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Taking on the role of siren Bianca Barclay in Netflix’s Wednesday was a “no-brainer” for Joy Sunday, a rising star who previously appeared in Netflix’s Dear White People, Freeform’s Good Trouble, and most recently, the MGM film Dog. Following the show’s hit debut, Sunday reveled in the moment and all…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s The Walking Dead series finale and more. "I wanna talk about the future," says Maggie Rhee (Lauren Cohan) to Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) and Carol Peletier (Melissa McBride) right near the end of The Walking Dead series finale…

Following up the enormous success of a box office-shattering, Academy Award-winning film with a sequel carries its own pressures and challenges, but for the team behind Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, they also had to navigate production and life after the loss of their beloved lead, their king, T'Challa…

The end is truly nigh for The Walking Dead, kind of. Though November 20 will see the end of the AMC horror series based on Robert Kirkman’s zombie apocalypse comic, spinoffs starring Norman Reedus, Lauren Cohan, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Danai Guriria and Andrew Lincoln have already been announced. Still, after 11 seasons…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of Sunday’s “Family” episode of The Walking Dead, the series’ penultimate episode. "For the longest time, we were just fighting to survive," Cailey Fleming’s Judith Grimes says in a voice-over that kicks off Sunday’s penultimate episode of The Walking Dead…

In anticipation of its release this coming week, Disney/Marvel's Black Panther: Wakanda Forever continued its promotional tour with a historic premiere in Lagos, Nigeria on Sunday evening. This was a major event — and the first time a Marvel movie has held a premiere locally — with a large group of…

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details of tonight's The Walking Dead 11C midseason debut, the first of the final eight episodes of the series. "Okay, this ends now," exclaims murderous Commonwealth deputy governor Lance Hornsby (Josh Hamilton) in the first of the final eight episodes of The Walking…

Longtime The Walking Dead cast members Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira wowed fans at Comic-Con on Friday with a surprise appearance at Hall H—teasing an upcoming limited series that will wrap up story arcs for their respective characters of Rick Grimes and Michonne. The Walking Dead Universe’s Chief Content Officer…

Danai Gurira, the actress most widely known for her roles in Marvel’s Avengers franchise and AMC’s The Walking Dead, will play one of the stage’s great villains this summer when she takes the title character of Richard III for New York’s Free Shakespeare in the Park. The Public Theater production, part of Free…

We hear from sources that Danai Gurira will be returning as Okoye, general of the Dora Milaje, in Ryan Coogler’s upcoming Black Panther: Wakanda Forever as well as reprising the character in an origin spinoff series for Disney+. Disney didn’t have any comment about today’s report. It would not come as a shock if…

Danai Gurira has been set to star in The Fighting Shirley Chisholm, a feature film that will tell the story behind Chisholm's historical 1972 run for the U.S. presidency. Cherien Dabis (Ramy, Ozark) has been set to direct the pic, based on a script by Adam Countee, and refreshes the project after Viola Davis had been a…

The Motion Picture Television Fund’s Reel Stories, Real Lives kicks off Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. PT with a livestream event hosted by Hugh Jackman along with appearances by Danai Gurira, Angela Bassett, Jason Bateman and Yvette Nicole Brown, who will share stories that highlight the impact of the organization on the…