The most important thing to director Regina King for her directorial debut on “One Night in Miami” was to have everything as historically accurate as possible.Cinematographer Tami Reiker’s research bible was “Goat: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali” by Jeff Koons. Reiker whose credits include “The Old Guard” and “Beyond the Lights,” says this tome of […]
Continue readingAfter The Old Guard and Extraction, it looks like Netflix has found a formula for their action titles: some sort of outsider gets mixed up with someone who is seemingly indestructible and there are lots of quick cuts to make all the fighting and explosions kind of confusing. The latest entry is Outside the Wire, […]
Continue readingAfter playing a member of an international team of thieves and car enthusiasts in “The Fast & Furious” franchise, and proving herself a capable superhero in “Wonder Woman,” Gal Gadot is setting her sights on a new high-profile role: the female James Bond, kind of. Gadot has reportedly signed on to star in the original […]
Continue readingGal Gadot is lining up her own spy series. The actor is teaming with Skydance Media for Heart Of Stone, a potential franchise starter that has The Aeronauts filmmaker Tom Harper attached to direct, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.Heart of Stone has a script from The Old Guard’s Greg Rucka and Hidden Pictures’ Allison Schroeder. […]
Continue readingGina Prince-Bythewood‘s new action movie The Old Guard is among the year’s most-watched Netflix original films, and the director made her movie in a way that no other action film of this scale ever has: the film’s post-production team was made up of 85% women. That type of gender ratio, according to Prince-Bythewood, “very rarely […]
Continue readingNetflix is already sharing data and insights to suggest The Old Guard is a massive hit with viewers just one week after its release. The newest original to hit the streaming giant is directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood and stars Charlize Theron, KiKi Layne, Matthias Schoenaerts, Marwan Kenzari, Luca Marinelli, and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Adapted from the […]
Continue readingNetflix just gave us a peek inside the proverbial chocolate factory by sharing some small amount of data regarding viewership numbers for their original movies. The streaming giant posted a list of their 10 most viewed original movies ever, and Gina Prince-Bythewood‘s “The Old Guard” is among them.Read More: ‘Da 5 Bloods’: More People Watched […]
Continue reading“The Old Guard,” starring Charlize Theron, has made Netflix’s list of its 10 most popular original films ever and is tracking to reach 72 million households in its first four weeks.Netflix also said Gina Prince-Bythewood is the first Black female director on the top 10 list. The streaming giant, which announced the milestone Friday, only […]
Continue readingThe Old Guard director Gina Prince-Bythewood has an exciting project on the horizon. Prince-Bythewood will direct Viola Davis in The Woman King, about a female general leading an all-female military unit in Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries. The film is inspired by true events, and at one point, Lupita Nyong’o was attached to […]
Continue readingOn July 10, opening day for the summer’s first major action flick, “The Old Guard” director Gina Prince-Bythewood took her two sons, who are 16 and 19, up to Sunset Boulevard to see her first Netflix billboard. “The Old Guard” marks the UCLA track star’s biggest budget yet after such modest hits as “Love & […]
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