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Our critics pick what’s new to streaming and VOD for the weekend of March 5, and list everything new to VOD and streaming platforms.
Coming 2 America
Coming To America was the
Black Panther of its time. The blockbuster starring Eddie Murphy as an African prince hiding in Queens fell just behind
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? in the competition for 1988’s box office crown. That was unheard for a movie with almost no white people. Murphy and his costar Arsenio Hall recently revealed that the only white person (Louise Anderson) in the otherwise all-Black cast was imposed upon them by Paramount Studios.
What’s new to VOD and streaming this weekend
Including Coming 2 America, My Salinger Year, Raya And The Last Dragon and The Mauritanian By Kevin Ritchie, Glenn Sumi, Norman Wilner and Radheyan Simonpillai
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OW critics pick what’s new to streaming and VOD for the weekend of March 5. Plus: Everything new to VOD and streaming platforms.
Coming 2 America
(Craig Brewer)
Coming To America was the Black Panther of its time. The blockbuster starring Eddie Murphy as an African prince hiding in Queens fell just behind Who Framed Roger Rabbit? in the competition for 1988’s box office crown. That was unheard for a movie with almost no white people. Murphy and his co-star Arsenio Hall recently revealed that the only white person (Louise Anderson) in the otherwise all-Black cast was imposed upon them by Paramount Studios.
After receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame just last week, costume designer Ruth E. Carter has yet another reason to celebrate with the release of
Coming 2 America on Amazon today. Carter, who’s also the first Black woman to win an Oscar in the costume design category for
Black Panther, was brought on to conceptualize the looks worn by the eclectic array of characters that appear in this continuation of Eddie Murphy’s comedy classic from 1988. The sequel is naturally set decades later, and also largely an ocean apart from the original’s primarily State-side location.
“In this film we spend most of our time in Zamunda, so I got an opportunity to tell that side of the story,” says Carter of the new film’s rendering of the fictional African nation and the style of its citizens. The tale she had a hand in weaving is that of Murphy’s King Akeem Joffer, who’s now married to Queen Lisa (Shari Headley) his romantic interest from the first movie back when he w
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could cause dangerous flash flooding. lee churned up surf along the gulf and a body border drowned in galveston, texas. the coast guard is searching for a missing teen off gulf shores, alabama. a lot to catch up on. the weather channel s jim cantore joins us now from biloxi, mississippi to fill us in. jim, good morning. reporter: good morning, thomas. when you usually think of the gulf of mexico it can be pretty does sil unless there are some strong winds. we ve had those so we re just capped everywhere. we call them brown caps here because of the brackish water here behind me in biloxi. other than that, we ve been rain-free, unlike what we ve had at times. look at some of these pictures in and around bulksiloxibiloxi. when you drive along u.s. 90 and the rain comes down this hard, it piles up. people had to slow down. cars spray up the roads. we will have more of those types of rains today probably across mississippi they will be less frequent into alabama and florida as