Tag: One Night In Miami
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‘One Night in Miami’ Cast Breaks Down the Pivotal Rooftop Conversation
One Night in Miami will undoubtedly be a key player in the upcoming awards season. Regina King was recently nominated for Best Director at the Golden Globes, and the adapted screenplay by Kemp Powers earned a nomination from the Writers Guild of America. While we wait to see how the film fares when the Academy…
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Leslie Odom Jr. Says ‘One Night in Miami’ Pushed His Courage to Tell the Truth
Anyone who saw “Hamilton” on Broadway knows that Grammy and Tony-winner Leslie Odom Jr. can hold the stage. He can hold the screen, too, although he admits that he’s not as comfortable with it. That isn’t stopping him; the 39-year-old Queens-native is chasing after “all the things no one would dare let me work on…
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‘Trial of the Chicago 7,’ ‘One Night In Miami’ Lead WGA Awards Film Noms
The Writers Guild of America announced their film nominees for the delayed 2021 WGA Awards and, once again, the films that didn’t qualify shaped the list of honorees more than those who did. Awards season players “The Trial of the Chicago 7” and “Promising Young Woman” made the cut as expected in the Original Screenplay…
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Gina Carano Controversy Gets the ‘Saturday Night Live’ Treatment in New ‘Weekend Update’ — Watch
Surely the biggest pop culture story of last week was the firing of actress Gina Carano off the Disney+ “Star Wars” series “The Mandalorian” after she shared a social media post that was deemed anti-semitic and offensive. She was dropped by talent agency UTA and by Lucasfilm, but then later announced that she was now…
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How to Watch ‘One Night in Miami’ on Amazon Prime
All products and services featured by IndieWire are independently selected by IndieWire editors. However, IndieWire may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes.There are plenty of heavy-hitters involved with “One Night in Miami,” the feature-length directorial debut from Oscar winner Regina…
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Regina King and Melina Matsoukas on Visualizing Vulnerability and Celebrating Black Men
“One Night in Miami” director Regina King carries a jump rope to set, keeping it in her backpack until those particularly tense moments when everything goes haywire behind the scenes — like when an actor needs a pep talk, the crew has a tech issue or the weather shuts down production. In these instances, the…
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“The Ceilings were Only 8 1/2 Feet High”: Dp Tami Reiker on Shooting One Night in Miami with Jibs and Finishing Production after Covid
In February of 1964, Cassius Clay defeated Sonny Liston at the Miami Beach Convention Hall to become the heavyweight champion of the world at the age of 22. He spent the night celebrating with Malcolm X, Jim Brown and Sam Cooke. Within two weeks of the fight, Clay announced his membership in the Nation of…
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Andra Day and Leslie Odom Jr. Share Memories About Playing Billie Holiday and Sam Cooke
Andra Day (“The United States vs. Billie Holiday”) and Leslie Odom Jr. (“One Night in Miami”) sat down for a virtual chat for Variety‘s Actors on Actors, presented by Amazon Studios. For more, click here.The pop and soul singer Andra Day transformed her body and her sound to take on the role of a late-career…
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Andra Day Lost 39 Pounds and Infused Her Voice With Pain to Play Billie Holiday
Grammy-nominated singer Andra Day had never starred in a movie before she channeled Billie Holiday in a new biopic directed by Lee Daniels.In “The United States Vs. Billie Holiday,” which will be released by Hulu on Feb. 26, Day plays the iconic jazz singer as she’s being targeted by a government investigation in the final…