History has a way of repeating itself in the Van ... age 13, Mario was pressured into playing his father as an adolescent losing his virginity in a bordello. That scene (with Khleo Thomas playing ...

Back in 1971 Melvin Van Peebles, already one of the first black directors to have had a film in general release with “Watermelon Man” the year before, scorched screens across America with ...

Starring Mario Van Peebles and Rainn Wilson ... The movie shows Melvin riding a motorcycle with the young Mario (Khleo Thomas) and stopping on the road to lie down by a tree and think.

Mario Van Peebles’ new film–a biopic of his ... Wind & Fire), and when he uses his 13-year-old son, Mario (Khleo Thomas), to play a ghetto kid who loses his virginity in a brothel.

Few, if any, fiction films have captured the realities of independent filmmaking more vividly than Mario Van Peebles’ brilliant ... casting a young actor (Khleo Thomas) as his own then-13 ...

The first production under the pact will be the action-thriller “If,” with Mario Van Peebles directing from ... and banded with Benattar/Thomas in February for three action-thrillers ...

As part of the 2023 Tribeca Festival, director Mario Van Peebles opened up about his directorial ... who directed “New Jack City” from a script penned by Thomas Lee Wright and Barry Michael ...