School is back in session for “Dear White People.” Netflix has renewed the series for a Season 2, with creator Justin Simien and the cast announcing the news on Friday during a panel at the Essence Festival in New Orleans. Production on the 10-episode second season is set to commence later this year. Yvette Lee Bowser returns as showrunner, while Stephanie Allain and Julia Lebedev continue as executive producers. Also Read: 'Sense8' Fans Ecstatic Over Resurrection: 'We Are Going to Have the End We Deserve!' The show, which launched its first season in April, stars Logan Browning (Sam White...
- 6/30/2017
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Wrap
Playing the host of the incendiary campus radio show Dear White People on the must-watch Netflix series of the same name, breakout star Logan Browning has gotten a crash course in getting her point across in as direct a way as possible. After watching her deliver the truth tea to the naively racist students of Winchester University as budding activist Sam White throughout Dear White People's 10-episode first season, we wanted to give Logan herself the chance to deliver a few messages of her own. So when E! News' Zuri Hall met the actress for a chat at Paint and Sip Studios La, she asked Logan how her Dear... message would begin to a handful of Hollywood's biggest stars. From Beyonce to Bieber, she...
- 5/6/2017
- E! Online
Colandrea “Coco” Conners Coco (Antoinette Robertson) may come off as bougie and lowkey self-hating at first, but there’s a lot more to her we don’t immediately see. Coco is still woke af, but she’s been through so much already in her life simply due to being black that she’s chosen to survive instead of being super revolutionary and fighting the power all the time. Reggie Green Reggie is probably the chillest dude on the show. Most of the time, he’s just minding his own business and in his feelings over Sam White. He’s also...
- 5/3/2017
- by Rasha Ali
- The Wrap
“Dear White People” will be heard, and we’re not just talking about Sam White’s incredible radio show central to the Netflix series.While the show ought to create dialogue amongst all viewers, it’s also riveting viewing — wickedly funny, terrifyingly poignant and always entertaining.
Listen to the Spotify playlist below for songs that reflect the range of tones in the college-set satire. Whether you’re striding around campus, playing some post-coital Candy Crush or just chilling all by your lonesome, these are the perfect tunes to set the mood. Or put it on during cocktails before your next “Defamation” Wednesday viewing party. We won’t judge (and may even have called someone a “bitch baby” just last week).
Read More: ‘Dear White People’: Why the ‘Scandal’ Parody Isn’t Just Fun But an Essential Part of the Show
“Dear White People” picks up where the 2014 film left off,...
Listen to the Spotify playlist below for songs that reflect the range of tones in the college-set satire. Whether you’re striding around campus, playing some post-coital Candy Crush or just chilling all by your lonesome, these are the perfect tunes to set the mood. Or put it on during cocktails before your next “Defamation” Wednesday viewing party. We won’t judge (and may even have called someone a “bitch baby” just last week).
Read More: ‘Dear White People’: Why the ‘Scandal’ Parody Isn’t Just Fun But an Essential Part of the Show
“Dear White People” picks up where the 2014 film left off,...
- 5/2/2017
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
The highly anticipated film-turned-series, “Dear White People” is finally set to hit Netflix at the end of the month. The series, which follows Sam White (Logan Browning) and the other Black students at the fictional Ivy League Winchester University, is… Continue Reading →...
- 4/14/2017
- by Aramide A. Tinubu
- ShadowAndAct
Indie favorite (and former IndieWire Project of the Year Winner) “Dear White People” is making the transition from feature to television series, and fans of the original are looking forward to seeing what happens when Justin Simien’s tale of race relations becomes a serialized narrative.
Read More: All of IndieWire’s Netflix press event coverage
Fortunately they won’t have to wait too long, as Netflix announced Wednesday that the first season of the series, which includes episodes directed by the recently Oscar-nominated Barry Jenkins (“Moonlight”), will premiere this spring, on April 28, 2017. The new version of Simien’s 2014 tale stars Logan Browning, Antoinette Robinson and Brandon P. Bell (the latter returning to the role he played in the original film) as college students processing racial prejudice on a college campus.
Simien told IndieWire last year that selling “Dear White People” to Netflix was a breeze compared to his experience...
Read More: All of IndieWire’s Netflix press event coverage
Fortunately they won’t have to wait too long, as Netflix announced Wednesday that the first season of the series, which includes episodes directed by the recently Oscar-nominated Barry Jenkins (“Moonlight”), will premiere this spring, on April 28, 2017. The new version of Simien’s 2014 tale stars Logan Browning, Antoinette Robinson and Brandon P. Bell (the latter returning to the role he played in the original film) as college students processing racial prejudice on a college campus.
Simien told IndieWire last year that selling “Dear White People” to Netflix was a breeze compared to his experience...
- 2/8/2017
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
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Blame Angry Birds: Fruit Ninja is now on its way to the movies...
