AP – It comes as some relief that Antoine Fuqua’s Emancipation, starring Will Smith as a runaway slave in Civil War-era Louisiana, is not, at least traditionally speaking, an Oscar movie. Despite the film’s important historical backdrop, its awards-season timing and its inevitable connection to last March’s Academy Awards ceremony, the site of the Slap, […]
Movie review: Emancipation is impressive but still follows Will Smith formula. Emancipation, in theaters now and on Apple TV+ Friday, is still very much a Will Smith action movie. That may undermine its aspirations as important historical drama but still makes an impressive Hollywood epic.
Screenwriter Bill Collage, who cowrote Apple TV+ film "Emancipation" in Sag Harbor Cinema, discusses the Will Smith controversy and more on the eve of release.