"The Hate U Give" author Angie Thomas talks new novel "On the Come Up" 06:05 As a kid, author Angie Thomas loved books, but as a teenager she hated them.

They are in luck, as is any reader who opens "On The Come Up" (★★★1/2 out of four, 464 pp., Balzer + Bray), a gripping story about 16-year-old Brianna, who fights for her artistic dreams ...

This Is Us writer-producer Kay Oyegun is having quite the year.. Deadline reports that Oyegun has been tapped to adapt Angie Thomas‘ On The Come Up, which takes place in the same universe as ...

On the Come Up author Angie Thomas shares what inspired her to write her bestselling novel, the same story Sanaa Lathan's movie adaptation is based on. Skip to main content. Popsugar.

Sliding into the rap battle ring on September 23 is Angie Thomas’s latest book-to-movie adaptation, On the Come Up, based on her bestselling novel.Initially set to stream exclusively on ...

Sanaa Lathan Says Her Directorial Debut, 'On the Come Up', Is 'a Tribute to Black Women and Family' The actress says she responded to the Angie Thomas book the movie is based on because "there's a ...

Director Sanaa Lathan, writer Angie Thomas and cast visited the Los Angeles Times studio at TIFF to answer some very important questions, like telling us what they stole from the ‘On the Come Up ...

Based on a young adult novel by Angie Thomas, who also wrote “The Hate U Give,” “On the Come Up” stars newcomer Jamila C. Gray as “Bri, a 16-year-old gifted rapper, who attempts to take ...