(Mark Blinch/Reuters)Nair premiered her upcoming Disney film Queen of Katwe, about a chess prodigy who rose from the slums of Uganda, at the Toronto International Film Festival over the weekend. A rich crop of racially diverse films is poised to disrupt two straight years of overwhelmingly white Academy Awards. Yet the film arrived at Toronto overshadowed by a rape case from Parker's past and its prospects are very much in question. He premiered his The Magnificent Seven as the opening film at Toronto. Don't whine about whether that film didn't work out, or people didn't accept you or nominate you for that movie," said Fuqua.

Source: CBC News September 13, 2016 16:41 UTC