To say that things got heated on set of Roland Martin‘s News One Now is a complete understatement. By no surprise, Birth Of A Nation has rattled many black women, some using feminism as the reason why they wouldn’t support the film. The Nat Turner story opened to a disappointing $7M, and many people celebrated […]
10/12/16- Roland Martin talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about the opening weekend numbers of Nate Parker‘s Birth Of A Nation. “We do not operate by main streams media by what they say is a flop or not. The fact that it got made is a success. How is it that we can say […]
Nate Parker discusses the tough journey to get the Nat Turner biopic made.
Nate Parker and the cast of 'Birth of a Nation' share how important it was to be a part of the film.
Several of Nate Parker's Penn State classmates released a statement regarding the decades-old rape case.
Civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton is questioning why filmmaker Nate Parker is under intense public scrutiny for rape charges leveled against him 17 years ago. He believes the rehashing smacks of a possible right-wing conspiracy to keep the public from seeing his film The Birth of a Nation, reports The New York Daily News. “If a […]
The controversy ramped up last week when Parker was asked about a 1999 rape charge involving him and Jean Celestin, his college roommate and 'Birth of A Nation' collaborator, while they were students at Penn State University.
Fox Searchlight released the first trailer of The Birth of a Nation. The award-winning biopic of Nat Turner is scheduled for release in October.
Filmmaker Nate Parker announced that he intends to launch a film school this coming fall at Wiley College in Texas. The “Birth Of A Nation” director shared with reporters over the weekend that the East Texas school will give students a wide-ranging variety of coursework as it pertains to filmmaking, Variety reports. In an interview […]
Paramount and Netflix dropped out of an overnight bidding war that ended with the historically large offer from Fox Searchlight.
