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I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY Whitney Houston Biopic to be helmed by Black, Female Director Stella Meghie
Filmmaker Stella Meghie (Jean of the Joneses, Everything, Everything , The Weekend, The Photograph ) is shaking up Hollywood. Now, a newly minted Academy member with four films under her belt, this writer-director is taking on an ambitious new project: Whitney Houston’s life story! “It’s so strange to think that the teen girl with ‘I’m Every Woman’ playing over and over in her head, running down the hallway, now gets to direct the movie about Whitney’s life. That is very surreal.” The film, titled I Wanna Dance With Somebody, (screenwriter Anthony McCarten (Bohemian Rhapsody) has not yet been cast, but shooting is slated to begin next spring. Sony Pictures picked…
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‘Captain Marvel 2’: ‘Candyman’s Nia DaCosta To Direct Sequel
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor MovieNews As a big MCU fan this is very exciting to me to see a part of the franchise helmed by a female black director 👏🏽 Whoo hoo! However, the only issue I have is that I really hated Nia DaCosta‘s LITTLE WOODS, it’s depressing in a way that’s just bleak, one of those movies where you feel depleted at the end. Jordan Peele (screenplay) DaCosta (director) CANDYMAN which won’t be out til the fall, looks too scary for me to watch. So, I’m a little worried about a big change in tone for the next Captain Marvel installment. The first one had some great…
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5 QUESTIONS FOR ACTOR and PIE MAKER –
ANTHONY LAWTONLet’s Talk Pies! The Pandemic hit every sector of our economy, but none more than the Arts. So, I get as an actor, you, like most, need a side hustle, but why and when did you decide to start selling pies on Facebook? And tell us more about the selections?
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Radioactive (Marie Curie Story)
Like so many historical biopics, most recent example “Tesla” “Radioactivity” feels surface, too many montages to depict passage of time, too glossy. I’d really like to see a gritty movie about a notable person of history. One that’s intriguing and reflective of the person, not just marking beats of their life’s résumé. And one not so romanticized and glamorized.
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Selah And The Spades
The film centers around a 17-year-old black female, Selah (Lovie Simone). She’s an A student who captains a spirit squad, and doesn’t have sex, but these things don’t make her a good girl. Good girls don’t deal drugs, and Selah is not only an experienced dope pusher at the prestigious boarding school she attends somewhere outside Philadelphia – she also runs a tight ship. Making certain the Spades are the most dominant school clicks or what they call “factions” around campus. There is a tenuous truce between Selah’s Spades and the other factions, which often hints of an interesting backstory from their sophomore year.
