Cord Jefferson
‘Superman: Legacy’: Miriam Shor Joining James Gunn’s Man of Steel Movie (Exclusive)
Miriam Shor is in early talks to become the latest to join the growing cast of James Gunn’s Superman: Legacy. The Man of Steel feature is due to be the kickoff for the much ballyhooed DC Studios slate when it hits theaters in July 2025 and has been casting up furiously since the end of […]
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‘American Fiction’ Filmmaker Cord Jefferson Reacts to Film’s Five Spirit Award Nominations
Cord Jefferson has had quite a week and it’s barely Wednesday. The American Fiction writer-director spent Monday evening in San Francisco where he received the George Gund III Award for Virtuosity presented by one of his stars, John Ortiz, during the SFFILM Awards at the city’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Shortly after 7 […]
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Greta Gerwig, Roger Ross Williams, Cord Jefferson, Nicolas Cage to Receive SFFILM Awards
Barbie director Greta Gerwig, filmmakers Roger Ross Williams and Cord Jefferson and Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage are set to receive honors at the SFFILM Awards Night on Dec. 4 in San Francisco, organizers said on Wednesday. The event honors achievement in film and its fundraising proceeds support the organization’s mission to “discover, nurture and showcase […]
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‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ Creative Team to Receive Award from Denver Film Festival
The creative team from Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse will soon be swinging into Colorado to accept an inaugural award at the Denver Film Festival. The fest today announced a more complete lineup of events, screenings, honorees, special guests, podcasts and more for this year’s installment, scheduled for Nov. 3-12. Plucked to receive the inaugural Denver […]
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With ‘American Fiction,’ Cord Jefferson Scorches the Entertainment Machine — But “Never Wanted to Police Blackness or Art”
[This story contains spoilers from American Fiction.] It’s not often that a filmmaker gets to premiere their project to an audience they’ve set their hyperspecific comedic sights on. But it’s an experience first-time director Cord Jefferson can now claim after his new film, American Fiction, made its east coast debut at the Hamptons International Film […]
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‘American Fiction’ Review: Jeffrey Wright in Cord Jefferson’s Clever Directorial Debut About the Black Artist’s Dilemma
Sterling K. Brown, Leslie Uggams, Tracee Ellis Ross, Issa Rae and Adam Brody co-star in this adaptation of Percival Everett's satirical novel 'Erasure.'
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Toronto Awards Analysis: Social Satire ‘American Fiction’ Makes Contenders of Jeffrey Wright and Cord Jefferson
The awards team at Amazon, as the parent company of MGM, a division of which includes Orion, may have an unexpected awards contender on its hands with Cord Jefferson’s feature directorial debut American Fiction, an adaptation for Orion of Percival Everett’s 2001 novel Erasure. The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film […]
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Orion Pictures Lands ‘Watchmen’ Writer Cord Jefferson’s Directorial Debut
Orion Pictures — the MGM label headed by Alana Mayo — has acquired the feature directorial debut of Watchmen writer Cord Jefferson. Jeffery Wright stars in the project from Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman’s T-Street and MRC. Based on the 2001 novel Erasure by Percival Everett, the movie centers on Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, a writer and […]
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