Classic films sometimes come out of nowhere. The makers of The Wizard of Oz didn't know they'd made a classic until years after the movie debuted to a lackluster box office. King Kong never thought he'd play outside Skull Island. But an upcoming cinematic experience will show there ain't no ape in apricot.
Fruit Ninja is coming to the big screen. Now you can watch as someone wildly makes a fruit salad out of miles of digital celluloid. In anticipation of the all popcorn crumbs Angry Birds will be leaving in the aisles, Tripp Vinson announced it will produce a feature film treatment of the mobile app Fruit Ninja.
The addictive game already spawned a live action version from a YouTuber named ScottDW but this one will come from Vinson Films. The screenplay...
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Blame Angry Birds: Fruit Ninja is now on its way to the movies...
Classic films sometimes come out of nowhere. The makers of The Wizard of Oz didn't know they'd made a classic until years after the movie debuted to a lackluster box office. King Kong never thought he'd play outside Skull Island. But an upcoming cinematic experience will show there ain't no ape in apricot.
Fruit Ninja is coming to the big screen. Now you can watch as someone wildly makes a fruit salad out of miles of digital celluloid. In anticipation of the all popcorn crumbs Angry Birds will be leaving in the aisles, Tripp Vinson announced it will produce a feature film treatment of the mobile app Fruit Ninja.
The addictive game already spawned a live action version from a YouTuber named ScottDW but this one will come from Vinson Films. The screenplay...
- 5/20/2016
- Den of Geek
On the eve of the release of the "Angry Birds" film, Halfbrick Studios and producer Tripp Vinson's Vinson Films banner are teaming to turn the mobile app game "Fruit Ninja" into a live-action family comedy feature.
"Fruit Ninja" has had over one billion downloads so far. The popular game centers around ninjas with an inexplicable vendetta against produce, and is the second top-selling iOS game of all time.
Jp Lavin and Chad Damiani ("How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack") will pen the script while Sam White and Tara Farney are serving as executive producers.
Source: Heat Vision...
"Fruit Ninja" has had over one billion downloads so far. The popular game centers around ninjas with an inexplicable vendetta against produce, and is the second top-selling iOS game of all time.
Jp Lavin and Chad Damiani ("How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack") will pen the script while Sam White and Tara Farney are serving as executive producers.
Source: Heat Vision...
- 5/20/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
One would be forgiven for thinking a movie called Annihilation sounds a little too close for comfort to a cataclysmic retread in the vein of Batman v. Superman. And if someone told you that all signs currently point to Oscar Isaac joining the cast, you’d politely let them know that they must be thinking of the also very loud sounding X-Men: Apocalypse, where he’ll join fellow motion captors and prosthetic prisoners Lupita Nyong’o, Josh Brolin, and Idris Elba in what sounds like the cell to be! in franchise jail. But no earplugs necessary, just your rapt attention, because Annihilation is writer/director Alex Garland’s follow-up feature to Ex Machina and a rousing science fiction thriller by the sound of it. Per Variety - not only is Isaac set to partner up for another dance with the director but join what is already shaping up to be...
- 3/31/2016
- by Daniel Crooke
- FilmExperience
Dear White People is writer/director Justin Simien’s clever and provocative take on how young black students cope with the issue of assimilation on the majority white (fictional) Winchester University campus. The title refers to a radio show hosted by Sam White (played by the excellent Tessa Thompson), a militant student, who delights in slinging bon mots at the collective white student body. She comes up with witticisms such as “Dear White people: the minimum requirement of black friends needed to not seem racist has just been raised to two.” And then tops it off with, “Sorry, but your weed man, Tyrone, does not count.” Other sharp-tongued epithets include: “Dear White People, dating a black person just to p-ss off your parents is itself a form of racism,” and “even if Obama cured cancer, white people would still be enraged with him. And he’s only half black.
- 2/2/2015
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
I loved "Dear White People" so much that I started writing this article on the way home from the screening. Addressing racial conflicts on a fictional Ivy League campus, it's easily one of the best films I've seen this year: angry, confrontational, and funny. It's clear and concise, but impossible to reduce to a single idea, and also full of empathy for its characters, which elevates it above a mere polemic – but don't get me wrong, it's a hell of a polemic. Even if it's a long shot, it belongs in the awards conversation. It opens in theaters on October 17. -Break- Photo Gallery: Black Performers and Filmmakers at the Oscars The film takes its title from an on-campus radio show hosted by Sam White (Tessa Thompson), an anarchist who aggressively and unapologetically discusses the lingering racism of "post-racial" America, which makes university administrators, her white peers, and even some of...
- 10/15/2014
- Gold Derby
With Halloween fast approaching, 'tis the season for a good themed party. But based on the red-band trailer for Dear White People, it looks like some people didn't get the "good" memo. Tessa Thompson (For Colored Girls) stars as Sam White, the fiery DJ of a radio station at a fictional Ivy League college who has a couple of problems with some things in her mostly white student body and uses her radio platform to get the message out. Example - "Dear white people, stop dancing." But after a group of students decide to throw a controversially themed party in response,...
