The 2021 auditions are over, and the Casting Society of America has unveiled the feature nominees for its 37th annual Artios Awards.
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Richard Williams became King Richard because of the lineage he cultivated. Will Smith plays the father to tennis sensations Venus (Saniyya Sidney) and Serena Williams (Demi Singleton) in the Warner Bros biopic. The real Williams sisters are executive producers along with their sister Isha Price.
Before they were born, Richard wrote a 78-page plan to train his daughters to become tennis champions. When Venus and Serena were children in the ‘90s, they practiced in Compton. The film shows how they made the most of rundown neighborhood tennis courts, and coped with nearby gangs interrupting their practice.
King Richard shows Richard approaching coaches and managers with videotapes of his daughters. Paul Cohen (Tony Goldywyn) and Rick Macci (Jon Bernthal) were two who took a chance on Venus. By 1994, she was competing with pros. That’s when Richard decided she’d take a break to focus on her education while she trained with Macci in Florida. By then, the sport was already hooked on her.
Meanwhile, Richard’s wife Oracine (Aunjanue Ellis) keeps training Serena. The film touches on some of the tensions Richard’s plan caused within the family, though history proved them validated. King Richard ends before Serena goes pro, but previews how she would exceed even her sister’s breakthroughs in the sport.
Zach Baylin wrote the script for director Reinaldo Marcus Green’s film, which opened November 19 in theaters and on HBO Max after playing the Telluride, BFI London, Chicago and AFI Fest among other fall festivals. Baylin’s screenplay is nominated for a Critics Choice Award. Smith won the
The 2021 auditions are over, and the Casting Society of America has unveiled the feature nominees for its 37th annual Artios Awards.
Like mother, like daughter! Serena Williams, 40, suggested her four-year-old daughter Olympia Ohanian might be the “next” tennis star in the family, when she posted a sweet photo of the pair sitting back-to-back on Instagram on Thursday January 27. In the new photo, which you can see here, the mom and daughter duo rocked matching pink sweatsuits, while they chilled on the ground on a tennis court.
Because the WGA created its award to be a prize for its members and those who write under its jurisdiction, a Writers Guild nomination is a less accurate predictor of Oscar success than noms from the other three major Hollywood guilds, the Screen Actors Guild, Producers Guild and Directors Guild.WGA rules restrict eligibility to screenplays that were written under the guild’s Minimum Basic Agreement or under a collective bargaining agreement from one of 11 affiliate guilds around the world. As usual, that rule disqualified a number of top screenplays this year, including “The Power of the Dog,” “Cyrano,” “Passing,” “The Lost Daughter,” “Drive My Car” and “Spider-Man: No Way Home” in the adapted-screenplay category and “Belfast,” “A Hero,” “The Hand of God,” “Parallel Mothers” and “Prayers for the Stolen” in original screenplay.“Belfast,” “The Power of the Dog” and “The Lost Daughter” in particular are strong favorites for Oscar nominations.In the documentary category, only three screenplays were nominated: “Being Cousteau,” “Exposing Muybridge” and “Like a Rolling Stone: The Life and Times of Ben Fong-Torres.”Winners will be announced at the WGA Awards on March 20, one week before the Oscars.The nominations: ORIGINAL SCREENPLAYBeing the Ricardos, Written by Aaron Sorkin;Amazon StudiosDon’t Look Up, Screenplay by Adam McKay, Story by Adam McKay & David Sirota; NetflixThe French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun, Screenplay by Wes Anderson, Story by Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola & Hugo Guinness & Jason Schwartzman;Searchlight PicturesKing Richard, Written by Zach Baylin; Warner Bros.
“King Richard” is much more of a character story than a sports film, but still were you concerned that the tennis looked different than watching ESPN?We thought about that a lot and we struggled with it. So we watched every tennis movie, even though there haven’t been a lot of them. There’s “Battle of the Sexes,” which is about Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs; there’s “Wimbledon,” which is a love story; there’s “Borg vs.
The Producers Guild has pulled back the curtain on the nominations for its 33rd annual PGA Awards, which cover theatrical motion pictures, animated features, TV series and specials and televised/streamed motion pictures. See the full list below.
Meghan Markle’s friends is teaming up with Prince Harry! It was announced on Jan. 26 that Serena Williams will join the Duke of Sussex for a conversation at BetterUp’s first annual Inner Work Day next month.
This story about Aunjanue Ellis first appeared in the Awards Preview issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.Late in 2020, Aunjanue Ellis shot her final scene in “King Richard,” the biopic that chronicles young Venus and Serena Williams’ rise to tennis superstardom. It was the last day of a production that, thanks to the pandemic lockdown of spring 2020, had stretched out for a year. And during that year, Ellis gave everything she had to honor the woman whose story she’d been entrusted with: the sisters’ quiet tiger of a mother, Oracene Price.
Chris Willman Music WriterNetflix’s epic Kanye West documentary, “Jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy,” will unfold in three feature-length parts, as the subtitle promises. (The first part premiered Sunday in the Sundance Film Festival, and gets a one-night theatrical release Feb.
pic.twitter.com/mgcMlPwHA0Mann wrote the crime novel with Edgar Award winner Meg Gardiner. This project represents Mann’s first novel as an author and the first novel from his imprint, Michael Mann Books, which has signed a multiyear, multimillion-dollar deal with William Morrow, a division of Harper Collins.The novel starts one day after the events of the film with a wounded Chris Shiherlis (played by Val Kilmer in the film) desperate to escape L.A.
EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Mackie has set his feature directorial debut with Spark. The drama will Saniyya Sidney as Claudette Colvin, an unsung pioneer of the Civil Rights era. Sidney is coming off a breakout performance as Venus Williams in King Richard. Mackie is producing with Kellon Akeem, Jason Michael Berman and Marc Ambrose.
Olympia Ohanian might only be 4 but she has an impressive backhand. The daughter of Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian has an Instagram account run by her parents. On Monday they uploaded a short clip of the future tennis star practicing on the court with the caption, “Practice makes progress.“ Serena and her sister Venus Williams began playing tennis when they were 3 and 4, so Olympia is right on schedule to follow in their footsteps.
Serena Williams' daughter, Olympia, is following in her famous mom's footsteps and she's unbelievable. The tennis champion posted a clip of the four-year-old practicing her backhand on Instagram. MORE: Serena Williams is a knockout in leather mini skirt - and you should see her shoes In the video, Olympia takes a swing at the ball and connects with power. Wearing a tracksuit and sneakers, the little girl looked like a mini version of Serena. WATCH: Serena Williams jokes her daughter may be a 'baby mozart' The clip was also shared on Olympia's Instagram feed with the caption: "Practice makes progress." Serena's sister Venus couldn't wait to comment and wrote: "It's Oracene all over again," making reference to their mom, who was also their coach when they were younger. Fans rushed to share how impressed they were and added: "Lil champ in the making already working hard," and, "wow she's amazing".MORE: Serena Williams' HUGE home gym has epic feature for daughter OlympiaSEE: Serena Williams looks unreal in jaw-dropping new swimsuit photoThis is by far the first tennis lesson Serena has given her daughter.
Serena Williams may have some stiff competition — courtesy of her daughter, Olympia.
A star in the making!
Serena Williams may have some stiff competition — courtesy of her daughter, Olympia. In a clip posted to her Instagram account, the 4-year-old shows off her skills on the tennis court with an impressive backstroke.“Practice makes progress,” the caption next to the video reads. Channeling her mother, the mini athlete lets out a powerful grunt as she sends the ball back across the net.