After premiering to rave reviews earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, The Birth Of Nation stumbled last weekend at its North American box-office opening. Beleaguered director Nate Parker‘s slave-rebellion drama raked in “$7.1 million from 2,105 theaters, capping weeks of controversy over Parker’s involvement in a 1999 rape trial.” He had hoped to bring in […]
“Everything you see is a miracle,” said Parker about the Nat Turner biopic. Nate Parker, the star and director of The Birth of a Nation, got very emotional while talking about the tough journey he endured to get the Nat Turner biopic made. During an NABJ/NAHJ conference panel, Parker shared how the film was under constant threat of being shut […]
The controversial film hit theaters Friday. Nate Parker‘s film The Birth Of A Nation is finally hitting theaters today despite all of the controversy surrounding the film and its director, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t still people who don’t want the movie to see the light of day. On Thursday night, protesters honoring victims of rape and […]
Parker said, "All I know is the film exists. You can kill the messenger, you can come for me, it’s alright."