British actor Idris Elba is certainly putting his words into action when it comes to lending his expertise to help revamp the deplorable state of affairs when it comes to people of color being given equal opportunity as their white counterparts to work in front and behind the camera in television and beyond.
Avatar 2, the long-awaited and overdue sequel to Avatar has been delayed indefinitely because Star Wars Episode VIII altered its release date.
The next installment of the galactic franchise is scheduled to debut in theaters on Dec. 15, 2017 and Avatar 2 was supposed to be released on Christmas 2017 but decided to postpone its debut until… whenever.
Oscars 2016 will go down in history as the year when the Academy bowed down to the force and embraced the unthinkable. Diversity.
In what has been deemed as “historic”, Cheryl Boone, The Academy’s president, who also happens to be black – announced that after a unanimous vote, the Board of Governors acknowledged that drastic changes had to be instituted in order to ensure the entry of more women and minorities, in order to guarantee that what is happening now – never happens again.
