One night in Miami

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Movie
Original title One night in Miami
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2020
length 110 minutes
Rod
Director Regina King
script Kemp Powers
production Jess Wu Calder , Keith Calder , Jody Klein
music Terence Blanchard
camera Tami Reiker
cut Tariq Anwar
occupation

One Night in Miami is a Regina King drama film that will premiere at the Venice International Film Festival in September 2020 and will be screened shortly after at the Toronto International Film Festival . The film is based on the play of the same name by Kemp Powers from 2013, which also adapted it for the film. The story about the evening of the victory of Cassius Clay in February 1964 was enriched with an encounter and fictional conversations with Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown.

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After becoming world champion at the Miami Beach Convention Center, Cassius Clay spends the evening with three of his closest friends: Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown

On the night of February 25, 1964, young Cassius Clay becomes the new heavyweight boxing world champion at the Miami Beach Convention Center after an unexpected victory over Sonny Liston. Clay spends the rest of the evening at the Hampton House Motel in Miami's African American suburb of Overtown and celebrates with Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown, who are among his closest friends. The four icons and trailblazers of the Black Power movement talk about their shared responsibility as influencers and their fight for equality for all African Americans.

production

It is in One Night in Miami to the directorial debut of Oscar-winning actress Regina King in a movie. The screenplay was written by Kemp Powers and is based on his play of the same name, which premiered in 2013 at the Rogue Machine Theater in Los Angeles. Powers received the Ted Schmitt Award for his work that same year. The play itself also received three awards at the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards, four awards at the NAACP Theater Awards, and won the Los Angeles Weekly Theater Award.

The main role of Cassius Clay, later Muhammad Ali , was cast with Eli Goree . The three-time world boxing champion died in June 2016. Aldis Hodge plays his friend Jim Brown , who played in the US professional league between 1957 and 1966, Leslie Odom Jr. the singer and songwriter Sam Cooke , who is known as one of the "Fathers “Des Soul applies and was shot at the end of 1964. Kingsley Ben-Adir plays the role of civil rights activist Malcolm X , who was assassinated in February 1965. Michael Imperioli as Angelo Dundee , Jerome A. Wilson as Elijah Muhammad and Lance Reddick in the role of Brother Kareem can also be seen in other roles .

The shooting took place in the hotel complex "Hampton" in Thibodaux in Louisiana.

The film music was composed by Terence Blanchard .

The film will be shown for the first time on September 7, 2020 at the Venice International Film Festival . It will also be shown at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2020 .

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  1. ↑ David C. Nichols: Review: Imagining the history that was made 'One Night in Miami ...' In: Los Angeles Times, June 11, 2013.
  2. ↑ Brooke Robichaux: 'One Night in Miami' filming in LaPlace. In: lobservateur.com, November 13, 2019.
  3. ↑ https://www.projectcasting.com/casting-calls-acting-auditions/one-night-in-miami-casting/
  4. ^ Terence Blanchard scoring Regina King's 'One Night in Miami'. In: filmmusicreporter.com, 23 August 2020.
  5. ↑ Michael Rosser: Venice adds Regina King's 'One Night In Miami', Pedro Almodóvar short 'The Human Voice'. In: screendaily.com, August 3, 2020.
  6. ↑ One night in Miami. In: tiff.net. Retrieved August 25, 2020.
  7. ↑ Here are all the movies set for the Toronto Film Festival's first hybrid virtual edition. In: Los Angeles Times, July 30, 2020.