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The drama recounts the little-known story of how Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton was brought down by petty thief-turned-FBI informant William O Neal.
Filmmaker Shaka King realized early on that the only way to get a major Hollywood studio interested in the story of Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton was to make a film that was part biopic and part genre.
His theory proved correct.
King s
Judas and the Black Messiah was quickly picked up by Warner Bros., a decision helped by an all-star cast and the backing of
Black Panther director Ryan Coogler, one of the film s producers. The movie revolves around Hampton, who led the Illinois chapter of the party, and informant William O Neal, who played a key role in FBI leader J. Edgar Hoover s plot to kill Hampton.
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A very small conversation yesterday evening led me to a question: Do people really like turkey? Before I have to continue, I have to say that I asked this question out loud and my younger sister told me she likes turkey. Her response prompted me to rephrase my question, because while I realized that my opinion about turkey is a bit more layered, it’s still rooted in the same concept.
Brandis remembers attending the March premiere of Niki Caro’s
Mulan at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles and then “everything shut down on the next Monday,” she says.
Mulan was pulled from its March 27 release date and again from a July opening, at which point it became clear that audiences wouldn’t be returning to theaters anytime soon. That’s when Brandis, who heads the studios’ business affairs, got to work redrawing deals that would allow
Mulan to have a premium debut on Disney+ in September before being available to all subscribers in December. She similarly ushered the filmed staged production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s
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THE BUZZ California took major steps on Monday away from two overlapping eras: a pandemic and a presidency.
First, Gov. Gavin Newsom looked on at a Los Angeles hospital
as an emergency room nurse became one of the first Californians to be vaccinated against the coronavirus