Zimbabwean-Brit actress Thandi Newton (credits: Crash, Mission Impossible ) choice as a female lead in the screen adaptation of Chimamanda Adichie’s novel “Half of a Yellow Sun” has some people upset.
Thandie Newton cast in film about Biafran War. Critics: she’s “bi-racial” and “not Igbo”
January 27, 2012 By 19 Comments
The Muslim American Slave
September 27, 2011 By 2 Comments
Steve McQueen is a talented film director. He won awards for his feature “Hunger” about the death of an Irish political prisoner. His next film “12 Years a Slave” tells the true-life story of Solomon Northop, a free black man from New York City who, kidnapped, spends more than a decade on a Southern […]
Fela Rolls On
May 5, 2010 By 2 Comments
Hot off the heels of Fela! The Musical’s phenomenal 11 Tony Award nominations comes the news (via Deadline New York) that Chiwetel Ejiofor is “formally attached” to play the lead in the Fela biopic slated for release in 2011. The film is being produced by Focus Features and will be directed by Steve McQueen, the […]
