Sterling K. Brown is back on Hulu, but Paradise season 2 isn’t back yet. The This Is Us actor is producing and acting in an adaptation of Washington Black, which premieres on July 23 on Hulu. The Emmy-winning star plays a supporting role in the upcoming drama, which is based on the Esi Edugyan Booker Prize shortlisted book of the same name.
Washington Black follows the titular Barbados-born George Washington Black (Eddie Karanja), who is enslaved as working in the field. Wash becomes fascinated with science, which captures the attention of the sugar plantation owner's brother, Christopher "Titch" Wilde (Lucifer’s Tom Ellis). Titch starts to mentor George, recruiting him to help with his research and the pair travel the world together.
2025 Disney Upfront | John Nacion/GettyImages Sterling K. Brown’s mentorship role was on and off the screen
Sterling K. Brown will play town leader Medwin Harris, who takes Washington...
Washington Black follows the titular Barbados-born George Washington Black (Eddie Karanja), who is enslaved as working in the field. Wash becomes fascinated with science, which captures the attention of the sugar plantation owner's brother, Christopher "Titch" Wilde (Lucifer’s Tom Ellis). Titch starts to mentor George, recruiting him to help with his research and the pair travel the world together.
2025 Disney Upfront | John Nacion/GettyImages Sterling K. Brown’s mentorship role was on and off the screen
Sterling K. Brown will play town leader Medwin Harris, who takes Washington...
- 5/21/2025
- by Amelia Harvey
- ShowSnob
With the UK streaming release of South of Hope Street this week, writer/director Jane Spencer talks about exploring ‘the big questions’, working with Michael Madsen, black shoes and shunning the Hollywood system.
Your latest film, the visually arresting dystopian drama South of Hope Street, depicts an oppressed society surrounded by wars. As Writer. Director what inspired you to make it?
I have always been very much interested in ‘the Big Questions’: Why do we exist? What, exactly, Are we? Why are we here? A great way to pose these questions is to place us against the forces that do not allow free thought, and to think about these questions.
I wanted t to explore this in an allegory, a sci-film film, with all the characters representing forces in our world: forces of repression, forces of peace, mystery, poetry. Films like this are films that are inspiring to me,...
Your latest film, the visually arresting dystopian drama South of Hope Street, depicts an oppressed society surrounded by wars. As Writer. Director what inspired you to make it?
I have always been very much interested in ‘the Big Questions’: Why do we exist? What, exactly, Are we? Why are we here? A great way to pose these questions is to place us against the forces that do not allow free thought, and to think about these questions.
I wanted t to explore this in an allegory, a sci-film film, with all the characters representing forces in our world: forces of repression, forces of peace, mystery, poetry. Films like this are films that are inspiring to me,...
- 11/15/2024
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Hansal Mehta’s Netflix series “Scoop” on Sunday won the prizes for best Asian TV series and best lead actress for Karishma Tanna at the Busan International Film Festival’s 2023 Asia Content Awards and Global Ott Awards.
The hard hitting crime drama series is based on journalist Jigna Vora’s 2019 memoir “Behind Bars in Byculla: My Days in Prison.” Tanna plays the lead role of Jagruti Pathak, a scoop-hunting journalist who is caught in the nexus of the police, the underworld and the media.
Mehta (“Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story”) cast Tanna in the role because in her audition she had “the X factor” and that she “lights up a room.” “It’s an author backed role, it’s a dream come true role,” Tanna told Variety in Busan.
“The entire show is on this character Jagruti Pathak and the director has seen so much potential in you and you feel a responsibility,...
The hard hitting crime drama series is based on journalist Jigna Vora’s 2019 memoir “Behind Bars in Byculla: My Days in Prison.” Tanna plays the lead role of Jagruti Pathak, a scoop-hunting journalist who is caught in the nexus of the police, the underworld and the media.
Mehta (“Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story”) cast Tanna in the role because in her audition she had “the X factor” and that she “lights up a room.” “It’s an author backed role, it’s a dream come true role,” Tanna told Variety in Busan.
“The entire show is on this character Jagruti Pathak and the director has seen so much potential in you and you feel a responsibility,...
- 10/9/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Screen is profiling every submission for best international feature at the 96th Academy Awards.
Entries for the 2024 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
The 96th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The deadline...
Entries for the 2024 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
The 96th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The deadline...
- 9/8/2023
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Screen is profiling every submission for best international feature at the 96th Academy Awards.
Entries for the 2024 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
The 96th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The deadline...
Entries for the 2024 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
The 96th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The deadline...
- 9/6/2023
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Screen is profiling every submission for best international feature at the 96th Academy Awards.
Entries for the 2024 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
The 96th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The deadline...
Entries for the 2024 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
The 96th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The deadline...
- 9/1/2023
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Just a little over a week after Hansal Mehta’s ‘Scoop’ released on streaming platform Netflix, Karishma Tanna, who plays the titular role of crime reporter Jagruti Pathak implicated for the murder of a fellow journalist, made a quick weekend trip with husband Varun Bangera to Dubai. Within minutes of clearing passport control, Tanna found herself surrounded with smiling faces and friendly greetings from fellow travellers who had watched the series.
