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The announcement of the “Children of Blood and Bone” casting led to some mixed reactions in social media

The forged of the upcoming film adaptation of the best-selling “Children of Blood and Bone” by Tom Adeyemi “Children of Blood and Bone” directed by Gina Prince-Hydnood, because Paramount Pictures is blindly starling.
The release date was set for January 15, 2027 in cinemas and IMAX.
Cast, Wednesday was announcedIt presents the black Hollywood A-Listers in roles, including Sohoo Medu as the character of the LED film Zelie, Amandla Stenberg as Princess Amari, Damson Idris as Prince Inan, Tosin Cole as Tzain, Viola Davis as the mother of Agba, Cynthia Erivo as Admiral Kaea, Idris Elba As Lashan Lashan Lynch as Jumoke and Chiwetel Ejiofor as King Sarań.
The story of the Chronicle of the Epician Travel Zelie, who’s trying to regain the magic King Saran stole her village. Because history is just not only a black epic fantasy, but additionally one which supports the Nigerians – more precisely Joruba – culture, a really anticipated casting stimulated mixed reactions of online fans.
“I want to talk about a casting for children and bones, but I’m afraid that some of you are not ready for this conversation”, influential Fumi Ford He wrote about the threads.
Fans connecting on the web raised concerns, mainly about the age of the forged, because the book concerns children, as the title suggests.
“There are no children in the movie called The Children of Blood and Bone”, the user Posted to X.
Since the forged in the forged he strongly presents black American and black British actors, others have noticed the potential of unsuccessful Nigerian accents.
“We are about to testify to the most glaring” African “accents that look that children and bones are really laughing” One online user said.
Other in addition“They will have families in British, South African, Kenyan and Jorubach accents right away, I just know it.”
There are also fans who had an issue with the forged of Stenberg as a personality who’s a dark skin a black girl who stands in the face of colours in the book.
“I hope that children and bones could do amazing things for young black actors,” the user began In the post on x. “Do you throw a dark -skinned man to play the lightest colorful character in the series, but a biographal woman who plays her sister, who faces the color too darker? Biblical levels of misoginoir. “
Despite the slack, Stenberg’s casting is a rather full circuit. Some may remember when the writer of the book, Tomi Adeyemi, explained a big part of her inspiration to write a book that was originally published in March 2018, comes from the response to the world to Stenberg’s casting in the series “Hunger Games Games”.
“I am a person who motivates anger, so I thought:” Oh wounds, I’ll write a story that’s so good and black that everybody could have to read it, even when you are racist, “said Adeyemi Entertainment every week then. “It became my writing mission.”
There was also a confusion around how this forged was created. In November 2024 Prince-Bytood published an open conversation Only for actors living in Nigeria, but it surely was not represented in the casting announcement. But according to DiversityNot all casting has been confirmed (for instance, Regina King is supposedly in negotiations about the role of Queen Nehanda), including from an open casting in Nigeria, something that concerned the writer of the book, Adeyeem.
“Soon we will share subsequent Nigerian castings and results from an open connection,” he wrote in Adeyemi in the signature Post on Instagram Casting announcement.
Not everyone was dissatisfied with the casting. Many, including Adeye, have fun online casting.
“Ooooowweeeee !!!! Star-Studded is an understatement, “wrote the user under Adeyeem’s post.
On the threadsAnother said: “To be honest, the only thing that maintains me is that children and bones reveal. At least you can wait. “

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Lizzo to the star as a legend of Rosetta Tharpe music in the new biography

Lizzo enters the acting world, respecting one of the real pioneers of music.
This week, the award-winning Grammy announced its foremost acting debut in the upcoming Amazon MGM Studios “Rosetta” film, in which she is going to take the role of sister Rosetta Tharpe-Lenderska Singer Gospel and electric guitar Trailblazer with an electrical guitar, which was “Godmother of Rock and Roll”. Lizzo, known for its sound and an unadological genre, Lizzo enlivens the groundbreaking story of Tharpe on the screen.
“Black people did rock n roll yeaaah,” Lizzo wrote on Instagram, Splashing warehouse. “Finally, I am not very excited and honored.”
Born in 1915, Tharpe was the daughter of cotton collectors who were dedicated members of the Cogical Faith. At the age of six, she was already a wonderful musical, traveling around the country playing the guitar and singing at church conventions.
Up to 23 Tharpe has developed its characteristic style of BOP and Electric guitar, winning her distinctions and a probability to record music. Her hit song “Rock Me” influenced future rock legends, such as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Little Richard and others.

