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Variety, the biopic will center on Chisholm’s historic 1972 presidential campaign. Just four years prior, she became the first African-American woman in Congress.“Shirley Chisholm’s fearless determination has been an inspiration to so many of us, and with this film, we hope to inspire many generations to come,” King said in a statement.King will produce the film under her company, Royal Ties Productions, with sister Reina Kings.

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Regina King Brings Decade Long Dream To Life & Will Star, Produce Movie About Shirley Chisholm

Regina King will bring Shirley Chisholm to the big screen in a new movie, Entertainment Weekly reports.

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Regina King To Star As Shirley Chisholm In New Biopic From Writer-Director John Ridley

Regina King is having a pretty great year and a half, isn’t she? Over her already-great career, she starred in numerous films and was already a household name, as an Oscar winner, when she landed the lead in “Watchmen.” However, the popularity of that show (and the awards recognition she received) opened her career up even more. And then you have her directorial debut, “One Night in Miami…” which is poised to make King an Oscar darling, only adding to her success.

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Regina King to Produce and Star as Shirley Chisholm in Biopic Directed by John Ridley

Angelique Jackson Regina King is set to star in and produce “Shirley,” the feature film biopic about Shirley Chisholm, America’s first Black congresswoman.The film, produced by Participant, will be written and directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker John Ridley, with production expected to begin later this year. The story tracks Chisholm’s 1972 presidential campaign, a groundbreaking historical moment, giving what’s described as “an intimate, behind-the-scenes portrait of one of the most ground-breaking political leaders of our time.”“Shirley Chisholm’s fearless determination has been an inspiration to so many of us, and with this film we hope to inspire many generations to come,” King said in a statement.

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Participant To Produce ‘Shirley’ Starring Regina King As Shirley Chisholm; John Ridley Directing & Writing

Oscar winner Regina King will portray America’s first Black Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm in the John Ridley written and directed feature Shirley which Participant will produce.

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MPRM Ups Katie Jo Ash And Ellen Kuni To Account Supervisors, Expanding Senior Team

EXCLUSIVE: MPRM Communications has promoted Katie Jo Ash and Ellen Kuni to the roles of Account Supervisor, adding the pair to the senior team at the entertainment and media PR agency. The company also promoted Karen Tran Wood to Senior Account Executive, and Jenna Corradeno to Account Coordinator at the firm, which reps brands including AMC Networks, Bron Studios, Cinetic Media, John Ridley’s No Studios, Millennium Media, Mubi, NBC, Netflix and and RuPaul’s Drag Race among others.

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How John Ridley Is Helping Bring Off Broadway to Screens

Gordon Cox Theater EditorAfter winning an Academy Award for his screenplay of “12 Years a Slave” and creating the ABC series “American Crime,” John Ridley has a lot going on — from an upcoming Blumhouse paranormal thriller to a new Batman comic book.

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DC Comics Shares First Look At Black Batman In New Comic Series From ’12 Years A Slave’ Screenwriter John Ridley

DC Comics is showing fans a first look at a new Batman project that puts a whole new spin on the iconic character, with the Caped Crusader a person of colour for the first time ever.

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The next Batman will be a black man as writer John Ridley says it is time to adapt

The next Batman will be a black man and he will be named Timothy Fox, it has been confirmed.

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John Ridley explores the ‘Other History’ with DC Comics series centered on Black superheroes

Fans of comic books or the multitude of film franchises they’ve spurred will be hard-pressed to find a series as critically anticipated as “The Other History of the DC Universe.” The five-issue DC Black Label miniseries written by Oscar-winning screenwriter John Ridley (“12 Years a Slave,” “Guerrilla,” “American Crime”) is a run which delves deep into the backstories of DC’s most under-represented superheroes and heroines, all of whom carry histories which rival those of Peter Parker, Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent and Diana Prince.

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John Ridley & Carlton Cuse To Team Up For A Hurricane Katrina Series For Apple TV+

I have to be honest for a second. Every week or so, Apple announces a new project with another A-list filmmaker and/or cast, and it can be a bit exhausting.

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Hurricane Katrina series from John Ridley and Carlton Cuse set at Apple+

Apple TV+ has ordered “Five Days At Memorial,” a limited series from Oscar-winner John Ridley and Emmy winner Carlton Cuse, which chronicles events in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.The pickup of the new series, based on the acclaimed non-fiction book by Pulitzer Prize winning author Sheri Fink, comes on the 15th anniversary of one of America’s worst natural disasters.“Five Days At Memorial,” from ABC Signature, chronicles the first five days in a New Orleans, LA, hospital after Hurricane Katrina made landfall.

