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Christopher Nolan teases he wants to do something 'not quite as bleak' after acclaimed nuclear drama 'Oppenheimer'
Acclaimed director and producer Emma Thomas address Spike Lee's 'specific and respectful' critiques of film regarding Japanese perspective.
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'There were no filmmakers of color': How Robert Townsend changed the game with self-financed 1987 comedy 'Hollywood Shuffle'
The groundbreaking 1987 comedy put Hollywood on blast for its deficient representation of Black people onscreen.
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'The Wire' star Wendell Pierce explains how iconic HBO show avoided copaganda: 'We showed the dysfunction of the police'
Pierce describes how a tense scene in his new thriller, "Don't Hang Up," echoes Ryan Coogler's real-life encounter with the police.
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'Soul Man' at 35: How a young Spike Lee helped take down 'the most offensive movie ever'
"Soul Man" — the 1986 comedy about a rich white law student who poses as a Black man for a scholarship — was canceled almost immediately upon its release.
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Glenn Close's 'Da Butt' moment at 2021 Oscars was scripted — but the dance was all her
Glenn Close, 74, may have lost her 8th acting Oscar, but she also won the internet.
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‘Da 5 Bloods’ Spike Lee On Covid Vaccine, Trump Impeachment Trial, Heading 2021 Cannes Jury & What’s Needed To Keep Film Inclusion Wave From Crashing
EXCLUSIVE: While 2020 was most everyone’s worst year, you’d be hard pressed to find a filmmaker who got more done than Spike Lee. He’s in the middle of the awards season race with his superb Netflix drama Da 5 Bloods; got raves for the virtual Toronto Film Fest and HBO premieres of American Utopia, based […]
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Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Actor in Spike Lee Films, Killed in Atlanta
Thomas Jefferson Byrd, an actor in several of Spike Lee's films, was killed in Atlanta on Saturday, the Atlanta Police Department confirmed to Variety. He was 70.
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