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Jerry Maguire and 24 and Southland. But recently, King joined the club of actors who have also gone behind the camera to direct a movie, with the critically acclaimed One Night in Miami marking her feature filmmaking debut. Now King has found her next movie to bring to life, and it’s based on an Image Comics horror series. Regina King will helm a cinematic adaptation of Bitter Root for Legendary Entertainment, the production company that most recently delivered Godzilla vs. Kong to th...

Regina King is taking a left turn after her critically acclaimed film One Night In Miami with a comic book adaptation. The 50-year-old Oscar winner has signed on to direct a film adaptation of the comic book series Bitter Root, about a family of Black monster hunters. The film, which will be set amid the Harlem Renaissance, will also be produced by Black Panther director Ryan Coogler, according to Variety. New project: Regina King will follow up her acclaimed feature directorial debut One Night...

King and her partner Reina King will also be co-producing along with Coogler, Zinzi Coogler, and Sev Ohanian of Proximity Media. The creators of Black Root — David F. Walker, Sanford Greene, and Chuck Brown — will executive produce the feature along with Drapetomedia’s Sean Owolo. Bryan Edward Hill, whose previous credits include Ash vs. Evil Dead and Titans, is rewriting the script. Bitter Root follows the Sangeryes, a broken family of monster hunters who live during the 1924 Harlem R...

Yes, lots of comics were racist. A new generation of Black artists is reinventing them By Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times Published: May 10, 2021, 6:02am Share: 2 Photos RIVERSIDE, CA - MARCH 7, 2021: John Jennings, comic book illustrator and professor of media and cultural studies at UC Riverside on March 7, 2021 in downtown Riverside, California. Black artists are using comics as a medium to address racial injustices.(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) Photo Gallery M...

Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times Manuel and Geiszel Godoy are military veterans, and they believe deeply in social justice. But above all, they are entrepreneurs who saw an underdeveloped sector in their industry and dove in. "We have to show that we can pull a Tyler Perry as a community," Manuel Godoy, president of Black Sands Entertainment, says in a recent video interview. "The idea is that the bigger the company gets, the better the IP does, the more everybody wins, and we can f...

The CW is constantly expanding, and now they are welcoming a new show into the fold. DC’s Comics Naomi is coming to the CW, and a new official has

The CW Reveals ‘Naomi’ Lead With Kaci Walfall Development of new shows for The CW is ongoing as always as we’ve got some finishing off this coming cycle and one or two others may be getting a bit “long in the tooth” as the saying goes, and it’s best to be prepared. With a few different things in the mix, we learned last December that Ava DuVernay is currently developing a new series for the network with Naomi. The project has her teamed up with  Arrow writer and co-executive produ...

Naomi to series. DuVernay and Jill Blankenship  will write and exec produce the pilot. Sarah Bremner and Kaci Walfall as ‘NAOMI’ in Ava DuVernay’s DC pilot on The CW / Twitter DuVernay shared the first promotional photo of Wallfall as Naomi in a Twitter post along with the caption, “I love this show so much and have had sheer, downright fun creating it. Feel like a teenager again. LOL. Kaci is a phenom. Truly excited for her and grateful to all involved in bringing NAOMI to life!”...

The CW is constantly expanding, and now they are welcoming a new series into the fold. DC’s Comic Naomi is coming to the CW, and a new official has been released.

First look at Kaci Walfall as DCs Naomi A new image from Kaci Walfall from the upcoming CW show Naomi has been released. "Naomi, the network’s latest DC adaptation, comes from [Ava] DuVernay and Arrow writer and co-exec producer Jill Blankenship. Based on the eponymous comic book series that debuted in 2019, co-written by Brian Michael Bendis and David F. Walker and illustrated by breakout artist Jamal Campbell, the show follows a teen girl’s journey from her small northwestern town to the...