diversity

  • Movie News

Boring Oscar Predictions; Film as NFT; Diversity Skyrockets; Conjuring the Devil

The first film NFT; cast diversity "skyrocketed" last year, Oscar predictions assembled; and the new Conjuring argues it's time to "accept…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

When The Godfather Was a Breakthrough for Diversity

It seems strange now to think of The Godfather — a film with an almost all-white cast — as a…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

Could Dunkirk, a Film About White Guys Fighting Nazis, Pass the Oscars’ New Inclusion Requirements?

Could a movie like Dunkirk, a story of white, heterosexual men fighting literal Nazis, pass the Oscars' new inclusion rules? In…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

The Bold Type Star Aisha Dee Criticizes Show on Diversity

The Bold Type star Aisha Dee took to Instagram to say insufficient diversity in the show's writers' room raises questions about…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

Anthony Mackie Criticizes Lack of Diversity Behind the Camera on Marvel Productions

Anthony Mackie, star of the Avengers films and the upcoming show The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, called out what…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

Meet the UCLA Professor With the MEANS to Diversify Hollywood

For six years, UCLA sociologist Darnell Hunt and co-author Ana-Christina Ramon have studied Hollywood’s lack of representation with the annual…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

Ava DuVernay v. Stephen King: How Much Should Diversity Matter in Oscars Voting? (Podcast)

Stephen King disappointed Ava DuVernay recently when he tweeted about casting his Oscar ballot: "I would never consider diversity in…

4 years ago
  • Summer 2019

Indie Law: Our Entertainment Law Expert Pulls Your Legal Questions From The MM Mailbag

For this edition of Indie Law, we asked readers to send us their burning legal questions to be answered by…

5 years ago
  • MM Guide 2018

A Strong Film is a Diverse Film: Hire Smart, Hire Wide, Make a Stand

There it is again—that dirty D-word. Diversity gets a lot of lip service. With so many headlines, talks, and festival…

6 years ago
  • Festivals

NBCUniversal Short Film Festival: Effectively Straddling the Intersection of “Corporate” and “Diverse”

To be “different from a bigger crowd," said presenter Nico Santos, was the ethos of the 11th iteration of the…

8 years ago
  • Directing

People Will Get It: What the Creators of The Fob and I Learned by Making a Cultural Comedy

Meenakshi Ramamurthy is the creator and Noopur Sinha is the producer of The Fob and I, a web series about…

8 years ago
  • Festivals

Festival Wrap: The Second Bentonville Film Festival Leads the Road to Diversity (With a Couple of Missteps)

It feels great to like something first: to know the band before they get radio play, to be a regular…

8 years ago