Sentences with phrase «with black audiences»

Though black comedians tend to play best with black audiences, the small crowd in attendance here is primarily white.

Following Wonder Woman's moment at the box office as a feminist - driven powerhouse, Black Panther is connecting with black audiences in a way that no Marvel movie has before.

I want to live in Wakanda, and gaguing from the reactions over on Twitter, it seems like this version of it has gone over like gangbusters, especially with black audiences.

Not exact matches

He was able to connect with young and black voters and reach untapped audiences, circumventing the perception that no one knew who he was.

On those black Gibson ES - 355 guitars, both acoustic and electric, King amazed audiences with his signature style - «single - string runs punctuated by loud chords, subtle vibratos, and bent notes, building on the standard 12 - bar blues and improvising like a jazz master,» as the AP describes it.

Similarly, Black Panther «s early success is already dispelling industry concerns that a superhero movie revolving almost entirely around black characters could resonate with a general audience and earn the same box - office popularity as other (whiter) blockbusBlack Panther «s early success is already dispelling industry concerns that a superhero movie revolving almost entirely around black characters could resonate with a general audience and earn the same box - office popularity as other (whiter) blockbusblack characters could resonate with a general audience and earn the same box - office popularity as other (whiter) blockbusters.

Naomi Wadler, 11, wowed the audience with her speech honoring black girls like Courtlin Arrington, Hadiya Pendleton and Taiyania Thompson who were gunned down, but «don't make the front page of every national newspaper [or] lead on the evening news.»

He notes that sales at Abercrombie's 192 Hollister stores — cheaper, and aimed at a teen audience with a mix of Ralph Lauren black shutters and Tommy Bahama palm trees — were up 8 percent over last June.

«Noah» had Academy Award - nominated director Darren Aronofsky («Black Swan») and a massive $ 125 million budget, but was a bust with Christian audiences domestically.

«I don't know what kind of a n --- wouldn't vote with a black man running,» he also told the audience in the St. James Baptist Church in Forsyth, Ga., according to the paper.

Clinton can be a preacher who connects with his audience (especially in black churches) through biblical passages.

At a recent public gathering in the heart of the nation's capital, with former civil rights hero and disgraced Mayor Marion Barry on the podium as an object lesson, Farrakhan prepared his black audience for the coming race war.

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The audience wanted to learn how they can act in solidarity with black people who experience racism and bias in daily life.

Dressed in gray corporate attire to blend in with the businesswomen in the audience, the activists unfurled pink banners with «Stop Supporting the War» in black letters and briefly yelled the phrase at Clinton from the back of the room until they were hustled out by security guards.

Marc Wadsworth, who runs Momentum Black Connexions and was sat in the audience, accused the MP of «working hand in hand» with the Daily Telegraph during a rant at the event in London.

A Black Girl's Guide to Weight Loss is a blog packed with diet, weight loss, and fitness advice geared toward an audience of black wBlack Girl's Guide to Weight Loss is a blog packed with diet, weight loss, and fitness advice geared toward an audience of black wblack women.

In a predominate palette of black and silver with splashes of white and red, the oil slick leather - like cocktail dress and the gorgeous floral embroidered sheath turned plenty of heads, but it was the red carpet - worthy beaded fit - and - flare frock along with the peplum tulle ball gown that drew scores of audible oohs and aahs from the audience.

Match has the largest audience of black singles than any other dating site — with more than 1.2 million visiting the site each month.

Ms. Black advises her audience to proceed with caution and to pay attention to red flags when dating.

All out rallied to blog audience to vote between preference to be seen with her or a black sugar baby (in a least - of - the - worst - favorable fashion).

Time and again, American audiences have responded to films with black leads like Hidden Figures, Get Out, and Girls Trip, all of them turning huge profits on smaller budgets.

Coogler's approach is similar to the one Tim Burton used in 1989's Batman — don't waste the audience's time with a blow - by - blow description of how the Black Panther got his powers and what he initially does with them.

Black Panther may not be the first superhero film to place a black lead front and centre — Wesley Snipes made two great Blade movies plus another one, and the»90s delivered a handful of now - forgotten fare with black men behind the mask (Spawn, Steel, Blankman, The Meteor Man)-- but it is the first to surround its hero with an equally diverse cast, and announce itself as the new blockbuster status - quo, not a one - off alternative for a widely underrepresented audiBlack Panther may not be the first superhero film to place a black lead front and centre — Wesley Snipes made two great Blade movies plus another one, and the»90s delivered a handful of now - forgotten fare with black men behind the mask (Spawn, Steel, Blankman, The Meteor Man)-- but it is the first to surround its hero with an equally diverse cast, and announce itself as the new blockbuster status - quo, not a one - off alternative for a widely underrepresented audiblack lead front and centre — Wesley Snipes made two great Blade movies plus another one, and the»90s delivered a handful of now - forgotten fare with black men behind the mask (Spawn, Steel, Blankman, The Meteor Man)-- but it is the first to surround its hero with an equally diverse cast, and announce itself as the new blockbuster status - quo, not a one - off alternative for a widely underrepresented audiblack men behind the mask (Spawn, Steel, Blankman, The Meteor Man)-- but it is the first to surround its hero with an equally diverse cast, and announce itself as the new blockbuster status - quo, not a one - off alternative for a widely underrepresented audience.

That leaves two potential demographics for the movie, with a wide age gap in between — older audiences who recall the original black - and - white Stooges shorts and features, and small children who will be receptive to the barrage of silly slapstick gags and pratfalls.

An unusually intelligent black comedy, this British independent film takes the audience on a road trip that's packed with surprises.

