Pop Culture Collaborative, the philanthropic fund working to transform the narratives harming Black and Indigenous people, people of color, immigrants and refugees, Muslims, and religiously diverse people in America, announcef its 2024-2025 Becoming America Network grantees. Through this grant program, 45 entertainment projects using storytelling to drive narrative change will …
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It was really jarring for me while watching the first trailer for Paramount Pictures’ upcoming Transformers One animated movie. This movie looks nothing like I expected, and the more I watch the trailer, the more I don’t like the direction they’ve taken this movie. The director of the film, Josh …
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The Punisher is one of those comic book movies that came out in what some call a dark period for the genre, after Blade (1998) and X-Men (2000), but before we were “rescued” by Batman Begins (2005) and the start of the MCU with Iron Man (2008). These types of …
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I am not sure the world asked for yet another take on 20th Century Fox’s Omen franchise, the constantly regurgitated series with Damien (who made the numbers 666 iconic) and company. Since the 1976 original when Damien first appeared in the movie with Gregory Peck and Lee Remick, we have …
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We are just a few weeks away from the release of the latest Sony/Marvel movie, Madame Web, starring Dakota Johnson as Cassandra Webb, a New York City paramedic who starts to show signs of clairvoyance. Forced to confront revelations about her past, she must protect three young women from a …
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Ava DuVernay‘s new film is a powerful investigation into oppression and how systems of subjugation around the globe have repeated and reproduced throughout history. Origin is thoughtful, emotional and will leave audiences interrogating the world and their place within it. From the Indian caste system to Nazi Germany to slavery …
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When King Richard Oscar nominee Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor first learned that director Ava DuVernay was working on a film inspired by Isabel Wilkerson’s book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents — which would feature the award-winning journalist front and center as the protagonist — the actress sprang into action. Having previously earned …
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EXCLUSIVE: Angelina Jolie is getting into this year’s Oscar race. As AMPAS voting enters its final days, the Academy Award winner today threw her support behind Ava DuVernay’s Origin in what looks to be doubling down by any other name. First of all, Jolie held an invite-only get together at …
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Ava DuVernay is one of the most fascinating and trailblazing filmmakers in the business. She’s an Emmy and BAFTA award winner and an Oscar and Golden Globe nominee, whose middle name should be “First.” For 2012’s Middle of Nowhere, she became the first Black woman to win Sundance Film Festival’s …
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EXCLUSIVE: “This is a beautiful piece of art that I had no idea was going to resonate so deeply with me,” Regina King declared at last night’s overflowing tastemaker screening of Ava DuVernay’s Origin. “It’s a film about connectivity,” the Oscar winner added to the heavy hitter crowd. “I believe …
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Erika Alexander and Jeffrey Wright in Orion/Amazon MGM Studios’ American Fiction. Claire Folger/MGM/Courtesy Everett Collection Producer Jermaine Johnson worked primarily as a literary manager for clients like first-time movie writer-director Cord Jefferson (whom he’s represented for close to a decade) before the pair collaborated on Jefferson’s darkly comic adaptation of …
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