Having the first film you write be nominated for Best Picture? That’s impressive. What if you also made your directorial debut with that same movie? That’s remarkable. It’s also the case with American Fiction. Here are 14 (non-fiction) facts about the movie.
The casting director for HBO’s The Last of Us television adaptation did a pretty masterful job of assembling the right people to assay the game’s various characters.
The American Civil War left many lasting scars in the national psyche, which helps to explain why it has repeatedly proved to be such a popular subject for filmmakers, and it has gained new currency thanks to the forthcoming release of Alex Garland’s aptly titled Civil War.
It was recently announced that Spike Lee and Denzel Washington will partner on a new rendition of a hit Kurosawa film. Set to reimagine the 1963 crime thriller High and Low, Washington will star alongside Ilfenesh Hadera and the newly announced Jeffrey Wright for the collaboration between Apple and A24.
Hawaiian surfing great Montgomery “Buttons” Kaluhiokalani was a surfing legend who helped redefine the sport in the '70s and laid the framework for modern-day surfing.
The actor recently recalled his experience working with the late musician on the 1996 film Basquiat
Wright maintains that the language was censored "So that the airplane folk would be comfy in the darkness of their own ignorance around the language of race."
Writer-director Cord Jefferson deconstructs how white guilt stifles Black creatives and skewers the publishing industry while giving Jeffrey Wright the role of a lifetime
Exclusive: Author Percival Everett and lead star Jeffrey Wright discuss the "age-old themes" of the dark comedy in a "Script to Screen" featurette.
The only other role he’s felt this personally close to? He told IndieWire it was the young artist at the heart of "Basquiat," nearly three decades ago.
Things have gotten a little twisted in the multiverse.
Writer-director Cord Jefferson adapted Percival Everett's "Erasure," with Rian Johnson executive producing.
The first-time director entered TIFF with nerves, and left with the prestigious People's Choice Award for his provocative comedy starring Jeffrey Wright.
TIFF: Jeffrey Wright stars in 'American Fiction,' as a professor who writes a novel about Black life he knows is dumb — and is guaranteed to be a hit.
TIFF: Cord Jefferson's directorial debut makes Jeffrey Wright a Best Actor contender while also criticizing the "poverty of imagination when it comes to what Black life looks like."
MGM’s Orion Pictures has acquired an upcoming film based on Percival Everett’s novel “Erasure.” The currently untitled movie, which is the first announcement to come under Jen Salke’s newly added MGM oversight, will star “Westworld” Emmy-winner Jeffrey Wright and mark the directorial debut of Cord Jefferson (“Watchmen,” “Master of None”).
“Goodfellas” Ray Liotta star was one of cinema’s most recognizable faces over the past three decades, working with some of the industry’s biggest actors and directors over the course of his career.
Robert Pattinson wasn’t the only actor with big shoes to fill when “The Batman” hit theaters this weekend. The DC Comics franchise is so beloved that nearly every supporting character has been played before by esteemed actors, and fans were eager to compare the new cast to their predecessors.
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