The lovers at the center of Shaka King’s Newlyweeds are young Brooklynites whose romance more or less revolves around their love of marijuana. King’s often outrageously funny and wistfully bleak movie ...

PARK CITY, UT, January 25 – Berry Meyerowitz, President & CEO of Phase 4 Films, announced today that the Company has acquired all North American rights to NEWLYWEEDS, the debut feature written and ...

With Shaka King’s feature-length directorial debut, Newlyweeds follows the journey of a marijuana-reliant couple who are struggling to get by in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New ...

Gbenga Akinnagbe has, shall we say, a quality. As a gang enforcer in “The Wire,” the actor irradiated the screen with a glowering menace; as a charming nursing-home aide who changes a family’s life in ...

Shaka King’s debut feature co-stars Amari Cheatom and Trae Harris. By Justin Lowe U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Shaka King) PARK CITY – Although Newlyweeds is billed as a “romance,” it’s pretty ...

“Newlyweeds” isn’t for everyone. A film billed as a cool stoner dramedy, it arrives wrapped in a haze of marijuana smoke, as much a tribute to getting “wild blazed” as it is a cautionary tale about ...

Part “Days of Wine and Roses,” part early-funny Spike Lee, writer-director Shaka King’s intriguing, slippery-witted stoner love story “Newlyweeds” zeros in on a young Brooklyn couple — ...

In the wake of Ryan Coogler’s “Fruitvale Station” and “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” and Alexandre Moors’ “Blue Caprice” and Andrew Dosumnu’s “Mother of George,” the hype about 2013 as the year of Black ...

Judas and the Black Messiah chronicles the life of Illinois Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton through the eyes of William O'Neal — the man... Director Shaka King's Journey From 'Newlyweeds' To ...

PARK CITY, UT, January 25 – Berry Meyerowitz, President & CEO of Phase 4 Films, announced today that the Company has acquired all North American rights to NEWLYWEEDS, the debut feature written and ...

As the current chairman of the Black Panther Party Cubs, Fred Hampton, Jr. was guarded when he heard a studio wanted to make a movie about his late father, Fred Hampton. With good reason, too. The ...