#‘Home Alone,’ ‘Terminator 2,’ ‘Love & Basketball,’ ‘Desperately Seeking Susan,’ ‘Fame,’ ‘Apollo 13’ Enter National Film Registry

#‘Home Alone,’ ‘Terminator 2,’ ‘Love & Basketball,’ ‘Desperately Seeking Susan,’ ‘Fame,’ ‘Apollo 13’ Enter National Film Registry

Just in time for the holidays, Chris Columbus’ Home Alone and Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas have been unwrapped with 23 other cinematic sparklers for entry into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, it was announced Wednesday. Among those also voted in: Dinner at Eight (1933), the seventh film from director George Cukor…

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#Stars Celebrate Actor Strike’s End at Academy Women’s Luncheon: “We Stood Strong and Fought the Fight”

#Stars Celebrate Actor Strike’s End at Academy Women’s Luncheon: “We Stood Strong and Fought the Fight”

Writers and actors walking the red carpet at the Academy Women’s Luncheon, presented by Chanel, in Los Angeles Wednesday morning were able to talk about their projects for the first time in months following news that SAG-AFTRA reached a tentative agreement with Hollywood studios and streamers to end their historic strike just the night before….

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#Gina Prince-Bythewood to Be Honored at Black Business Association Salute to Black Women Event

#Gina Prince-Bythewood to Be Honored at Black Business Association Salute to Black Women Event

Gina Prince-Bythewood will receive the Pinnacle of Excellence Award at the Black Business Association’s 2023 Salute to Black Women business conference. Prince-Bythewood will be recognized not only for her award-winning directing, writing and producing but also for her decades-long career and philanthropic efforts, one of which includes funding a scholarship for Black students in UCLA’s…

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#Icon Mann Honors: Gina Prince-Bythewood Talks ‘Woman King’ Impact as Reginald Hudlin Celebrated by Kamala Harris

#Icon Mann Honors: Gina Prince-Bythewood Talks ‘Woman King’ Impact as Reginald Hudlin Celebrated by Kamala Harris

Icon Mann Honors: Gina Prince-Bythewood Talks ‘Woman King’ Impact as Reginald Hudlin Celebrated by Kamala Harris The filmmakers Gina Prince-Bythewood and Reginald Hudlin were celebrated on Wednesday evening at the eighth pre-Oscar dinner of Icon Mann, a media and consulting company run by Tamara Houston that is dedicated to honoring the achievements of artists of…

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#Gina Prince-Bythewood on the Oscars Shutout of ‘The Woman King’: “This Awards Season Was an Eye-Opener”

#Gina Prince-Bythewood on the Oscars Shutout of ‘The Woman King’: “This Awards Season Was an Eye-Opener”

Gina Prince-Bythewood on the Oscars Shutout of ‘The Woman King’: “This Awards Season Was an Eye-Opener” When the Oscar nominations were announced in January, some of the most prominent omissions were films made by and starring Black women, including Gina Prince-Bythewood’s The Woman King, with a cast led by Viola Davis; Chinonye Chukwu’s Till, starring…

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#Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Gina Prince-Bythewood & the Director Roundtable – The Hollywood Reporter

#Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Gina Prince-Bythewood & the Director Roundtable – The Hollywood Reporter

Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Gina Prince-Bythewood & the Director Roundtable – The Hollywood Reporter The shot that nearly broke them, the pointlessness of auditions, the gift of final cut — the directors of some of this year’s most powerful movies got together and got real about their craft. In December, JD Dillard (Devotion), Todd Field (Tár),…

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#Nazanin Boniadi Makes Plea to Creative Community to Support Iranian Activists in Fight for Freedom: “I Can’t Help But Feel the Urgency”

#Nazanin Boniadi Makes Plea to Creative Community to Support Iranian Activists in Fight for Freedom: “I Can’t Help But Feel the Urgency”

Nazanin Boniadi Makes Plea to Creative Community to Support Iranian Activists in Fight for Freedom: “I Can’t Help But Feel the Urgency” The first time Nazanin Boniadi attended a protest in her native Tehran, Iran, she wasn’t yet born. “I was in my mother’s uterus,” explained the Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power…

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#‘The Woman King’, Starring Viola Davis, Will Be Directed by ‘The Old Guard’ Filmmaker Gina Prince-Bythewood

#‘The Woman King’, Starring Viola Davis, Will Be Directed by ‘The Old Guard’ Filmmaker Gina Prince-Bythewood

“#‘The Woman King’, Starring Viola Davis, Will Be Directed by ‘The Old Guard’ Filmmaker Gina Prince-Bythewood” The Old Guard director Gina Prince-Bythewood has an exciting project on the horizon. Prince-Bythewood will direct Viola Davis in The Woman King, about a female general leading an all-female military unit in Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries. The film is…

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