Paramount Photos and Tuff Gong’s musical biopic Bob Marley: One Love received “Greatest Film” on the 2024 BET Awards, which happened in Los Angeles on June 30.
Different nominees within the class included American Fiction, Renaissance: A Movie by Beyoncé, Spider-Man: Throughout the Spider-Verse, The E-book of Clarence, The Colour Purple, The Equalizer 3, and The Little Mermaid.
Directed by Reinaldo Marcus Inexperienced, Bob Marley: One Love options Kingsley Ben-Adir as Marley, Lashana Lynch as his spouse Rita, and James Norton as Island Information founder Chris Blackwell, alongside a number of Jamaican artists. Based on Billboard, it’s now the fifth highest-grossing music biopic within the U.S. The highest spot is held by the Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), adopted by Straight Outta Compton (2015), Elvis (2022), and Stroll The Line (2005).
The movie premiered at Carib 5 in Kingston, Jamaica, on January 23, 2024, and was launched within the U.S. by Paramount Photos on February 14, 2024. Regardless of blended opinions from critics, it has grossed $177 million worldwide, making it the tenth-highest-grossing movie of 2024.
Jamaican performers at BET Awards
Dancehall artist Skillibeng and Reggae star YG Marley additionally carried out on the awards.
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Skillibeng joined South African singer Tyla and American rapper Gunna for a high-energy efficiency of their hit music “Bounce.” The monitor, featured on Tyla’s self-titled debut album, has soared on the charts, peaking at No. 6 on the Billboard Scorching R&B Songs chart, No. 3 on the US Afrobeats Songs chart, and No. 38 on the UK Singles chart.
This marked Skillibeng’s second efficiency on the BET Awards in as a few years. On the 2023 present, he participated in a tribute to Busta Rhymes, who had acquired the Lifetime Achievement Award.
YG Marley, the son of Rohan Marley, carried out throughout his mom Lauryn Hill’s set, delivering his new music “Survival” and the viral hit “Reward Jah within the Moonlight.” Hill additionally revisited the long-lasting “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” and “Misplaced Ones,” earlier than Wyclef Jean, her fellow Fugees member, joined them to shut out the efficiency with “Fu-Gee-La.”
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Cole Bennett, who directed YG Marley’s music video for “Reward Jah within the Moonlight,” received the 2024 BET Award for Video Director of the Yr.
“Reward Jah within the Moonlight” just lately acquired Gold certification within the US (500,000 items), Silver within the UK (200,000 items), and Platinum in Canada (80,000 items).
