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Till (film)
''Till'' is a 2022 biographical drama film directed by Chinonye Chukwu and written by Michael Reilly, Keith Beauchamp, and Chukwu, and produced by Beauchamp, Reilly, and Whoopi Goldberg. It is based on the true story of Mamie Till, an educator and activist who pursued justice after the murder of her 14-year-old son Emmett in August 1955. The film stars Danielle Deadwyler as Mamie and Jalyn Hall as Emmett. Kevin Carroll, Frankie Faison, Haley Bennett, Jayme Lawson, Tosin Cole, Sean Patrick Thomas, John Douglas Thompson, Roger Guenveur Smith, and Goldberg also appear in supporting roles. The film was officially announced in August 2020, though a project about Emmett Till's murder had been in the works for several years prior. Much of the main cast joined the following summer, and filming took place in Bartow County, Georgia, that fall. It is the second major media property based on Mamie Till to be released in 2022, following the television series '' Women of the Moveme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinonye Chukwu
Chinonye Chukwu ( ; born May 19, 1985) is a Nigerian-American film director best known for the drama films ''Clemency'' and ''Till''. She is the first black woman to win the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. Early life and education Chukwu was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. When she was just over a year old, her family moved to Oklahoma, and moved again to Fairbanks, Alaska when she was six. They visited Nigeria often. Growing up in Alaska, Chukwu was often the only African-American in her classes, and she struggled to fit in. Throughout her childhood she dealt with Seasonal affective disorder, which was exacerbated by limited wintertime daylight in Alaska. To cope, she read Maya Angelou and joined the weight-lifting club. Chukwu always wanted to make movies. In her teen years, she carried around a journal that she would write down ideas for films and music videos. She often wrote stories about Nigerian-American girls reconnecting with loves or lost siblings. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Numbers (website)
The Numbers is a film industry data website that tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way, a publication of Nash Information Services LLC. The company also conducts research services and forecasts incomes of film projects. History The site was launched in 1997 by Bruce Nash. On March 21, 2020, the Numbers released a statement that because of movie theater closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, "We don't expect much box office reporting in the short term" and did not report the usual daily box office estimates due to lack of box office data from film studios. See also * Box Office Mojo Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box-office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way. The site was founded in 1998 by Brandon Gray, and was bought in 2008 by IMDb, which itself is owned by Amazon. History Brandon Gray ... * Lumiere References External links * ''The Numbers'' Bankability Index 1997 establishments in California Comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bartow County, Georgia
Bartow County is in the Northwest region of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 108,901, up from 100,157 in 2010. The county seat is Cartersville. Traditionally considered part of northwest Georgia, Bartow County is now included in the Atlanta metropolitan area, mainly in the southeastern part near Cartersville, which has become an exurb more than from downtown Atlanta on I-75. It has a sole commissioner government, and is the largest county by population of the few remaining in Georgia with a sole commissioner. History Bartow County was created from the Cherokee lands of the Cherokee County territory on December 3, 1832, and named Cass County, after General Lewis Cass (1782–1866), Secretary of War under President Andrew Jackson, Minister to France and Secretary of State under President James Buchanan,Cass County ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Development Hell
Development hell, also known as development purgatory or development limbo, is media and software industry jargon for a project, concept, or idea that remains in a stage of early development for a long time because of legal, technical, or artistic challenges. A work may move between many sets of artistic leadership, crews, scripts, game engines, or studios. (The related terms production hell and production limbo refer to situations in which a film has begun production but has remained unfinished for a long time without progressing to post-production.) Some projects enter development hell because they were initially designed with ambitious goals, the difficulty of meeting those goals was underestimated, and attempts to meet those goals have repeatedly failed. The term is also applied more generally to describe any project that has unexpectedly stalled in the planning or design phase, has failed to meet its originally expected date of completion, and is languishing in those phases ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Guenveur Smith
Roger Guenveur Smith (; born July 27, 1955) is an American actor, director, and writer best known for his collaborations with Spike Lee. Early life Roger Guenveur Smith was born on July 27, 1955, in Berkeley, California, the son of Helen Guenveur, a dentist, and Sherman Smith, a judge. He attended Loyola High School in Los Angeles, and graduated from Occidental College with a degree in American Studies. He then studied at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where he successfully auditioned for the Drama School and switched his pursuit of a graduate degree in history. Additionally, Smith studied at the Keskidee Arts Centre in London. Career Smith has appeared in films such as '' School Daze'', '' Do the Right Thing'', '' King of New York'', '' Panther,'' '' Malcolm X'', ''Poetic Justice'', '' Get on the Bus'', '' Eve's Bayou'', '' He Got Game'', and '' Summer of Sam''. Several of these films were with director Spike Lee. During the 1990s, he had a recurring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Douglas Thompson
