So many celebrities stepped out to attend the 2024 BAFTA Tea Party presented by Delta Air Lines, Virgin Atlantic and BBC Studios Los Angeles Productions on Saturday (January 13) at The Maybourne Beverly Hills.
The star-studded event featured appearances from more than 100 stars, including the likes of Julianne Moore, Jonathan Bailey, Mark Ruffalo, America Ferrera, Fantasia Barrino, Cillian Murphy, Sam Claflin and Eva Longoria.
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The star-studded event featured appearances from more than 100 stars, including the likes of Julianne Moore, Jonathan Bailey, Mark Ruffalo, America Ferrera, Fantasia Barrino, Cillian Murphy, Sam Claflin and Eva Longoria.
Since it was such a big event, we pulled together photos for you to easily scroll. That way you can easily see who was there and what they were wearing!
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Brian Cox and Nicole Ansari-Cox
Diane Warren
Calah Lane
Greta Lee
Fyi: Greta is wearing Loewe.
Tracy Ifeachor
Emily Blunt and Cillian Murphy
Fyi: Emily is...
- 1/14/2024
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
It’s officially summer, and if you’ve actually got some time off in the coming months, maybe you’re hoping to get through the stack of books that has been collecting dust on your nightstand. Amazon wants to help you knock out your growing to-read list, no matter where you plan on doing your relaxing.
From now until July 31, Amazon Prime members can opt-in to a free three-month Audible Premium trial. Users will get one credit per month to pick any title from Audible’s premium selection, including bestsellers, new releases, podcasts, audiobooks, concerts, solo shows, and more.
And amongst the thousands of titles on the Amazon subsidiary are a wide-ranging collection of books that have since been turned into Prime Video series of their own. From a tell-all memoir into the world of classical music to a long-standing crime thriller series, here are some of our favorite Amazon...
From now until July 31, Amazon Prime members can opt-in to a free three-month Audible Premium trial. Users will get one credit per month to pick any title from Audible’s premium selection, including bestsellers, new releases, podcasts, audiobooks, concerts, solo shows, and more.
And amongst the thousands of titles on the Amazon subsidiary are a wide-ranging collection of books that have since been turned into Prime Video series of their own. From a tell-all memoir into the world of classical music to a long-standing crime thriller series, here are some of our favorite Amazon...
- 6/23/2023
- by Ashley Steves
- The Streamable
Top Gun: Maverick and Abbott Elementary took home to respective top film and TV prizes at the The 60th annual Icg Publicists Awards, which was held this afternoonm at the Beverly Hilton. Check out the full winners list below.
The marquee winners matched up with the recipients of the previously announced special honorees: Jerry Bruckheimer for Maverick and Quinta Brunson for Abbott.
Maverick beat out fellow billion-dollar grosser Avatar: The Way of Water for the top prize, along with Elvis, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Nope and The Woman King. Another billion-dollar baby, Sony’s Spider-Man: No Way Home, won the guild’s Maxwell Weinberg Award for movies last year, and Apple TV+ comedy Ted Lasso took the corresponding TV prize.
Sara Hull, Walt Disney Studios won the Publicist of the Year Award, presented by the International Cinematographers Guild, IATSE Local 600. Yong Chavez of Abs-cbn News took the International Media Award.
The marquee winners matched up with the recipients of the previously announced special honorees: Jerry Bruckheimer for Maverick and Quinta Brunson for Abbott.
Maverick beat out fellow billion-dollar grosser Avatar: The Way of Water for the top prize, along with Elvis, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Nope and The Woman King. Another billion-dollar baby, Sony’s Spider-Man: No Way Home, won the guild’s Maxwell Weinberg Award for movies last year, and Apple TV+ comedy Ted Lasso took the corresponding TV prize.
Sara Hull, Walt Disney Studios won the Publicist of the Year Award, presented by the International Cinematographers Guild, IATSE Local 600. Yong Chavez of Abs-cbn News took the International Media Award.
- 3/10/2023
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
[Editor’s Note: The following article contains spoilers for “The Underground Railroad,” Episode 7, “Fanny Briggs.”]
Few kindnesses can brighten a critic’s day like an unexpectedly brief episode of TV. Whether it’s a tight 45-minute entry popping up amid an established hourlong series or a new comedy-drama hybrid choosing the more fuel efficient route, those shaved minutes mean so much more to those of us tasked with watching entirely too much television.
