{"id":63503,"date":"2023-12-12T21:03:07","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T02:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2023\/12\/12\/beyonces-father-mathew-knowles-memoir-to-be-adapted-into-film-tv-series\/"},"modified":"2023-12-12T21:03:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T02:03:07","slug":"beyonces-father-mathew-knowles-memoir-to-be-adapted-into-film-tv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2023\/12\/12\/beyonces-father-mathew-knowles-memoir-to-be-adapted-into-film-tv-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s Father Mathew Knowles\u2019 Memoir to Be Adapted Into Film, TV\u00a0Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- no image --><\/p>\n<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<strong>Mathew Knowles<\/strong> \u2014 longtime music manager, entrepreneur and father of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/beyonce\/\">Beyonc\u00e9<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/solange\/\">Solange<\/a> \u2014 is bringing his 2017 memoir to the screen, according to his agent, <strong>Shawn Scallon<\/strong> at Buchwald.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tKnowles has partnered with Say Unkel Entertainment to adapt the book, <em>Racism From the Eyes of a Child<\/em>, into a feature film as well as a limited series. The feature will cover the first half of the book, which goes into Knowles\u2019 early life in Alabama as one of just six black students to attend an all-white school and his participation in peaceful protests calling for racial equality. It also addresses how the efforts of such figures as Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Turner and Ralph Abernathy helped shape the person he became. <\/p>\n<div class=\"injected-related-story \/\/ lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-border-b-1 lrv-u-padding-t-050 lrv-u-padding-b-075 lrv-u-border-color-grey\">\n<div class=\"a-heading-border a-heading-border-background-color-grey a-heading-border-height-075 lrv-u-margin-b-075 lrv-u-margin-b-050@mobile-max\">\n<h3 id=\"title-of-a-story\" class=\"c-title  lrv-u-color-brand-primary a-font-primary-bold-s lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-padding-r-1 a-article-related-module-title a-article-related-module-title--color-brand-primary\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRelated\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<div class=\"o-card lrv-u-flex\">\n<p>\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/matthew-knowles-new-company-armada-hires-a-r-music-exec-news\/\" class=\"lrv-u-flex lrv-a-unstyle-link lrv-u-color-brand-primary:hover\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"o-card__image-wrap lrv-u-flex-shrink-0 u-flex-basis-144 u-flex-basis-96@mobile-max\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  lrv-u-height-100p\">\n<div class=\"a-crop-3x2 a-crop-1x1@mobile-max lrv-u-height-100p\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-billboard-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Matthew-Knowles-2023-billboard-pro-1260.jpg?w=237&amp;h=147&amp;crop=1\" alt=\"Mathew Knowles\" data-lazy-srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"\" width=\"\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"o-card__content lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column lrv-u-justify-content-center lrv-u-padding-lr-1 lrv-u-padding-lr-075@mobile-max\">\n<div class=\"o_category \">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c_title \">\n<h3 id=\"title-of-a-story\" class=\"c-title  a-font-primary-medium-m lrv-u-padding-b-050 u-letter-spacing-0028@mobile-max\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tExecutive Turntable: Positiva Records MD Boards Armada; Mathew Knowles Launches Media\u00a0Company\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<p><time class=\"c-timestamp  a-font-primary-medium-xxs lrv-u-color-brand-primary lrv-u-order-100\" datetime=\"00:00-YY-DD-MM\"><br \/>\n\t12\/12\/2023<br \/>\n<\/time><\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<em><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/film\/news\/matthew-knowles-memoir-film-tv-adpatation-beyonce-1235835341\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety<\/a><\/em> was first to report the news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<strong>Robert Unkel<\/strong>, a former vp of programming at 20th Century Fox, told <em>Variety<\/em> the script for the feature is complete. Unkel will oversee the development of the project with producer <strong>Howard Kazanjian<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tKnowles famously managed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/destinys-child\/\">Destiny\u2019s Child<\/a>, the girl group featuring Beyonc\u00e9 that rose to fame in the late 1990s and helped set the stage for her ascent to superstardom the following decade. He managed Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s solo career until the two parted ways in 2011. Through his faith-based record label and management company Music World Entertainment, he has also managed such gospel acts as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/brian-courtney-wilson\/\">Brian Courtney Wilson<\/a>, Trin-i-tee 5:7 and Destiny\u2019s Child member <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/michelle-williams\/\">Michelle Williams<\/a>. In June, Knowles formed Music World TV, Film &amp; Media, where he serves as CEO.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/culture\/tv-film\/beyonce-father-develop-film-tv-series-about-life-1235554489\/\">Aller \u00e0 la source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mathew Knowles \u2014 longtime music manager, entrepreneur and father of Beyonc\u00e9 and Solange \u2014 is bringing his 2017 memoir to the screen, according to his agent, Shawn Scallon at Buchwald. Knowles has partnered with Say Unkel Entertainment to adapt the book, Racism From the Eyes of a Child, into a feature film as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}