The director joined IndieWire's Filmmaker Toolkit for a live event where he discussed his directorial debut following a 35mm screening. “It’s a trip to see it on the big screen again,” Van Peebles ...

EXCLUSIVE: The personal story of multi-hyphenate Mario Van Peebles will come to TV. The actor, writer and director, known for New Jack City and Heartbreak Ridge, has teamed with Dorothy Toran and ...

"Whatever you two geniuses scheming up, count me in!" Quiver Distr. has revealed an official trailer for a kooky, zany western thriller comedy titled Outlaw Posse, arriving in theaters in March. It's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "This film was made at a time when you didn't really see Black people onscreen with facial hair," Mario told the crowd, "let alone ...

When many people ponder life’s meaning, they think beyond themselves, into the future where pehaps something they did right in their life positively impacts the next generation. Mario Van Peebles ...

Moviefone speaks with Mario Van Peebles and his son Mandela about 'Outlaw Posse.' "He knows how to play my son and I know how to play his dad," Mario said. Moviefone recently had the pleasure of ...

As Melvin Van Peebles' early work is restored and re-released for a new generation, Mario Van Peebles reflects on his father's legacy. Living as an ex-pat in Paris in the late 1950s, Melvin Van ...

It’s hard for Generation Xers to believe that it’s been 30 years since direector Mario Van Peebles made the era-defining, culture-shifting film New Jack City. While the classic turned Wesley Snipes, ...

Some recovered crack addicts have Mario Van Peebles to thank. The director of “New Jack City” says people tell him even years after the movie’s 1991 premiere that its visceral scenes put them off ...

Sept. 23 (UPI) --Melvin Van Peebles, an influential director, actor and father of filmmaker Mario Van Peebles, has died at the age of 89. Melvin Van Peebles died at his home with family on Tuesday, ...

Van Peebles, who died Sept. 21, was best known for his 1971 film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. He spoke with Fresh Air in 1990. His son Mario, also an actor/director, was interviewed in 2004.