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It’s still very early, but it’s impossible not to take notice of what Chloe Zhao’s film Nomadland is doing right now. The fall film festival season has launched other movies, like Regina King’s One Night in Miami…, but none like Nomadland.

Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticAs expected Chloe Zhao’s Venice Golden Lion winner Nomadland took the often Oscar-predictive Toronto International Film Festival People’s Choice Award announced this morning. Regina King’s One Night In Miami was second ,and  Beans was third in the slimmed down competition at the fest which had about a sixth of the number of films in play than usual.

Dave McNary Film ReporterChloé Zhao’s “Nomadland” has been selected at the opener for the ninth edition of the Montclair Film Festival on Oct. 16, with Regina King’s “One Night in Miami” as the Oct.

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Regina King's directorial debut One Night in Miami has been added to the 2020 BFI London Film Festival, this year taking place mostly virtually as the event adapts to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The Amazon film —which bowed in Venice (making it the first by a Black female director to screen at the festival) —is set to screen on Oct.

Dave McNary Film ReporterThe Hamptons International Festival has added awards contenders “Ammonite,” “Wander Darkly” and “Minari” to its screening schedule for the 28th edition.HIFF previously announced the festival would open with the world premiere the documentary “With Drawn Arms” on Oct. 8.

Angelique Jackson Regina King is not only bringing history to life with her film “One Night in Miami,” she’s making history of her own.After becoming the first Black female director to have a film at the Venice Film Festival, King and her cast reunited at the Toronto International Film Festival to celebrate the movie’s early positive reviews.

Regina King is hoping her history-making new movie will encourage more women of color to make films – and festival bosses to champion them.The Watchmen star will become the first black female director to premiere a movie at the Venice Film Festival in Italy this week (September 7, 2020) when One Night in Miami launches, and on Tuesday she attended a virtual press conference via Zoom to discuss the honor of being included, adding she hopes it’s a success.“Unfortunately, across the world, that’s

Regina King is the first Black woman to direct a movie selected to premiere at the Venice Film Festival.

After notching up several years' worth of solid TV directing credits, Regina King tackles her first feature with confidence in One Night in Miami, unsurprisingly coaxing full-blooded performances from her charismatic leads.

Also Read: Regina King's Feature Film Directorial Debut 'One Night in Miami' Acquired by AmazonThe men in question are Cassius Clay (Eli Goree, “Riverdale”), in Miami to battle Sonny Liston for the heavyweight championship; his friend and spiritual adviser Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir, “Noelle”), who’s helping Clay embrace Islam even as Malcolm is parting ways with his own mentor, Elijah Muhammad; NFL legend Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge, “The Invisible Man”), who’s just starting to dip his toes into a

Clayton Davis The strangest, most up-in-the-air Oscar season has begun with the 77th Venice Film Festival, which features more social distancing and less star power due to COVID-19. But that doesn’t mean that Venice has lost its luster for catapulting a movie into the awards race.The first bonafide major contender for the 2021 Oscars season arrives with “One Night in Miami” from director Regina King, her feature debut behind the camera.

An audacious what-if scenario lies at the heart of Regina King‘s poised, well-crafted but conceptually conflicted directorial debut, “One Night in Miami,” a high-minded drama that plays as an all-star real-life Black superhero team-up: What if newly-crowned World Heavyweight Champion Cassius Clay, singer Sam Cooke, NFL record breaker Jim Brown and a Malcom X on the cusp of breaking with the Nation of Islam, spent the pivotal night of February 25, 1964 sparring, bickering and mutually inspiring

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorRegina King and the stars of her feature directorial debut One Night In Miami piped into the Venice Film Festival this afternoon to discuss the very timely picture that’s inspired by a real-life 1964 meeting of friends Cassius Clay, Malcolm X, Jim Brown and Sam Cooke.

The Zurich International Film Festival has unveiled its gala program for its 2020 edition, and it includes some of the buzziest titles of this year's unique awards season.

The 2020 Venice Film Festival is surprisingly political this year, with a slew of documentaries —environmental docI Am Greta,Luke Holland's Holocaust documentaryFinal Account — and features — Jasmila Zbanic'sQuo Vadis, Aida?about the Srebrenica massacre, and Regina King's civil rights drama One Night in Miami — taking center stage at an event often more famous for its red carpet glamor than its soap-box messaging.

For more than 30 years, Regina King has been acting's equivalent of the go-to player. Whatever role directors threw at her — Detective Lydia Adams on the TNT police drama Southland, the unflappable Sharon Rivers in Barry Jenkins' If Beale Street Could Talk, or an honest-to-god superhero in Damon Lindelof's Watchmen for HBO — King has hit it out of the park.

Cate Blanchett is encouraging the reemergence of the film industry amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, as the Jury President of the Venice Film Festival, the Hollywood actress is thrilled to be present for the annual event and she couldn’t be more proud to support and help filmmakers share their work after the worldwide health crisis has affected the film industry in a major way.The Oscar winner urges for a safe reopening of cinema gatherings, and congratulates the effort and organization of