Thank them for being a friend: On Sept. 8, Regina King, Alfre Woodard, Tracee Ellis Ross and Sanaa Lathan starred in an online re-creation of "The Flu," a season-one episode of The Golden Girls and part of a series called Zoom Where It Happens.
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Regina King is stepping behind the camera in a big way.
On Wednesday, Amazon Prime Video shared the first clip from the star’s directorial debut “One Night In Miami”.
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The film tells the story of one incredible night in 1964 when Cassius Clay, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown ended up in a hotel room together.
“It looks at the struggles these men faced and
Thank them for being a friend: On Sept. 8, Regina King, Alfre Woodard, Tracee Ellis Ross and Sanaa Lathan starred in an online re-creation of "The Flu," a season-one episode of The Golden Girls and part of a series called Zoom Where It Happens.
Regina King is no stranger to making a statement on the red carpet — even if it‘s a virtual one. She is now a 4-time winner.
#Emmys pic.twitter.com/ezbReAy4osThis isn't the first time King has worn the shirt. She wore it in an Instagram post last month, writing, "It's been 150 days since Breonna Taylor was murdered in her sleep by Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankison, and Myles Cosgrove—and her killers have not been charged.
Regina King's directorial debut One Night in Miami has been added to the 2020 BFI London Film Festival, this year taking place mostly virtually as the event adapts to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The Amazon film —which bowed in Venice (making it the first by a Black female director to screen at the festival) —is set to screen on Oct.
Angelique Jackson Regina King is not only bringing history to life with her film “One Night in Miami,” she’s making history of her own.After becoming the first Black female director to have a film at the Venice Film Festival, King and her cast reunited at the Toronto International Film Festival to celebrate the movie’s early positive reviews.
Also Read: 'One Night in Miami' Film Review: Regina King Goes the Distance in Impressive Feature Directorial Debut“When I read Kemp Powers’ script I felt like I had never seen these types of conversations happening on screen before. I jumped on the opportunity to be a part of that,” King explained.“I just felt that the conversations they were having are conversations that all Black men were having no matter what their economic background is, their celebrity is,” she added.
Muhammad Ali, joins Malcolm X, Jim Brown and Sam Cooke to discuss racial inequities and ways of using their celebrity to end segregation in the South. The following morning, they emerge determined to make the world a better place.King, who took home a supporting actress Oscar last year for “If Beale Street Can Talk,” is getting early Hollywood awards buzz for the film.
Oscar winner Regina King recalled having to possibly push the release of One Night in Miami because she was short a couple scenes when the on-going novel coronavirus pandemic shut down production of her directorial debut. "We were waiting to see what the climate of the [COVID] world was going to be, and then Ahmaud Aubrey happened, and then Breonna Taylor happened and then George Floyd happened and people exploded.
Regina King is earning rave reviews for her directorial feature film debut “One Night In Miami”, playing as part of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival programme.
Regina King is now getting noticed for her work behind the camera.
Regina King is hoping her history-making new movie will encourage more women of color to make films – and festival bosses to champion them.The Watchmen star will become the first black female director to premiere a movie at the Venice Film Festival in Italy this week (September 7, 2020) when One Night in Miami launches, and on Tuesday she attended a virtual press conference via Zoom to discuss the honor of being included, adding she hopes it’s a success.“Unfortunately, across the world, that’s
Tracee Ellis Ross is going from “Girlfriends” to the “Golden Girls.” The “Black-ish” star took to Instagram on Sunday to announce she will join fellow actresses Alfre Woodard, Sanaa Lathan and Regina King for an all-Black rendition of the famed sitcom “The Golden Girls” set to air live via Zoom on Tuesday. Ross shared the iconic poster from the original series, which ran from 1985 to 1992, to her Instagram.
Regina King is the first Black woman to direct a movie selected to premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
Clayton Davis “One Night in Miami,” the directorial debut of Academy Award winner Regina King (“If Beale Street Could Talk”) dropped at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 7, the first film by a Black woman to ever premiere at the 77-year festival.Variety has an exclusive clip from the upcoming Amazon Studios release, which is already receiving strong reviews and Oscars buzz.Taking place in Miami, Florida on Feb.
The Venice Film Festival had its first all-video press conference Monday as the director, writer, and stars of One Night in Miami joined those on the Lido via video link to discuss the hotly-anticipated drama.
Also Read: Regina King's Feature Film Directorial Debut 'One Night in Miami' Acquired by AmazonThe men in question are Cassius Clay (Eli Goree, “Riverdale”), in Miami to battle Sonny Liston for the heavyweight championship; his friend and spiritual adviser Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir, “Noelle”), who’s helping Clay embrace Islam even as Malcolm is parting ways with his own mentor, Elijah Muhammad; NFL legend Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge, “The Invisible Man”), who’s just starting to dip his toes into a