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BKFinest

By rafael | Published March 19, 2011 | Full size is 500 × 320 pixels

Antoine Fuqua Antoine Fuqua is one of the few black directors who have been able to make a movie that wins awards and brings home the bacon. His movie Brooklyn’s Finest opens this weekend, and based on reviews, he may have again hit a home run. In 2001, Training Day brought in $77 million at the box office and earned Denzel Washington a best actor Oscar. Fuqua is in preproduction for the true life story of the Colombian drug lord, Pablo Escobar. He is also attached to direct the spy thriller Consent to Kill for CBS Films. (Image source: Overture Films)

Antoine Fuqua Antoine Fuqua is one of the few black directors who have been…