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Director Regina King’s “One Night In Miami” comes to the Venice Film Festival as an out of competition entry. This timely project features four important figures—Muhammed Ali (then Cassius Clay), Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown—in a fictional meeting of the minds.

An audacious what-if scenario lies at the heart of Regina King‘s poised, well-crafted but conceptually conflicted directorial debut, “One Night in Miami,” a high-minded drama that plays as an all-star real-life Black superhero team-up: What if newly-crowned World Heavyweight Champion Cassius Clay, singer Sam Cooke, NFL record breaker Jim Brown and a Malcom X on the cusp of breaking with the Nation of Islam, spent the pivotal night of February 25, 1964 sparring, bickering and mutually inspiring

In the wake of Regina King’s feature directorial debut “One Night in Miami” making this year’s Toronto International Film Festival premiere list, Amazon Studios has scooped up the movie’s global rights for a release later this year in time for awards season.The “If Beale Street Could Talk” Oscar-winning actress’ movie based on Olivier-nominated Kemp Powers 2013 stage play, which he adapted, follows a young Cassius Clay as he emerges from the Miami Beach Convention Center to become the new World

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterFrom Steve Carell in Apple TV Plus’ “The Morning Show” and Netflix’s “Space Force” to Russell Crowe in Showtime’s “The Loudest Voice,” the 2019-’20 television season has been punctuated by big-screen actors who have returned to television after years away.It has been decades since Crowe was in the medium: The actor got his start on Australian soap “Neighbours” in the late 1980s before moving onto big-screen roles.

Bad movies are one thing, but there’s a more potent disappointment reserved for ones that coulda been contenders.