But any relieved sighs are about more than just viewing fatigue. Shorter entries can signify resourcefulness — they stand out for giving the story exactly as much time as it needs, rather than doubling back to make up for past oversights, extending scenes to underline story points, or simply running long because they can. Sure, sometimes brevity is a bad thing — there is such a thing as too short — but the list of programs blighted by bloat is far longer than those failing from fugacity.
When it comes to excessive episode lengths,...
Few kindnesses can brighten a critic’s day like an unexpectedly brief episode of TV. Whether it’s a tight 45-minute entry popping up amid an established hourlong series or a new comedy-drama hybrid choosing the more fuel efficient route, those shaved minutes mean so much more to those of us tasked with watching entirely too much television.
But any relieved sighs are about more than just viewing fatigue. Shorter entries can signify resourcefulness — they stand out for giving the story exactly as much time as it needs, rather than doubling back to make up for past oversights, extending scenes to underline story points, or simply running long because they can. Sure, sometimes brevity is a bad thing — there is such a thing as too short — but the list of programs blighted by bloat is far longer than those failing from fugacity.
When it comes to excessive episode lengths,...
- 8/24/2021
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
“She’s a rubber band that’s been stretched and is right at the point of breaking but is sort of living in that state,” explains Lily Rabe about her character Ethel Wells on Barry Jenkins‘ 10-episode limited series “The Underground Railroad,” which is based on Colson Whitehead‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. In our exclusive video interview (watch above), the actor discusses the “desperate state” in which Ethel finds herself, highlights Ethel’s multilayered infatuation with Cora (Thuso Mbedu), and finally teases the upcoming installment of “American Horror Story.”
On “The Underground Railroad,” Rabe appears in two episodes: the third, titled “North Carolina,” and, briefly, the seventh, titled “Fanny Briggs.” Her character, Ethel, is married to her husband, Martin (Damon Herriman), with whom she resides in an unnamed North Carolina village in the middle of the woods. Rabe points to Ethel’s “fraught” and “complicated” relationship with her father,...
On “The Underground Railroad,” Rabe appears in two episodes: the third, titled “North Carolina,” and, briefly, the seventh, titled “Fanny Briggs.” Her character, Ethel, is married to her husband, Martin (Damon Herriman), with whom she resides in an unnamed North Carolina village in the middle of the woods. Rabe points to Ethel’s “fraught” and “complicated” relationship with her father,...
- 6/14/2021
- by Luca Giliberti
- Gold Derby
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“Underground Railroad,” the new limited series from Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins, arrived on Amazon Prime on Friday. The 10-episodes series, written, directed and executive produced by Jenkins, chronicles the story of Cora Randall (Thuso Mbedu), an enslaved girl in a bid for her freedom after escaping a plantation in the Antebellum South.
The series, based on Colson Whitehead’s 2016 Pulitzer-Prize winning novel, reimagines the Underground Railroad as an actual railroad with engineers, conductors, train tracks, and underground tunnels. Cora’s journey to freedom isn’t without complications. She’s being followed by Ridgeway (Joel Edgerton), a bounty hunter obsessed with forcing her back to the Georgia plantation she escaped from. Ridgeway is fixated...
“Underground Railroad,” the new limited series from Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins, arrived on Amazon Prime on Friday. The 10-episodes series, written, directed and executive produced by Jenkins, chronicles the story of Cora Randall (Thuso Mbedu), an enslaved girl in a bid for her freedom after escaping a plantation in the Antebellum South.
The series, based on Colson Whitehead’s 2016 Pulitzer-Prize winning novel, reimagines the Underground Railroad as an actual railroad with engineers, conductors, train tracks, and underground tunnels. Cora’s journey to freedom isn’t without complications. She’s being followed by Ridgeway (Joel Edgerton), a bounty hunter obsessed with forcing her back to the Georgia plantation she escaped from. Ridgeway is fixated...
- 5/14/2021
- by Latifah Muhammad
- Indiewire
A little girl not named Grace sits quietly at the center of Barry Jenkins’ “The Underground Railroad.” Introduced in the third episode holding a finger to her lips, “Grace” — played by Mychal-Bella Bowman and whose real name constitutes a minor yet precious spoiler — has been hiding in a cramped attic for many, many months, waiting for the real, operational, underground railroad to whisk her out of North Carolina and into safer, less confined spaces. Grace isn’t the show’s lead, or even one of the leads, though she does cross paths with Cora (Thuso Mbedu), the chief protagonist and most seasoned traveler, when the grown runaway crawls into Grace’s stooped refuge, seeking similar concealment from the malevolent forces out for them both.
