Tag: The Blackening
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Box Office: ‘The Flash’ Stumbles With Disastrous $55M Debut, ‘Elemental’ Continues Pixar Cold Streak
The Flash (review)- $55M Well, there go the hopes of more Ezra Miller as Barry Allen. This was always going to be an uphill climb for The Flash, after a couple of years of controversial headlines and serious allegations against the actor. But the $55M 3-day launch and $64M through the 4-day holiday is way…
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‘The Blackening’ Interview: Tim Story On Directing The Horror-Comedy And Challenging Genre Tropes
Go ahead and predict what Tim Story will do next, I dare ya. One of the reasons Story is an interesting filmmaker to keep an eye on is that he’s done pretty much everything. This is the same guy who gave us two live-action Fantastic Four movies in the pre-MCU era. He’s also directed loads…
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‘The Blackening’ Trailer: A Juneteenth Celebration Turns Bloody In Hilarious New Horror-Comedy
You know the joke: in horror movies it’s always the Black character who dies first. Well, what happens when everyone is Black? That’s the hilarious question at the center of The Blackening, a horror-comedy that made a splash at TIFF for its outrageous look at Black horror movies in a post-Get Out landscape. Directed by…
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‘The Blackening’ Trailer: Tim Story’s Horror-Comedy Has Black Characters Trying To Survive A Genre Trope
You know the joke; Black people in horror movies are always the ones to die first. But what happens when all of the characters are Black? Tim Story’s new horror-comedy, The Blackening, is coming to answer that hot-button question this Juneteenth weekend. Starring Antoinette Robertson, Dewayne Perkins, Sinqua Walls, Grace Byers, X Mayo, Melvin Gregg,…