Lena Waithe On 'Queen And Slim,' A Black Lives Matter Odyssey The screenwriter's new movie is about a black couple who shoot a white police officer in self-defense during a routine traffic stop.

Lena Waithe's "Queen & Slim" stars Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith as a couple on the run. But she says they're no black Bonnie and Clyde.

But for writer Lena Waithe and director Melina Matsoukas, who are also producers on the project, the process of packaging “Queen & Slim” was more seamless than usual.

Daniel Kaluuya and Lena Waithe are teaming up for Universal's 'Queen & Slim,' which will be helmed by Melina Matsoukas and is described as a 'Bonnie and Clyde' story that revolves around a black ...

Queen & Slim By Paula Rogo · Updated October 23, 2020 Lena Waithe’s newest project, dubbed “the Black Bonnie & Clyde” in film circles, is finally getting a release date — and we have the ...

Later that month, Waithe and Mayo announced their separation just two months after the Queen and Slim writer revealed she had secretly married Mayo, after three years of dating, in a private San ...

On Thursday, stars flocked to Hollywood’s TCL Chinese Theatre for the world premiere of Melina Matsoukas and Lena Waithe‘s Queen & Slim at AFI Fest.. The film, co-written by James Frey ...

Having created a long-running, hit series like The Chi, earned an Emmy for her work writing on Master of None, and written/produced buzzy blockbusters like Queen & Slim, among many other projects ...

At 40, Lena Waithe already has an impressive legacy, ... She wrote the film Queen & Slim and was a producer on the movie Dear White People. But for me, Waithe's real triumph is The Chi.

Black Hollywood were out for the Queen & Slim screenings that filmmakers Lena Waithe and Melina Matsoukas held around the country this week.. The duo’s first feature film made its first stop a ...