Inspired by the real events of “Rosetta,” will discover key moments in Tharpe’s life when she moved social restrictions, her sexuality and a breakthrough musical profession.
Although this implies the first role of Lizzo, it just isn’t her for the first time on the big screen. In 2019, she played “Hustlers”, and in 2023 she made a stage in “Mandalorian”.
Amazon MGM Studios has not yet announced the release date of the film.
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The star of “Tythera Perry” Tyler Lepley about what he can’t wait for the audience to see the most in the new thriller

“Tyther Perry’s duba, officially fell on Amazon Prime today, but before the film landed on a streaming service, the solid gathered at the star premiere.
On Tuesday evening, Tyler Perry, film stars and more descended on the red carpet in front of the Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, including the star “London” Egypt Sherrod, designer Brandon Blackwood, star Bravo Nick Arrington and tv host Sherri Shepherd.
He added that after the loans returned, viewers probably “continue the conversation, which we must continue.”
“No matter what we go through, and no matter how felt we are always shown from it,” the actor continued, “we never go anything, you know and whether it is police brutality or everything we see in this film, our story always deserves to be listened to.”
“Tyther Perry’s duba, follows the story of Marley, a high -power prosecutor, who’s looking for the truth after his friend’s husband is shot and killed by the police during the unarmed police. Soon, nevertheless, he realizes that history has rather more than the eye.
Lepley added that things in history really change in the third act.
“When you see this flap, you must stick to your britches,” he said.
In the film in which Graham, Lepley, Meagan Tandy, Ronreaco Lee, Joshua Adeyeye, Nick Barrotta, Jimi Stanton and Shannon Lanier, was shot for two weeks. When the film is shot in such a short while, Lepley said: “You really have to come to work.”
Perry reflecting fans are already excited about the film and predict what they loved in his exaggerated dramas. Sherri Shepherd, leading the talk show, who was amongst the participants of the red carpet, gushed about her waiting for a thriller.
“I love thrillers,” she said. “As long as you do not pull out anyone’s eyes. But thrillers that make me think psychological thrillers, yes, I love them.”
She noticed that the last thriller she remembered was Perry’s film in 2024 “Divorce in Czarna” with the participation of Meagan Good.
She added that “she always loves it when Tyler Perry calls me and asks me to show myself to support him because she supports me all the time.” She also shared the emotion of the leading men of the film.
“I love Tyler, but I also love them,” she fed.

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Jonathan Majors is on the redemption route. For what he will not say

