Critics have almost universally praised the film, which is produced and
directed by black men and stars a who's who of black acting talent, including Chadwick Boseman as Black Panther, as well as Forest Whitaker, Angela Bassett, Lupita Nyong» o, Michael B. Jordan, and Danai Gurira.
Of course it shouldn't come as too much of a surprise that the first major superhero film
directed by a black man and starring a predominantly black cast is a new benchmark for representation and storytelling.
And in a little more than two weeks since its release, Black Panther,
directed by a black man, Ryan Coogler, and starring a mostly black cast, has earned more than $ 421 million in America.
One is
directed by a black man.
It is without question a promising sign that Moonlight, a movie about the romance between two black men coming of age in inner - city Miami,
directed by a black man, is not only a Best Picture nominee but a genuine contender to win.
Not exact matches
So then they will
direct their animosity towards people like me, dismissing me as a «special case»
by saying, «Well, she's thin,» or in the case of another friend, «Well, she's mixed,» or «She couldn't get a
black man,» etc..
That it happens to be about a
black man and it was
directed by a
black woman makes them look particularly bad.
Iron
Man 2 was a bit of a disappointment, so it is exciting that in this post-Avengers world Marvel has decided to mix things up
by bringing in Shane
Black to co-write and
direct this latest installment in the Iron
Man franchise.
A casting call for «Iron
Man 3,» which will get underway this summer, written
by fast - rising screenwriter Drew Pearce and
directed by «Kiss Kiss Bang Bang» helmer Shane
Black, has been obtained via Feature Film Casting (via Latino Review), and it reveals that Johansson will be back on duty as the flexible Natasha Romanoff in the new film.
Daniel will be joined
by Chris Evans (Captain America), Robert Downey, Jr. (Iron
Man), and Chadwick Boseman (
Black Panther) in the movie, which will be
directed by Joe and Anthony Russo.
Black Panther,
directed by Creed filmmaker Ryan Coogler, is due out February 16th, 2018, following a pair of two upcoming Marvel movies, Spider -
Man: Homecoming and Thor: Ragnarok.
20th Century Fox has revealed the first teaser trailer for The Predator, a new take on the Predator sci - fi action franchise, this time
directed by Shane
Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Iron
Man 3, The Nice Guys)- who appeared in the original Predator as the character Hawkins.
For characters like
Black Panther and Spider -
Man, who'll get their own solo films
directed by Ryan Coogler and Jon Watts, where does the question of authorship fall in terms of casting and development?
Meanwhile, the «
Men in
Black» movie is said to be an ensemble spinoff with new characters — led
by «Thor: Ragnarok» stars Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson — and
directed by F. Gary Gray («The Fate of the Furious»).
This time around it's commanded
by Shane
Black (Iron
Man 3, The Nice Guys, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang), who
directed and co-wrote the movie with Fred Dekker (The Monster Squad, RoboCop 3).
The film,
directed by Iron
Man 3 «s Shane
Black (who also starred in the original Predator alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger as marine Hawkins), is set between Predator 2 and 2010's Predators.
Men In
Black has a lot in common with the Addams Family movies - also
directed by Barry Sonnenfeld.
Previous sequels in this franchise haven't remotely approached the quality of John McTiernan «s 1987 classic, but the main reason we're excited about this one is because it's co-written and
directed by Shane
Black, the guy behind movies like Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Nice Guys, and one of Marvel Studios» very best films, Iron
Man 3.
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.
But fun as Civil War might be, why not take a look at The Nice Guys, the shaggy, often funny, 1970s - set riff on the mismatched buddy formula, long ago perfected
by director Shane
Black, who wrote Lethal Weapon and The Last Boy Scout, made the cult favorite Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and, yes,
directed Iron
Man 3?
We last wrote about this movie in 2014, without any updates since then, only confirming that Shane
Black was writing the treatment and
directing the movie (his follow - up to The Nice Guys and Iron
Man 3) but not writing the script
by himself.
Black Sea is
directed by Kevin Macdonald, the
man behind The Last King of Scotland and One Day in September.
