In ‘Zola,’ Janicza Bravo’s cinema of ‘life at high volume’

Ellise Shafer administratorAn executive for global entertainment company Live Nation has been identified as one of the victims in the June 24 Surfside condo collapse in Florida.Theresa Velasquez, 36, was listed as a victim of the collapse on Saturday in the Miami-Dade Police Department’s daily press release. The Miami-Dade PD noted that Velasquez’s body was recovered on July 8.

Miami-Dade County Florida police today identified the body of a 36-year-old Los Angeles executive for major events corporation Live Nation as the latest victim of the Surfside condominum collapse.

Zola” director Janicza Bravo to helm its adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s “Kindred,” the cable network announced Thursday.The project, which counts Darren Aronofsky and “The Americans” duo Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields among its executive producers, is set to begin production in September.

Ethan Shanfeld FX has tapped “Zola” director and co-writer Janicza Bravo to direct the pilot of “Kindred,” starring Mallori Johnson in the lead role.Based on the novel by Octavia E. Butler, “Kindred” follows Dana (Johnson), a young Black woman and aspiring writer who has moved to Los Angeles in pursuit of an independent future.

Zola helmer Janicza Bravo has been tapped to direct and executive produce FX pilot Kindred, an adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s influential novel, with newcomer Mallori Johnson set to star.

Zaila Avant-garde, a 14-year-old from Louisiana, has become the first black American student to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

Dwyane Wade paid an emotional visit to the site of the horrific collapse of the Champlain Towers condo in Surfside, Florida.

Clayton Davis How much longer can the industry ignore the reverence of actor Colman Domingo before they decide to take notice? This holiday weekend gives audiences the 2020 Sundance Film Festival hit “Zola” from A24 and co-writer and director Janicza Bravo.

“Zola,” inspired by 2015’s notorious 148-tweet “hoeism” Twitter thread, details the epic and outrageous sequence of events between two strippers, Zola (Paige) and her new friend Stefani (Riley Keough).

Y’all wanna hear a story? More than five years after A’Ziah King’s viral Twitter thread about a truly memorable trip to Florida, the film inspired by her story, Zola, finally debuted in June 2021.

Zola movie tells the autobiographical story of Zola (played by Taylour Paige), a waitress and exotic dancer who embarks on a road trip to Tampa, Florida with a new friend, Stefani (Riley Keough), also a stripper, one day after meeting her. During the weekend, Stefani and Zola face wild challenges, many caused by the former’s violent pimp, X (Colman Domingo).

Florida.Taylour Paige is phenomenal, for one.

“Succession.” But in his new movie “Zola,” the Emmy-nominated actor is switching out the rosé for Red Bull. Based on an infamous 2015 Twitter thread, the A24 flick, in theaters June 30, tells a mostly true version of a wild weekend gone wrong. Titular Zola (Taylour Paige), is a waitress from Detroit who is whisked down to Tampa, Florida, by her fast-friend Stefani (Riley Keough) with the promise of dancing for dollar bills.

The biblical story of Jesus is considered by many “the greatest story ever told”. In fact, it is so much so that there was a whole movie about the big J titled The Greatest Story Ever Told. Well, if there were a Twitter equivalent of the greatest story ever told, it would definitely be the Janicza Bravo-directed Zola (opening in theaters June 30).

Search and rescue efforts are ongoing after the collapse of the Champlain Towers condo in Surfside, Florida, and Puerto Rican billionaire Orlando Bravo is making a big contribution to those efforts.

Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards, Features EditorTaylour Paige was not familiar with A’Ziah “Zola” King when she auditioned to play her in “Zola,” the film based on King’s October 2015 viral Twitter thread, but she has since corresponded with her on social media.