Like so much of the Amazon Prime Video limited series, Grace blends literal and figurative interpretations; she’s a flesh-and-blood character and an ethereal embodiment of...
Like so much of the Amazon Prime Video limited series, Grace blends literal and figurative interpretations; she’s a flesh-and-blood character and an ethereal embodiment of...
- 5/12/2021
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Every single frame of “The Underground Railroad” is haunted.
Ghosts of horrors past, present and future linger at the story’s edges, flicker in and out with eerie ease. People alive, dead and somewhere in between stare into the camera with quiet, solemn clarity. Whispers fade into the background, sharing terrible secrets as urgent prayer. In adapting Colson Whitehead’s novel to the television screen,
The entirety of “The Underground Railroad” — 10 episodes altogether, most running at least a full hour — will be available upon its May 14 premiere on Amazon Prime, but that is a mistake. The series is dense enough that each episode would, and should, stand on their own with enough space for viewers to digest it before moving on to the next. Instead, Amazon is releasing all of them in one fell swoop, making it far too easy for someone to muscle through too much without reprieve, or...
Ghosts of horrors past, present and future linger at the story’s edges, flicker in and out with eerie ease. People alive, dead and somewhere in between stare into the camera with quiet, solemn clarity. Whispers fade into the background, sharing terrible secrets as urgent prayer. In adapting Colson Whitehead’s novel to the television screen,
The entirety of “The Underground Railroad” — 10 episodes altogether, most running at least a full hour — will be available upon its May 14 premiere on Amazon Prime, but that is a mistake. The series is dense enough that each episode would, and should, stand on their own with enough space for viewers to digest it before moving on to the next. Instead, Amazon is releasing all of them in one fell swoop, making it far too easy for someone to muscle through too much without reprieve, or...
- 5/4/2021
- by Caroline Framke
- Variety Film + TV
Amazon Prime Video has debuted the official trailer for the highly anticipated Amazon Original limited series ‘The Underground Railroad’, from Academy Award–winner Barry Jenkins.
The series chronicles Cora Randall’s (newcomer Thuso Mbedu) desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. After escaping a Georgia plantation for the rumoured Underground Railroad, Cora discovers no mere metaphor, but an actual railroad full of engineers and conductors, and a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil.
Over the course of her journey, Cora is pursued by Ridgeway (Joel Edgerton), a bounty hunter who is fixated on bringing her back to the plantation she escaped; especially since her mother Mabel is the only one he has never caught.
As she travels from state to state, Cora contends with the legacy of the mother that left her behind and her own struggles to realise a life she never thought was possible.
The series chronicles Cora Randall’s (newcomer Thuso Mbedu) desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. After escaping a Georgia plantation for the rumoured Underground Railroad, Cora discovers no mere metaphor, but an actual railroad full of engineers and conductors, and a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil.
Over the course of her journey, Cora is pursued by Ridgeway (Joel Edgerton), a bounty hunter who is fixated on bringing her back to the plantation she escaped; especially since her mother Mabel is the only one he has never caught.
As she travels from state to state, Cora contends with the legacy of the mother that left her behind and her own struggles to realise a life she never thought was possible.
- 4/16/2021
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
We’re now only a month away from getting ten hours of new Barry Jenkins-directed material. Ahead of a May 14 release for The Underground Railroad, the 10-episode-long adaptation following Cora Randall’s (newcomer Thuso Mbedu) desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South, Amazon has released the full trailer.
“This show isn’t a show about slavery. It’s a show about the character Cora,” Jenkins told Shadow and Act. “I think when we talk about slavery, in a way, we almost dehumanize the folks who were enslaved against their will. We almost rob them of their personhood. We assume the condition of being enslaved was the totality of their experience and the totality of their humanity.”
The adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s acclaimed novel stars Thuso Mbedu, Chase W. Dillon and Joel Edgerton. Aaron Pierre, William Jackson Harper, Sheila Atim, Amber Gray, Peter De Jersey, Chukwudi Iwuji, Damon Herriman,...
