
Nia DaCosta becomes first Black woman director to debut film at top of box office with "Candyman"
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"Candyman" topped the weekend box office, raking in $22 million from August 27 to 29. The film's director, Nia DaCosta is now the first Black woman director to debut a movie in the No. 1 spot at the weekend box office, according to Deadline.
The horror film, which DaCosta co-wrote with Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld, is a sequel to the original 1992 flick. The new "Candyman" ignores two previous sequels — "Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh" (1995) and "Candyman: Day of the Dead" (1999) — and picks up in present day, gentrified Chicago, according to Entertainment Tonight. "I'm such a big fan, I thought that I'll come at it from the perspective of someone who just lovingly wants to see what else this legend and this story could do," DaCosta told ET in an interview earlier this month.
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