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Industry watchers say Hollywood needs a stronger infrastructure of support for black filmmakers to sustain this level of racial diversity on and off the screen.

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.»

«His father's success helped to pave the way for black filmmakers such as «Spike Lee, John Singleton and the Hudlins,» Mario said, but even more important, «I saw my dad unite behind gender, color lines, everything, before it was fashionable to do so.

He's working in the vein of early Spike Lee, or of Robert Townsend, whose 1987 satire Hollywood Shuffle seemed to herald a new path forward for black filmmakers.

Not exact matches

For a while, as the story and the Black Panther veer here and there, jumping from Wakanda to Busan, South Korea, the filmmakers seem as if they're simply going to deliver a remix of James Bond with a touch of Spidey shenanigans.

I feel that Black Panther is a big step for Marvel and a great opportunity for a filmmaker like Ryan Coogler to come into a big budget tentpole and leave his own mark, without much compromise.

The director's new masterpiece is a summation of nearly everything he has learned as a filmmaker, and about black culture, but he doesn't feel the need to beat the audience over the head for each lesson he's trying to impart.

The director of the new version is Craig Brewer, an accomplished filmmaker who showed a talent for syncing movies and music with Hustle & Flow and Black Snake Moan.

Other filmmakers had the opposite problem, having to deal with truncated and censored edits for television: Michael Apted, William Friedkin, David Anspaugh and Martin Brest removed their names from the studio - mandated TV or in - flight edits of «Thunderheart,» «The Guardian,» «Rudy» and «Meet Joe Black» respectively.

Having made appearances in international productions like Robert Aldrich's Too Late The Hero and Sydney Pollack's The Yakuza (written by Paul and Leonard Schrader) in the Seventies, Takakura continued to work with foreign filmmakers in Ridley Scott's Black Rain and with Tom Selleck in Mr. Baseball, as well as with Chinese director Zhang Yimou in 2005's Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles, securing his superstar status in that country as well.

Never in a million years would I have guessed that the same filmmaker might turn around and make something like Tangerine, his punk - as - fuck portrait of a much seedier L.A.. It's not just a total creative 180, but kind of the opposite of a sell - out move: Trading a formulaic story for an unpredictable one and a slick Indiewood aesthetic for a gorgeous, radical lo - fi approach, Baker trains his iPhone camera on the kind of characters — black and transgender prostitutes, immigrant cabbies — that the movies rarely acknowledge, let alone put into starring roles.

david j. moore chats with filmmaker Jonathan Mostow... Filmmaker Jonathan Mostow has been making some incredibly entertaining films since his early days, directing such made - for TV movies as Flight of Black Eagle, but it was his film Breakdown, starring Kurt Russell and J.T. Walsh that really put him onfilmmaker Jonathan Mostow... Filmmaker Jonathan Mostow has been making some incredibly entertaining films since his early days, directing such made - for TV movies as Flight of Black Eagle, but it was his film Breakdown, starring Kurt Russell and J.T. Walsh that really put him onFilmmaker Jonathan Mostow has been making some incredibly entertaining films since his early days, directing such made - for TV movies as Flight of Black Eagle, but it was his film Breakdown, starring Kurt Russell and J.T. Walsh that really put him on the map.

Black transgender director Yance Ford just made history by becoming the first trans filmmaker ever to be nominated for an Academy Award.

From filmmaker Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, Requiem for a Dream), mother!

Adding excitement to the project beyond all the thinkpieces the media can run about what this means for diversity in cinema is the fact that Black Panther is written and directed by Ryan Coogler, a young filmmaker who followed his acclaimed debut Fruitvale Station with a successful studio film in the endearing Creed.

Check out the official trailer for a gore - filled horror film titled The Black Room, from filmmaker Rolfe Kanefsky.

The honor makes the «Get Out» filmmaker just the fifth black director nominated for the award, a distinguished group that includes John Singleton for 1991's «Boyz n the Hood,» Lee Daniels for 2009's «Precious,» Steve McQueen for 2013's «12 Years a Slave» and Barry Jenkins for last year's best - picture winner, «Moonlight.»

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Shot in black and white, running a zippy 70 minutes and filled with one - liners, «The Party» represents a departure for the usually less jokey British filmmaker Sally Potter («Orlando»).

Changing the writer and director for this third Iron Man movie turns out to be the best thing that could have happened, because Shane Black is a much more focussed filmmaker, and he gives this...

There's plenty of potential for jagged black humour in this suburban comedy - drama, but the filmmakers never take a single risk.

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He became the fifth black filmmaker nominated for best director, and third to helm a best - picture nominee, following Barry Jenkins last year for Moonlight.

