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Inspired by Charles King's novel "Midnight at the Pera Palace" which centers around the iconic Pera Palace Hotel in Istanbul ( built in 1892 for the purpose of hosting passengers of the Orient Express), Netflix launches a television adaptation that covers the fascinating history of the city, the Ottoman Empire and Turkey.   The eight-episode series depicts young journalist Esra’s encounter with the legendary hotel.

Despite a long, trailblazing career as a popular singer of jazz, swing, and pop music on the Broadway stage and in concerts, and Oscar and Emmy nominations, Ethel Waters is hardly known or recognized today among younger generations of movie and music lovers. Waters became the second Black actress to be nominated for an Academy Award, in 1949 for Pinky, a movie about passing, in which white actress Jeanne Crain played a light-skinned girl.

Each weeknight NAACP Image Awards is revealing several winners via streaming presentations on the NAACP Image Awards' website and YouTube in the lead up to a live show set to air on BET on Saturday, February 26 with the Golden Globe nominee Anthony Anderson hosting, Grammy winner Mary J. Blige performing, and Golden Globe nominee Samuel L.

Jimmy Akingbola finds that there is a lot more work for British Black men to be found in the United States than in his native United Kingdom. In his opinion, it is hard to truly breakthrough in the UK, while in the US, there are more leading roles and characters with substance.

It was a night of celebration to honor a classic. The red carpet was laid out a few meters from the main movie theater of the Paramount studio, which kicked off its year-long commemoration of The Godfather , considered in many lists of filmmakers and critics as the best film of all time.

Long before George Clooney took our temperature in ER or Patrick Dempsey became famous as McDreamy in Grey’s Anatomy, TV and film legend Richard Chamberlain became one of TV’s biggest heartthrobs in the title role of the TV medical drama, Dr. Kildare, which ran from 1961-66.

La représentation des Noirs en France au cinéma ou à la télévision a toujours été faible. Des professionnels tentent d’en expliquer les raisons, notamment à travers deux récents documentaires édifiants.

Alex Simmons, like his character BlackJack, is one of the great unsung heroes of the black community. Simmons is an award-winning freelance writer, educator, creator of comic books, screenplays, and stage plays.

Uncharted remains the #1 box-office earner in Russia: with just a 30 % drop versus its opening weekend, the first feature produced by Sony PlayStation Productions grossed 231 mln RUB ($3. 1 mln) for a total of 675 mln RUB ($9 mln) since its release last week.

The 72nd Berlin International Film Festival was held, as a live event, from February 10-20 2022, and despite the fairly subdued mood this year, due to continuing pandemic restrictions, the Festival was considered to be a resounding success. Over 250 films were screened, spread over a total of twelve sections from Panorama to Forum, all the way to Main Competition.