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Lupita Nyong’o wasn’t surprised she became a meme earlier this year in connection with the exhausting coverage surrounding The Slap. In fact, as the Oscar-winning actress revealed in a new interview, she “knew as soon as it was over” that widespread memory would indeed be taking place. Speaking with Rebecca Keegan for the Hollywood Reporter, […]
The new trailer for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is here. The clip is jam-packed with shots of the film’s villain, Namor, as well as returning stars like Angela Bassett, Winston Duke, and Letitia Wright. But perhaps most notably, we get a glimpse at the new Black Panther, though it’s yet to be revealed who is taking on the mantle […]
Director Ryan Coogler has “reshaped” the second Black Panther film to be respectful of Chadwick Boseman. Black Panther 2 star Lupita Nyong’o spoke with Yahoo! Entertainment recently, where she explained that the sequel has been reworked in honor of her late friend and co-star Boseman, who died last year at 43 due to complications from a private battle with colon cancer. […]
Breakout Black Panther star Letitia Wright, who played the titular character’s sister Shuri, is eager to be involved in a possible all-women Avengers film. In an interview with Yahoo Entertainment, Wright suggested that the possibility is actually quite high, and that there’s already people working to make it happen. “I don’t think we have to fight for it,” she said of […]
Universal Pictures’ A-list, all-woman spy thriller The 355 has received its first official trailer. Starring Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong’o, Diane Kruger, Fan Bingbing, and Penelope Cruz, the film follows CIA agent Mason “Mace” Brown (Chastain), as she assembles a team of spies from international agencies to prevent a top-secret weapon from falling into the wrong […]
Ugandan actress Nikita Pearl Waligwa, who was in the 2016 Disney film Queen of Katwe, has died at 15 years old. Waligwa had been diagnosed with a brain tumor, BBC reports. After she initially found out she had a brain tumor in 2016, Queen of Katwe director Mira Nair reportedly urged people to donate to […]
Lupita Nyong’o was announced last year as a star in the remake of 1989 Hong Kong action-thriller The Killer. John Woo has now said that’s no longer the case. Woo, who directed the original film and will helm the Americanized remake, explained at the Hawaii International Film Festival that “scheduling” issues are to blame for Nyong’o’s departure. […]
When it comes to Monday night, there’s no better way to get eyeballs on your product than by advertising during Monday Night Football. We didn’t look that up but it sounds true, and doubly so if you show off your wares during halftime. With those possible facts in mind, Disney opted to release the third […]
Friday, the Lupita Nyong’o-starring Little Monsters will hit Hulu just in time for peak Halloween festivities. But first, we have the Us and Rise of Skywalker star freestyling as her alter ego Troublemaker on the latest Tonight Show. After some quick talk about serving as lyrical inspiration for Beyoncé and JAY-Z, Lupita was asked about the Troublemaker name, […]
Marvel’s Black Panther has become one of the most commercially and critically successful films in history, earning over $1 billion worldwide, breaking multiple box office records, and securing three wins at the 2019 Academy Awards. But to many, the film’s greatest achievement was the way it celebrated black culture while disrupting the long-held beliefs about what a black-led […]
