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Oscar winner Regina King will portray America’s first Black Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm in the John Ridley written and directed feature Shirley which Participant will produce.

EXCLUSIVE: MPRM Communications has promoted Katie Jo Ash and Ellen Kuni to the roles of Account Supervisor, adding the pair to the senior team at the entertainment and media PR agency. The company also promoted Karen Tran Wood to Senior Account Executive, and Jenna Corradeno to Account Coordinator at the firm, which reps brands including AMC Networks, Bron Studios, Cinetic Media, John Ridley’s No Studios, Millennium Media, Mubi, NBC, Netflix and and RuPaul’s Drag Race among others.

Gordon Cox Theater EditorAfter winning an Academy Award for his screenplay of “12 Years a Slave” and creating the ABC series “American Crime,” John Ridley has a lot going on — from an upcoming Blumhouse paranormal thriller to a new Batman comic book.

DC Comics is showing fans a first look at a new Batman project that puts a whole new spin on the iconic character, with the Caped Crusader a person of colour for the first time ever.

Fans of comic books or the multitude of film franchises they’ve spurred will be hard-pressed to find a series as critically anticipated as “The Other History of the DC Universe.” The five-issue DC Black Label miniseries written by Oscar-winning screenwriter John Ridley (“12 Years a Slave,” “Guerrilla,” “American Crime”) is a run which delves deep into the backstories of DC’s most under-represented superheroes and heroines, all of whom carry histories which rival those of Peter Parker, Bruce

I have to be honest for a second. Every week or so, Apple announces a new project with another A-list filmmaker and/or cast, and it can be a bit exhausting.

Apple TV+ has ordered “Five Days At Memorial,” a limited series from Oscar-winner John Ridley and Emmy winner Carlton Cuse, which chronicles events in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.The pickup of the new series, based on the acclaimed non-fiction book by Pulitzer Prize winning author Sheri Fink, comes on the 15th anniversary of one of America’s worst natural disasters.“Five Days At Memorial,” from ABC Signature, chronicles the first five days in a New Orleans, LA, hospital after

John Ridley and Carlton Cuse will produce a limited series adaptation of “Five Days at Memorial,” Sheri Fink’s non-fiction book about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, for Apple TV+, the streaming service said Tuesday.Based on Fink’s 2013 novel of the same name, “Five Days At Memorial” takes place over “the first five days in a New Orleans, LA, hospital after Hurricane Katrina made landfall,” per Apple.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterJohn Ridley and Carlton Cuse are set to adapt Sheri Fink’s novel “Five Days at Memorial” for Apple as a limited series, Variety has learned.The book chronicles the first five days in a New Orleans, LA, hospital after Hurricane Katrina made landfall.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVApple TV+ has ordered Five Days At Memorial, a limited series from Oscar winner John Ridley and Emmy winner Carlton Cuse, which chronicles events in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.The pickup of the new series, based on the acclaimed non-fiction book by Pulitzer Prize winning author Sheri Fink, comes on the 15th anniversary of one of America’s worst natural disasters.Five Days At Memorial, from ABC Signature, chronicles the first five days in a

LOS ANGELES -- John Ridley will write the new Batman comic series with plans of the Dark Knight being a person of color. The Oscar-winning screenwriter and DC publisher Jim Lee announced plans for Ridley to write the miniseries during a DC FanDome virtual panel on Saturday.

A new Batman project promises to put a whole new spin on the iconic character, with the Caped Crusader to be a person of colour for the first time ever.

Recently, the idea of what films should and shouldn’t be seen and which should be accompanied by a warning has been debated quite a bit recently, most notably because of the issue with “Gone with the Wind.” That classic film was recently pulled from HBO Max due to John Ridley’s essay about how the film should be seen, but only if it is accompanied by something explaining the racist imagery and the context of the feature.

Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticOn the heels of last week’s rebroadcast of John Ridley’s powerful 2017 documentary , Let It Fall,  about the 1992 race riots in Los Angeles, ABC is again reaching into its vaults from 2017 for a re-broadcast tonight of the two hour special that aired on January 11th of that year called Taking  The Stage: African American Music and Stories that Changed America. a network special commemorating the opening of the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of

A version of this interview with John Ridley first appeared in the Limited Series & Movies issue of TheWrap’s Emmy magazine.John Ridley has been a leading voice in television for decades, earning two nominations in 2015 (and another the following year) for his ABC limited series “American Crime.” When the cultural and political landscape began to change in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer last month, we figured it was time to check back in with Ridley,

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorNBC’s summer duo of America’s Got Talent and World of Dance teamed to top Wednesday’s broadcast primetime, a night that included ABC’s re-airing of John Ridley’s seminal L.A. riots documentary Let It Fall.AGT scored a night-leading 1.3 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 8.44 million viewers, both on par with a week ago.

Almost every studio in Hollywood has a skeleton in its closet in regards to a film in its catalog that doesn’t stand up to the test of time. Disney has “The Song of the South,” as well as a lot of older cartoons with racist depictions of characters.

an article in the LA Times by John Ridley, Oscar-winning scriptwriter of 12 Years a Slave, in which he described it as “a film that, when it is not ignoring the horrors of slavery, pauses only to perpetuate some of the most painful stereotypes of people of color”.Ridley added: “At a moment when we are all considering what more we can do to fight bigotry and intolerance, I would ask that all content providers look at their libraries and make a good-faith effort to separate programming that might

Also Read: New Episodes of 'Live PD', 'Cops' Pulled Amid George Floyd ProtestsThe move comes just one day after a Los Angeles Times op-ed in which “12 Years a Slave” screenwriter John Ridley called on HBO to remove the film from streaming.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorLess than two weeks after launch, HBO Max has removed Gone With the Wind from its streaming offering. It’s a significant move given the film’s popularity and status as the highest-grossing movie of all time when box office numbers are adjusted for inflation.On Monday, Academy Award winning writer-director John Ridley (12 Years a Slave) called for the film’s removal from HBO Max, saying “It doesn’t just ‘fall short’ with regard to representation.

HBO Max is letting go of Gone With the Wind.

As scarce as Disney+ originals might be at the moment, Disney is apparently being picky about just what reaches its streaming service.

By Greg Evans

John Ridley has signed on to the untitled musical drama in the works at Showtime.

By Nellie Andreeva