BURBANK, Calif. (July 19, 2020) โ Today, Parkwood Entertainment and Disney+ released the new trailer and poster for โBlack Is King,โ a film by 24-time GRAMMYยฎ Award-winner Beyoncรฉ Knowles-Carter, which will premiere globally on July 31, 2020, streaming on Disney+. The new film based on the music of โThe Lion King: The Gift,โ will premiere two weeks after the one-year anniversary of the theatrical release of Disneyโs global phenomenon, โThe Lion King.โ The film reimagines the lessons from the 2019 blockbuster for todayโs young kings and queens in search of their own crowns.
Simultaneously, a distribution deal was announced to make โBlack Is Kingโ available on much of the African Continent, including South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, Namibia, Cameroon, Liberia, Burundi, Senegal, Togo, Somalia, Benin, Congo, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Gabon, Cape Verde and many more countries through MultiChoice Groupโs M-Net and Canal+ Afrique.ย
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โBlack Is Kingโ was in production for one year and features an impressive list of diverse voices on its creative team, including directors Emmanuel Adjei (the film โShahmaranโ), Blitz Bazawule (the film โThe Burial of Kojoโ), Pierre Debusschere (โMineโ and โGhostโ videos for Beyoncรฉ), Jenn Nkiru (โBLACK TO TECHNOโ film), Ibra Ake (creative director and producer on โThis is Americaโ video for Childish Gambino), Dikayl Rimmasch (โCACHAO, UNO MASโ film), Jake Nava (โCrazy in Love,โ โSingle Ladies,โ โPartitionโ videos for Beyoncรฉ) and co-director and long-time collaborator of Beyoncรฉ, Kwasi Fordjour.
The list of additional co-directors and second unit directors adds to the crewโs global representation, including Dafe Oboro, Julian Klincewicz, Derek Milton, Meji Alabi, Joshua Kissi, Alexandre Moors and Deon Van Zyl.
Filmed in various locations, the filmโs cinematography captures beautiful people and landscapes across continents, starting in New York, then Los Angeles, South Africa, West Africa, London and Belgium. From all those places came an extraordinary cast of actors and dancers that influenced the filmโs rich tableau and vibrant choreography.
The new trailer provides a glimpse of some of the special guests in the film. They include models Aweng Ade-Chuol and Adut Akech, supermodel Naomi Campbell, Tina Knowles-Lawson, author and Academy Awardยฎ-winning actor Lupita Nyongโo, singer Kelly Rowland, Pharrell Williams and JAY-Z, among others. Many artists featured on โThe Lion King: The Giftโ album also make appearances.
A celebratory memoir for the world on the black experience, โBlack Is Kingโ includes full-length videos for the songs โAlready,โ โBrown Skin Girl,โ โMood 4 Evaโ and โMy Power,โ which is heard in the new trailer.
About Parkwood Entertainment
Parkwood Entertainment is a film and production company, record label and management firm founded by entertainer and entrepreneur, Beyoncรฉ in 2010. With offices in Los Angeles and New York City, the company houses departments in music, film, video, live performances and concert production, management, business development, marketing, digital, creative, philanthropy, and publicity. Under its original name, Parkwood Pictures, the company released the film โCadillac Recordsโ (2008), in which Beyoncรฉ starred and co-produced. The company has also released the film โObsessedโ (2009), with Beyoncรฉ as star and executive producer, the winner of the Peabody Award for Entertainment, โLemonadeโ (2017), and the Emmyยฎ-nominated and GRAMMY Awardยฎ-winning โHomecoming: A Film By Beyoncรฉโ (2019), which documents Beyoncรฉโs history-making performance at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in 2018. Parkwood Entertainment produced The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour (2013-2014), The Formation World Tour (2016), and the aforementioned โHomecomingโ performances at Coachella (2018) and co-produced the ON THE RUN Tour (2014) and ON THE RUN II Tour (2018).