Sentences with phrase «with black directors»

The movie has generated record proceeds of more than $ 400 million worldwide so far, making it the highest - grossing opening for a film with a black director.

No, it's not the first blockbuster with a black director.

And it's not just the first superhero movie with a predominantly black cast — it's the first with a black director, black writers, black costume and production designers, and a black executive producer.

Not exact matches

«It's a discussion that's going on more broadly than either you and I can imagine,» said Leslie Brun, lead director at Merck, one of the few large U.S. corporations with a black CEO.

As they walked, the two of them — Ibex's director and chief data scientist — were on the phone with a client and in passing mentioned rare, so - called black - swan events.

But J. Gerald Hebert, director of the Voting Rights and Redistricting Program at the public - interest Campaign Legal Center in Washington, said the states drew districts with more black voters than necessary to «dilute their voting strength in order to achieve a partisan gain.»

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

Euroz managing director Andrew McKenzie (centre) with Euroz Securities managing director Rob Black (left) and head of retail dealing James Mackie

When I was preparing to speak to a group of Black corporate directors several years ago, I was asked a straightforward question: How much money does the foundation I run invest with firms owned by women or minorities?

This strategy of searching for common ground before a meeting was particularly effective when a new contact was more obviously dissimilar from a director, for example when a young black woman meeting with an older white man spent time considering their career parallels before their get together.

Director Ava DuVernay «s adaptation of the popular young - adult novel of the same name has been highly - anticipated since Disney made her the first - ever black woman to direct a movie with a budget over $ 100 million.

Professor Yvan Allaire, chair of the IGOPP's board of directors, will participate at the upcoming World Economic Forum's (WEF) Davos summit Professor Allaire was invited to join the WEF's recently created «Global Agenda Council on the Role of Business,» following publication of his work Black Markets and Business Blues, (which he co-wrote with Professor Mihaela -LSB-...]

This week, we sit down with Hillsong United to discuss their upcoming documentary «Let Hope Rise» from filmmaker Michael John Warren (the director of Jay Z's «Fade to Black») and the global worship movement.

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

Moonlight, which was adapted from the play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue proves that with a compelling story, a visionary filmmaker (in this case, director Barry Jenkins) and talented cast, it's still possible to make movies that get recognition in modern Hollywood.

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.

As a brand we're very proud to be putting a spotlight on these talented and driven business people and we can't wait to see how the public respond with their votes,» said Richard Black, Global Brand Director, Chivas Regal.

The two men who have the most daily contact with the players, director of operations Cleve Bryant and strength coach Jeff Madden, are black, and Brown points out that all 11 starters on the Texas defense last season were black; 1991 was the last year in which white starters outnumbered black starters on defense.

«Beijing is a hugely important event to us, yet this is the first of three huge global competitions for us, with the Olympics in Rio next year and the home World championships in 2017,» said British Athletics performance director Neil Black.

«This is a team that has been selected on the basis that every athlete can realistically make their final, but also with an eye on their individual development looking towards the Olympics this year and the London 2017 World Championships,» said British Athletics performance director, Neil Black.

«Nearly all Alabama schools are serving the healthier meals now required, and this poll shows that parents are on board with these changes,» said Jessica Donze Black, director of the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project, a collaboration of The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Against a black - and - white spell - out in the 9th June, 2017 letter by Finance Minister, Ken Ofori - Atta, which ordered the Managing Director of the Agriculture Development Bank (ADB) to dole out some Ghc10.4 million to McDan, Mr. McKorley's claim that he has no supply contract with the Ghana Cocoa Board hangs out as the alternative fact.

At 7 p.m., — Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Sens. Brian Benjamin and Kevin Parker join AARP NYS Director Beth Finkel, state NAACP President Hazel Dukes and NY Urban League Executive Director Arva Rice to address disparities hurting New York's communities of color on WBLS's «Open Line» with Judge Bob Pickett and Bob Slade, Schomberg Center for Research for Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Blvd., Harlem.

He works with Natalie Black an official who is deputy director of the number 10 policy unit.

«Mr Putin is famously a judo black belt but that shouldn't stop David Cameron grappling with him on Russia's deeply unhelpful behaviour over Syria at the United Nations security council,» Amnesty International's Europe and Central Asia director John Dalhuisen said before the meeting.

Progressive opposition to Diaz was splintered, with Elvin García, who served as de Blasio's Bronx borough director as well as his LGBTQ liaison, winning support from the Stonewall Democrats, while Amanda Farias, who has worked for Queens City Councilmember Elizabeth Crowley, snagged endorsements not only from the Jim Owles Club, but also from Planned Parenthood, Vote Pro Choice, the 504 Democrats, which advocates on disabilities issues, and Black Lives Matter New York.