“This show isn’t a show about slavery. It’s a show about the character Cora,” Jenkins told Shadow and Act. “I think when we talk about slavery, in a way, we almost dehumanize the folks who were enslaved against their will. We almost rob them of their personhood. We assume the condition of being enslaved was the totality of their experience and the totality of their humanity.”
The adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s acclaimed novel stars Thuso Mbedu, Chase W. Dillon and Joel Edgerton. Aaron Pierre, William Jackson Harper, Sheila Atim, Amber Gray, Peter De Jersey, Chukwudi Iwuji, Damon Herriman,...
- 4/15/2021
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
"Nothing was given, all was earned. Hold on to what belongs to you." Amazon Studios has revealed a full-length official trailer for Barry Jenkins' latest project, The Underground Railroad, a 10-episode mini-series streaming on Prime Video starting this May. This is one we definitely will break our no-tv rules to feature, not only because it's Barry Jenkins, but because it looks seriously incredible. No surprise there. A young woman named Cora makes an amazing discovery during her attempt to break free from slavery in the deep south. The Underground Railroad features Thuso Mbedu as Cora, plus Chase W. Dillon and Joel Edgerton. Joined by Aaron Pierre, William Jackson Harper, Sheila Atim, Amber Gray, Peter De Jersey, Chukwudi Iwuji, Damon Herriman, Lily Rabe, Mychal-Bella Bowman, Irone Singleton, Marcus "Mj" Gladney, Jr., Will Poulter, and Peter Mullan. Barry Jenkins is the series showrunner. Featuring cinematography by James Laxton, and a score by Jenkins' usual composer Nicholas Britell.
- 4/15/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Amazon Prime Video debuted a trailer for “The Underground Railroad,” an original limited series from showrunner and director Barry Jenkins.
All 10 episodes of the series, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, will premiere on May 14.
“The Underground Railroad” follows Cora Randall’s journey to freedom in the antebellum South as bounty hunter Ridgeway seeks to bring her back to the plantation she escaped. Thuso Mbedu, Chase W. Dillon and Joel Edgerton star alongside Aaron Pierre, William Jackson Harper, Sheila Atim, Amber Gray, Peter De Jersey, Chukwudi Iwuji, Damon Herriman, Lily Rabe, Irone Singleton, Mychal-Bella Bowman, Marcus “Mj” Gladney, Jr., Will Poulter and Peter Mullan.
Jenkins executive produces with Adele Romanski, Mark Ceryak, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Brad Pitt, Richard Heus, Jacqueline Hoyt and Colson Whitehead. “The Underground Railroad” is a production of Plan B, Pastel and Big Indie with Amazon Studios.
Watch the trailer below.
Dates
HBO Max...
All 10 episodes of the series, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, will premiere on May 14.
“The Underground Railroad” follows Cora Randall’s journey to freedom in the antebellum South as bounty hunter Ridgeway seeks to bring her back to the plantation she escaped. Thuso Mbedu, Chase W. Dillon and Joel Edgerton star alongside Aaron Pierre, William Jackson Harper, Sheila Atim, Amber Gray, Peter De Jersey, Chukwudi Iwuji, Damon Herriman, Lily Rabe, Irone Singleton, Mychal-Bella Bowman, Marcus “Mj” Gladney, Jr., Will Poulter and Peter Mullan.
Jenkins executive produces with Adele Romanski, Mark Ceryak, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Brad Pitt, Richard Heus, Jacqueline Hoyt and Colson Whitehead. “The Underground Railroad” is a production of Plan B, Pastel and Big Indie with Amazon Studios.
Watch the trailer below.
Dates
HBO Max...
- 4/15/2021
- by Ethan Shanfeld
- Variety Film + TV
Amazon Prime Video has unveiled a majestic and powerful full trailer for Barry Jenkins’ upcoming, 10-episode limited series “The Underground Railroad,” the Southern antebellum saga he’s adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead. All episodes unveil on the streaming platform May 14, right in time to make the series eligible for the 2021 Primetime Emmy Awards.
“The Underground Railroad” takes a bold approach to telling a story of slavery, as Whitehead’s novel was set in an alternate history where the 19th-century Underground Railroad was a literal railroad that American slaves used to flee the South and find freedom. The series chronicles Cora Randall’s (Thuso Mbedu) desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.
After she escapes a Georgia Plantation, she finds the fabled Railroad is a real one full of engineers and conductors, whose secret network of tracks and tunnels runs beneath the soil of the South.
