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BY Sandra Appiah, 8:56pm May 14, 2024,

Atlas: Why Jennifer Lopez Made The Movie And What It Means To Her

by Sandra Appiah, 8:56pm May 14, 2024,
New Brunswick, NJ- Last monday evening, students of the Africana House at Rutgers University, Douglass College, celebrated the diaspora through music, dance, cuisine, and education on HIV/AIDS awareness. The event was an open house to showcase what the students have been working on all year. The Africana House is a unique community where female students live together, learn about different African cultures and histories throughout the world and participate in community service. The centerpiece of the evening was to show the serious impact of HIV/AIDS in the African diaspora and how they have been working to educate young women.

The upcoming movie, Atlas, is not just a film but a story of “love and friendship,” which lead actress, Jennifer Lopez, “feels passionate” about.

Highlighting her impression about the movie in a recent interview, the Can’t Get Enough singer says she “feels proud” about the project and also understood that allowing people into one’s life is the “bravest and most beautiful thing” to do.

“I always feel like the movies I do somehow mirror where I’m at in my life and also help to kind of push me forward into the next chapter…The first time I read the script for Atlas, I felt passionately about the story, and particularly the friendship story at the core of it.

“At the end of it, I was literally sobbing…Outside, it’s kind of a big action movie, but it has at the emotional core a story about love and friendship,” she stated and described the movie as one of the most exciting ones she has ever made.  

“I was on set day after day making the best, most fun and emotionally grounded action film it could be and I am really proud of it,” she added.

Atlas will premiere on Netflix on May 24, 2024. Movie enthusiasts have been asked to check it out as soon as it arrives.

It will be recalled that Jennifer Lopez jumped on to her second passion—acting soon after launching her 2024 album This is Me…Now. The movie will debut about a month before her ‘This is Me…Now’ tour, which is aimed at promoting the new album.

According to the plot in Atlas, Jennifer Lopez plays the role of “a government analyst who’s hurled to a distant world on a quest to defeat her oldest enemy.”

The movie tells the story of Atlas Shepherd (Jennifer Lopez), “a brilliant but misanthropic data analyst with a deep distrust of artificial intelligence, who joins a mission to capture a renegade robot with whom she shares a mysterious past. But when plans go awry, her only hope of saving the future of humanity from AI is to trust it.”

Atlas is described as a “galaxy-spanning adventure set in a high-tech and futuristic world. It is written by Leo Sardarian and Aron Eli Coleite and directed by Brad Peyton.

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