- 10/8/2014
- by Jake Perlman
- EW - Inside Movies
Justin Simien’s debut feature, Dear White People, has been one of the most buzzed about films in Park City, earning the Sundance Festival's Special Jury Prize for Breakthrough Talent at Saturday's awards ceremony. A fan favorite from the start for not shying away from the taboo, the feature film grew from a concept trailer that was eventually funded partially by the crowd-sourcing platform IndieGogo.
Set at the fictional Ivy-League-like Winchester University, this multi-protagonist tale centers on Sam White (Tessa Thompson), a biracial student with a radio show that puts...
Set at the fictional Ivy-League-like Winchester University, this multi-protagonist tale centers on Sam White (Tessa Thompson), a biracial student with a radio show that puts...
- 1/26/2014
- Rollingstone.com
Screen Australia, the Australian screen funding body has announced the support of 14 multi-platform projects.
Among the projects is an app based on ABC kids show DirtGirlWorld as well as a film noir motion comic, interactive documentary and augmented reality app.
The projects, are supported through the Digital Ignition funds and Multi-platform Production, formerly titled All Media Production.
The funds supports digital and small screen narrative content in both linear and non linear forms.
Between the two programs, 89 applications were received with 27 applications for Multi-platform production and 62 for Digital Ignition.
In a statement, Screen Australia’s chief executive Ruth Harley said: “We’re thrilled with the volume and quality of applications we received as awareness grows of our support for content creators to capitalise on the fast-moving digital landscape.”
“We have both new talent and established players collaborating and telling stories through interactive documentary, games, web series, apps and multi-platform television.
Among the projects is an app based on ABC kids show DirtGirlWorld as well as a film noir motion comic, interactive documentary and augmented reality app.
The projects, are supported through the Digital Ignition funds and Multi-platform Production, formerly titled All Media Production.
The funds supports digital and small screen narrative content in both linear and non linear forms.
Between the two programs, 89 applications were received with 27 applications for Multi-platform production and 62 for Digital Ignition.
In a statement, Screen Australia’s chief executive Ruth Harley said: “We’re thrilled with the volume and quality of applications we received as awareness grows of our support for content creators to capitalise on the fast-moving digital landscape.”
“We have both new talent and established players collaborating and telling stories through interactive documentary, games, web series, apps and multi-platform television.
- 6/15/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Ah, the First Person Shooter. Known by - and commonly refered too - as the Fps, there can be no doubt that in recent years, it is the genre that has reigned supreme. Month after month; year after year; quinquennium after quinquennium - no matter the length, the Fps has continued to evolve, pushing both its boundaries and the controversy surrounding to unparalled heights. In the last ten years alone, we have witnessed some of the most ground-breaking releases within the sector - from the console exclusives of Halo and Killzone, to the multi-platform favourites such as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Bioshock - and, with the likes of Killzone 3, Crysis 2, and Homefront all due within the next few months, it would appear that consumer interest in the Fps remains high.
However, while the demand remains consistent, there is one particular question that has continued to cause debate and...
However, while the demand remains consistent, there is one particular question that has continued to cause debate and...
- 2/26/2011
- Shadowlocked
2010 proved a fairly rewarding year for the videogame industry. With the likes of Call of Duty: Black Ops, Red Dead Redemption and Mass Effect 2 all gracing our consoles at some point, the year past really has offered us sublime choice in a number of different gaming genres and has proved that, unlike its cinematic brethren, the industry is still rife with originality...
10: Homefront
Due for release:
March 8, 2011 (Na) / March 10, 2011 (Aus) / March 11, 2011 (EU) / April 29, 2011 (Jp)
A title that’s sure to be as controversial as it is popular, Homefront maps out the fictional scenario of a Korean invasion (and subsequent conquering) of the USA. Set in 2027, Homefront promises both shock and intrigue, taking the gamer through its hauntingly realistic environment whilst providing a truly captivating storyline. The game has been on my radar since I stumbled across its breathtaking trailer and, as a gamer that sees a gripping storyline as...
10: Homefront
Due for release:
March 8, 2011 (Na) / March 10, 2011 (Aus) / March 11, 2011 (EU) / April 29, 2011 (Jp)
A title that’s sure to be as controversial as it is popular, Homefront maps out the fictional scenario of a Korean invasion (and subsequent conquering) of the USA. Set in 2027, Homefront promises both shock and intrigue, taking the gamer through its hauntingly realistic environment whilst providing a truly captivating storyline. The game has been on my radar since I stumbled across its breathtaking trailer and, as a gamer that sees a gripping storyline as...
- 1/2/2011
- Shadowlocked
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