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Monster on Netflix is a courtroom drama film about the all-too-familiar story of a Black teenager versus America’s criminal justice system.

“Three years after its debut at the Sundance Film Festival and a short-lived name change to All Rise, Monster has finally landed on Netflix. Based on Walter Dean Myers’ 1999 novel of the same name, the legal drama shoehorns the viewer into a horrifying, yet all-too-familiar, scenario in which a Black teenager named Steve Harmon (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) is facing decades in prison while on trial for a crime that he swears he hasn’t committed.”

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Photo: ‘Monster’/Netflix Debuting at the Sundance Film Festival in January of 2018, it has been a long and winding road for music-video director Anthony Mandler’s first feature film ‘Monster’ to make it to audiences. Though close to three and a half years have unfolded since its first screening, the film finally found a home at Netflix, premiering on the streaming service on Friday, May 7th. While three whole years may seem like a long time in the world of film, the themes of the John Legend-produced ‘Monster’ have sadly not lost a shred of relevancy or applicability to the America it is now being widely released in to. Related article: Hollywood Powerhouses Stand Up Against HFPA Due to Continued Racism and Sexism Related article: The Rebirth of ‘West Side Story’: The Blockbuster-Maker Steven Spielberg Making A Classic Bigger and Better Adapted from Walter Dean Myers’ 1999 National Book...

After premiering at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, Monster has finally made its way to Netflix. The film - which is based on the 1999 novel of the same name by Walter Dean Myers - tells the story of 17-year-old student Steve Harmon who is accused of being involved in a convenience store robbery-turned-murder. Through a series of flashbacks, the gripping film follows his life before and during the trial.

The movie boasts a star-studded cast, which includes Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Harmon himself; Jennifer Hudson as Mrs. Harmon; A$AP Rocky as William King, Nas as Raymond "Sunset" Green - shall we go on? Frankly, the cast alone is reason enough to watch. Keep reading to see who else is in Monster and make sure to check it out on Netflix Asap.

The New York City courtroom in which 17-year-old honors student Steve Harmon stands accused of felony murder isn’t the customary dark wood and tan walls affair. “Monster” there’s a reason beyond stylish production design for the palette of grays. For the involving, nuanced drama — a Sundance 2018 competition title starring Kelvin Harrison Jr. — explores the gray areas of guilt, innocence and criminal justice, especially as they pertain to young Black men, who are too often seen as guilty till proven otherwise. Innocent is likely too much to ask of a system in which young men like Steve are seen as the beasts, as the monsters of the movie’s title.

Streaming on Netflix, “Monster” is based on the 1999 young adult novel by Walter Dean Myers (who died in 2014). The themes of the award-winning book remain timely and are made even more so by screenwriters Radha Blank, Colen C. Wiley and Janece Shaffer.

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Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios said on Monday it has acquired the 2018 Sundance film “All Rise,” starring Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson.

The film, which was titled “Monster” while in competition at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, is based on the award-winning and New York Times-bestselling novel of the same name by Walter Dean Myers, which received the Coretta Scott King Award that recognizes outstanding books for young adults and children by African Americans that reflect the African American experience.

“All Rise” tells the story of Steve Harmon (Harrison), a 17-year-old honor student whose world comes crashing down around him when he is charged with felony murder. The film follows his dramatic journey from a smart, likeable film student from Harlem attending an elite high school through a complex legal battle that could leave him spending the rest of his life in prison.

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Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to All Rise, the drama written and directed by Anthony Mandler that premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival as Monster. The pic based on Walter Dean Myers’ New York Times-bestselling novel of that name is now headed for a fall 2019 domestic theatrical release.

Jennifer Hudson, Jeffrey Wright, Jennifer Ehle, A$AP Rocky, Nas, Tim Blake Nelson, Paul Ben-Victor and John David Washington co-star in in commercial and music video director Mandler’s feature film debut, which premiere in Competition in Park City.

The plot centers on Steve Harmon (Kelvin Harrison Jr), a 17-year-old honor student whose world comes crashing down when he is charged with felony murder. The film follows his dramatic journey from a smart, likeable film student from Harlem attending an elite high school through a complex legal battle that could leave him spending the rest of his life in prison.

Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios has nabbed U.S. rights to the legal drama All Rise, which stars Kelvin Harrison Jr. as a straight-arrow Harlem youth arrested for his peripheral involvement in a deadly crime.

