The challenge in making Sidney — about the pioneering Black actor, filmmaker and activist Sidney Poitier — was knowing where to stop, director Reginald Hudlin said during an appearance for Deadline’s Contenders Film: New York event at The Times Center in Manhattan. “He had a long life, and every year of his life was consequential,” Hudlin said … Read more
20 years ago today on Oct. 11, 2002, Rick Famuyiwa’s classic rom-com “Brown Sugar” made its theatrical debut and introduced the world to a cinematic hip-hop love story like no other. After two decades, the nostalgic film remains one of the blueprints for Black romance and hip-hop storytelling. But something else from “Brown Sugar” has … Read more
Controversial far-right attorney Sidney Powell was scheduled to appear before a Fulton County special grand jury in Georgia on Thursday, but did not appear as scheduled. “Sidney Powell, former attorney of former President Donald Trump, was scheduled to testify Thursday morning, but sources tell Channel 2 Action News that there may have been some confusion … Read more
View gallery Image Credit: Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock Oprah Winfrey, 68, and “Believe” singer, Cher, 76, wowed at the premiere of Sidney in Los Angeles on Sept. 21. The talk show host looked elegant in a white button-up with transparent sleeves and a multilayer floor-length skirt. She also wore her jet black hair in a stylish half-up-half-down … Read more
On CNN Tuesday, correspondent Drew Griffin analyzed newly revealed footage showing a GOP operative in Georgia helping associates of pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell infiltrate the elections offices in a small, heavily Republican community in the center of the state. This was going on at exactly the same time an illegal breach was found to have … Read more
EXCLUSIVE: Sidney Flanigan (Never Rarely Sometimes Always), Frederick Weller (BlacKkKlansman), D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai (Reservation Doggs) and Will Ropp (The Greatest Beer Run Ever) will topline the indie thriller Only the Good Survive, from writer-director Dutch Southern, which has wrapped production. The film picks up with Brea Dunlee (Flanigan) following a heist gone wrong resulting in the deaths … Read more