CHINONYE CHUKWU

NEW YORK — (AP) — Just the idea of playing Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till, was enough to make Danielle Deadwyler pause to consider the toll such a role might take. Just the scene Deadwyler would audition with — when Mamie first sees her son's brutalized corpse — was wrenching. In Chinonye Chukwu's "Till," Deadwyler gives one of the most powerful and intensely expressive performances of the year, charting Till-Mobley's profound metamorphosis into civil-rights leader. When Till-Mobley memorably takes the stand in her son's Mississippi trial, the camera stays rooted to Deadwyler. She said talking about Emmett, talking about her experience was healing for her,” says Deadwyler.

In Chinonye Chukwu’s “Till,” Danielle Deadwyler gives one of the most powerful and subtly expressive performances of the year.

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” has won best feature at the 32nd Gotham Awards.

Director Chinonye Chukwu tells the story of Mamie Till-Mobley, whose decision to hold an open-casket funeral for her murdered son served as a catalyst for the civil rights movement.

“Black Adam,” the Dwayne Johnson-fronted DC superhero film, kept its hold on the No. 1 spot at the North American box office in its second weekend in theaters.

As the first-ever feature-length retelling of the lynching of Emmett Till goes into wide release, so does an art campaign meant to honor the power of images like those of his open casket that were printed by the Black press.

This week’s new entertainment releases include albums from Lainey Wilson and a Garbage anthology, the video on demand releases of horror films “Pearl” and “Barbarian” and the latest installment of the “Call of Duty” video game franchise.

No matter how you look at the numbers, “Halloween Ends” had a good opening weekend.

Emmett Till's mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, and her "critical decision" to share her grief with the world is the focus of director Chinonye Chukwu's new film.

LOS ANGELES — (AP) — When Whoopi Goldberg was invited to help produce an Emmett Till project, the actor thought she knew all about the Black teenager's 1955 kidnapping and lynching — until she learned about the surprising elements behind the historic tragedy. After Goldberg dove deep into Till's backstory, she and her production teammates Barbara Broccoli and Fred Zollo eagerly pitched movie ideas to several major studios. Goldberg said that's when MGM's Orion Pictures stepped up to financially support the development of "Till," which opens in theaters Friday. She said Floyd's death struck a chord throughout the U.S. the same way Till's lynching created public uproar 60-plus years ago. His 2005 documentary "The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till" played a major role in the U.S. Department of Justice's decision to reopen the Till investigation.

Whoopi Goldberg says it took more than two decades for Hollywood to believe Emmett Till’s story was worthy of the big screen.

Danielle Deadwyler’s performance is Oscar-worthy as the mother of the teenager whose 1955 lynching helped spark the civil rights movement.

A rundown of notable films coming out this fall, which range from Disney+'s “Pinocchio” adaptation to Ana de Armas playing Marilyn Monroe in the Netflix film “Blonde.”.

For the first time in three years, the fall movie industrial complex is lurching back into high gear.

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