Common said working on the film Selma turned him into an activist and that a recent seven-month stay in London, where police don’t carry guns, “felt like a weight was off my shoulders” as he talked over his life and career at an event awarding him the Tribeca Festival’s second annual Harry Belafonte Voices for Social Justice Award.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams made a surprise cameo at the fest, which has been dotting the city with films, talks and music for 21 years now except during pandemic-shuttered 2020. “I think about this amazing festival which opened after 9-11 when no one thought we could come back. Covid is not terrorism, but it brought terror… But we came back,” Adams said, praising the musician, actor and philanthropist for his efforts in prisons and schools and for using his work as artist for social justice.
Common played civil rights activist James Bevel in Selma,...
NYC Mayor Eric Adams made a surprise cameo at the fest, which has been dotting the city with films, talks and music for 21 years now except during pandemic-shuttered 2020. “I think about this amazing festival which opened after 9-11 when no one thought we could come back. Covid is not terrorism, but it brought terror… But we came back,” Adams said, praising the musician, actor and philanthropist for his efforts in prisons and schools and for using his work as artist for social justice.
Common played civil rights activist James Bevel in Selma,...
- 6/16/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Craig Robinson, Andy Samberg and Common are producing and starring in the action-comedy “Super High” at New Line Cinema.
“Super High” is being described as a superhero movie where smoking a special strain of weed gives superpowers to the smoker.
Adam Mansbach will write the screenplay based on a story he created with Shamier Anderson. New Line won a bidding war for the project.
Mansbach’s debut screenplay, “Barry,” written about Barack Obama’s life at Columbia University, was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and an NAACP Image Award. Mansbach’s “Go the F*ck to Sleep” is a New York Times bestseller, along with his sequels “You Have to F*cking Eat” and “F*ck, Now There Are Two of You.”
Producers for “Super High” are Party Over Here, 3 Arts and Narrative alongside stars Samberg, Robinson and Common. Anderson is executive producing.
Robinson is best known for starring in “The Office,...
“Super High” is being described as a superhero movie where smoking a special strain of weed gives superpowers to the smoker.
Adam Mansbach will write the screenplay based on a story he created with Shamier Anderson. New Line won a bidding war for the project.
Mansbach’s debut screenplay, “Barry,” written about Barack Obama’s life at Columbia University, was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and an NAACP Image Award. Mansbach’s “Go the F*ck to Sleep” is a New York Times bestseller, along with his sequels “You Have to F*cking Eat” and “F*ck, Now There Are Two of You.”
Producers for “Super High” are Party Over Here, 3 Arts and Narrative alongside stars Samberg, Robinson and Common. Anderson is executive producing.
Robinson is best known for starring in “The Office,...
- 10/5/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Activist storytelling has a new outlet. Director Ava DuVernay’s new initiative aims to disrupt the “blue code of silence.” She is sick of cops who kill black people without consequences, whose names don’t even get mentioned in the headlines. DuVernay is launching an initiative designed to hold police officers accountable, whether or not they have been charged for their crimes, through the Law Enforcement Accountability Project initiative.
Leap will fund 25 projects over the next two years, according to The Washington Post. It will be funded through DuVernay’s Array Alliance nonprofit. It has an initial budget of $3 million from contributors including Ryan Murphy and the Ford Foundation. The fund is designed to empower activists to tell stories across multiple forms of media.
“Leap is the Law Enforcement Accountability Project, a propulsive fund dedicated to empowering activists as they pursue narrative change around the police abuse of Black People,...
Leap will fund 25 projects over the next two years, according to The Washington Post. It will be funded through DuVernay’s Array Alliance nonprofit. It has an initial budget of $3 million from contributors including Ryan Murphy and the Ford Foundation. The fund is designed to empower activists to tell stories across multiple forms of media.
“Leap is the Law Enforcement Accountability Project, a propulsive fund dedicated to empowering activists as they pursue narrative change around the police abuse of Black People,...
- 6/10/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Robert Schenkkan’s Broadway-bound The Great Society, his second Lbj play following the celebrated All The Way, has completed casting and set an opening night for Tuesday, October 1 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.
Joining the previously announced Brian Cox (as Lyndon B. Johnson) will be Marchánt Davis as Stokely Carmichael, Brian Dykstra as Adam Walinsky, Barbara Garrick as Lady Bird Johnson, David Garrison as Richard Nixon, Ty Jones as Reverend Ralph Abernathy, Christopher Livingston as James Bevel, Angela Pierce as Pat Nixon, Matthew Rauch as Robert McNamara, Nikkole Salter as Coretta Scott King and Tramell Tillman as Bob Moses.
Previews begin on the previously announced Friday, September 6 for a strictly limited 12-week engagement.
The newcomers join the previously announced Cox, Grantham Coleman as Martin Luther King Jr., Marc Kudisch as Richard J. Daley, Bryce Pinkham as Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Frank Wood as Senator Everett Dirksen, Gordon Clapp as J. Edgar Hoover,...
Joining the previously announced Brian Cox (as Lyndon B. Johnson) will be Marchánt Davis as Stokely Carmichael, Brian Dykstra as Adam Walinsky, Barbara Garrick as Lady Bird Johnson, David Garrison as Richard Nixon, Ty Jones as Reverend Ralph Abernathy, Christopher Livingston as James Bevel, Angela Pierce as Pat Nixon, Matthew Rauch as Robert McNamara, Nikkole Salter as Coretta Scott King and Tramell Tillman as Bob Moses.
Previews begin on the previously announced Friday, September 6 for a strictly limited 12-week engagement.
The newcomers join the previously announced Cox, Grantham Coleman as Martin Luther King Jr., Marc Kudisch as Richard J. Daley, Bryce Pinkham as Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Frank Wood as Senator Everett Dirksen, Gordon Clapp as J. Edgar Hoover,...
- 8/12/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
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