{"id":446042,"date":"2022-12-10T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=446042"},"modified":"2022-12-11T02:22:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T02:22:27","slug":"viola-davis-on-why-the-woman-king-was-vital-to-make-despite-everyone-turning-it-down-contenders-la3c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/viola-davis-on-why-the-woman-king-was-vital-to-make-despite-everyone-turning-it-down-contenders-la3c","title":{"rendered":"Viola Davis On Why &#8216;The Woman King&#8217; Was Vital To Make Despite Everyone Turning It Down &#8211; Contenders LA3C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was joined at today&#8217;s Contenders Film LA3C event by the key people behind the hit epic The Woman King , which was just named to the prestigious list of AFI&#8217;s Top 10 Movies of the Year . It also scored a rare A+ Cinemascore during its opening weekend in September, proving it has not only critical acclaim but also that from the audience. The funny thing is this story of a band of all-female African warriors defending their kingdom in the 1800s was turned down by every studio the filmmakers approached until they finally got a yes from Sony&#8217;s TriStar Pictures. It was a smart move for the studio as it clearly has an Oscar contender here. RELATED: Deadline&#8217;s The Contenders LA3C: Full Coverage Stars Viola Davis and Thuso Mbedu , director Gina Prince-Bythewood and Crash Oscar winner Cathy Schulman , who produces along with Davis, all joined me to discuss the challenges and triumphs of bringing this film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was joined at today&#8217;s Contenders Film LA3C event by the key people behind the hit epic The Woman King, which was just named to the prestigious list of AFI&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}