Sentences with phrase «with black leads»

Although there have been other superhero movies with black leads, Black Panther «s impressive cast of Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong» o and Danai Gurira is a major step forward for representation in Hollywood.

, two films with black leads and one with a Latino lead.

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.

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.

So when films with black leads and casts are well - reviewed and received and still don't get nominations — from «Straight Outta Compton» to «Creed» to «Beasts of No Nation» — what does that say?

Indeed, the studio have already set the movie for a May 2014 release for «Belle,» in part to try and replicate the impressive success of «Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,» and in part because there are internal worries that between McQueen's film and TWC's «Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom» and «Fruitvale Station,» there are too many films with black leads for «Belle» to get traction (We'd argue there's room for them all, but you can see the logic, given the Academy's tastes).

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.

Black Panther is the first superhero film with a black lead since Hancock in 2008 (and the first based on a comic since Catwoman in 2004), and that's certainly contributed to its success.

Though Black Panther will be Marvel's first film with a black lead and a predominantly black cast, the Wakandan king isn't the first black hero to take center stage in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

But with all the excitement in the air, there are some folks who don't know that Black Panther won't be the first film based on a Marvel character with a black lead.

Biggest Opening By A Film With A Black Lead Character: Among the top 25 openings of all - time, only two films have black lead characters: «Furious 7» with Dwayne Johnson and «Suicide Squad» with Will Smith.

But perhaps that was the problem with the film's marketing plan: It was a straight action film trying to touch many markets all at once; a film with a black lead and a majority - black cast, a film with a woman in an action role, a film somewhat about motherhood and relationships.

Those are just a handful of the records shattered by Black Panther, notable for being the first entry out of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with a Black lead and a predominantly Black cast.

Black Panther, which stars Chadwick Boseman as the titular character, isn't the first superhero film with a black lead.

All of the Marvel movies so far have had white, male directors and leads, and industry rumors have indicated that Marvel is actively seeking black and / or female directors to helm its first movies with a black lead and female lead.

Not exact matches

She put together a report, called Project Diane, to show just how much venture capital goes to women of color, and the results are bleak: Of 10,284 venture deals funded from 2012 to 2014, just 24 were with startups led by black women.

«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.

This leads to another important point: although you might think your black suit goes with everything, the contrast with any colour but white can be jarring.

According to reports by NRG, Hollywood's leading tracking service, Black Panther is on track to have a monster debut in the U.S., with projections of opening weekend sales upward of $ 165 million.

Oddly enough, insects in Japanese culture have led to other monetary ventures, avenues that are filled with intrigue, like beetle pet stores or manic collectors buying insects on the black market.

Tim most recently led Black Canvas Consulting with assignments such as Strategic Advisor to the President's Office of Export Development Canada.

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.»

The Federal Reserve started raising rates in 1986 to combat inflation as equity markets had enjoyed a stellar run - up; tightened monetary policy at home was welcomed with a steep sell - off that became known as «Black Monday» and led to stock market crashes around the globe, starting in Hong Kong and spreading to Europe.

With less than three weeks to Black Friday and the «official» start of the holiday shopping season, both major retailers and smaller eCommerce businesses are faced with the ever - shortening lead times on holiday shoppWith less than three weeks to Black Friday and the «official» start of the holiday shopping season, both major retailers and smaller eCommerce businesses are faced with the ever - shortening lead times on holiday shoppwith the ever - shortening lead times on holiday shopping.

And with the departure of former CEO Ursula Burns from Xerox, announced in 2016, there are no black female CEOs leading companies in the S&P 500 index.

Now in its 20th year, Black Hat is the world's leading information security event, providing attendees with the very latest in research, development and trends.

The commonplace depiction of Jesus as white led to indignant reactions, with some African Americans and other Christians claiming a «black Jesus» or some other Christ of their own ethnicity.

It is undignified and demeaning, ft leads to a situation where the celebration among blacks of individual success and of the personal traits associated with it comes to be seen, quite literally, as a betrayal of the black poor, because such celebration undermines the legitimacy of what has proven to be their most valuable political asset — their supposed helplessness.

The pastors need to start with the gays leading the choirs in the black church and go back to the truth -10 commandments.

