Nia DaCosta
Number of Female Directors Working on Top-Grossing Films Decreased in 2021
The number of female directors who worked on top-grossing films decreased in 2021, a new report by the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University reveals. According to the study, women accounted for 17% of the directors of 2021’s top 250 films, down from 18% in 2020. Zeroing in on last year’s top 100, the number gets even smaller, with 12% of directors being women. In 2020, women directors comprised 16% of the year’s top 100 films. Dr. Martha Lauzen, Founder and Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, said that in light of the success of directors like Chloe Zhao and Nia DaCosta, studying the numbers was integral to gaining a more realistic understanding of women’s progress in the male-dominated film industry. ...
Say Her Name 5 Times: ‘Candyman’ Becomes First Film Directed By A Black Woman To Top The Box Office
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Rodin Eckenroth / Getty Nia DaCosta has made history with her Candyman film. The polarizing direct sequel to the 1992 horror film directed by DaCosta and co-written by Jordan Peele took the top spot over the weekend in the U.S., bringing in approximately $22,370,000, easily surpassing initial projections of $15 million. The movie’s impressive showing at the box office, Candyman surpassed Ryan Reynold’s love letter to sandbox games Free Guy, Paw Patrol: The Movie, Disney’s Jungle Cruise, Don’t Breathe 2, and The Suicide Squad. With that amazing accomplishment, DaCosta’s Candyman became the first film directed by a Black woman to earn the top spot at the U.S. domestic box office. Fellow directors Ava DuVernay and Gina Prince-Blythewood came c...
Say “Candyman” Five Times into Your Microphone to Summon the Movie’s Final Trailer
Universal and MGM have released a new trailer for Nia DaCosta’s Candyman reboot, but you need to indulge in a horror tradition in order to see it. At a brand new website, users can watch the final teaser for the movie only after they say Candyman’s name five times into their computer’s microphone. The website goes by the straightforward title IDareYou.CandymanMovie.com, mimicking the text on promotional billboards that have been popping up the past few weeks. Once the website loads, it utilizes your phone or computer’s microphone to allow you to summon Candyman as if you were a character in the movie. Of course, as the cinematic legend goes, you must utter his name exactly five times to see the film’s final trailer — no more, no less. Fans eager to see previously unreleased footage from&nb...
The 25 Most Anticipated Movies of Fall 2020
“New year, new decade, new films, right?” That was January, back when we were still looking ahead at 2020 with blind optimism and ill-fated excitement. Sigh, hindsight is 20/20 they say, right? Who knew. At the time, we had 50 exciting new titles we were anticipating, most of which have since been either postponed, dumped to VOD, or relegated to a limbo state. It’s been an unnerving year for the film industry, to say the least. A year fraught with shutdowns, furloughs, layoffs, bankruptcies, and re-evaluations. All of that change has prompted a seismic shift in how everything’s run across the media landscape, and no one truly has a grip on things just yet. Odds are they won’t for quite some time. Because of this, anticipating anything right now — let alone anything in pop culture — seems l...
Captain Marvel 2 Secures Candyman Director Nia DaCosta
Things will soon get decidedly less spooky for Nia DaCosta. According to Deadline, the Candyman director has signed on to helm Captain Marvel 2. DaCosta follows Anna Bodn and Ryan Fleck, who handled the first film that went on to gross $1.13 billion worldwide in Spring 2019. The move isn’t… Please click the link below to read the full article. Captain Marvel 2 Secures Candyman Director Nia DaCosta Michael Roffman You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.
