{"id":10267,"date":"2019-11-02T12:34:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T19:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10267"},"modified":"2019-11-06T12:38:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T19:38:48","slug":"queen-slim-the-contenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/11\/02\/queen-slim-the-contenders\/","title":{"rendered":"QUEEN &#038; SLIM &#8211; The Contenders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2019\/11\/universals-us-and-queen-slim-roam-a-broken-american-dream-the-contenders-la-1202775593\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from DEADLINE (opens in a new tab)\">from DEADLINE<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Universal\u2019s \u2018Us\u2019 And \u2018Queen &amp; Slim\u2019 Roam A Broken American Dream \u2013 The Contenders&nbsp;LA<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/author\/geoff-boucher\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Geoff Boucher<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn3.movieweb.com\/i\/article\/3Wlwjfo29O4owExX28p8fF6ppStdy5\/798:50\/Queen-And-Slim-Featurette-Video.jpg\" alt=\"Queen &amp; Slim Featurette Goes Behind-the-Scenes of Modern Day Bonnie &amp; Clyde\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>he ominous caverns that may be hidden below the fractured landscape of contemporary America are the violent playground for two Universal Pictures films,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Us<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/queen-slim\/\" target=\"_blank\">Queen &amp; Slim<\/a><\/em>, that were represented on Saturday at Deadline\u2019s The Contenders Los Angeles by two filmmakers who plugged into the nightmare side of the American Dream with fascinating results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First to the stage was\u00a0Melina Matsoukas, who made her directorial debut this year with the Universal\/Makeready spree film\u00a0<em>Queen &amp; Slim<\/em>, which follows in tradition of\u00a0<em>Natural Born Killers, Bonnie &amp; Clyde, Thelma &amp; Louise<\/em>\u00a0and other outlaw-duo-on-the-run tales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2019\/11\/universals-us-and-queen-slim-roam-a-broken-american-dream-the-contenders-la-1202775593\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at DEADLINE (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at DEADLINE<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from DEADLINE Universal\u2019s \u2018Us\u2019 And \u2018Queen &amp; Slim\u2019 Roam A Broken American Dream \u2013 The Contenders&nbsp;LA By\u00a0Geoff Boucher he ominous caverns that may be hidden below the fractured landscape of contemporary America are the violent playground for two Universal Pictures films,\u00a0Us\u00a0and\u00a0Queen &amp; Slim, that were represented on Saturday at Deadline\u2019s The Contenders Los Angeles by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation-information","category-culture-art","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}