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Young. Wild. Free.
''Young. Wild. Free.'' is a 2023 American drama film written by Juel Taylor and Tony Rettenmaier, directed by Thembi Banks and starring Algee Smith. It is Banks' feature directorial debut. Plot A teenager struggling to provide for his younger siblings in Compton finds his life turned upside down when he's held at gunpoint by the girl of his dreams. Cast * Algee Smith as Brandon Huffman * Sanaa Lathan as Janice Huffman *Sierra Capri as Cassidy * Mike Epps as Lamont Production According to Banks, the first day of filming occurred on March 11, 2020 and then filming was halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In August 2022, it was reported that production on the film was underway in Los Angeles. Release The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in the Library Center Theater on January 22, 2023. This BET+ original produced by MACRO premieres on BET+ June 27. Reception The film has a 67% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on fifteen reviews. Tomris Laffly of '' Variety'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thembi Banks
Thembi L. Banks is an American filmmaker. She directed the 2023 feature film '' Young. Wild. Free.'', which is her feature directorial debut. She has been nominated for an Emmy for her work in '' Only Murders in the Building''. In 2020, it was reported that Banks was to have directed a horror comedy film titled ''Juju''. In 2021, it was reported that Banks had signed on to direct the film ''Assisted Living'' starring Cardi B Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar Cephus (, ; born October 11, 1992), known professionally as Cardi B, is an American rapper and songwriter. She first gained popularity as an influencer on Vine and Instagram. From 2015 to early 2017, she appeared as ... for Paramount Players. Banks is a native of New York. Assisted Living was canceled after its star Cardi B pulled out in 2022. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Banks, Thembi Living people Film directors from New York (state) Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Oliver (producer)
Tommy Oliver is an American film producer, director, writer, cinematographer, photographer, financier, and entrepreneur. He directed, produced, shot, and edited AFI Film Festival audience award winner'' Juice Wrld: Into The Abyss'' (2021), '' 40 Years a Prisoner,'' and ''1982'', and recently produced four Sundance Film Festival 2023 films including Young. Wild. Free., Fancy Dance, To Live and Die and Live (EP), and the Grand Jury Prize winner, Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project. He also produced'' The Perfect Guy'' (2015) and Sundance Film Festival and AFI Film Festival audience award winner ''Kinyarwanda'', and co-created and Executive Produced the documentary series ''Black Love.'' Oliver is also known for his photography including his 70+ photos in the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Oliver is from Philadelphia, a Carnegie Mellon University alum, Founder and CEO of the production company Confluential Films, and Founder and Chairman o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juel Taylor
Juel Taylor (born May 1, 1987) is a director and screenwriter. He wrote ''Creed II'' (2018) and '' Space Jam: A New Legacy'' (2021) with his writing partner Tony Rettenmaier. Taylor and Rettenmaier wrote the movie '' They Cloned Tyrone'' (2023), which is also Taylor's first feature film as a director. He has also directed several TV episodes and a short film. Early life and education Taylor was born and raised in Tuskegee, Alabama. Taylor largely based the fictional neighborhood in ''They Cloned Tyrone'' on the area where he grew up. Taylor was initially interested in studying video game design when he attended college at the University of Florida. His first introduction to making movies was a music video he created for his college's digital arts program. Taylor then studied film as a graduate student at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts, where he met Rettenmaier. Career In 2017, Taylor co-directed ''Actors Anonymous'', the feature film ada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Algee Smith
Algee Smith IV (born November 7, 1994) is an American actor and singer. After appearing in several small television roles, Smith first rose to fame portraying Ralph Tresvant in BET's ''The New Edition Story'' miniseries. The same year, he garnered critical acclaim as Larry Reed in Kathryn Bigelow's film ''Detroit''. He is also known for his role as football player Christopher "Chris" McKay in the HBO drama series ''Euphoria''. Early life Smith was born in Saginaw, Michigan. At the age of eight, he and his family moved from Michigan to Atlanta where he started his acting career. Having a musician for a father and a fashion designer for a mother, Smith was well immersed in the arts and also completed his first rap recording at the age of 9. During this time, he attained several minor television roles; those of which he credits for "perfecting his craft." Smith was home schooled for high school. He left Atlanta, GA and moved to Los Angeles at the age of 20. Career After appeara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sierra Capri
Sierra Capri (born September 8, 1998) is an American actress. She is known for starring in the Netflix series ''On My Block'' as Monse Finnie. Early life Capri was born and raised in Baltimore and moved to Georgia when she was 12. She was interested in acting from a young age. She promised her parents she would graduate from college before pursuing the career full-time. Career She never studied acting. As a college student studying biology at college in Savannah, Georgia, she took jobs as an uncredited extra in the 2016 films ''Hidden Figures'' and '' Neighbors 2''. While working on ''Hidden Figures'', she submitted audition tapes with the help of another actress on set, and auditioned for the Netflix original series ''On My Block''. Capri told Terroir in 2018: "I was preparing myself for anything at that point, it didn’t really hit me until one of the casting directors emailed me and said, ''we like you, do you have time tomorrow to FaceTime one of the producers?'' And tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanaa Lathan
