Pittsburgh native Antoine Fuqua (“The Equalizer,” “Southpaw”) directed Will Smith in Apple TV+’s action-heavy, would-be awards contender “Emancipation” well before Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars earlier this year. “Four hundred years of slavery is bigger than one moment,” Fuqua told Vanity Fair. “My hope is that people will
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The days of "no animals were harmed in the making of this film" may be behind us: Between Jungle Cruise, Y: The Last Man, and calls from PETA to censure Kate McKinnon over Tiger King, animal trainers are worried there may not be room for real animals on screen even horses in Westerns anymore.
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We havenât seen Will Smith in a cinematic setting since
King Richard, which dropped its first trailer last week. Smith himself, however, is in the midst of shooting his next movie,
Emancipation. Principal photography on the Civil War-set action thriller kicked off in Louisiana in mid-July, with the plan originally being for the project to shoot in Georgia. Now wordâs come in that
Emancipation is among the many movies and TV shows in production that have had to shut down for pandemic-related reasons.
Emancipation has pressed the pause button on filming following âa small numberâ of crew members testing positive for COVID-19, as reported by Deadline. According to the outlet, the hiatus begins today and is expected to last five days. So by this coming weekend,
This year s Booker longlist is so sensible it feels almost radical
For once, the judges have ignored experimental fiction and plumped for novels that are - shock, horror - a pleasure to read
27 July 2021 • 12:01am
Down to the last 13: (from l to r) Kazuo Ishiguro, Damon Galgut, Rachel Cusk, Maggie Shipstead and Nadifa Mohamed
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Phew. The Booker longlist has been announced for 2021 and after years of technical trickery and an over-willingness to engage in identity politics, we have a longlist of 13 novels that is so sensible, it feels almost radical.
There are no graphic novels, no 200-page poems, no brain-scrambling first-person narratives. Instead, here is a longlist featuring several big hitters – Kazuo Ishiguro; Damon Galgut; Richard Powers; Rachel Cusk – that combines meaty contemporary issues with novels that are, whisper it, by and large a pleasure to read. Perhaps emboldened by the relief and approval that met last year’s winner, the