Yet has it led to an uptick in major black-focused films? For Carter, there have been some signs of progress on this front – and a lot of individual "wins" – since its release. This quarter, for example, we have seen Nigerian-American director Chinonye Chukwu's Till and Gina Prince-Bythewood's The Woman King making waves as well as Wakanda Forever, while next month the much-anticipated Whitney Houston biopic I Wanna Dance with Somebody, directed by Kasi Lemmons, will hit screens.