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Executive producers Gina Prince-Bythewood, Reggie Rock Bythewood and co-showrunners Raphael Jackson Jr. and Damione Macedon were at Deadline's Contenders TV event Saturday to discuss the historical importance of showing Black stories onscreen in the latest season National Geographic's anthology series Geni…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures’ adaptation of Tomi Adeyemi’s novel Children of Blood and Bone is gaining momentum. Deadline is hearing The Woman King director Gina Prince-Bythewood is coming on to helm. Prince-Bythewood will develop the next pass of a draft penned by Adeyemi. Wyck Godfrey and Marty…

Director-writer Gina Prince-Bythewood, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Mexico City Governor Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo will be the recipients of the Motion Picture Association’s MPA Awards. The event, to take place in June at the MPA headquarters in Washington, was started last year to…

With just the CW left tomorrow, the near-talent-free upfronts are winding down, and shows are still being shuttered in New York City, while on the picket lines in LA there was Mariachism, tacos, tunes and some Mandalorians to galvanize the troops. On the 16th day of the Writers Guild strike, picket…

UPDATED with latest: Day 3 of the Writers Guild of America strike against Hollywood studios dealt with a few L.A. rain showers but continued strong turnout at 10 Los Angeles locations as well as at Silvercup Studios and Seret Studios in New York City. Much of the conversation in L.A. was about…

For director Gina Prince-Bythewood, making the historical epic The Woman King was a dream come true. Despite dealing with a seven-year-long development process, Prince-Bythewood was determined to prove that Hollywood stories centering on powerful Black women deserve to be seen. Based on a real all-female…

EXCLUSIVE: The Black Film Critics Circle has voted The Woman King its Best Film of 2022, Danielle Deadwyler Best Actress for Till and Brendan Fraser as Best Actor for The Whale. Gina Prince-Bythewood won Best Director for The Woman King. BFCC co-president Mike Sargent revealed the winners Thursday…

When filmmaker Gina Prince-Bythewood met with editors for her 2000 debut feature Love & Basketball, she was looking for someone she’d “want to go to war with” — someone who saw and appreciated her vision and would be “in the fight” with her to protect it. This and so much more, she found in Terilyn…

I was joined at today's Contenders Film LA3C event by the key people behind the hit epic The Woman King, which was just named to the prestigious list of AFI's Top 10 Movies of the Year. It also scored a rare A+ Cinemascore during its opening weekend in September, proving it has not only critical acclaim…

With a diverse filmography that so far includes such notable films as Love & Basketball, The Secret Life of Bees, Beyond the Lights, and The Old Guard, director Gina Prince-Bythewood has made her most critically acclaimed and audience-pleasing film yet with…

The Gotham Film & Media Institute has set The Woman King filmmaker Gina Prince-Bythewood and Audible, Inc.’s Founder and Executive Chairman Don Katz as the latest pair of honorees to be feted at the 32nd annual Gotham Awards, taking place live and in person at NYC’s Cipriani Wall Street on November…

American Cinema Editors has announced it will honor The Woman King director Gina Prince-Bythewood with its ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award at the 73rd annual ACE Eddie Awards, taking place within UCLA’s Royce Hall on March 5, 2023. The Golden Eddie is an award recognizing an artist who…