Throughout the entire implosion of his Hollywood profession, from His arrest almost exactly two years ago to harass him and beliefs about the assault, Jonathan Majors He claimed that he never hit a lady.
But on Monday, when Majors was during the return of the PR trial and pressure, which turned him to the covers of the magazine, Rolling Stone published audio recording of conversations between the major and Grace Jabbari. Majors was found guilty of 1 assault allegation and one violation of the harassment To the Jabbari strike In the head with an open hand and breaking the middle finger, squeezing him.
“I threatened you,” admits Majors in the recording, confirming her description, which stewed her and pushed her into the automobile. The recording gave the impression to be contrary to the previous claims of the Major and lift his redemption route His movie “Magazine Dreams” It opens in cinemas on Friday.
In an interview with the Associated Press on Wednesday, Majors refused to unravel the recording and whether he attacked women.
“I can’t answer it,” Majors replied. “I can’t talk to it.”
Majors says he has modified, but not everyone is convinced
Directions that were doomed to a trial period and decided by a lawsuit from Jabbari In November, he strives for an especially fast reflection after a violent fall. Before the arrest in March 2023, Majors headed towards Years of Marvel’s fame And a possible nomination for an Oscar for the “Dream magazine” by Elijah Bynuma, wherein he plays Zakład Niechprawy, aspiring a bodybuilder susceptible to rapid explosions.
Two years later, Majors returns to the public with the promise that he has modified only just a few months after the age of 12 months Advice on domestic violence in court. At the same time, he does not directly address any of the allegations against him – including those of the previous two partners, Emma Duncan and Maury Hooper, who in the statements submitted a pre -trial, intimately violence physically and emotionally offensive, which have some similarities to Jabbari’s case.
“This is not something I can talk about in accordance with the law,” says Majors. “One day I told my wife, I modified. I do not recognize myself. I do not recognize this guy. I’m in a totally different place. I even have little question that I used to be a confusion. This guy did not have tools to cope with him. I do not know if I like this guy.
Majors, who sat at a conversation at the Hotel in Manhattan with no current journalist, talked about his experience of the last two years – apart from every little thing that is particularly related to conviction, additional allegations of abuse or women who say they’ve hurt them. Despite the indisputable fact that he never called the offense, Majors claims that he is reformed.
“I would tell everyone who cares about listening: I had two years of deep thought, mediation and chewing about myself and my actions, my community, my industry,” he said. “I’m stronger now. I’m smarter now. I’m better now.”
Not everyone is convinced. Hooper, who met the directions at Yale Drama School and died with him in 2013–2015, described a traumatic and controlling relationship. A 12 months after the end of their relationship, Majors learned that he had a relationship with someone he knew, she said. According to Hooper’s statement, Majors called her and embarrassed her for the abortion he encouraged and told her to kill her.
“The level of anger I have experienced from this man, I do not know that you will exist it from life or behavior in just 52 weeks,” said Hooper AP. “People go to therapy for years. For years I went to therapy after Jonathan Majors to regain my mind.”
Hooper and Duncan’s statements were ultimately not allowed as evidence during the trial, but remain public. Advocates for the major ones denied some claims, describing each relations as “toxic”.
Duncan, who arranged and was involved in the directions in 2015-2019, described in his statement not less than eight physical or dangerous meetings. She said that in a quarrel in 2016 while driving at Chautauqua in New York he threatened to stop her and kill her. At the SPA in Santa Fe, New Mexico, she discovered SMS between the major and other woman and started to pack to depart. He pushed her on the couch and started to choke her, saying that he was going to kill her, said Duncan. (She did not reply to the message e -mail from AP, in search of a comment. Lawyers for Jabbari did not answer e -mail).
“There is a documented story of 10 years of abuse of women in whom she calls women” whores “, calls us” fat whores “, tells us to kill ourselves,” says Hooper. “When I hear people say,” Come, why cannot he return to the sheepdog? “I don’t know if these people read it or understand that we talk about the pattern.”
Another #metoo test in Hollywood
Changed political climate and the previous couple of cases, including overthrowing Harvey Weinstein’s sexual conviction in New York, He suggested that Hollywood entered the recent chapter in the #metoo movement. Trying to return Majors is considered one of the most striking tests of cancellation curbs and #metoo vindication.
“We suffer a period of huge political restriction and reaction in this movement,” he says Debra Katz, lawyer for civil rights who was represented by Christine Blasey Ford, prosecutor of the Supreme Court Brett Kavanaugh, together with the prosecutors of Weinstein. “A lot of what we fought for seems to be on the line.”
But women are still approaching, and Katz believes that corporations and industries will pull the accused to be responsible. For your part, Majors, who was fell from all projects after his conviction, No recent movies were announced. “Magazine Dreams”, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2023 before his arrest, after which was dropped by SearchLight photos, there is Published by Briaarcliff Entertainment, independent distributor “Student”.
“Jonathan made a mistake. There was a suitable process. Justice was served. And then we go further, which in my opinion is generally as we thought that this country is working,” said Tom Ortenberg, general director of Briarcliff on Thursday. “We are dealing with two elections: Should” Dreams of a magazine “be visible? Or maybe we should burn negative? “
Many A-Listers, including Michael B. Jordan and Matthew McConaughey, were in favor of Hollywood’s return to Hollywood. Despite this, Katz believes that the return of Majors will ultimately disseminate, because he did not transcend the strategy of what he describes as “getting a good PR company and show my soft side.”
“I think it will suffer a significant number of reasons,” says Katz. “He was not the owner of this behavior. He did not apologize. The only thing that seems to regret is that he was caught.”

The past’s past and where it occurs
For his major self -control, he focused more on the previous experience, which he suggests, was at the root of what he calls his confusion.
“There were many trauma that was complex and ignored. The best way to describe it is as an energy that unfortunately was there,” says Majors. “I fed the wrong wolf. And this wolf became unparalleled. I was really good in quick movement and crossing the angry wolf of trauma. The best thing that I could have happened to me – not for my career, but for me – it had to be faced with that.”
Majors, who raised his mother pastor in Texas after his father left, says from 9 to around 13 years, he was a victim of many cases of sexual abuse, says: “Two family members and friends of my sisters who were older than me – were older than her.”
“It seemed that children were children, and then it quickly became something different,” says Majors. “And then it became a model.”
Majors only recently began to fight the past, he says, working on it in therapy and conversations together with his family. A conversation together with his sister, he says, woke up memories.
“It was an experience that I just killed in my head,” says Majors, tearing up.
“This is not a BOO-HOO-BRO situation, such a sad-for you,” he says, wiping tears. “It’s life. It’s a hand you give away and I didn’t know how to play these cards. I’m learning to play these cards.”
Now, as Majors says, he was never happier. On Tuesday, He and Meagan good They were a marriage in a small, improvised ceremony in Los Angeles, who was culminated by his mother. “We called the family and said:” Hey, jump on the guy, “he says, calling it the best day of his life.
“Magazine’s dreams,” he thought, he would never see the light of day. But now he hopes It can work again.
“I understand now that acting is in many respects my service. In many respects it’s my calling,” says Majors. “If this is not the case, I am waiting for someone to tell me. I am waiting for God to tell me. He didn’t say it.”
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