The Woman in
Black: Angel of Death is released next year and is
directed by Tom Harper (Peaky Blinders) with a cast that includes Phoebe Fox (Switch), Jeremy Irvine (The Railway
Man), Helen McCrory (Penny Dreadful), Adrian Rawlins (Harry Potter), Oaklee Pendergast (The Impossible), Amelia Pidgeon (3096 Days) and Jude Wright (Spy).
Marvel Studios has finally brought us The Avengers,
directed by fan - favorite Joss Whedon, including in the line - up: Iron
Man, Captain America, Thor, Hawkeye,
Black Widow, Nick Fury and, of course, the Hulk.
He was pirate Barbarossa in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the
Black Pearl (2003), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead
Man's Chest (2006), Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
directed by Gore Verbinski, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
directed by Rob Marshall, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead
Men Tell No Tales (2017).
A
black comedy about a
man who dreams of being a reality tv contestant, the French / Italian co-production Reality (
directed by Matteo Garrone) has attracted rave reviews at a lot of 2012's film festivals, including a Grand Prix win at Cannes, though it's yet to see a wide release in English - speaking territories.
In a recent profile with The New York Times, Jason Blum — the producer behind Get Out, Jordan Peele's massively popular 2017 thriller about a young
black man who faces a terrifying form of racism in a predominantly white suburb — announced that one of his followup projects will be a horror film about
black lesbians living in the «burbs,
directed by Dee Rees.
Set to be
directed once again
by the Russo brothers, the film will also star Chris Evans as Captain America, Robert Downey Jr. as Iron
Man, Anthony Mackie as The Falcon, Scarlett Johansson as
Black Widow, Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, Elizabeth Olsen as Scarlet Witch, Chadwick Boseman in his MCU debut as
Black Panther, and the brand - new Spider -
Man, of course.
Silver Pictures» upcoming detective thriller «The Nice Guys,»
directed by Shane
Black («Iron
Man 3») and starring Oscar winner Russell Crowe («Gladiator,» «
Man of Steel») and Oscar nominee Ryan Gosling («Half Nelson,» «Drive»), has staked out the summertime date of June 17, 2016.
The rest of this road picture,
directed by Greg Mottola of «Adventureland,» is about this trio trying to smuggle Paul awayl from the «
Men in
Black» he's escaped from.
The Nice Guys is co-written and
directed by filmmaker Shane
Black, screenwriter of the Lethal Weapon series, The Monster Squad, Last Action Hero, and director of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Marvel's Iron
Man 3 previously.
The Bye Bye
Man is
directed by American filmmaker Stacy Title, of The Last Supper, Let the Devil Wear
Black and Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror previously.
The new
Men in
Black film is being written
by Iron
Man's Matt Holloway and Art Marcum, with Fast and the Furious filmmaker F. Gary Gray
directing.
In Iron
Man 3,
directed and co-written
by Shane
Black, Stark Industries no longer does weapons stuff.
Mane and Moran play inmates in an extremely violent and bloody prison riot, along with Danny Trejo (Machete, From Dusk Till Dawn), Derek Mears (Friday the 13th), Sean Whalen (Halloween II,
Men in
Black), and Vernon Wells (The Road Warrior),
directed by B.J. McDonnell (Hatchet III) and produced
by Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp, Paranormal Halloween).
He was Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the
Black Pearl (2003), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead
Man's Chest (2006), Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
directed by Gore Verbinski, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
directed by Rob Marshall, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead
Men Tell No Tales (2017).
Directed and co-written
by Shane
Black, who previously
directed and co-wrote Iron
Man 3, this romp promises to be a lot of fun and it looks like it will feature some great outfits as well.
Silver Pictures» upcoming detective thriller «The Nice Guys,»
directed by Shane
Black («Iron
Man 3») and starring Oscar winner Russell Crowe («Gladiator,» «
Man of Steel») and Oscar nominee Ryan Gosling Read More →
by Sasha Stone and Ryan Adams A friend of mine said to me the other day, «two of the biggest box office hits of 2017, one
directed by a woman and the other
by a
black man.»
A new report titled «Economic Comparison of White, Green, and
Black Flat Roofs in the United States»
by Julian Sproul, Benjamin Mandel, and Arthur Rosenfeld of Berkeley Lab, and
Man Pun Wan of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, provides a
direct economic comparison of these three roof types.