When I first started writing it, the movie was meant to confront the audience a little bit more, with the justified fear of being black in certain situations in this country.

The trailer itself sells a movie that looks far more approachable than most of Wheatley's work so far — his penchant for combining grisly violence with black comedy is on full display, but it's wrapped in a package that could be appealing to audiences who found the psychedelic A Field in England too weird or Kill List too oblique.

Black Panther in CinemaScore audience exits shows a 50/50 male - female audience with 25 + repping 66 % of the crowd.

Black Panther is the latest and by far the largest film to obliterate a pernicious Hollywood myth — that international audiences won't show up for movies with predominantly black cBlack Panther is the latest and by far the largest film to obliterate a pernicious Hollywood myth — that international audiences won't show up for movies with predominantly black cblack casts.

Audiences have quickly become familiar with Chadwick Boseman thanks to his turns as Black Panther in Captain America: Civil War, soul man James Brown in Get On Up, and color barrier - breaking baseball player Jackie Robinson in 42.

Though the film targets African American audiences with a nearly all - black cast, No Good Deed revives disturbing racial stereotypes.

Comscore's PostTrak survey of the audience showed outstanding numbers with 77 % rating «Black Panther» as «excellent» and another 18 % as «very good.»

They weren't catching the wave of excitement Selma's mere presence brought to audiences — not because history was about to be made with the first black female director in the Oscar race, but because Selma was such a very good film, such a moving film, such a sensual, breathtaking, wholly original work that no one really knew what to do with it.

And by aligning the acclaimed rapper's critical themes with those explored in the film, the studio may just be ensuring that Black Panther resonates with audiences on a deeper, more personal level.

The guy hasn't written or directed a feature film since 2005's «Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,» and yet here he is, doing that Shane Black thing once again, only this time with superheroes, while trying his best to streamline his R - rated ways for a PG - 13 audience.

Writer / Director Jordan Peele does something simple yet profound with his first film: populating a conventional horror movie structure with a black man as the hero and white people as villains, pulling audiences into a mind - set that others have been striving to for eons: the black person in America.

While Thomas W. Kiennast's black - and - white cinematography is quite beautiful to behold (Gröning's film certainly features some excellent cinematographic moments as well), Atef's film never manages to convey why we should care, today, about this brief moment in Schneider's well - documented life, including her never - ending struggle with the German press, her inability to escape the role of Sissi that made her instantly famous as a teenager, and the various tragedies that befell her, including the suicide of her ex - husband.7 The film is not a biopic per se (and Atef declared that she did not intend to make one): thus, audiences who are not already familiar with Schneider certainly will not come away from viewing the film with much of a sense of her life's story); yet, given it is not a biopic, one wonders what the film is, or what it tries to accomplish.

Harvey's relationship advice, candidly sharing the male perspective with a female audience, catches the attentions of a number of attractive single black women, each of whom finds a different part of the book applicable to her current love life.

Psycho is pulpy and sordid and perverse, shot in black and white on a low budget to give it the tawdry feel of a B movie, and directed with the impeccable craft of a master who knew how to shock the sensibilities and shake up the expectations of an audience.

Once the film arrived in June 1995, audiences found the Dark Knight's world teeming with over-the-top villains and a worrisome abundance of neon and black light.

The eventual «Long Kiss Goodnight» movie hedged fairly close to Black's revised draft, but the movie, while attracting an almost instantaneous cult following, never connected with large audience and eventually made less than $ 90 million worldwide, a shameful showing considering how much better American action movies tend to fare overseas.

With its painterly sets of jutting beams, leaning walls and heavy black lines painted on flats and arranged to suggest both a skewed sense of depth and a forced perspective that flaunts its artificiality, the film dropped audiences into an aggressively unreal world and celebrated its theatrical artifice as a vision of madness and horror.

Those two films aren't biopics, but they share the insidery, involuted interests of Steve Jobs; the biopics in the «hit» camp (Compton, Black Mass, The Imitation Game and American Sniper) are all much beefier, externalised affairs playing obviously to mass audiences, with even The Imitation Game trying its hardest to be an espionage thriller.

With its dark humor and complicated characters and themes — a mother out to avenge her daughter's rape and murder, a suggestion of police brutality against black residents — «Three Billboards» made an early splash with critics and audiences at the Venice Film Festival in September and then at the Toronto International Film Festival in October, where it won the audience award and was hailed by some as one of the year's bWith its dark humor and complicated characters and themes — a mother out to avenge her daughter's rape and murder, a suggestion of police brutality against black residents — «Three Billboards» made an early splash with critics and audiences at the Venice Film Festival in September and then at the Toronto International Film Festival in October, where it won the audience award and was hailed by some as one of the year's bwith critics and audiences at the Venice Film Festival in September and then at the Toronto International Film Festival in October, where it won the audience award and was hailed by some as one of the year's best.

Black Swan is a delirious, practically giddy thriller that flirts with the metaphysical even while it relentlessly ratchets up its prime directive, which is to be a nonstop audience stress test,» wrote MSN critic Glenn Kenny when the film opened in 2010.

The onward march of Marvel's Black Panther appears to know no bounds, with the film continuing to wow movie audiences across the globe.

Though considered by most to be an outdated myth, some have claimed that foreign audiences have less appetite for films with largely black casts.

During a screening of Black Panther, an audience filled with loyal Wakandans was forced to see the first five minutes of Fifty Shades Freed.

The grand hope I have, though, is that films with black leads and black casts can be bad without our feeling like something fateful requires that an audience carry it on their shoulders until it becomes something beyond what it is.