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What other movies has Beyonce been in as she voices Nala in The Lion King? - Metro.co.uk Posted: 09 Jul 2019 12:00 AM PDT Beyonce has had a few prominent movie roles (Picture: Rex/Getty) The Lion King live action remake is set to be released later this month with voices provided by stars including Donald Glover, Beyonce and Seth Rogen. Disney fans have been left divided after seeing Beyonce voice Nala for the first time in a short clip from the new movie. It isn't the first time that the singer has appeared in a movie, with one of her first major films roles emerging over 15 years ago. Here are some of her most famous roles on the big screen, ahead of the release of the Lion King remake. Advertisement What movies has Beyonce been in? One of her oldest and most well-known roles was as Foxxy Cleopatra in the third Austin Powers movie – Goldmember. Advertisement Advertisement Acting alongside Mike Myers, she had one of the leading roles in the 2002 movie, playing the 70's FBI agent who travels back to the present day with Austin Powers. In 2006 she starred as Deena Jones in Dreamgirls, along with Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy and Jennifer Hudson. The romantic drama was also a musical  and it was adapted from a Broadway screenplay of the same name. Listen was one of the songs that Beyonce can be seen singing in the film, which she later released as a single in 2007, while the Dreamgirls soundtrack album reached number one in the US charts. Beyonce starred alongside Mike Myers in Austin Powers (Picture: New Line/Kobal/Rex Features) Beyonce also played a smaller role as Etta James in the 2008 movie Cadillac Records, which starred Adrien Brody and Jeffrey Wright. She sang five songs for the film's soundtrack album, including At Last, which she also performed during the inauguration ball of Barack Obama. The following year she acted opposite Idris Elba in Obsessed, playing his wife Sharon who learns about his colleague Lisa's obsessive behaviour. Beyonce has also acted alongside Idris Elba (Picture: Screen Gems/Kobal/Rex Features) In 2013, Beyonce provided the voice of Queen Tara in the animated movie Epic, and she has also voiced Shine in four episodes of the Nick cartoon Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! Beyonce has made less movie appearances in recent years, making her Lion King role one of her biggest acting parts in over ten years, as she has spent more of her time working on her music. Earlier this year she released a new album and documentary called Homecoming, which showed behind-the-scenes of her headline performance at Coachella in 2018. MORE: Beyonce and Donald Glover seen in The Lion King's first cast photo and it's all kinds of fierce MORE: People reckon Beyonce was behind Halle Bailey's casting as Ariel in The Little Mermaid Advertisement Advertisement

Black Cinema Matters - The New Republic Posted: 11 Sep 2020 12:00 AM PDT In the fall of 1960, Melvin Van Peebles stood on the Champs-Élysées with wet cheeks and three reels of film under his arm. His life was in shambles. Hours before, the aspiring film director had been lauded during a screening of his films at the famed Cinémathèque in Paris. He was the guest of its founder, legendary cinephile Henri Langlois. After the event, Langlois kissed Van Peebles on both cheeks and drove away. As the afterglow of the applause faded, Van Peebles realized he was alone—stranded in France, with no money and no way home. He spoke no French and had no friends. What was he to do? He stayed, and in so doing altered the course of cinematic history. Like other Black intellectuals and artists from America, from Richard Wright and James Baldwin to Miles Davis and Dexter Gordon, Van Peebles found a refuge in Paris from the hostile racial climate back home. That alone was enough to keep him going. He started life in his adopted country as a homeless street performer, taught himself to speak French, and went on to become a respected magazine journalist. When he learned of a law that subsidized French writers to adapt their books into films, Van Peebles transformed himself once more, eventually publishing four novels in French. He was then awarded financing to direct a movie based on his novel La Permission. The resulting adaptation, titled The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1967), combines French and English dialogue. It portrays a Black U.S. soldier stationed in France who, on a weekend pass from the Army, embarks on a steamy love affair with a white French woman. Van Peebles experimented with jump cuts and freeze frames to express the social anxieties that presided over interracial dating in the 1960s. His stylistic choices clearly situate the picture within the French New Wave, a movement popularized by François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard. But, tellingly, one seldom sees Van Peebles's name mentioned in discussions of that lively cinematic chapter. When The Story of a Three-Day Pass won the top prize at the San Francisco Film Festival that year, audiences and critics were astounded to discover the director of that marvelous French film was actually … a soul brother from Chicago. Van Peebles's festival triumph generated buzz and garnered him a shot in Hollywood. In 1970, he helmed a successful picture, Watermelon Man, and became the first Black director to receive a multi-picture deal with a major studio. But if you were to ask the average movie buff today to identify Van Peebles or any of his films, even amid an unprecedented commercial effort to expose audiences to Black directors, they would likely be at a loss. These campaigns leave the public imagining an enjoyable stay-at-home movie night: "Learn About the Black Struggle and Chill." The story of Melvin Van Peebles speaks to a larger problem. Many Americans, in the face of public outrage over the high-profile police killings of unarmed Black citizens like George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and Rayshard Brooks, are struggling to make sense of this country's appalling racial violence. Some have looked to Black films for answers. Numerous media outlets and streaming services have compiled lists of films that reduce Black cinema, a heritage filled with strange twists and fascinating personalities, to a familiar menu of offerings from Spike Lee and a couple of other big names. This is what happens when you combine corporate incentives with performative "wokeness." These campaigns leave the public imagining an enjoyable stay-at-home movie night: "Learn About the Black Struggle and Chill."

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