A woman who was working as a development executive for filmmaker John Ridley has filed a lawsuit alleging that her job was terminated in 2022 after she raised issues of pay inequality since she’s Asian American. Asta Jonasson filed the suit, which named Ridley, ABC, and that network’s parent company, …
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Actors are drawn to biopics like moths to a particularly bright, often gold-tinted flame because it allows them to test their impressionistic mettle, to inhabit the real life of someone who’s often larger than life, to chart how an extraordinary human being is transformed into an emblem of their moment. …
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Oscar winner Regina King transforms into the “unbought and unbossed” politician Shirley Chisholm in Netflix‘s Shirley trailer, released Monday. The trailer follows Chisholm along her 1972 presidential campaign, marking the first Black candidate to seek a major party’s nomination for president, and the overt discrimination she faced along her campaign …
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In another (Marvel) universe, the hot gods of The Eternals could have been your favorite television show. In a recent interview on the Comic Book Club podcast, John Ridley revealed that his shelved Marvel TV series he was developing at ABC was based on the 2021 MCU film. While the …
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