Antoine Fuqua, director of the upcoming musical biopic about the life and times of Michael Jackson, says he has grown “skeptical” of the child sex abuse allegations against the “King of Pop.”
Will Smith’s “Emancipation” has ambitions well beyond its grasp, but works just fine as a streaming movie.
(AFP) Directing “Emancipation,” a brutal and harrowing film about slavery set deep in the alligator-infested Louisiana swamps, was always going to be a challenge for Antoine Fuqua — and then his star Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars.
Apple’s big Oscar push this year, director Antoine Fuqua’s Slave Drama “Emancipation,” appears to be dead in the water.
Fair Fight, the leftist voter organization founded by Stacy Abrams’, is scrambling to stop film studios and TV production firms from leaving Georgia in protest over the state’s new election integrity law, pleading with Hollywood to instead “stay and fight.”
The Will Smith movie Emancipation, which is backed by Apple Studios, won’t film in Georgia as originally planned in protest of the state’s recently passed voter integrity law, making it the first major Hollywood production to boycott Georgia over the new legislation.