Sanaa McCoy Lathan (born September 19, 1971) is an American actress. She is the daughter of actress Eleanor McCoy and film director Stan Lathan. Her career began after she appeared in the shows In the House (TV series), ''In the House'', ''Family Matters'', ''NYPD Blue'', and ''Moesha''. Lathan later garnered further prominence after starring in the 1998 superhero film ''Blade (1998 film), Blade''; which followed with film roles in ''The Best Man (1999 film), The Best Man'' (1999), ''Love & Basketball'' (2000), ''Disappearing Acts'' (2000), and ''Brown Sugar (2002 film), Brown Sugar'' (2002). In 2004, Lathan's performance in the Broadway theatre, Broadway revival of ''A Raisin in the Sun'', earned her a nomination at the Tony Award, Tony Awards for Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play, Best Featured Actress in a Play. Following this, she played the role of List of Alien vs. Predator characters, Alexa "Lex" Woods in the movie ''Alien vs. Predator (film), Alien vs. Predat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival (formerly Utah/US Film Festival, then US Film and Video Festival) is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with more than 46,660 attending in 2016. It takes place each January in Park City, Utah; Salt Lake City, Utah; and at the Sundance Resort (a ski resort near Provo, Utah), and acts as a showcase for new work from American and international independent filmmakers. The festival consists of competitive sections for American and international dramatic and documentary films, both feature films and short films, and a group of out-of-competition sections, including NEXT, New Frontier, Spotlight, Midnight, Sundance Kids, From the Collection, Premieres, and Documentary Premieres. History 1978: Utah/US Film Festival Sundance began in Salt Lake City in August 1978 as the Utah/US Film Festival in an effort to attract more filmmakers to Utah. It was founded by Sterl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BET+
Black Entertainment Television (acronym BET) is an American basic cable channel targeting black American audiences. It is owned by Paramount Global through CBS Entertainment Group. approximately 88,255,000 American households (75.8% of households with television) receive the channel. History After stepping down as a lobbyist for the cable industry, Freeport, Illinois native Robert L. Johnson decided to launch his own cable television network. Johnson would soon acquire a loan for $15,000 ($55,648 in 2023) and a $500,000 ($1,854,921 in 2023) investment from media executive John Malone to start the network. The network, which was named Black Entertainment Television (BET), launched on January 25, 1980. Cheryl D. Miller designed the logo that would represent the network, which featured a star to symbolize "Black Star Power". Initially, broadcasting for two hours a week as a block of programming on the Madison Square Garden Sports Network (which would change their name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Epps
Michael Elliot Epps (born November 18, 1970) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He played Day-Day Jones in ''Next Friday'' and its sequel, ''Friday After Next'', and also appeared in ''The Hangover'' and ''The Hangover Part III'' as "Black Doug". He was the voice of main character Boog in ''Open Season 2'', replacing Martin Lawrence, with whom he starred in the comedy ''Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins'', playing "Reggie", cousin of Roscoe (played by Lawrence). He played Lloyd Jefferson "L.J." Wade in the films '' Resident Evil: Apocalypse'' (2004) and '' Resident Evil: Extinction'' (2007). He has had starring roles in the sitcoms ''Uncle Buck'' and ''The Upshaws''. Early life Epps was born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, the son of Mary Reed and (the late) Tommie Epps. In his adulthood, Epps moved to Brooklyn to star in ''Def Comedy Jam'' in 1994. Career Stand-up comedy Epps began his professional career by joining the ''Def Comedy Jam'' tour in 1995 and starre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identified in an outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019. Attempts to contain it there failed, allowing the virus to spread to other areas of Asia and later worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020. As of , the pandemic had caused more than cases and confirmed deaths, making it one of the deadliest in history. COVID-19 symptoms range from undetectable to deadly, but most commonly include fever, dry cough, and fatigue. Severe illness is more likely in elderly patients and those with certain underlying medical conditions. COVID-19 transmits when people breathe in air contaminated by droplets and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang. Although the name "Rotten Tomatoes" connects to the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes in disapproval of a poor stage performance, the original inspiration comes from a scene featuring tomatoes in the Canadian film ''Léolo'' (1992). Since January 2010, Rotten Tomatoes has been owned by Flixster, which was in turn acquired by Warner Bros in 2011. In February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcast's Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, including Fandango. History Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12, 1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His objective in creating Rotten Tomatoes was "to create a site where people can get access to reviews from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American media company owned by Penske Media Corporation. The company was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933 it added ''Daily Variety'', based in Los Angeles, to cover the motion-picture industry. ''Variety.com'' features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, cover stories, videos, photo galleries and features, plus a credits database, production charts and calendar, with archive content dating back to 1905. History Foundation ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. As a result, he decided to start his own publication "that ouldnot be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