Simon Woolley, director of Operation Black Vote, which ran a high - profile campaign featuring prominent black British stars with white faces, welcomed the progress made but added: «Although this is encouraging and a positive development, it's simply not good enough in terms of composition of parliaBlack Vote, which ran a high - profile campaign featuring prominent black British stars with white faces, welcomed the progress made but added: «Although this is encouraging and a positive development, it's simply not good enough in terms of composition of parliablack British stars with white faces, welcomed the progress made but added: «Although this is encouraging and a positive development, it's simply not good enough in terms of composition of parliament.

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«Chancellor Black is still not on firm footing with New Yorkers,» says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

By comparison, Arizona State University, Tempe, which has the largest university - owned collection in the world, has about 2000, says Meenakshi Wadhwa, the director of Arizona State's Center for Meteorite Studies, who recently traded with Piatek for a 20 - gram cut of Black Beauty.

First, they can show feature films in the proportions that their directors intended; on 4:3 screens, either some of the side of the picture must cropped out, or it appears in a letterbox, with black bands above and below.

Professor Loo, who is also director of ECT at Sydney's Wesley Hospital and a researcher with the Black Dog Institute, said she hopes the study will result in an improved uptake of the new treatment for people with severe depression.

National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins led the charge by donning black shades and guitar jamming with Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry.

HYEON Taeghwan, director of the Center for Nanoparticle Research explains: «Let's take the example of a MRI analysis of a brain with Alzheimer's: iron oxide in the blood vessels would appear as black and the amyloid plaques as gray.

His infrared studies of the center of the galaxy with Reinhard Genzel, now a professor of physics at UC Berkeley and director of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, revealed in 1985 swirling gas clouds that could only be orbiting a massive object, presumably a black hole.

As the distance to that galaxy is only 70 Megaparsec or 230 million light years, we are able to examine the jet structure with an unprecedented accuracy of only a few hundred black hole radii or 12 light days», concludes Professor Anton Zensus, director at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany and head of its VLBI research department, a co-author of the paper.

«Black women have been noted to present [at a doctor's office] with later stage cancer, which has a worse outcome — and they don't always get adequate care,» says Ruth ORegan, MD, associate professor of hematology and oncology and director of the translational breast cancer research program at Emory University's Winship Cancer Institute in Atlanta.

Encounters with black bears are on the rise, says Ann Bryant, director of the Lake Tahoe — based BEAR League.

In fact, some of these companies have their director of education / marketing state that the increased absorption provided by black pepper could potentially increase interactions with prescription medication and cause liver problems.

The director and actress both pair this silver studded Michael Kors dress with black ankle - strap sandals, but the Vampire Diaries star adds a unique accessory in the form of a girlie hair bow.

For an all - black approach that adheres more closely to the Adidas aesthetic, team a pair of glossy athletic jogging trousers with its matching running jacket and black sneakers for a look that's formidable yet trendy and functional — no wonder she was appointed creative director of the GB team for the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Creative director, Sarah Burton, is one of a number of female designers doing away with such black and white thinking.

The actress and the Black Swan director are casually dating, a source confirms exclusively to PEOPLE Jennifer Lopez has struck up a romance with a new man.

The actress and the Black Swan director are casually dating, a source confirms exclusively to PEOPLE A reader writes: How can I successfully get out of lunches with coworkers?

The movie is both a tribute to the skill of Fruitvale Station and Creed director Ryan Coogler, who almost effortlessly scales up to a much bigger budgetary level with Black Panther, and to an ensemble cast full of actors who'd rarely get asked to play parts like these in a blockbuster like this.

Venue: Sundance Film Festival (Premieres) Production companies: Elevated Films, Joule Films, in association with MACRO Media, Zeal, Black Bear Pictures Cast: Carey Mulligan, Jason Clarke, Jason Mitchell, Mary J. Blige, Rob Morgan, Jonathan Banks, Garrett Hedlund Director: Dee Rees Screenwriters: Virgil Williams, Dee Rees, based on the novel by Hillary Jordan Producers: Sally Jo Effenson, Cassian Elwes, Carl Effenson, Charles D. King, Kim Roth, Christopher Lemole, Tim Zajaros Executive producers: Dan Steinman, Teddy Schwartzman, Jennifer Roth, Poppy Hanks, Dee Rees, Kyle Tekiela, David Gendron, Ali Jazayeri, Virgil Williams, Robert Teitel, George Tillman Jr..

Shot in black and white with none of the glossiness or spectacle characteristic of the director, the film is a triumph.

Director Ryan Coogler and co-screenwriter Joe Robert Cole tackle the superheroes of colour question with this surreal and uproarious movie version of Marvel's Black Panther legend, in which the sheer enjoyment of everyone involved pumps the movie with fun.

The film reps a new career high for director Dee Rees, whose remarkable 2011 debut feature Pariah is a semi-autobiographical deep dive into a black girl's struggles with coming out.

Director Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station & Creed) enters «the big leagues» with Marvel's Black Panther, a somewhat monumental feat for the studio that has mostly featured films that skew towards the white male demographic.