John Douglas Thompson (born 1964) is an English-American actor. He is a Tony Award nominee and the recipient of two Drama Desk Awards, three Obie Awards, an Outer Critics Circle Award, and a Lucille Lortel Award. ''The New York Times'' critic Ben Brantley described Thompson as "one of the most compelling classical stage actors of his generation". Early life and education Thompson was born in Bath, England, to Jamaican parents, and was raised in Montreal, Quebec then Rochester, New York. He graduated from Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York in 1985, where he studied marketing and business. In the early 1990s, he worked as a traveling computer salesman in New England. After losing his job, Thompson decided to pursue acting and enrolled at the Brown University/ Trinity Repertory Company program in Providence, Rhode Island. Career Thompson began appearing in a variety of lead and supporting roles across New England, most notably at the American Repertory Theater and Shakespear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Patrick Thomas
Sean Patrick Thomas is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Derek Reynolds in the 2001 film '' Save the Last Dance'' and as Jimmy James in '' Barbershop'' (2002), '' Barbershop 2: Back in Business'' (2004), and '' Barbershop: The Next Cut'' (2016), as well as his television role as Detective Temple Page in '' The District'' and as Professor Macalester in '' Vixen'' (2015–2016). Early life Thomas was born in Washington, D.C., the son of emigrants from Guyana. He was raised in Wilmington, Delaware, the son of Cheryl, a financial analyst for DuPont, and Carlton Thomas, an engineer who also worked for DuPont. Thomas, who has two younger siblings, graduated from Brandywine High School in Delaware and attended the University of Virginia. He originally intended to study law, but upon successfully auditioning for a role in the play '' A Raisin in the Sun'', Thomas changed directions and decided to attend New York University's prestigious Graduate Acting Program at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tosin Cole
Tosin Cole () is a British actor. He is known for various roles in British television series and films. He began his on-screen career starring in '' The Cut'' and '' EastEnders: E20'', later securing a regular role as Neil Cooper in the soap opera ''Hollyoaks'' and Ryan Sinclair in ''Doctor Who''. In 2024, Cole appeared in Netflix's ''Supacell'' in a lead role. Early life Born in Florida, United States to parents of Nigerian heritage and raised in New York City, New York. Cole moved from New York to London, England at age 8. He attended Abbey Wood Secondary School in Greenwich, London. He left school before his A-levels to pursue a career in acting. Although Cole holds dual British and American citizenship, he considers himself as British. Career In 2009, Cole was part of a theatre production titled ''Wasted!'', a modern reproduction of Shakespeare's ''Julius Caesar'', produced by Intermission Theatre, a company which helps teenagers stay away from crime. In 2010, Cole jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jayme Lawson
Jayme Lawson (born September 19, 1997) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Mayor Bella Reál in '' The Batman'' (2022) and Pearline in ''Sinners'' (2025). Career After graduating Juilliard School in May 2019, Lawson landed her first film role in the 2020 film ''Farewell Amor'' as Sylvia. In 2019, she gained attention when she was cast in the film '' The Batman'' (2022) as Bella Reál, a mayoral candidate for Gotham City. In January 2021, she was cast as a young Michelle Obama in the television series '' The First Lady'' (2022). She would reprise her ''The Batman'' role in the 2024 HBO television series ''The Penguin''. In 2022, she appeared in the drama films ''Till'', ''How to Blow Up a Pipeline'', and ''The Woman King'' as Myrlie Evers, Alisha, and Shante, respectively. In 2025, Lawson co-starred in Ryan Coogler's vampire period piece thriller ''Sinners''. Filmography Film Television Play * 2019 - ''For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Carroll (actor)
Kevin Carroll (born 6 September 1969) is an American actor, best known for his role as John Murphy in the HBO television series '' The Leftovers''. Career Until his main cast role in the HBO series '' The Leftovers'', from 2015 and 2017, Carroll had appeared in minor guest roles on single episodes of numerous television series, television movies, and feature films. After ''The Leftovers'', he has appeared in other main cast and recurring roles on television, including ''Snowfall Snow consists of individual ice crystals that grow while suspended in the atmosphere—usually within clouds—and then fall, accumulating on the ground where they undergo further changes. It consists of frozen crystalline water througho ...'', '' Sacred Lies'', '' The Walking Dead'' and '' Let the Right One In''. Filmography Film TV References External links * Living people American male television actors 21st-century American male actors Place of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmett Till
Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African American youth, who was 14 years old when he was abducted and Lynching in the United States, lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the acquittal of his killers drew attention to the long history of violent persecution of African Americans in the United States. Till posthumously became an icon of the civil rights movement. Till was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. During summer vacation in August 1955, he was visiting relatives near Money, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta region. Till spoke to 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant, the white, married proprietor of a local grocery store. Although what happened at the store is a matter of dispute, Till was accused of flirting with, touching, or Wolf-whistling, whistling at Bryant. Till's interaction with Bryant, perhaps unwittingly, violated t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mamie Till
Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley (born Mamie Elizabeth Carthan; November 23, 1921 – January 6, 2003) was an American educator and activist in the Civil rights movement who was the mother of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old youth murdered in Mississippi on August 28, 1955, after being accused of offending a white grocery store cashier named Carolyn Bryant. For Emmett's funeral in Chicago, Mamie Till insisted that the coffin containing his body be left open because, in her words, "I wanted the world to see what they did to my baby." Early life Born Mamie Elizabeth Carthan on November 23, 1921, in Webb, Mississippi, she was a young child when her family relocated from the Southern United States during the Great Migration, the period when many African-Americans moved to the Midwestern United States due to continued racial violence, including lynching and racial massacres. In 1922, shortly after her birth, Mamie's father, Nash Carthan, moved to Argo, Illinois, near Chicago. There, he foun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
