By: ShaCamree Gowdy  The weekend before Labor Day is said to be viewed as a dead zone for theater releases, but Nia DaCosta's reimagining of Candyman has far exceeded expectations, making her the first Black woman to direct a No. 1 film.  RELATED: The AP names its Breakthrough Entertainers of 2020  In its first domestic weekend, the reboot of the 1992 horror film grossed an estimated $22,370,00, which was nearly double the lowball projection of $15 million, per Indie Wire’s Tom Brueggemann.  While Ava DuVernay’s films Selma and A Wrinkle in Time as well as Gina Prince-Blythewood's Love and Basketball have all come close, they fared on the box office list at second […]

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