With their followup, 2006's Nacho Libre, the Hesses scored a big - time movie star for the lead in Jack Black, and landed a solid $ 32 million budget to tell the tale of a single Mexican man who works in an orphanage yet feels the call of stardom via wrestling.

Western countries, especially America, may be targeted for critiques of overconsumption, but white students lead the charge and through it find camaraderie with their black, Hispanic, and Asian peers.

The white government chose, under intense internal and international pressure, to relinquish power, and negotiated with its former black enemies a process that led to the election of a black president, a model constitution, and relatively low casualties, considering the alternatives.

He was overwhelmed with woe over his own unworthiness, his life of bourgeois privilege even during this ordeal into which he had led the city's black community, and finally about the superficiality of his «inherited» call into the ministry, although he «had never felt an experience with God in the way that you must... if you're going to walk the lonely paths of this life.»

At the same time, white and black Methodists began mixing at camp meetings and churches (though with some of the restraint that would later manifest as segregation, leading to the birth of the African Methodist Episcopal and African Methodist Episcopal Zion churches).

Heeding the advice from a fellow parent, Jack and Rebecca decide to enroll Randall in a karate class led by a black instructor and filled with young boys who look just like him.

You have a problem with a black president leading that gov «t. Keep in mind the ACA is a REPUBLICAN IDEA!

Jesse Jackson, while still the leading Democratic politician in Chicago, chose to be silent during the public storm that broke after it was revealed that Cokely — then a high - salaried aide to the Democratic mayor — had accused Jewish doctors of injecting blacks with AIDS.

It is the emergence of this left, beginning with the black power activists led by Stokely Carmichael, that derailed the integration process and the authentic civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King — a movement which had fought for the idea of a single standard: one justice, indivisible, for all.

James Cone, the leading Black theologian, has gained a deep appreciation of the oppression of women and has found real solidarity with Third World theologians.

From this empathy should arise an acknowledgement of the well - organized tactics employed by the dominant culture to suppress Black progress and economic upward mobility leading to a mobilized effort to address them with the gospel.

The black majority Church's praise and celebration style was beginning to really influence the UK Church worship and reflected their substantial growth as a movement mainly in the British cities, with worship leaders Noel Robinson, Mark Beswick and Muyiwa leading the way.

Aside from those indiscretions, my cravings led me to make several vegetarian dishes, including Black Bean Cakes, Mushroom & Cannellini Ragout and a batch of my Crockpot Chickpea Stew with Caramelized Onions.

On the palate, beautifully balanced and well integrated flavors of black currant, cassis, plum, black tea, and hints of dill lead to a long lasting finish with a firm grip.

Flavors are luxuriant and ample with black fruits up front leading to cigar box and bake shop spices on the mid-palate, and finishing with coffee, caramel and dark chocolate with well integrated tannins.

We will be partnering with Next Level Marketing, of Westport, CT, one of the industry's leading brand activation agencies to support the Black Bottle brand.»

That's what led me to create these vegan enchiladas with jackfruit and black beans.

Black Heart Gold Pants is finally coming back to the pack a bit, with its lead on second in this category dipping under.60 points of standard error, but the BHGP top five, in order, is Notre Dame, Florida, Alabama, South Carolina, and Oregon, so there's still plenty of deviance all over the place.

How many times did we find Coq at the top of the box or at the end - line leading our team into a black hole?!? He can not shoot or cross or consistently combine with players in the attacking 3rd and it really hurt us.

a mentally retarded black man doing everything a human being could possibly do at a high school football game — greeting the crowd, providing radio commentary, delivering the pregame pep talk, running water bottles to the players, cheering with the cheerleaders, leading the halftime marching band and racing across the field with the school flag after touchdowns — everything except actually playing, and basking in his town's love every mad minute of it.

And on a Friday night in a South Carolina town, his encounter with a mentally retarded black man doing everything a human being could possibly do at a high school football game — greeting the crowd, providing radio commentary, delivering the pregame pep talk, running water bottles to the players, cheering with the cheerleaders, leading the halftime marching band and racing across the field with the school flag after touchdowns — everything except actually playing, and basking in his town's love every mad minute of it.