"Richard Pryor: Live in Concert" was added Tuesday to the National Film Registry. Every year, the Library of Congress selects 25 motion pictures to join the registry for their "cultural, historic ...

As director Richard Linklater noted during a screening in 2019, Jo Jo Dancer Your Life Is Calling is a “brave” film that’s been unjustly overlooked, even by Pryor fans. “It was like it ...

After Richard Pryor filmed the 1973 movie "The Mack," about a pimp, VonHeitman said, he tried immersing himself in that life. Richard wasn't interested in being safe ever in his life.

In the documentary 'I Am Richard Pryor,' Pryor's widow Jennifer Lee Pryor speaks about his love life, drug use and the time he set himself on fire.

Richard Pryor movies were exceptionally popular in the 1970s and 1980s, but that was a problem for TV networks — the comedian’s foul-mouthed jokes were hilarious in theaters but could cause a ...

Richard Pryor performs on-stage at New Orleans' Saenger Theatre as part of his 1983 concert film 'Here and Now.' The then and there of "Here and Now" is New Orleans' Saenger Theatre in 1983. Their ...

MGM won a heated film rights auction and will partner with black-ish creator Kenya Barris for a movie on iconic comedian Richard Pryor.Barris will make his directorial debut on a film he will ...

Pryor also came from the standup stage and had already made hit movies like Uptown Saturday Night, Car Wash and Silver Streak. By the ’80s he was making Richard Pryor vehicles, not buddy movies.

How stand-up comedy's GOAT gave new life to the concert film In 1982, E.T. topped the box office. But Richard Pryor's otherworldly genius needed no more than words to set his own record with Live ...

Long before Richard Pryor became one of the most revered comedians in history, he was a kid from Peoria, Illinois, who thought joining the Army was his ticket out of a boring life and a way to see ...

The Mike Epps-starring Richard Pryor movie is has set Oprah Winfrey, Eddie Murphy and Kate Hudson to star and Lee Daniels to direct. 2025 American Music Awards × Close Player ...