4 — Pioneers of African - American Cinema (Kino Lorber, Blu - ray, DVD) is the first comprehensive effort devoted to collecting and preserving feature films and shorts produced between 1915 and 1946 for black audiences, most of them made by African - American filmmakers.

This is even more true for Sundance 2018 as the program has made major strides for filmmakers of color this year with the inclusion of over 30 black films.

That he manages to mix this all with black comedy and pungent social commentary furthers the appeal of whatever this talented playwright and filmmaker serves up, and that includes his previous two films, In Bruges (for which he got a writing Oscar nomination) and the slightly overcooked Seven Psychopaths.

Canadian filmmakers were also honoured in the TFCA's other awards, with Stories We Tell winning the Allan King Documentary Award and Panos Cosmatos sharing the Best First Feature prize for Beyond the Black Rainbow with Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild.

Still, Black persevered, thanks largely to his old friend Joel Silver, who vouched for the filmmaker and secured funding from Warner Bros..

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.

The first trailer has finally arrived for «The Predator,» beloved filmmaker Shane Black («Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,» «The Nice Guys,» «Iron Man 3») offering his take on the «Predator» franchise — something he's familiar with having a small role in the 1987 John McTiernan - directed original.

is both written and directed by acclaimed American filmmaker Darren Aronofsky, of the films Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler, Black Swan, and Noah previously.

The forecast: A historical epic about African Americans and racism made by a black filmmaker sells for a lot of money at Sundance — the obvious comparison point is to 2016's «The Birth of a Nation.»

The strong opening suggests «Black Panther» will easily set a box - office record for films directed by a black filmmBlack Panther» will easily set a box - office record for films directed by a black filmmblack filmmaker.

After earning Best Picture and Best Director accolades at the Spirit Awards, Jordan Peele became the first black filmmaker to earn a Best Original Screenplay Oscar for his phenomenally successful debut feature, «Get Out.»

Also, as pointed out by The Playlist, the THR piece also mentions that a trio of female filmmakers are being mentioned for the «Black Widow» spinoff.

His script for Get Out, a movie he said he stopped writing about 20 times because he thought it «wasn't going to work,» won the award for Best Original Screenplay, making Peele the first black filmmaker to receive that honor.

Marvel Studios has been looking for a director to break its glass ceiling with Black Widow and has been meeting with filmmakers such as Deniz Gamze Erguven (the Turkish movie Mustang), Chloe Zhao (The Rider) and Amma Asante (A United Kingdom), among several others.

Made for PBS's American Masters series, Black and Bernstein's Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny captures something of the work process that this definitive independent filmmaker has sustained for nearly 30 years, particularly his commitment to his base in Austin and to regional filmmaking.

Best - case scenario: Black revives his hilarious School Of Rock shtick for some good ol' Spielbergian entertainment, the filmmakers drawing inspiration from the scarier tomes in Stine's library.

Documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson also won Outstanding Independent Documentary for the film, Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities.

McQueen is nominated for best director and if he wins he would be the first black filmmaker to win that award.

(He's only the third black filmmaker to be nominated following John Singleton for 1991's «Boyz N the Hood» and Lee Daniels for 2009's «Precious.»)

To say that «Black Panther» is as imprecise an analogy for oppression and revolution as «Star Wars» and «Star Trek» isn't a slam against this film, or any Marvel film; it's an acknowledgment that genre movies tend to work best when they're anchored to emotions and big personalities, and run into trouble when the filmmakers or the audience try to map a geometrically precise relationship to the world beyond the screen.

Filmmaker Rob Meyer first received the script for what was then titled Black Kid — and became Little Boxes — by writer Annie Howell in March, 2014 from producers Jared Goldman and Jordan Horowitz.

Even devoted fans of filmmaker Richard Linklater might question the need for Louis Black and Karen Bernstein's bio-doc Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny.

Disney has revealed the full - length official trailer for Marvel's Black Panther movie, directed by the talented filmmaker Ryan Coogler (of Fruitvale Station, Creed), and it looks awesome.

2013 was a good year for African - American filmmakers with many features with Black leads such as 42, After Earth, Black Nativity, Mandela, Fruitvale Station, The Butler and 12 Years A Slave, which went on to win Best Picture at this year's Academy Awards.

Though the extreme sharpness can sometimes backfire into fleetingly noticeable edge enhancement or ringing, there's little reason to complain: contrast and black level are well calibrated and the color stays true to the filmmakers» intent for a mostly breathtaking visual experience.

Get Out's Jordan Peele is the first black filmmaker ever nominated for directing, writing, and producing in the same year.