Ryan Coogler & Spike Lee will appear together on Variety’s ‘Directors on Directors.’
🔔: The interview will be on Variety’s YouTube channel, January 7th.
Mara Brock Akil is getting her flowers. The Producers Guild of America named the creator behind 'Girlfriends' and 'The Game' its 2026 Norman Lear Achievement Award honoree. Big ups to one of the architects of modern Black storytelling.
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Bruce Willis told Samuel L. Jackson to find a recurring role "everybody loves" so that he'd be protected from box office flops.
“Bruce told me, 'Hopefully you’ll be able to find a character that, when you make bad movies and they don’t make any money, you can always go back to this character everybody loves,'" Jackson remembers. "He said, ‘Arnold’s got Terminator. Sylvester’s got Rocky and Rambo. I’ve got John McClane.’ I’m like, ‘Oh, okay.’ And it didn’t occur to me until I got that Nick Fury role—and I had a nine-picture deal to be Nick Fury—that, ‘Oh, I’m doing what Bruce said. I’ve got this character now.'”