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It's a bizarre world, this (almost, more-or-less, maybe) post-Covid movie landscape. Pieces are falling into place: Production starts have been up for a year, box-office revenue continues to climb, though it's still a long reach to pre-Covid highs. But so much is so different, and I don't mean just the obvious shift…

Black Panther director Ryan Coogler was handcuffed and briefly detained by Atlanta police at a bank on January 7 after a bank employee mistook his written request for a $12,000 cash withdrawal as a robbery attempt. In the incident, described in a police report obtained by Deadline, Coogler, in Atlanta filming the…

Dorothy Steel, the Black Panther actress who launched her screen career at age 88, died on Friday morning at her home in Detroit. She was 95. While a cause of death has not been disclosed, her agent Cindy Butler confirmed the news in a post published to Facebook. “It’s with a Heavy heart I announce this morning…

The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences, and inspirations of some of today's great screen artists. Every installment asks the same five questions…

UPDATED with more details: Howard University is renaming its College of Fine Arts after Chadwick Boseman, who attended the college before going on to become an A-list actor playing iconic roles including Black Panther, Thurgood Marshall, Jackie Robinson and James Brown. The honor comes after Boseman’s death in the…

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details of Queen Sugar’s Season 5 finale "Looking back over the season, as emotional as it was for people to watch it when it aired, it was very emotional even when we shot it," says Queen Sugar executive producer Paul Garnes of the fifth season of the Ava DuVernay created series and…

SPOILER ALERT: The following recap contains spoilers from The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Episode 4, "The Whole World Is Watching." Bitter, angry, jaded, doubtful — Wyatt Russell’s Captain America may just be the most intriguing MCU superhero yet. While Episode 4 of Disney+/Marvel’s The Falcon and the Winter Solider…

Chadwick Boseman made SAG Awards history on Thursday as he received four nominations for his work in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Da 5 Bloods. Celebrating his Black Panther co-star’s record-setting noms was Michael B. Jordan, who honored Boseman with an Instagram post. “4. Still setting the bar higher,” Jordan wrote…

This has been a trying year for movies, with the closing of cinemas in the pandemic, and a pivot by many filmmakers and stars to streaming service projects. As we wait for the boom times to return once a Covid vaccine establish herd immunity and movie theaters fill again, it seemed worthwhile to reflect on what a…

Towards the end of Marvel Studios’ presentation at Disney Investor Day on Thursday, Marvel boss Kevin Feige paid tribute to the late, great Chadwick Boseman. While doing so, he confirmed that Boseman’s character of T’Challa will not be recast in Black Panther II. “I wanted to acknowledge the devastating loss of a dear…

“This account doesn’t exist” and a blank page is what Twitter users will encounter when they try to search Black Panther star Letitia Wright on the social media platform. Just a days after the Small Axe actress shared a link to a 70-minute YouTube video by a coronavirus vaccine skeptic, Wright deleted both her Twitter…

The late actor Chadwick Boseman will be honored in the original Black Panther with a new opening montage highlighting his appearance in the title role. Disney Executive Chairman Bob Iger touted the change on Twitter. The first viewing of the change will be available tonight during a Disney+ showing of the film and is…