“The Underground Railroad” takes a bold approach to telling a story of slavery, as Whitehead’s novel was set in an alternate history where the 19th-century Underground Railroad was a literal railroad that American slaves used to flee the South and find freedom. The series chronicles Cora Randall’s (Thuso Mbedu) desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.
After she escapes a Georgia Plantation, she finds the fabled Railroad is a real one full of engineers and conductors, whose secret network of tracks and tunnels runs beneath the soil of the South.
- 4/15/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
In the trailer for Barry Jenkins’ Amazon Prime Video limited series, “The Underground Railroad,” a young slave named Cora Randall (Thuso Mbedu) escapes from a Georgia plantation using the famous Underground Railroad. Only in Jenkins’ show, this historical route to freedom is not named metaphorically, but quite literally to freedom is quite literally an actual railroad full of engineers and conductors, and a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil.
The 10-episode limited series is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, and follows Cora on her journey as she is pursued by Ridgeway (played by Joel Edgerton), “a bounty hunter who is fixated on bringing her back to the plantation she escaped; especially since her mother Mabel is the only one he has never caught,” per Amazon.
“As she travels from state to state, Cora contends with the legacy of the mother that left...
The 10-episode limited series is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, and follows Cora on her journey as she is pursued by Ridgeway (played by Joel Edgerton), “a bounty hunter who is fixated on bringing her back to the plantation she escaped; especially since her mother Mabel is the only one he has never caught,” per Amazon.
“As she travels from state to state, Cora contends with the legacy of the mother that left...
- 4/15/2021
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Amazon Prime Video has shared the first teaser trailer for The Underground Railroad, director Barry Jenkins’ limited series about the Civil War-era slave-liberating network.
Based on author Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning novel, the 10-episode series focuses on a slave named Cora Randall who, following her escape from a Georgia plantation, journeys out of the Antebellum South via the rumored “Underground Railroad.” Along the way, she is pursued by a bounty hunter harboring a grudge, as the only slave ever to evade him was Cora’s mother.
Jenkins serves as showrunner...
Based on author Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning novel, the 10-episode series focuses on a slave named Cora Randall who, following her escape from a Georgia plantation, journeys out of the Antebellum South via the rumored “Underground Railroad.” Along the way, she is pursued by a bounty hunter harboring a grudge, as the only slave ever to evade him was Cora’s mother.
Jenkins serves as showrunner...
- 4/15/2021
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Amazon Prime Video announced today that the highly anticipated Amazon Original limited series 'The Underground Railroad', from Academy Award-winner Barry Jenkins, will premiere on May 14 exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. The 10-episode limited series is based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead.
'The Underground Railroad' chronicles Cora Randall’s (newcomer Thuso Mbedu) desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. After escaping a Georgia plantation for the rumoured Underground Railroad, Cora discovers no mere metaphor, but an actual railroad full of engineers and conductors, and a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil.
Over the course of her journey, Cora is pursued by Ridgeway (Joel Edgerton), a bounty hunter who is fixated on bringing her back to the plantation she escaped; especially since her mother Mabel is the only one he has never caught.
'The Underground Railroad' chronicles Cora Randall’s (newcomer Thuso Mbedu) desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. After escaping a Georgia plantation for the rumoured Underground Railroad, Cora discovers no mere metaphor, but an actual railroad full of engineers and conductors, and a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil.
Over the course of her journey, Cora is pursued by Ridgeway (Joel Edgerton), a bounty hunter who is fixated on bringing her back to the plantation she escaped; especially since her mother Mabel is the only one he has never caught.
- 2/26/2021
- by Glamsham Editorial
- GlamSham
After giving us five hours of new Steve McQueen-directed material last year, Amazon are once again delivering the goods in 2021 when it comes to highly-anticipated projects from Black auteurs. They’ve announced a May 14 release for The Underground Railroad, the 10-episode-long adaptation solely directed by Jenkins and following Cora Randall’s (newcomer Thuso Mbedu) desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.
The adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s acclaimed novel stars Thuso Mbedu, Chase W. Dillon and Joel Edgerton. Aaron Pierre, William Jackson Harper, Sheila Atim, Amber Gray, Peter De Jersey, Chukwudi Iwuji, Damon Herriman, Lily Rabe, Irone Singleton, Mychal-Bella Bowman, Marcus “Mj” Gladney, Jr., Will Poulter, and Peter Mullan.
Check out a new teaser and poster below.
