Director Ryan Coogler’s Creed was released November 25, 2015 – nearly forty years after the original Rocky film debuted – and was an instant winner at the box office. Creed brought in $1.4 million from the Tuesday screenings, an industry record for Tuesday pre-shows for the Thanksgiving weekend. Ticket sales were $29.6 million for the three-day weekend.
It’s a terrific, perfect movie, with wonderful performances by Michael B. Jordan, Tessa Thompson and especially Sylvester Stallone. (Review)
Creed focuses on the relationship between the late Apollo Creed’s son, Adonis Creed (Jordan), and the retired former boxing champion Rocky Balboa (Stallone). After meeting in Philadelphia, Rocky agrees to train Adonis, despite his own declining health.
The original Rocky (1976) film won the 1977 Academy Award for ‘Best Motion Picture’. Rocky composer Bill Conti, along with Carol Connors, were nominated for ‘Best Music: Original Song’ for “Gonna Fly Now.”
The early screenings had people cheering and clapping. This true crowd pleaser,...
It’s a terrific, perfect movie, with wonderful performances by Michael B. Jordan, Tessa Thompson and especially Sylvester Stallone. (Review)
Creed focuses on the relationship between the late Apollo Creed’s son, Adonis Creed (Jordan), and the retired former boxing champion Rocky Balboa (Stallone). After meeting in Philadelphia, Rocky agrees to train Adonis, despite his own declining health.
The original Rocky (1976) film won the 1977 Academy Award for ‘Best Motion Picture’. Rocky composer Bill Conti, along with Carol Connors, were nominated for ‘Best Music: Original Song’ for “Gonna Fly Now.”
The early screenings had people cheering and clapping. This true crowd pleaser,...
- 12/1/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
It’s how he presents his flawed characters and how he addresses certain social commentaries in his trio of short films (Locks, Gap, and Fig) that underline the sort of M.O. and filmic sensibility this Bay area resident would possibly employ in the first drafts of his Sundance supported screenplay. Naturally gravitating towards a subject he knew well, but yet in the same token undertook one that was tricky, and was the unavoidably difficult challenge of detailing Oscar Grant’s final moments in a palpable, evocative, truthful manner. Book-ended with a raw, forceful beginning and conclusion, with Fruitvale Station we find filmmaker Ryan Coogler delve into racial profiling, reflectin on the importance of family and making the best of a second chance that life doesn’t always afford us.
I had the chance to sit down with the former youth counselor, former USC film student filmmaker in Park City...
I had the chance to sit down with the former youth counselor, former USC film student filmmaker in Park City...
- 7/17/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Today’s film is the 2009 short Locks. The film stars Turen Robinson and Robert George Nelson, and is written and directed by Ryan Coogler. Coogler has seen his profile rise sharply this year, as his feature film debut, first titled Fruitvale, then Fruitvale Station, made its debut at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival to high acclaim, eventually going on to win the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize, with Coogler also winning the Un Certain Regard – Avenir award at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival for the film. Fruitvale Station opens in wide release in American theatres this weekend.
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- 7/14/2013
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
Wme has signed a trio of aspiring directors who emerged from the Sundance Labs program last January. All of them will be shooting features this year. David Lowery, who wrote/directed Pioneers, a short that won the Grand Jury Award at SXSW will shoot Aint Them Bodies Saints, the film that shoots this summer with Rooney Mara, Ben Foster and Casey Affleck starring. Jonas Carpignano’s short films have shown at numerous festivals; Bayou Black, starring Michael K. Williams, played the Woodstock Film Festival and his latest, A Chjana, won the Controcampo Italiano Award for Best Short at Venice last year. Jonas’s feature length version of A Chjana was recently accepted to the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and the Berlinale Talent Campus. Jonas, an Mfa candidate at the Tisch School of Arts, will shoot the feature later this year. Ryan Coogler, out of USC, has played numerous fests with his short Locks and Gap & Fig.
- 6/5/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
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