Hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur will be the subject of a new documentary from “12 Years a Slave” director Steve McQueen. The authorized doc is being produced by Amaru Entertainment and Nigel Sinclair’s White Horse Pictures. Sinclair most recently produced the 2016 Ron Howard documentary “The Beatles: Eight Days a Week.”
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“I am extremely moved and excited to be exploring the life and times of this legendary artist,” McQueen said in a statement. “I attended Nyu film school in 1993 and can remember the unfolding hip-hop world and mine overlapping with Tupac’s through a mutual friend in a small way.”
Shakur’s recording career lasted just five years, but his records have sold more than 75 million copies. In December of 2016, it was announced that Shakur would become the first solo hip-hop artist to be...
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“I am extremely moved and excited to be exploring the life and times of this legendary artist,” McQueen said in a statement. “I attended Nyu film school in 1993 and can remember the unfolding hip-hop world and mine overlapping with Tupac’s through a mutual friend in a small way.”
Shakur’s recording career lasted just five years, but his records have sold more than 75 million copies. In December of 2016, it was announced that Shakur would become the first solo hip-hop artist to be...
- 5/9/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
After The Lobster seemed to re-energize Colin Farrell‘s career, he’s been on quite a streak. Along with two more projects with Yorgos Lanthimos, he’ll be seen this year in Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled and Dan Gilroy’s Inner City, and now he’s joining another one of our most-anticipated films. The New World actor will be taking part in Steve McQueen‘s crime drama Widows, according to Variety.
Based on the British television series, featuring a script co-written by Gone Girl‘s Gillian Flynn, Farrell joins Viola Davis, Cynthia Erivo, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Daniel Kaluuya, André Holland, and Liam Neeson. Following four widows who come together to finish a robbery after their crooked husbands are killed on the job, Farrell won’t be playing one of the husbands, which hints at a more substantial role. Rather, he’ll be playing the role of a politician...
Based on the British television series, featuring a script co-written by Gone Girl‘s Gillian Flynn, Farrell joins Viola Davis, Cynthia Erivo, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Daniel Kaluuya, André Holland, and Liam Neeson. Following four widows who come together to finish a robbery after their crooked husbands are killed on the job, Farrell won’t be playing one of the husbands, which hints at a more substantial role. Rather, he’ll be playing the role of a politician...
- 4/5/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
We’re still a while away from “Widows,” Steve McQueen’s highly anticipated follow-up to his Best Picture–winning “12 Years a Slave.” In the meantime, New Yorkers can visit the Museum of Modern Art beginning May 6 to see a digital projection of “Static,” a 35mm film McQueen made in 2009 to commemorate President Obama’s motion to reopen the Statue of Liberty to the public following its closure after 9/11.
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Here’s how MoMA describes the work, which came after “Hunger” and before “12 Years a Slave”: “Shot from a helicopter circling the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island, in New York Harbor, the film captures Lady Liberty both in furtive, detailed close-ups and from a greater remove. As suggested by the work’s title, the statue remains fixed, intended to be gazed at from afar, even...
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Here’s how MoMA describes the work, which came after “Hunger” and before “12 Years a Slave”: “Shot from a helicopter circling the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island, in New York Harbor, the film captures Lady Liberty both in furtive, detailed close-ups and from a greater remove. As suggested by the work’s title, the statue remains fixed, intended to be gazed at from afar, even...
- 3/29/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
This is another edition of Short Starts, where we present a weekly short film(s) from the start of a filmmaker or actor’s career. Before he started making features, like his new release 12 Years a Slave, Steve McQueen was a celebrated visual artist known primarily for film installations. His “short start” was 20 years ago with a 10-minute work called Bear, in which he and another black man wrestled in the nude. After that, he made the shorts Five Easy Pieces (1995), Just Above My Head (1996), Exodus (1997) and Deadpan (1997), the last of which involved a recreation of Buster Keaton’s famous falling house facade stunt from Steamboat Bill Jr. You can see an excerpt of that film, with McQueen pulling off the dangerous bit himself, here. While many of his shorts can be seen in the occasional museum exhibit, most are otherwise pretty rare. Meaning not available to be viewed online. There...
- 10/20/2013
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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