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John Ridley, Carlton Cuse to Adapt Hurricane Katrina Book ‘Five Days at Memorial’ as Apple Limited Series

Joe Otterson TV ReporterJohn Ridley and Carlton Cuse are set to adapt Sheri Fink’s novel “Five Days at Memorial” for Apple as a limited series, Variety has learned.The book chronicles the first five days in a New Orleans, LA, hospital after Hurricane Katrina made landfall. When the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers were forced to make life-and-death decisions that haunted them for years to come.Ridley and Cuse will co-write the series in addition to serving as executive producers and co-showrunners.

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Apple Sets ‘Five Days At Memorial’ Limited Series About Katrina Aftermath From John Ridley & Carlton Cuse

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVApple TV+ has ordered Five Days At Memorial, a limited series from Oscar winner John Ridley and Emmy winner Carlton Cuse, which chronicles events in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.The pickup of the new series, based on the acclaimed non-fiction book by Pulitzer Prize winning author Sheri Fink, comes on the 15th anniversary of one of America’s worst natural disasters.Five Days At Memorial, from ABC Signature, chronicles the first five days in a New Orleans, LA, hospital after Hurricane Katrina made landfall. When the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers were forced to make life-and-death decisions that haunted them for years to come.

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‘12 Years A Slave’ Screenwriter John Ridley On Processing Yet Another Shocking Police Shooting & Protest Aftermath: Guest Column

John Ridley The murder by Minneapolis police of George Floyd and the peaceful protests that followed sparked soul searching in Hollywood, including a Blackout Tuesday shutdown in solidarity to Black Lives Matter protests, and the enactment of diversity measures to hopefully create a more inclusive industry culture. How, then, to process this latest viral incident three months later, when Jacob Blake, a Black man in Kenosha, WI, is shot seven times by a police officer as he tries to get in his car, his three sons sitting in the backseat? Deadline asked Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave screenwriter John Ridley to offer some perspective for Hollywood.

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12 Years a Slave writer John Ridley says his Batman will likely be a person of color

John Ridley says there's a good likelihood that the Batman he's writing for an upcoming four-part comic book series will be a person of color.The 54-year-old, who's working on a miniseries comic of the Caped Crusader, estimated on a DC panel that there's 'a little better than a 47 percent chance' in regards to his Batman, according to The Hollywood Reporter.The Academy Award-wining writer appeared as part of the Legacy of the Bat symposium put on by DC FanDome.

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’12 Years A Slave’ Screenwriter John Ridley Teases Black Batman In Upcoming Comic Series

A new Batman project promises to put a whole new spin on the iconic character, with the Caped Crusader to be a person of colour for the first time ever.

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Idris Elba Thinks Racist Depictions In Old Films/TV Shouldn’t Be Cut: “I Don’t Believe In Censorship”

Recently, the idea of what films should and shouldn’t be seen and which should be accompanied by a warning has been debated quite a bit recently, most notably because of the issue with “Gone with the Wind.” That classic film was recently pulled from HBO Max due to John Ridley’s essay about how the film should be seen, but only if it is accompanied by something explaining the racist imagery and the context of the feature.

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The Roots’ Black Thought to Star in and Write Music for New Play

The Roots’ lead MC Black Thought will contribute music and lyrics to a stage adaptation of George S. Schuyler’s 1931 novel Black No More, as Rolling Stone points out. According to RS, Black Thought will also star in the musical version of Schuyler’s Harlem Renaissance-era book. Black No More is slated to premiere at Pershing Square Signature Center in October 2020 during the New Group’s 2020 to 2021 theatrical season.

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‘Black No More’ Musical From John Ridley & The Roots’ Tarik Trotter Sets Off Broadway Premiere

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ABC To Re-Air Historic Special ‘Taking The Stage’ Tonight To Celebrate African American Music, Culture, And History

Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticOn the heels of last week’s rebroadcast of John Ridley’s powerful 2017 documentary , Let It Fall, about the 1992 race riots in Los Angeles, ABC is again reaching into its vaults from 2017 for a re-broadcast tonight of the two hour special that aired on January 11th of that year called Taking The Stage: African American Music and Stories that Changed America. a network special commemorating the opening of the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C. Quincy Jones and Don Mischer teamed up to produce the momentous event , and in light of everything that has happened in this country in the weeks since George Floyd’s horrendous death the pair

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