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Netflix hypes โThe Last Airbender,โ โOne Pieceโ at starry fan event
Read full article: Netflix hypes โThe Last Airbender,โ โOne Pieceโ at starry fan eventNetflix gave audiences first looks at some planned and upcoming projects including โAvatar: The Last Airbender,โ โOne Pieceโ and the third season of โBridgertonโ at a fan event on Saturday.
Sundance Film Fest unveils lineup for hybrid 2022 edition
Read full article: Sundance Film Fest unveils lineup for hybrid 2022 editionThe Sundance Film Festival is returning to the Utah mountains in January armed with documentaries about Bill Cosby, Princess Diana, Kanye West and Lucille Ball as well as the directorial debuts of Eva Longoria, Tig Notaro and Jesse Eisenberg.
Kate Hudson in, Spike Lee out and more Golden Globe chaos
Read full article: Kate Hudson in, Spike Lee out and more Golden Globe chaosTechnically they even snubbed an entire category when best supporting actress was skipped over by mistake. From the Kate Hudson movie that no one has heard of to the very awkward shut out of Spike Lee, hereโs a look at some of the biggest surprises of the morning. Youโd be hard pressed to find someone who wasnโt surprised to hear Kate Hudsonโs name announced among the best actress nominees. That movie is called โMusic,โ a fantasy musical drama with Hudson, Leslie Odom Jr. and Maddie Ziegler that marks pop star Siaโs directorial debut. Leeโs acclaimed Vietnam drama โDa 5 Bloodsโ was expected to be a shoo-in for any number of categories: Best picture, best director, best actor for Delroy Lindo or supporting actor for Chadwick Boseman, who died last year.
John Boyega isn't going to 'take the money and shush'
Read full article: John Boyega isn't going to 'take the money and shush'This year, Boyega has made it clear he doesn't feel that way, that he isnโt going to bite his tongue. The five-film series is playing on the BBC in the U.K. and on Amazon Prime in the U.S.; โRed, White and Blueโ will debut Dec. 4 on Amazon. In the true story, Boyega plays Leroy Logan, an aspiring research scientist who gives up the lab to join the overwhelmingly white London police force in the 1980s. โRed, White and Blueโ puts Boyega front and center and wrestles with many of the social issues -- race, change, belonging -- that he is grappling with, too. Since Boyegaโs comments about โStar Wars,โ heโs received a supportive phone call from producer Kathleen Kennedy that Boyega has described as frank and transparent.
In McQueen's 'Small Axe,' an epic of West Indian heritage
Read full article: In McQueen's 'Small Axe,' an epic of West Indian heritageIn โSmall Axe,โ McQueenโs ambitious five-film anthology about Londonโs West Indian community, the โ12 Years a Slaveโ director resurrects the British capital in the decades before its multicultural present, tracing the Caribbean immigrant experience through the racism of the โ60s, โ70s, and โ80s in order to illuminate the injustices of today. โIโd end up sleeping in a bed with coats piled on top of me when I woke up.โThe first film of โSmall Axe,โ โMangrove,โ begins streaming on Amazon Prime Video on Friday. But โSmall Axeโ is his first production in his native Britain. The films, themselves, became a collective; the title references a West African proverb popularized by Bob Marley: โIf you are the big tree/ We are the small axe/ Ready to cut you down.โTaken together, โSmall Axeโ stitches together a little-known history, both intimate and sweeping, that had previously lingered on the margins and in family folklore. It was all about energy.โIn a way, โSmall Axeโ has also carved out a space for itself in an industry traditionally inhospitable to such stories.
Steve McQueen unveils an anthology of racism and resistance
Read full article: Steve McQueen unveils an anthology of racism and resistanceNEW YORK โ In a movie year mostly lacking big, ambitious releases, Steve McQueenโs โSmall Axeโ anthology is an unqualified main event. For the filmmaker of โHunger,โ โShameโ and โWidows,โ โSmall Axeโ is a shattering masterwork โ a compendium, both damning and celebratory, of Black resilience. The only fictional tale of the bunch, it brings to vivid, pulsating life a blues party from 1980, when young London Black people found refuge, and love, at house parties. Casting โSmall Axe,โ he has said, was easy because of all the untapped talent just in need of an opportunity. But if anyone expecting a neat arc to โSmall Axe,โ McQueen says thatโs not its shape.
John Boyega quits perfume ambassador role over Chinese ad
Read full article: John Boyega quits perfume ambassador role over Chinese adLONDON โ Black actor John Boyega has stepped down from his role as a global ambassador for perfume brand Jo Malone after the company decided to hire a Chinese actor to replace him in an ad he created. โThe film celebrated my personal storyโ showcasing my hometown, including my friends and featuring my family,โ Boyega wrote. He played a leading role as Finn in 2015โฒs โStar Wars: The Force Awakens,โ but he and other nonwhite characters were removed or diminished from a Chinese poster for the movie. Boyega recently told GQ that Black characters have been โpushed to the sideโ in Disneyโs โStar Warsโ franchise. In June, the star made an emotional speech on racism when he joined Black Lives Matter protests in London.
Perfume brand says cutting Black actor from ad was misstep
Read full article: Perfume brand says cutting Black actor from ad was misstepNEW YORK โ British perfume brand Jo Malone has apologized to Black actor John Boyega of โStar Warsโ fame after cutting him out of the Chinese version of a cologne commercial he helped create. Jo Malone London said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter that the ad designed for Chinese audiences was a misstep and has been removed. The recreated ad replaced Boyega with Chinese star Liu Haoran. It's not the first time Boyega has been deleted from a China-based ad. Boyega has spoken out about Hollywood racism, recently telling GQ that Black characters have been โpushed to the sideโ in Disneyโs โStar Warsโ franchise.
Steve McQueen sets 3 premieres at New York Film Festival
Read full article: Steve McQueen sets 3 premieres at New York Film FestivalThis image released by the New York Film Festival shows a scene from Steve McQueens "Lovers Rock" which will premiere at the 58th New York Film Festival. (New York Film Festival via AP)Three original films by Oscar-winner Steve McQueen will debut at the New York Film Festival this year, organizers said Monday. Its an incredible honor and also very humbling to show three of my films at the New York Film Festival, McQueen said in a statement. Steve McQueen is one of the essential artists of our time, and he reaches a new level of mastery with the Small Axe films, said Dennis Lim, the festival's programming director. Dates haven't been set for the 58th edition of the New York Film Festival because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic but organizers say that specifics will be announced in the coming weeks.
Thousands in London decry racial injustice, police violence
Read full article: Thousands in London decry racial injustice, police violence(AP Photo/Matt Dunham)LONDON Thousands of people demonstrated in London on Wednesday against police violence and racial injustice following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, which has set off days of unrest in the United States. Chanting Black lives matter, thousands gathered in Hyde Park, central London's biggest open space and a traditional protest venue. Star Wars actor John Boyega, who was born in Britain to Nigerian parents and grew up in south London's Peckham neighborhood, pleaded tearfully for demonstrators to stay peaceful. Boyega recalled the case of Stephen Lawrence, an 18-year-old black man from southeast London who was stabbed to death in 1993 as he waited for a bus. Floyd died May 25 after a white Minneapolis officer, Derek Chauvin, pressed his knee on the handcuffed black mans neck for several minutes.