The first feature from music video and commercial director Anthony Mandler bowed in competition at Sundance as Monster. Harrison plays Steve Harmon, a 17-year-old honor student whose world comes crashing down around him when he is charged with felony murder. The pic follows his dramatic journey from a smart, likable film student from Harlem attending an elite high school through a complex legal battle that could ...

Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios has nabbed U.S. rights to the legal drama All Rise, which stars Kelvin Harrison Jr. as a straight-arrow Harlem youth arrested for his peripheral involvement in a deadly crime.

The first feature from music video and commercial director Anthony Mandler bowed in competition at Sundance as Monster. Harrison plays Steve Harmon, a 17-year-old honor student whose world comes crashing down around him when he is charged with felony murder. The pic follows his dramatic journey from a smart, likable film student from Harlem attending an elite high school through a complex legal battle that could ...

1978: Ryan's Hope's Pat called Delia on her miscarriage deception.

1987: Days of our Lives' Patch made chili.

2007: All My Children's Zoe performed.

2009: Drew Garrett debuted as Michael on Gh."All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut."

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1959: NBC Radio soap The Woman in My House aired its final episode after an eight year run. One Man's Family creator Carlton E. Morse produced Wimh about the Carter family of Miami.

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Music Video directors are killing it it at Sundance this year, and for good reason. As a producer, you want a director you can trust, and directors with heavy experience shooting music videos really are a natural choice. Not only are they good zeroing in on the average attention span of audiences, but they are also no stranger to exorbitant production costs and insane time restrictions. That is likely the reason veteran Mv director Anthony Madler was chosen to take the reins in this year’s film adaptation of the popular Walter Dean Myers novel, Monster.

For those not familiar with the book, Monster is the story of Steve Harmon (Kelvin Harrison Jr.), an artistic youth from the streets of Harlem whose penchant for photographs sometimes puts him in the wrong places at the wrong time. When Steve unwittingly gets implicated in the fatal heist of a local convenience store,...

Originally published in 1999, Walter Dean Myers’s novel Monster has been a favorite among young-adult readers, using both a third-person screenplay device and first-person diary format to tell the story of honors student Steve Harmon, a black teenager with dreams of becoming a filmmaker, who is arrested and tried for felony murder in New York […]

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Based on a Ya novel by Walter Dean Myers, “Monster,” adapted by Radha Blank, Cole Wiley and Janece Shaffer, is a messy, conventional but likeable film that will likely strike a chord with unadventurous moviegoers rather than cinephiles who are used to these kinds of stories by now, most notably in pictures like “The Hurricane,” “The Green Mile,” and “In the Name of the Father.”

The story revolves around Steve Harmon (Kelvin Harrison Jr.), a well-mannered, law-abiding Harlem teenager who winds up arrested for his involvement in a robbery and murder at a 7/11.

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“I was immediately drawn to the story and the way that it asked this very large question about could one moment in your life define your whole life,” said director Anthony Mandler during his turn at Deadline’s Sundance Studio to speak on his directorial debut feature, Monster. Based on the young adult novel by Walter Dean Myers, its a familiar story that centers on Steve Harmon, played by rising star Kelvin Harrison Jr, a bright, sensitive 17-year-old who stands trial for…...

Ever since its publication in 1999, author Walter Dean Myers’ award-winning novel Monster has be a favorite among young adults, providing them a glimpse into the world of Steve Harmon, a black teenager whose life is thrown into chaos when he is arrested and put on trial for taking part in a robbery gone wrong, […]

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It’s always nice to get a bit of interesting casting news on a Friday afternoon. John Legend’s Get Lifted Film Co. is producing the upcoming crime drama Monster (not to be confused with the Charlize Theron serial killer movie, or the upcoming The Monster from director Bryan Bertino). This is a film based on the novel of the same name by Walter Dean Myers, about a young man accused of a crime he claims he did not commit. With filming about to begin in New York, the cast has been rounded out to include Jennifer Hudson, and hip-hop artists A$AP Rocky and Nas.

Monster tells the story of teenage honors student and filmmaker Steve Harmon (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) who is deemed a monster after being charged with a murder he says he didn’t commit. As Steve fights the system accusing him, he moves from being an...