Sentences with phrase «entirely black cast»

This first film, featuring a black superhero and an almost entirely black cast, pounced Hollywood and shredded stereotypical roles that hurt the perception of black people and our collective self - esteem.

As a film that features an almost entirely black cast (the only exceptions being Andy Serkis as a particularly nasty mercenary and arms merchant and Martin Freeman as a CIA agent who ends up working with T'Challa), Black Panther is a standout in the largely white blockbuster world.

Ryan Coogler's Black Panther, Marvel's very first Marvel Cinematic Universe movie with an almost entirely black cast, has already taken home $ 192 million since Thursday night and is projected to make around $ 218 million - plus over the President's Day holiday.

But it is fair to say that Black Panther is the most political movie ever produced by Marvel Studios, both in its very existence — it's the most expensive movie to have ever starred an almost entirely black cast — and in the questions its story raises.

What helped after Get Out was that, on the set of Black Panther, Kaluuya was surrounded by an almost entirely black cast and crew, including director Ryan Coogler and actors who'd gone through some semblance of what he was going through.

Langston Hughes» retelling of the classic Nativity story with an entirely black cast will be staged at the Marcus Center's Vogel Hall early this coming December.

It has a black director in Ryan «Creed» Coogler; black screenwriters in Coogler and Joe Robert Cole, and an almost entirely black cast.

As it stands, Detroit is still one of only two films with an almost - entirely black cast to be anywhere near the Oscar race this year.

Not exact matches

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.

Black Panther's cast is almost entirely African - American, and also has a substantial number of female characters.

Many of its black fans praise the fact that the director, Ryan Coogler, is black and that the cast and creative team are almost entirely black.

Even so, and despite Black's bland presence, the third Fast and the Furious film offers the first glimpse of something truly engaging with this material, allowing Lin's friend and collaborator Sung Kang to walk away with the film without much effort and hammering home the franchise's broader themes of noble outlaw codes by transplanting them to an entirely separate group of people from the previous casts.

These collaged drawings were then scaled up to an absurd but not huge scale and cast in plaster and painted black; thus reforming the molding drawings into entirely new three dimensional forms.