News From A Colorful Perspective
Hollywood cannot seem to get it right when it comes to equal pay between men and women. Adele Lim and Peter Chiarelli, the screenwriting duo extraordinaire who wrote the widely successful movie adaptation of Crazy Rich Asians, were offered two very different salaries to write the sequel to the film. According…
Director Mati Diop took him the Grand Prix at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, which is the equivalent of a silver prize. Diop, who is only 36 years old, is the first Black woman to win an award in the 72 years that the famous film festival has been around…
According to one movie critic, it is “Black Panther”‘s fault that other movies don’t have a chance to be No. 1. That’s what one movie critic contends. Scott Mendelson, in a piece for Forbes, called the critically acclaimed, record-breaking film “the worst nightmare of an entire industry now” because it…
Conservative activist and radio talk show host Ben Shapiro doesn’t think Black people should be excited about “Black Panther” because slaves were already emancipated, Barack Obama served as president for two terms and Halle Berry starred in “Catwoman.” Saying the hype over “Black Panther” is “incredibly stupid” and an example…
The highly anticipatedMarvel Studiosfilm “Black Panther” will debut in theaters across the country next month and Black women will indeed be in attendance, despite what you may have heard. Directed by Ryan Coogler, the film’s all-star cast includes Chadwick Boseman as lead character “T’Challa,” Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai…
If one wants to build the prototypical Hollywood film, you would start with a white, heterosexual, able-bodied male lead, a new study confirms. The study, conducted by the Media, Diversity, & Social Change Initiative at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, shows that the gender…
By Michael Nam Walt Hickey of FiveThirtyEight, the outlet with a heavy emphasis on statistical analysis, took a quick look at how Hollywood portrays women on the silver screen, and from that glimpse it looks as though film fantasy is even worse than actual reality. Even in fields with a…
By Chris Hoenig The face of Hollywood is changing: Movies are casting increasingly diverse characters, the Oscars are rewarding their work and Vanity Fair included a record number of Blacks on the cover of its Hollywood Issue this year (six out of the 12 actors and actresses). But there’s one…
Directors of the upcoming biopic of Black jazz singer Nina Simone created a stir in the Black online community when they cast biracial actress Zoe Saldana. There are people who are offended about this choice. While some would argue that “Black is Black,” many more are raising aprotestagainst “whitewashing,” a…
Despite a record-breaking $155-million opening box-office weekend, hit movie “The Hunger Games” wasn’t a hit with all fans. The film’s release last weekend was followed by increasing numbers of negative tweets and comments among social-media users. The basis for the controversy Three important charactersRue (Amandla Stenberg), Thresh (Dayo Okeniyi) and…
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