The trailer of Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist, a documentary on the life of the late actor, was released by Netflix on Twitter on Tuesday. The documentary will premiere on Netflix on Saturday and will be available for streaming only for 30 days.
Chadwick Boseman, the late American actor best known for his role in Black Panther, won two acting awards posthumously at the 52nd NAACP Image Awards on Saturday.
Chadwick Boseman, the late Hollywood actor most famous for playing the title role in Black Panther, made history on Thursday by becoming the first actor to receive four Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations for feature films in a single year.
Chadwick Boseman,the Black Panther actor, posthumously won the Best Supporting Actor award for his performance in Da 5 Bloods at the New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) Awards. The results were announced on Twitter.
The trailer of the film Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom which marks the last venture of late actor Chadwick Boseman, was released on Netflix on October 19.
Ryan Coogler, the director of the American superhero film Black Panther starring late actor Chadwick Boseman, has struck a five-year exclusive television deal with the Walt Disney Company, Marvel Entertainment announced on Monday.
Black Panther, the hit 2018 superhero film starring late actor Chadwick Boseman in the lead, is expected to have a sequel. Marvel Studios will begin shooting for the sequel in July 2021, as reported exclusively by The Hollywood Reporter.
Samuel L Jackson will not be a part of Avengers 3 or Avengers 4, reported Yahoo Movies. The actor plays Nick Fury in the superhero franchise. He was last seen in a small role in Avengers: The Age Of Ultron, and his character, Fury, is said to be in hiding.
“I wasn’t in the ‘superhero argument’ movie [‘Captain America: Civil War’], I’m not in ‘Avengers 3 and 4’. They’re shooting them now, and they haven’t called me yet,” Jackson said.
Jackson is also upset at not being asked to be part of Black Panther. The Chadwick Boseman film is Marvel’s first Black superhero to make the transition to the silver screen, and has several leading actors of African origin.
Jackson said:
“They wouldn’t let me go to ‘Black Panther’-ville, so it’s kinda like how you gonna make a black Marvel movie and not let Nick Fury show up in it?!”
His next appearance as Nick Fury will be in Captain Marvel. The film is slated to release in 2019.
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, the sequel to the 2018 Marvel film Black Panther, will resume shooting next week in Atlanta now that actor Letitia Wright has recovered from her injury, as per The Hollywood Reporter.
Oprah Winfrey and Apple TV are presenting a documentary on late actor Sideny Poitier, who created history by becoming the first Black person to win an Academy Award for Best Actor, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
While origin stories are a staple of the superhero genre, Shang-Chi is refreshing because of its unique characters, funny dialogues, refined action sequences, and authentic representation of Asian culture.India too has seen several versions of a superhero: from Shaktimaan to Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt’s upcoming film, Brahmastra, and the Malayalam film Minnal Murali, the appeal of a power-fueled being rising to the occasion has been felt here as well.
While Marvel head Kevin Feige would like to see Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings get recognition at the Oscars, he feels it can be a challenge “because of the Marvel logo and because of a genre bias that certainly exists.”
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, the sequel to the 2018 Marvel film Black Panther, has temporarily shut down production as actor Letitia Wright who plays the fictional superheroe Shuri in the film, continues to recover from injury.
Michaela Coel, the Emmy Award-nominated actor, writer, and director of the show I May Destroy You, has joined the cast of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, reported Variety.
Camrus Johnson will star as Batwing in Warner Bros. Pictures’ television series Batwoman. Johnson, who penned the story for the comic Batman Urban Legends #4, tweeted “A dream come true, a complete honor, and a message to every little black boy out there that you can be a hero too. You already are one.”
Marvel announced the release dates for its fourth phase of lineup of films on Tuesday. Beginning with Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow, that is postponed to a July 9 release, the list includes other titles slated till 2023.
Nomadland, the American drama film directed by Chloe Zhao, took home three Oscars for best direction, best actress in a leading role, and best picture awards at the 93rd Academy Awards held on Monday. Zhao became the first Asian the second woman ever to win the category.
He gives his original compositions to Ma’s apathetic white producer Mel Sturdyvant (Johnny Coyn), in the hope of recording his own creations. Leeve, along with Cutler (Colman Domingo), Toledo (Gylnn Turman) and Slow Drag (Michael Potts) form Ma Rainey’s band.The film is largely faithful to the play with a few changes to bring out the play’s themes of Black exploitation, racism and interpersonal conflicts better. With captivating and convincing performances by the ensemble cast, the movie manages to make its point: the existing white power structures stripping them off their power in the guise of helping them.
Nomadland, the English film directed by Chloe Zhao starring Frances McDormand, bagged four awards out of seven nominations at the British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA), including the Best Film award, on April 11. The 74th edition of the BAFTA was held in two parts- the craft awards on April 10 and performance awards on April 11.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which announced its nominees of the 93rd Oscars on Monday, created history by nominating two women filmmakers for the best director award- Chloé Zhao for Nomadland and Emerald Fennell for Promising Young Woman. However, it was Netflix’s Mank, starring Gary Oldman as Citizen Kane writer Herman Mankiewicz, that clinched the most number of nominations with a total count of 10.
The British Academy Film and Television Awards (BAFTA) on Tuesday released the list of nominations for its 74th edition of film awards scheduled to be held in April. Priyanka Chopra Jonas’s The White Tiger received two nominations, including in the leading actor category for Adarsh Gourav, and for best adapted screenplay.
The 26th Critics Choice Awards saw Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland and Netflix’s series The Crown bag four awards each. Minari won the best foreign language film of the year although it got to contest in the best picture category as well.
The 2021 Golden Globe Awards saw Nomadland and Borat Subsequent Moviefilm each bagging two big awards at the 2021 Golden Globes, while Netflix’s series The Crown took home three awards, the highest in the evening.
George C Wolfe, the filmmaker who directed the 2020 American drama film Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, will direct the upcoming biopic of gay rights activist Bayard Rustin, Rustin.
The Golden Globes’ list of nominations, announced on Wednesday, saw Netflix garner 42 nominations; with Mank and The Crown leading the way at six nominations each. While Disney followed second with 25 nominations, Amazon Prime Video came next with 10 nominations.