Tag: Monsters and Men
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‘King Richard’: How Director Reinaldo Marcus Green Impressed Will Smith and Scored a Dream Gig
The fairy tale version of the story behind “King Richard” goes like this: Jada Pinkett Smith was on the U.S. Dramatic Competition jury for the 2018 Sundance Film Festival when she saw director Reinaldo Marcus Green’s first feature, “Monsters and Men.” The tough but ultimately rousing look at police brutality and communal activism left her…
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Meet Your New Oscar Contenders: Will Smith, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and So Many More
“King Richard” is ruling Telluride. Reinaldo Marcus Green’s Warner Bros. biopic about Richard Williams, the hard-driving father of straight-outta-Compton tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams, played to a packed house Friday afternoon, building Best Actor buzz for its star and producer, Will Smith. He held the rights to the tennis duo’s story, but it was…
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Monster review – Kelvin Harrison Jr anchors wrenching Netflix drama
Another standout performance from the young actor lifts a sturdy, if at times uneven, tale of a teen unknowingly caught up in a crimeAlthough it screened back at the 2018 Sundance film festival, stark Harlem-set drama Monster about a black teen swallowed up by a cruel legal system, remains just as timely in 2021, a…
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Neon Makes Eric Garner Inspired-Drama ‘Monsters and Men’ Free on VOD Through June
In the wake of protests inspired by the death of George Floyd and a resurgence in the Black Lives Matter movement, studios have been stepping up to make their films about racial inequality available for free as an educational tool. There’s Ava DuVernay’s searing documentary “13th,” available for free on YouTube from Netflix — which…
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‘King Richard’: Will Smith’s Drama About Williams Sisters’ Father Is His First Pairing With a Black Director
Warner Bros. has tapped relative newcomer Reinaldo Marcus Green to direct Will Smith in “King Richard,” based on a spec script by Zach Baylin, which centers on Richard Williams, the tenacious father of professional tennis royalty Venus and Serena Williams.Smith is of course playing Williams in the film, which will mark Green’s first studio effort,…
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See You Yesterday review – poignant time travel caper is a Netflix win
This engaging, often ingenious, Spike Lee-produced adventure sees two teens try to stop a police shooting by going back in timeIn the last couple of years, we’ve witnessed a glut of film-makers and screenwriters responding to the increase in publicised, and often iPhone-recorded, incidents of unarmed black men being shot and killed by racist police…
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Mark Wahlberg, Connie Britton to Star in ‘Good Joe Bell’ From ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Scribes (Exclusive)
Mark Wahlberg, Connie Britton and Reid Miller are set to star in “Monsters and Men” helmer Reinaldo Marcus Green’s drama “Good Joe Bell,” from “Brokeback Mountain” screenwriters Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry.Wahlberg will play real-life Oregonian father Joe Bell, who sets out on a walk across the United States with his son, Jadin (Miller). Production…
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Richard E Grant and Glenn Close get late Oscars boost with Spirit Awards wins
The actors, hoping for glory at Sunday night’s Oscars, took top honours at the alternative ceremony, which gave best film to Barry Jenkins’s If Beale Street Could TalkA late surge in momentum for Richard E Grant ahead of Sunday night’s Oscars peaked on Saturday with victory at the Film Independent Spirit Awards.The actor, 61, said…
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Reinaldo Marcus Green: ‘I was asking myself: if I do nothing, am I a monster?’
The New York writer-director on his 2018 Sundance hit, being taught by Spike Lee – and working in London on Top BoyWriter-director Reinaldo Marcus Green, 36, grew up on Staten Island. He took a master’s degree in education, then worked on Wall Street before studying film at NYU. His debut feature, Monsters and Men, which…
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Drake & Altitude Jointly Acquire Reinaldo Marcus Green’s ‘Monsters And Men’ For UK Distribution
In an unusual but intriguing partnership, UK distributor Altitude is teaming up with singer DrakeDrake/] to jointly acquire UK distribution rights to Reinaldo Marcus Green’s Sundance and Toronto drama Monsters And Men.Details on Drake’s commitment here are thin but Altitude said it hoped the film is “the first of many projects” on which it collaborates…