Two of the fall Broadway season’s buzzy new musicals – A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical and Some Like It Hot – began previews last week, both doing solid business in their first, partial weeks.
24.10.2022 - 19:29 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: NBA All-Star Chris Paul and Wu-Tang Clan leader RZA have boarded RTG Features and Victory Creative Group’s basketball documentary Handle with Care: The Legend of the Notic Streetball Crew as executive producers, ahead of the film’s U.S. premiere at the Urbanworld Film Festival, slated for Thursday, October 27.
Canadian NBA stars Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Luguentz Dort have also come aboard as EPs, along with CJ Paul and Juanita Thompson of Ohh Dip!!! Productions.
Handle with Care chronicles the rise, fall and rebirth of The Notic, an upstart streetball collective from Canada in the early 2000s. While their creative basketball moves brought them global fame as teenagers, it set them at odds with the status quo in a battle involving self-expression, race and rejection. Driven by a 20-year quest to finish their mixtape trilogy, the documentary charts how the group of friends from Vancouver played outside the confines of the NBA yet still left an indelible imprint on the game forever.
The film won the True North Audience Award and the Best BC Film Award at last year’s Vancouver Film Festival, also screening in May as an official selection of the Hot Docs Canadian Documentary Festival. In addition to Urbanworld, it will soon play both the Windsor Film Festival and the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.
Pic features appearances by The Notic’s Jermaine “Fresh” Foster, Rory “Disaster” Grace, Joey “King Handles” Haywood, Andrew “6 Fingaz” Liew, David “Dazzle” Mubanda, Jonathan “Johnny Blaze” Mubanda, Dauphin “Delight” Ngongo, Jamal “Whereyouat?” Parker and Mohammed “Goosebumps” Wenn. It was directed by Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux and Kirk Thomas, the original filmmakers behind the first two Notic mixtapes, and
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