, AJ Woodson & Cynthia Turnquest - Jones Joined by Black Westchester's Financial Advisor Rashad Bilal and Communications Director Priscill Echi This Weeks Guest, White Plains Commons Councilwoman Nadine Hunt - Robinson and New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson

The work by Mark Jacobson, director of Stanford University's Atmosphere / Energy program and a fellow at the university's Woods Institute, argues that cutting emissions of black carbon may be the fastest method to limit the ongoing loss of ice in the Arctic, which is warming twice as fast as the global average.

By comparison, Arizona State University, Tempe, which has the largest university - owned collection in the world, has about 2000, says Meenakshi Wadhwa, the director of Arizona State's Center for Meteorite Studies, who recently traded with Piatek for a 20 - gram cut of Black Beauty.

National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins led the charge by donning black shades and guitar jamming with Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry.

«Our experiments showed that restoring H19 expression hindered by too much p53 restored «protective differentiation» of osteoblasts to counter events of tumor growth early on in bone cancer,» said co-author, Ihor Lemischka, PhD, Director of The Black Family Stem Cell Institute within the Icahn School of Medicine.

April 18, 2008 Charis Eng, MD, PhD Delivers Lecture at the 18th Annual Symposium of the Society of Black Academic Surgeons Charis Eng, MD, PhD, Sondra J and Stephen R Hardis Chair and Director, Genomic Medicine Institute, delivered the opening scientific lecture entitled, «Genetics - and genomics - based surgical decision - making» to the 18th Annual Symposium of the Society of Black Academic Surgeons, hosted by the Cleveland Clinic, April 17 - 20, 2008.

Besides from being famous as the ex-husband of Madonna and an accomplished movie director and screenwriter, Guy Ritchie has some major talents to brag about, one of which is represented by a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

In fact, some of these companies have their director of education / marketing state that the increased absorption provided by black pepper could potentially increase interactions with prescription medication and cause liver problems.

Seeing it depicted in black - and - white in French film Angel - a by director Luc Besson just showed how magnificent it still looked even when it wasn't in colour.

The black and white images were captured by Chanel's Creative Director, Karl Lagerfeld, in Coco's former apartment which sits above the brand's flagship store in Paris.

Venue: Sundance Film Festival (Premieres) Production companies: Elevated Films, Joule Films, in association with MACRO Media, Zeal, Black Bear Pictures Cast: Carey Mulligan, Jason Clarke, Jason Mitchell, Mary J. Blige, Rob Morgan, Jonathan Banks, Garrett Hedlund Director: Dee Rees Screenwriters: Virgil Williams, Dee Rees, based on the novel by Hillary Jordan Producers: Sally Jo Effenson, Cassian Elwes, Carl Effenson, Charles D. King, Kim Roth, Christopher Lemole, Tim Zajaros Executive producers: Dan Steinman, Teddy Schwartzman, Jennifer Roth, Poppy Hanks, Dee Rees, Kyle Tekiela, David Gendron, Ali Jazayeri, Virgil Williams, Robert Teitel, George Tillman Jr..

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.

That alone would be reason to get excited, and Coogler makes good on the landmark project's potential by featuring a predominantly black ensemble, casting some of the best young actors around — from Chadwick Boseman (who proved his dramatic chops playing James Brown, Jackie Robinson, and Thurgood Marshall in recent years) to Michael B. Jordan (even more buff, and twice as charismatic, than he appeared in the director's two previous features, «Fruitvale Station» and «Creed»)-- as well as such legends as Forest Whitaker and Angela Bassett.

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.

«In the Fade» is written and directed by Fatih Akin, one of Germany's top directors whose breakthrough film was 2004's pitch - black romance «Head - On.»

One of many interesting stylistic choices by director Irvin Kershner and cinematographer Haskell Wexler, who shot the film in gorgeous high contrast black - and - white with the warts - and - all insouciance of a documentary, is to present this reunion scene sans dialogue (which is buried by train noise)-- with Billy and Pio framed in the oval window of the train door.

Black Panther is helmed by African - American director Ryan Coogler, who's previously tackled race in Fruitvale Station (2013) that chronicled police brutality.

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In 2004, Wayans directed the farce White Chicks, about two black FBI agents, Marcus and Kevin (played respectively by the director's brothers, Marlon and Shawn), who disguise themselves as Caucasian sorority girls to foil a kidnapping plot.

A graduate of the Tuskegee Institute, Wayans entered the comic arena in the mid -»80s by stepping up to the mike and honing his stand - up act, but he later branched out into movies, by scripting the low - budget black satire Hollywood Shuffle (1987) and the aptly - titled comedy vehicle Eddie Murphy: Raw (1987), both for director pal Robert Townsend.

Probably more than any other filmmaker, his name evokes instant expectations on the part of audiences: at least two or three great chills (and a few more good ones), some striking black comedy, and an eccentric characterization or two in every one of the director's movies.Originally trained at a technical school, Hitchcock gravitated to movies through art courses and advertising, and by the mid -»20s he was making his first films.

The screenplay by director Scott Cooper (Black Mass) doesn't give its protagonist an easy path to redemption.

A Fox Searchlight Pictures release by visionary director Darren Aronofsky (THE WRESTLER), BLACK SWAN takes a thrilling and at times terrifying journey through the psyche of a young ballerina whose starring role as the duplicitous swan queen turns out to be a part for which she becomes frighteningly perfect.