Once the word spread that the actor was on her way to the exit gates, crowds swelled up. “I was shocked! There were people en route to Canada and the USA, and they told me they were binge watching the show. The following day I was out on a dinner date, and we had people walking up to us constantly with very kind compliments,” says Tanna.
For Tanna she had to undertake the toughest preparation of her life for the part.
Once the word spread that the actor was on her way to the exit gates, crowds swelled up. “I was shocked! There were people en route to Canada and the USA, and they told me they were binge watching the show. The following day I was out on a dinner date, and we had people walking up to us constantly with very kind compliments,” says Tanna.
For Tanna she had to undertake the toughest preparation of her life for the part.
- 6/13/2023
- by Editorial Desk
- GlamSham
As much as working in the field of journalism can bring about feelings of euphoria and excitement when your name comes to be featured under the front page byline, the occupation can also become a very risky endeavor. Not only do you take quotes from innocent witnesses and bystanders who were potentially at the scene of a crime, but you might end up finding yourself in the same social circles that encompass criminals and mafia members if you dive too deep chasing that next big story.
Adapted from a biographical memoir titled Behind Bars in Byculla: My Days In Prison by Ms. Jigna Vora (who was Deputy Chief of Bureau at a very popular English language Indian newspaper called The Asian Age), a new show on Netflix that was released just last week shows what happens when someone’s passion for reporting inadvertently takes them too far.
Produced by Matchbox...
Adapted from a biographical memoir titled Behind Bars in Byculla: My Days In Prison by Ms. Jigna Vora (who was Deputy Chief of Bureau at a very popular English language Indian newspaper called The Asian Age), a new show on Netflix that was released just last week shows what happens when someone’s passion for reporting inadvertently takes them too far.
Produced by Matchbox...
- 6/12/2023
- by Salvatore Cento
- MovieWeb
Exclusive: USC Originals has scored its first theatrical release, in association with Warner Bros., following Lightyear Entertainment’s acquisition of its film, Voodoo Macbeth. The company behind the Oscar-nominated Australian feature Tanna has slated the pic for release across the U.S. and Canada in October.
Based on a true story, Voodoo Macbeth follows a young Orson Welles (Jewell Wilson Bridges) and a group of committed artists as they set out to create what is now considered a landmark event in African-American theater history—the Negro Theatre Unit’s revolutionary 1936 production of Macbeth.
With Fdr’s New Deal providing funding for the Federal Theatre Project, director Rose McClendon (Inger Tudor) convinces co-director John Houseman (Daniel Kuhlman) to help her bring Shakespeare’s Macbeth to the Harlem community at the Lafayette Theater — with an all-Black cast. Well before Citizen Kane and War of the Worlds, they choose for their groundbreaking production...
Based on a true story, Voodoo Macbeth follows a young Orson Welles (Jewell Wilson Bridges) and a group of committed artists as they set out to create what is now considered a landmark event in African-American theater history—the Negro Theatre Unit’s revolutionary 1936 production of Macbeth.
With Fdr’s New Deal providing funding for the Federal Theatre Project, director Rose McClendon (Inger Tudor) convinces co-director John Houseman (Daniel Kuhlman) to help her bring Shakespeare’s Macbeth to the Harlem community at the Lafayette Theater — with an all-Black cast. Well before Citizen Kane and War of the Worlds, they choose for their groundbreaking production...
- 8/9/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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The Tony Awards provided a boost for several shows, including best musical winner A Strange Loop.
The musical, which tells the story of a Black, gay man, who is writing a musical about himself, performed as part of the June 12 telecast and also saw creator Michael R. Jackson takes home the prize for best book of a musical. In turn, the production saw its highest gross yet last week, bringing in 845,313 and playing to 99.9 percent capacity, also its highest since performances started in April.
Mj, which was up against A Strange Loop, took home four Tonys, including for Myles Frost, who plays the title role and performed during the ceremony. It too had its highest grossing week since opening in December, bringing in 1.7 million.
Paradise Square, which has been one of the lowest grossing musicals of the season, saw its grosses tick up...
The Tony Awards provided a boost for several shows, including best musical winner A Strange Loop.
The musical, which tells the story of a Black, gay man, who is writing a musical about himself, performed as part of the June 12 telecast and also saw creator Michael R. Jackson takes home the prize for best book of a musical. In turn, the production saw its highest gross yet last week, bringing in 845,313 and playing to 99.9 percent capacity, also its highest since performances started in April.
Mj, which was up against A Strange Loop, took home four Tonys, including for Myles Frost, who plays the title role and performed during the ceremony. It too had its highest grossing week since opening in December, bringing in 1.7 million.
Paradise Square, which has been one of the lowest grossing musicals of the season, saw its grosses tick up...
- 6/22/2022
- by Caitlin Huston
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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