[Source: CNN Entertainment]
Clarksdale, Mississippi – which serves as inspiration for the setting of the Michael B. Jordan-starring film “Sinners” – does not have a local cineplex, which led community organizer Tyler Yarbrough to ask the filmmakers and studio behind the project to host a screening in the city.
Yarbrough, along with Clarksdale mayor Chuck Espy, spoke to CNN’s Victor Blackwell for the “Art is Life” segment on Saturday, and shared their hopes that the screening will become a reality.
“Clarksdale is a ways away from a movie theater,” Yarbrough said in an interview, later adding that it took him about an hour and a half to drive to a theater that was showing the film.
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