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Powerful Performances By Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx Elevate 'Just Mercy;’ Opens Friday
Ava DuVernay Receives First Directors Guild Award Nomination
While the Golden Globes may not have seen her (or any black people to be real), the Directors Guild of America certainly has.
The Hollywood Reporter has, um, reported that the Di- rectors Guild of America has released a partial list of their awards nominees for 2020. Among the names released was that of writer, director, producer and general killer of the game Ava DuVernay for her work on When They See
Us.The Netflix limited series was based on the story of The Central Park Five, a group of five black children who were falsely accused and im- prisoned for a sexual assault they didn’t commit. It show- cases with often painstaking detail the injustices and racism ingrained in the American legal system.
In addition to directing all four episodes, DuVernay
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co-wrote the series alongside
Julian Breece, Robin Swicord, Attica Locke and Michael Starrbury. The se- ries was released in May to critical acclaim, scoring a 96% on Rotten Tomatoes. Not only that but it was the most watched show on Net- flix upon its week of release and as of June had been viewed by over 23 million Netflix accounts worldwide.
The legal drama “Just Mercy” doesn’t do anything fancy, other than making you feel something, be it right- eous anger in the face of ob- vious racial injustice or the raw emotions of a con- demned man’s last moments before execution.
Fueled by powerful per- formances from Michael B. Jordan and Screen Actors Guild Awards nominee Jamie Foxx, “Just Mercy” (**** out of four; rated PG- 13; in theaters now in New York and LA, nationwide Fri- day) is a solid courtroom drama that most fans of the genre have seen before. But great acting, an engaging real-life tale and moments of heartfelt honesty – with a fair
MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX
bit of rousing satisfaction – elevate director Destin Daniel Cretton’s true-life story of a young defense at- torney who never falters from his idealistic ambitions.
'Just Mercy': Jordan plays a 'real-life superhero'
In 1989, Bryan Steven- son (Jordan) is fresh out of Harvard Law with his pick of job offers. Instead, he heads down to Monroeville, Ala- bama – where Harper Lee wrote “To Kill a Mocking- bird,” which every white resi- dent makes sure to tell him – to found the Equal Justice Initiative and do pro bono work for death-row inmates needing representation. With the help of local legal eagle Eva (Brie Larson), Bryan takes on the cases of multiple clients including Walter McMillian (Foxx), an African-American logger wrongfully convicted of strangling and fatally shoot- ing an 18-year-old white woman.
Nipsey Hussle The Marathon Book Club Now Sports Over 76 Members Nationwide
LOS ANGELES, CA – Nipsey Hussle’s legacy con- tinues to leave a mark. Follow- ing his March 31 death. The Marathon Book Club was formed after a fan-made list of every book he ever mentioned went viral.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the club is comprised of 74 black men and two Latinos divided into four chapters based in Oakland, New York, Washington, D.C and L.A.
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They meet monthly to break down the books that motivated
Hussle.
It includes “professors, en- trepreneurs, corporate execu- tives, investment bankers and at least one former athlete” and uses the conversations around their reading material as a vehicle for deeper discus- sion. Mental health, toxic mas- culinity, personal struggles and career advice are openly dis- cussed with the intention of learning from Hussle’s mind- set.
50 Cent And Starz Plan To Sue French Montana Over Power Leak
50 Cent his about to get even against his hip hop neme- sis, rapper French Montana.
According to multiple peo- ple in the know, the Starz net- work and Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson are preparing to launch a lawsuit against French, for copyright in- fringement. French leaked an entire scene from the latest episode of Power.
In an attempt to get back at 50, French taped an entire scene of the top-rated tv show and illegally leaked it onto In- stagram. And he's going to have to pay for that according
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to Starz and 50.
One person with knowledge
of the happenings at Starz told MTO News, "What French did was outrageous and illegal, we're going after him." The in-
sider continued, "It's pretty cut and dry, from a legal stand- point. He's going to have to pay millions for this."
And even if French doesn't have the millions to pay - he has a lot of new assets that the network and 50 Cent can go after.
French and 50's latest squabble started when French posted about a used 2008 Bugatti that he bought. 50 Cent, who recently bought the 2020 version of the same car for $4 million, started clowning French over his sec- ond-hand purchase.
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