Tag: The Hate U Give
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Toronto Film Review: ‘The Hate U Give’
It probably shouldn’t be possible to make a big, broad, laugh-and-cry-engaging studio movie that hinges on the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer (and how chilling it is that this ugly phrase has long since become a stale cliché). But with his adaptation of Angie Thomas’ bestseller “The Hate U…
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Judi Dench and Timothée Chalamet join lineup for Toronto film festival
Dench plays a former Soviet agent in Red Joan, Chalamet is Steve Carell’s son in Beautiful Boy, while Amandla Stenberg heads the cast of The Hate U GiveTimothée Chalamet, Judi Dench and Amandla Stenberg will be among the names packing the red carpet at the Toronto film festival in September, it has been revealed, after…
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Fox 2000 Sets Release Date For ‘The Hate U Give’
Fox 2000’s adaptation of Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give is set to open in theaters on October 19. It shares a release date with Mowgli, Andy Serkis’ take on The Jungle Book as well as the revival of the horror franchise Halloween. Based on the New York Times best-selling novel by Angie Thomas, The…
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Fox Dates ‘The Hate U Give’ Movie for Awards-Season Release
Fox has given its teen drama “The Hate U Give” an awards-season release of Oct. 19.The release date news comes after the studio in April cast “Riverdale” star K.J. Apa to replace Kian Lawley, who was dropped two months earlier from the project over videos that surfaced in which he uttered racist slurs.Lawley was set…
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‘The Hate U Give’ Recasts Male Lead With ‘Riverdale’ Star After Controversy
If you’ve paid any attention to the young adult book market over the past couple of years, you’re probably familiar with The Hate U Give, author Angie Thomas‘s wildly popular best-seller about a young black woman who becomes an activist after seeing the police gun down her unarmed friend. It’s been a hit since it…
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‘Riverdale’s K.J. Apa Set For ‘The Hate U Give’ As Fox 2000 Reshoots Kian Lawley Scenes
Exclusive: Riverdale star K.J. Apa has been set to play a lead role in The Hate U Give, the George Tillman Jr-directed drama for Fox 2000. In a move somewhat reminiscent of the All The Money In The World re-shoots that replaced Kevin Spacey with Christopher Plummer, Fox 2000 has authorized a little over a…
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‘Riverdale’ Star K.J. Apa Replaces Kian Lawley in ‘The Hate U Give’ Movie
Fox has cast “Riverdale” star K.J. Apa in its drama “The Hate U Give,” two months after the studio dropped Kian Lawley from the project over videos that surfaced in which he uttered racist slurs.Fox 2000 has authorized more than a week of re-shoots in Atlanta. Lawley was set to play the boyfriend of the…
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‘Riverdale’ Star K.J. Apa to Replace Kian Lawley in ‘The Hate U Give’
K.J. Apa, the star of The CW’s Riverdale, will replace disgraced actor Kian Lawley in Fox 2000’s The Hate U Give.In February, Lawley was cut from the film after a video of him making racially charged jokes and using racist slurs surfaced online.The project wrapped filming in November, but the studio decided to undergo re-shoots…