The Underground Railroad arrives on May 14.
The post Barry Jenkins' The Underground Railroad Set for May 2021 Release first appeared on The Film Stage.
The adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s acclaimed novel stars Thuso Mbedu, Chase W. Dillon and Joel Edgerton. Aaron Pierre, William Jackson Harper, Sheila Atim, Amber Gray, Peter De Jersey, Chukwudi Iwuji, Damon Herriman, Lily Rabe, Irone Singleton, Mychal-Bella Bowman, Marcus “Mj” Gladney, Jr., Will Poulter, and Peter Mullan.
Check out a new teaser and poster below.
The Underground Railroad arrives on May 14.
The post Barry Jenkins' The Underground Railroad Set for May 2021 Release first appeared on The Film Stage.
- 2/25/2021
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
After generating buzz for years, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Barry Jenkins’ slavery liberation drama, The Underground Railroad, has landed a premiere date.
The Amazon Prime limited series, which is based on Colton Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, will premiere Friday, May 14, the streamer has announced. The highly anticipated adaptation follows Cora (played by South African newcomer Thuso Mbedu), an enslaved young Black woman who is an outcast on the Georgia cotton plantation where she lives. When she hears about an escape network that could free her from the forced bondage she has endured for far too long,...
The Amazon Prime limited series, which is based on Colton Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, will premiere Friday, May 14, the streamer has announced. The highly anticipated adaptation follows Cora (played by South African newcomer Thuso Mbedu), an enslaved young Black woman who is an outcast on the Georgia cotton plantation where she lives. When she hears about an escape network that could free her from the forced bondage she has endured for far too long,...
- 2/25/2021
- by Mekeisha Madden Toby
- TVLine.com
Amazon Prime Video announced today that the Amazon Original 10-episode limited series The Underground Railroad will premiere worldwide on May 14.
From Academy Award–winner Barry Jenkins, the series is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead.
The Underground Railroad chronicles Cora Randall’s (played by newcomer Thuso Mbedu) desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. After escaping a Georgia plantation for the rumored Underground Railroad, Cora discovers an actual railroad full of engineers and conductors, and a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil.
Over the course of her journey, Cora is pursued by Ridgeway (Joel Edgerton), a bounty hunter who is fixated on bringing her back to the plantation she escaped; especially since her mother Mabel is the only one he has never caught. As she travels from state to state, Cora contends with the legacy of the mother that left her behind...
From Academy Award–winner Barry Jenkins, the series is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead.
The Underground Railroad chronicles Cora Randall’s (played by newcomer Thuso Mbedu) desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. After escaping a Georgia plantation for the rumored Underground Railroad, Cora discovers an actual railroad full of engineers and conductors, and a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil.
Over the course of her journey, Cora is pursued by Ridgeway (Joel Edgerton), a bounty hunter who is fixated on bringing her back to the plantation she escaped; especially since her mother Mabel is the only one he has never caught. As she travels from state to state, Cora contends with the legacy of the mother that left her behind...
- 2/25/2021
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Amazon Prime Video released a new teaser and premiere date for Barry Jenkins’ upcoming “Underground Railroad” series on Thursday.
An adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, the series stars newcomer Thuso Mbedu as Cora Randall as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the pre-Civil War American South.
Per Amazon’s description of the series, “After escaping a Georgia plantation for the rumored Underground Railroad, Cora discovers no mere metaphor, but an actual railroad full of engineers and conductors, and a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Over the course of her journey, Cora is pursued by Ridgeway (Joel Edgerton), a bounty hunter who is fixated on bringing her back to the plantation she escaped; especially since her mother Mabel is the only one he has never caught.”
The 10-episode limited series will debut on the streaming service on May 14.
In addition to Mbedu and Joel Edgerton,...
An adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, the series stars newcomer Thuso Mbedu as Cora Randall as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the pre-Civil War American South.
Per Amazon’s description of the series, “After escaping a Georgia plantation for the rumored Underground Railroad, Cora discovers no mere metaphor, but an actual railroad full of engineers and conductors, and a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Over the course of her journey, Cora is pursued by Ridgeway (Joel Edgerton), a bounty hunter who is fixated on bringing her back to the plantation she escaped; especially since her mother Mabel is the only one he has never caught.”
The 10-episode limited series will debut on the streaming service on May 14.
In addition to Mbedu and Joel Edgerton,...
- 2/25/2021
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
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