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“Preacher” Duo Ruth Negga, Noah Taylor Join Brad Pitt, Dwayne Johnson Movies
Negga joins Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones in James Gray’s space epic Ad Astra, while Taylor joins “The Rock” in Rawson Marshall Thurber’s Skyscraper.
Which two Oscar nominees are working with Guillermo del Toro on The Shape of Water? The same duo who have their eye on high-profile TV projects in 2017.
Manchester by the Sea is leading the Gotham Independent Film Awards as the nominees were announced today with four nominations including best feature. They will face off against Certain Women, Everybody Wants Some, Moonlight, and Paterson.
Loving celebrates the real-life interracial couple, Richard and Mildred Loving (Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga), who married and spent nine years fighting for the right to live as a family in their hometown. Their civil rights case, Loving v. Virginia, went all the way to the Supreme Court, which in 1967 reaffirmed the very foundation of the right to marry.
Follows the true story of Mildred and Richard Loving, the couple behind the seminal 1967 civil rights case Loving vs. Virginia. After getting married, authorities broke into their home, arrested them, and they were sentenced to a year in the state penitentiary.
