Idris Elba is planning to relax for his 50th birthday. The 'Three Thousand Years of Longing' actor celebrates the milestone birthday on Tuesday (06. 09.
17.08.2022 - 20:55 / variety.com
Clayton Davis Idris Elba is undeniably the star of Will Packer’s latest movie, “Beast,” but the family story at the heart of Universal’s release was a big draw for the producer who previously shepherded “Girls Trip.” In the movie, debuting in theaters Aug. 19, Elba plays Nate Samuels, a recently widowed doctor who returns to South Africa with his two teenage daughters (Iyana Halley and Leah Sava Jeffries) and must fight to survive from a man-hunting lion.Packer sought to offer a balance for the late summer movie calendar.
“I loved the idea that it just happens to be a Black family in peril,” Packer says. “It’s not just about man versus beast – it’s a man protecting his daughters.
It’s universal in those themes.” Under his banner company of Will Packer Productions, “Beast” is another notch on the mogul’s belt for amplifying Black women as demonstrated by his past features such as “Girls Trip” (2017) with Tiffany Haddish and “The Photograph” (2020) with Issa Rae, both distributed Universal.The sisters are stricken by paralyzing fear of the carnivore’s relentless pursuit in the movie. Halley portrays Meredith, a college-bound photographer that harbors resentment toward her father for separating from her mother prior to her death, while Jeffries is Norah, a sweet and curious girl unafraid to stand up to her big sister or stab a lion that’s trying to get under their cliff-dangling vehicle.“We’re both brown skinned, dark-skinned girls and we’re leading a movie, and it’s not anything that’s degrading,” Halley says.Jeffries, who also has a major role as the daughter of a Greek goddess in the upcoming Disney+ adaptation of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians,” revels in the opportunity to play diverse roles.
Idris Elba is planning to relax for his 50th birthday. The 'Three Thousand Years of Longing' actor celebrates the milestone birthday on Tuesday (06. 09.
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Idris Elba was quick to apologise to Rochelle Humes on Friday during his appearance on This Morning. The Hollywood star joined Rochelle and her co-host Vernon Kay in the ITV studio to chat about his new movies as well as his new skincare line.
Idris Elba doesn’t want to be pigeonholed has just a Brit.
Idris Elba is speaking out.
Zack Sharf The upcoming Whitney Houston biopic “I Wanna Dance Somebody” stars BAFTA-winning actor Naomi Ackie as the legendary singer, which means the debate over Black British actors taking roles away from American actors is bound to resurface. The debate surged in 2017 after Samuel L. Jackson called out Daniel Kaluuya’s casting in “Get Out,” for which the actor earned an Oscar nomination. “I tend to wonder what that movie would have been with an American brother who really feels that,” Jackson said. In a new interview on “The Shop” (via The Root), Idris Elba railed against the claim that Black British actors are takes roles away from American actors. Naomi Ackie’s role in “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” served as a launching pad for the discussion. Talk show host Maverick Carter asked Elba about Ackie’s casting, noting that Black American women might criticize a Black British actor playing an American icon.
Beast, Idris Elba has spoken out about the devastating impact of animal poaching.In the film, Elba plays an ordinary father who must protect himself and his two daughters from a massive rogue lion in the Savanna.Speaking exclusively to NME, the actor explained how the survival thriller attempts to raise awareness of poaching, as well as the risks of taking animals out of their natural habitats.“There’s a real big problem with poaching in the rest of the world. Not just Africa,” he said.
Idris Elba is all about his fans!
Beast (★★☆☆☆) pulls up with a man vs. beast premise straight out of Cujo.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter“Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero” topped the box office in its debut, beating expectations by collecting an impressive $21 million in North American ticket sales.The anime film, playing on 3,007 screens, is backed by the production company Crunchyroll, which specializes in Japanese anime film and television. “Super Hero” is a necessary bright spot in an otherwise dreary August at the movies.
Idris Elba is sharing the tense environment he lived through after his daughter Isan didn’t land a role in his latest movie Beast for lack of chemistry on camera.
according to IMDB’s Box Office Mojo.The Japanese animated adventure film is expected to take in $21 million during its first weekend in theaters, according to Variety.The Idris Elba-led “Beast,” roared into second place, earning close to $4.3 million in sales in its debut. A survival story of a family who gets stalked by a lion in South Africa, the movie “makes you miss ‘Anaconda,'” The Post quipped.“Bullet Train” slowed down to third place after spending two weeks in the No.
The new movie Beast is now in theaters and we caught up with actress Iyana Halley to learn more about her!
Jordan Moreau With no major movies on the horizon, the summer slowdown as continued at the box office. Universal’s action movie “Beast,” starring Idris Elba,” picked up just $925,000 in Thursday previews after launching in 2,900 theaters.
Zack Sharf Idris Elba stars in “Beast” as a father trying to protect his two daughters from a ferocious lion on a South African nature preserve. It turns out Elba’s 20-year-old daughter auditioned to play one of his character’s daughters in the film, but she failed to land the role because her chemistry with her father “wasn’t right.” According to Elba, she stopped speaking to him for three weeks after she lost out on the role.“She wants to be an actress and she auditioned,” Elba said on “The Breakfast Club” (via Insider).
Idris Elba) and his two young daughters (Leah Sava Jeffries and Iyana Halley)? Evil poachers offed the big cat’s pride, he snapped and went rogue.Running time: 93 minutes. Rated <br>Rated R (violent content, bloody images and some language.) In theaters.I don’t recall ever feeling bad for the deadly creatures in “Jaws” or “Anaconda” or “Lake Placid.” But my heart went out to this poor, murderous, widower lion hellbent on avenging the death of cute cubs and lionesses.Yet, this is a film along the lines of the above trio (in an early scene one of Nate’s daughters even wears a “Jurassic Park” T-shirt) where we need to want man (the good ones, anyway) to win.
Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticNo animals were harmed in the making of “Beast.” Frankly, it doesn’t look like any animals were even used in the making of “Beast,” but if you can get past the idea that the two-ton lion threatening Idris Elba and his family in the movie is a singularly frightening combination of ones and zeros, not killer instinct and claws, then “Beast” is a blast.A white-knuckle “When Animals Attack!” movie in the tradition of “Jaws” and “Anaconda,” this big-budget, big-screen release features A-list actors — OK, actor, singular — and a director who knows what he’s doing: Icelandic ace Baltasar Kormákur, who cut his teeth on such nightmare-inducing man-against-nature films as “Everest” and “Adrift.” Here, the threat is a very big, very angry African cat, understandably agitated after a group of poachers slaughtered his pride, that has decided to kill every human that crosses his path. Seriously, the body count in this movie is off the charts.