Sentences with phrase «mostly black cast»

Early this year Disney and Marvel released Black Panther, a movie with mostly black cast.

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.

All signs say Marvel Studios» «Black Panther,» being released Thursday evening by Walt Disney Co., is having a cultural moment fueled by massive pent - up demand for what is expected to be the first global superhero blockbuster to feature a mostly black cast and an African American director.

This is a Marvel superhero movie about colonialism, and it has a black director and a mostly black cast, with music by Kendrick Lamar, and it's dropping during Black History Month.

Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal: «This action spectacular from Marvel Studios is the first megabudget blockbuster - for - sure with a black superhero and a mostly black cast.

Power does show awareness that there are unusual expectations placed on a mega-budget superhero film that is doing the unusual thing of having a mostly black cast play African heroes in an African world, but he seems to diminish the significance of that imagery.

Rolling Stone recently spoke with Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman, portraying T'Challa (Black Panther), as he covers the publication's March 2018 issue, as well as director Ryan Coogler — as both detail more about the highly - acclaimed film and its impact, with it being the first Marvel Studios movie to put a person of color in the lead role and to feature a mostly black cast.

As former «Black Panther» comics author Christopher J. Priest put it on his blog, «We have simply never seen anything at all like this: a huge blockbuster featuring a mostly black cast with effects rivaling «Avatar» and where every dime of that budget is up there on the screen.»

Marvel's «Black Panther» is another important step in that process, the first big - budget superhero pic to feature a mostly black cast.

«Django Unchained» could also be called a revival of the Blaxploitation movie, a genre that became popular in the 1970s featuring mostly black casts, soundtracks with soul and funky music such as wah - wah guitars, with African - Americans taking revenge on «crackers.»

Not exact matches

Set mostly in the fictional African nation of Wakanda, the film boasts a director and primary star who are both African - American men (director Ryan Coogler and actor Chadwick Boseman), while the cast also features numerous other notable black stars, such as Oscar winners Lupita Nyong» o and Forest Whitaker as well as Angela Bassett and Michael B. Jordan.

But she cast the issue mostly as a racial disparity one, saying the vast majority of people arrested for marijuana are blacks or Latinos.

Black is complemented by a cast of mostly well - known faces.

The 137 regular cast members who have been part of «Saturday Night Live» since its 1975 debut have been mostly white and have included only four black women.

Car Wash may be the quintessential example of this kind of film, and with a mostly African - American cast, its influence is still felt today among many aspiring Black filmmakers.

With a cast that would mostly be made of black actors will this be successful (I know mainly not in all regions of the world including parts of America).

Still, as a mostly apolitical black comedy and dark melodrama, «Lovelace» works reasonably well, and that's mostly due to a strong pace and a stronger cast.

The intentional changing or at least ignoring of it in casting the role of MCU lynchpin Nick Fury and producing a Black Panther film for 2018 and a Luke Cage television series for later this year doesn't bestow upon them immunity by any stretch of the imagination, but the Marvel Cinematic Universe seems relatively inclusive if at the same time mostly faithful to the mostly mid-20th Century created comic book origins - depictions of their headline characters.

The cast behind Black Panther is bonkers — It's a mostly minority cast featuring (deep breath) Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong» o, Danai Gurira, Angela Bassett, Daniel Kaluuya, Forest Whitaker, Andy Serkis, and Martin Freeman.

Moonlight, an intimate story of a black boy in Miami coming to terms with his sexuality, had a low profile in the industry — it was the first movie fully financed by upstart distributor A24, and the most famous person in the cast was Mahershala Ali, a TV actor largely unknown to Telluride's mostly white audiences.

Nevertheless, the film's three stars — Jack Black, Steve Martin and Owen Wilson — still turn in some decent performances despite the lack of any real laughs in the script, and although the terrific supporting cast (which includes the likes of Kevin Pollack, Brian Dennehy, Rashida Jones and Rosamund Pike) is mostly wasted in throwaway roles, it makes «The Big Year» a lot more enjoyable than it has any right to be.