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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 the masses. Along with her directorial duties, THR mentioned that King will produce the Bitter Root a...

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 In Miami with a film adaptation of the Harlem Renaissance–set comic Bitter Root, according to Var...

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 Renaissance. The family must come back together and take up their monster-fighting ways once again, h...

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 Manuel and Geiszel Godoy are military veterans, and they believe deeply in social justice. But above ...

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 fund our projects ourselves because we have the experience, the expertise to do it." The Godoys' nich...