Regina King: ‘Kingsley Ben-Adir was the best actor to play Malcolm X’

EXCLUSIVE: “You ready for tonight?” Malcom X asks Cassius Clay about his upcoming title bout with the dangerous Sonny Liston at the beginning of Kemp Powers’ screenplay for One Night In Miami. “I been training three years for this fight. I’m as ready as a person can be,” the soon to be Muhammad Ali replies with his well-known bombast.

Oscars this year, as the ceremony has now been pushed back to April, but that gives us plenty of time to deliberate over the top contenders for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor. Movies have been delayed due to Covid-19 since March 2020, and cinemas are currently closed again in the UK due to a third national lockdown, but there's plenty of exciting films available to stream on Amazon Prime and Netflix that could be vying for Oscar glory on 25 April.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefHong Kong-based boutique distributor Lightning International has acquired the U.K.’s documentary streaming service Docsville.Docsville was set up and launched in 2018 by award- winning documentary maker Lawrence Elman and Nick Fraser who had previously been a high-profile executive with the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Seth Rogen doesn’t exactly see eye to eye with Ted Cruz.

“It’s a beautiful story of brotherhood, just a display of Black men expressing themselves healthily in a space that we don’t get the opportunity to see Black men be,” says One Night In Miami director Regina King of what inspired her to make Kemp Powers’ play her feature directorial debut.

Joe Biden.The Texas senator took to Twitter to criticise Biden for rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement, writing “he’s more interested in the views of the citizens of Paris than in the jobs of the citizens of Pittsburgh.”He added: “This agreement will do little to affect the climate and will harm the livelihoods of Americans.”Rogen later hit back at Cruz, who wrote: “Fuck off you fascist” to which Cruz replied: “Charming, civil, educated response.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz‘s tweet about the Paris Climate Agreement and President Joe Biden‘s intention for the United States to rejoin the worldwide pact to reduce emissions is going viral and he’s being publicly called out by actor Seth Rogen.

Seth Rogen doesn’t exactly see eye to eye with Ted Cruz.

Regina King is celebrating her 50th birthday today, but that didn’t stop her continuing to promote her much-talked-about new film, “One Night in Miami”.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentAfter directing multiple TV episodes, Regina King makes her big-screen directing debut with Amazon’s “One Night in Miami.” Kemp Powers adapted his play about a 1963 meeting of Jim Brown, Cassius Clay (before he became Muhammad Ali), Sam Cooke and Malcolm X. King paid tribute to her colleagues behind the camera, saying, “They were my heroes.”“Tami and I connected immediately.

Muhammad Ali film that he spent years testing and months in active training for (he was to play Ali) that ended up losing its financing.“One Night in Miami...” was almost a missed opportunity, too. His agents first suggested him for Clay.

“One Night in Miami,” and now actor Regina King makes her directorial debut with an assured, electrifying film adaptation.

Regina King has seen the discourse. She knows that some pundits, critics, and others have criticized her new Best Picture contender, “One Night in Miami,” for feeling at times like a “filmed play.” In reality, screenwriter Kemp Powers did adapt his own play for the screen, but in her view, it’s reductive.

Kingsley Ben-Adir), football great Brown (Aldis Hodge), soul singer Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.) and the boxer then known as Cassius Clay (Eli Goree) — have gathered to celebrate the latter's championship win, though conversation quickly turns to race and responsibility, the men tussling over the best way to move forward and debating who is using their platform to what end.They are the same conversations heard online and at protests and hopefully in homes today.

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Regina King is all about the performance, not where an actor is from.

One Night In Miami director Regina King has said that she has no problem with British actors playing iconic U.S. characters as long as they invest in the part.

Naman Ramachandran “One Night in Miami” director Regina King has defended the casting of British actor Kingsley Ben-Adir as Malcolm X in her film.Delivering a BAFTA masterclass on Tuesday, King was in conversation with U.K. actor and presenter Reggie Yates, who questioned the director about her stance on the transatlantic casting debate.In “One Night in Miami,” Ben-Adir portrays the civil rights leader during an imagined evening with Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown and Sam Cooke.