Tag: Martin Luther King Jr.
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Box Office: ‘Mean Girls’ Struts to $3.3M in Previews, ‘Beekeeper’ Buzzes to $2.4M
Mean Girls strutted to $3.3 million in previews at the North American box office, on par with Wonka.Paramount’s movie adaptation of the Broadway musical is based on the 2004 big-screen teen comedy that turned into a cultural classic. The new movie is expected to open to as much as $30 million over the long Martin…
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Chris Rock to Direct Martin Luther King Jr. Biopic, Steven Spielberg to Executive Produce
Chris Rock and Steven Spielberg are collaborating on a movie about the life of Martin Luther King Jr.Rock is in final talks to direct and produce the project, with Spielberg on board as executive producer. The biographical drama will be adapted from Jonathan Eig’s biography “King: A Life,” which was optioned for the screen by…
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‘Origin’ Review – Ava DuVernay’s Unusual Adaptation Rights Itself in the End | TIFF 2023
Ava DuVernay has taken on some massive topics and projects in recent years, from bringing Martin Luther King Jr. to the screen with Selma, explaining the prison-industrial complex in 13th, and adapting one of the most beloved YA novels of all time with A Wrinkle in Time. But her latest film, Origin, might be the…
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Silver Dollar Road review – another Raoul Peck documentary triumph
The I Am Not Your Negro director’s adaptation of a 2019 ProPublica investigation effectively connects one family’s story with the larger scourge of legal Black land theftIn swift succession, the documentarian Raoul Peck has built a reputation as a connoisseur of the visual essay. His Oscar-nominated 2017 film I Am Not Your Negro reinvigorated the…