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‘Sing Sing’ Star Colman Domingo Hopes Prison Drama’s Profit-Sharing Budget Model Will Inspire More Films to Be ‘Equitable Above and Below the Line’


Colman Domingo's prison drama 'Sing Sing' provided equal equity and profit share in the film’ earnings for everyone who worked on the movie.

He collected the actors into a photo-ready group, turned his back to the cameras, and gave the cast a pep talk before the photos began. In doing so, they depict how prison art programming offers incarcerated men (and women) a powerful escape and cathartic medium. On the red carpet, Domingo embraced Maclin, who’d worked to develop the film with Kwedar for eight years, and let the photographers file in.

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