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Phylicia Rashad, Mamoudou Athie to Star in ‘Black Box’ for
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Phylicia Rashad (“Creed,” “This Is Us”) and Mamoudou Athie (“Jurassic World: Dominion,” “Unicorn Store”) are set to star in “Black Box” for Amazon Studios and Blumhouse Television, TheWrap has discovered completely.
Amanda Christine, Tosin Morohunfola and Troy James spherical out the forged of the movie directed by Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour (“Born With It”). Osei-Kuffour and Stephen Herman wrote the screenplay. Jay Ellis and Aaron Bergman from Black Bar Mitzvah are producing.
“Black Box” is a couple of man struggling to regain his reminiscence after surviving a tragic automobile accident. Desperate to return to his former self whereas attempting to lift his daughter, he receives an experimental remedy that helps him probe right into a previous which out of the blue feels too darkish to be his personal.
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“Black Box” will probably be a part of the beforehand introduced anthology of eight feature-length movies that Amazon Studios and Blumhouse Television are producing. These will probably be high-concept thrillers informed via the lens of various, underrepresented filmmakers. They will probably be launching completely on Amazon Prime Video.
Rashad’s credit embrace “The Cosby Show,” “Creed,” “Empire,” “This Is Us,” “David Makes Man” and the upcoming “Jingle Jangle,” “Soul” and “Creed 3.” Athie’s credit embrace “Sorry For Your Loss,” “Cake,” “The Front Runner,” “Underwater,” “The Circle,” “The Detour” and “Patti Cake$.”
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Rashad is represented by Innovative Artists and BKEntertainment, whereas Athie is represented by WME and Sloane, Offer, Weber and Dern, LLP. Christine is represented by Osbrink Agency and Transcend Talent Management, Morohunfola is repped by Stewart Talent and Anonymous Content, and James is repped by daCosta Talent Management.
The 9 Most Divisive Horror Films of the Decade, From ‘Human Centipede’ to ‘mom!’ (Photos)
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How many of those horror movies have you ever seen?
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“Human Centipede” (2009)
Listen … any film a couple of deranged physician stitching three individuals collectively, mouth to anus, will trigger outrage. The movie’s normal consensus on Rotten Tomatoes learn, “Grotesque, visceral and hard to (ahem) swallow, this surgical horror doesn’t quite earn its stripes because the gross-outs overwhelm and devalue everything else.” It’s simply gross.
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“Human Centipede 2” (2011)
This sequel continues the grotesque experiment from the primary, but additionally contains graphic rape and sadism. It was so horrifying, the truth is, that the British Board of Film Classification deemed it as an infringement of the Obscene Publications Act and was liable to trigger actual hurt to the general public, based on The Guardian.
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“Slender Man” (2016)
Screen Gems launched a movie in 2016 concerning the Slender Man, a fictional creature created in a web based discussion board. It generated controversy because the film was launched simply two years after the Waukesha stabbing, wherein two 12-year-old women stabbed a 3rd, claiming the stabbing was a part of the steps to turning into a proxy for the Slender Man. The movie was accused of capitalizing off the incident, and the daddy of perpetrator Anissa Weier calling the movie “absurd.”
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“The Green Inferno” (2013)
The movie follows a bunch of school activists who go to the Amazon Forest to assist shield a tribe from deforestation. However, upon arriving they uncover the tribe is…