Teyonah Parris on Transforming Into a ‘Hood Superhero’ for Netflix’s ‘They Cloned Tyrone’

Tim Chan If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Apple may claim the wireless earbuds throne with their bestselling AirPods, but Google isn’t that far behind these days with their popular Google Pixel Buds. First unveil in 2017, Google is now four-generations into their wireless earbuds, which offer a competitive AirPods alternative at a more affordable price.

Nia DaCosta is the director of The Marvels and is opening up about superhero movie fatigue and why her film is different from the rest.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director “Candyman” filmmaker Nia DaCosta is making her superhero directorial debut with Marvel’s upcoming “The Marvels,” a sequel to “Captain Marvel” that teams Brie Larson’s eponymous superhero with Teyonah Parris’ Monica Rambeau from “WandaVision” and Iman Vellani’s Kamala Khan from “Ms. Marvel.” It’s been a shaky year for comic book tentpoles, with Marvel’s own “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” and other films like “The Flash” and “Shazam! Fury of the Gods” flopping at the box office. Marvel is surely hoping “The Marvels” pans out more like “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

Real estate TV star Tarek El Moussa is coming under fire from residents on a street in North Hollywood, California, after he announced plans to make the “biggest flip ever” there with a massive building.

told the Los Angeles Times that attempts to arrange a meeting with Netflix — to demand that members be compensated with the same residual model as American members of SAG-AFTRA — have gone unanswered for months.“One of [Netflix’s] first priorities when entering the local market should be to establish some channel of communication with groups like us,” the country’s answer to Fran Drescher said.“But there’s no answer at all.”Residuals have recently been in the news as American actors and writers striking for fair compensation post their often insultingly meager checks, ranging from a single penny to a few dollars. As opposed to the royalties paid in broadcasting, residuals must be paid in perpetuity to actors in the United States, based on how many times their films and shows are streamed.

Jason Tartick wasn’t the only one who took to the mic following his and Kaitlyn Bristowe’s split. The former Bachelorette shed light on how she was handling the broken engagement — and navigating her followers’ reactions — on the Tuesday, August 8, episode of her “Off the Vine” podcast.

Is Taylor Swift a Heartstopper fan? The Netflix series’ executive producers think so after she allowed them to use her Folklore song “Seven” in the season 2 finale.

Netflix has dropped the first look images and teaser trailer for Spy Kids: Armageddon which introduces Gina Rodriguez and Zachary Levi’s family. Watch the preview in the video posted above.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Ridley Scott told Empire magazine that Joaquin Phoenix felt clueless two weeks before cameras were set to start rolling on their historical epic “Napoleon.” The film marks a long-in-the-works reunion between the director and the Oscar-winning actor, who worked together over two decades ago on “Gladiator.” Phoenix is headlining the film as the French emperor opposite Venessa Kirby as his wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais. “He’ll come in, and you’re fucking two weeks’ out, and he’ll say, ‘I don’t know what to do’,” Scott said about Phoenix. “I’ll say, ‘What?!’ ‘I don’t know what to do.’ Oh God.

Erykah Badu was not shy about naming John Boyega as her crush during a concert over the weekend.

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Teyonah Parris is making her natural hair part of every movie she’s in.

It is not in any way uncommon for two or more seemingly unrelated film genres to come together, at best resulting in, say, 2013’s time travel rom-com “About Time” and at worst something akin to 2011’s dust bowl intergalactic romp “Cowboys and Aliens.” A gritty street film with touches of comedy and a sci-fi angle that seemingly takes its cues from an abridged version of “Us” or “Happy Death Day?” Why not?  Continue reading ‘They Cloned Tyrone’ Review: Sci-Fi, Grit & Humor Mostly Work Together In This Interesting Experiment at The Playlist.

, Da Brat and Queen Latifah as well as many others reflect on the history of hip-hop through a female lens. According to Netflix, the series «recontextualizes the irrepressible women of hip-hop and their role in the genre’s 50 years by reinserting them into the canon where they belong: at the center, from day one to present day.» In addition to iconic emcees, up-and-coming artists, and current chart-toppers — including everyone from Rah Digga to Chika — the episodes will also include interviews with record label execs, stylists and journalists as they all recount the wider social, racial and political landscape of the time.«We have come through a lot.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic In America today, no one has a lock on conspiracy theory. It has become the air we breathe, the Kool-Aid we drink, the rabbit-hole ideology that defines too many of us. Yet conspiracy theories come in different shapes and sizes. Many are false, some are true. Many are bat-house crazy, some are more than plausible. All, in one way or another, work as metaphors: for the forces (within government, corporations, whatever) that collude in hiding things from us, for the sinister tantalizing truth that we aren’t allowed to see. “They Cloned Tyrone” is a slow-burn inner-city sci-fi nightmare thriller, one that plays off the spirit of conspiracy theory that has often thrived — with justification — within Black culture. The Tuskegee experiment was a conspiracy that happened; its horrific impact on the hearts and minds of African-Americans is beyond measure. And in the 1970s, the belief that the CIA, linked by the war in Vietnam to the Golden Triangle (the source of most of the world’s heroin), was dumping drugs into America’s inner cities was a notion that gained currency, culminating a decade later in the theory that the CIA was the hidden force behind the crack epidemic.

Buckle up for an extended sneak peek at the return of Captain Marvel.

is set to be the MCU's most thrilling team-up yet!A new trailer for the upcoming Marvel film — starring Brie Larson as Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel, Iman Vellani as Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel and Teyonah Parris as Captain Monica Rambeau — dropped on Friday, giving fans another look at the epic, quantum-jumping adventure.Zawe Ashton plays the film's antagonist, Dar-Benn, a Kree warrior seeking vengeance on Carol.«You took everything from me,» she tells her in the new clip, «and now I'm returning the favor.»After an encounter with Dar-Benn, Carol, Monica and Kamala start to realize that anytime they use their powers, they swap places with each other, which will make saving the world just a bit more complicated.«You can absorb light,» Monica tells Carol, «I can see it.

Marvel’s “Captain Marvel” made $1.13 billion back in 2019 before the pandemic. That’s a figure that Marvel is unlikely going to replicate these days, but they took a unique and interesting tact for the sequel.

Jamie Foxx uncover a government conspiracy in They Cloned Tyrone.Directed by Juel Taylor in his directorial debut, this genre-bending sci-fi comedy mystery was originally conceived as a homage to the Blaxploitation films of the 1970s.They Cloned Tyrone had a limited release in cinemas from July 14, before it was made available to stream on Netflix on July 21.The film, written by Taylor and Tony Rettenmaier, follows trio Fontaine (Boyega), Yo-Yo (Parris) and Slick Charles (Foxx) who uncover a government cloning conspiracy.A synopsis reads: “A series of eerie events thrusts an unlikely trio onto the trail of a nefarious government conspiracy in this pulpy mystery caper.”Describing the film to Empire, director Juel Taylor cited films like They Live, Groundhog Day, It Follows and Black Dynamite as influences. He added: “If The Truman Show drank a bottle of vodka, what would the outcome be?”“Me and my writing partner [Tony Rettenmaier] always joked about who would make the most ill-fitting detectives – the worst possible candidates to be thrust into the middle of a conspiracy,” Taylor said.They Cloned Tyrone has received largely positive reviews from critics, earning a 97 per cent score on Rotten Tomatoes at the time of writing.A trailer was released last month – you can check it out above.Other cast members include David Alan Grier, Kiefer Sutherland, J.

Marvel Studios has dropped the trailer for the upcoming movie The Marvels and it introduces us to the new villain Dar-Benn, played by Zawe Ashton!