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Star Wars actor John Boyega is teaming with Netflix via his UpperRoom banner to develop non-English language films focusing on west and east Africa. UpperRoom said it "will develop film projects based on stories, cast, characters, crew, literary properties, mythology, screenplays and/or other elements in or around…

Making a Star Wars movie can be a thankless job. Reviewing one can be too. Rest easy, I will not be revealing any spoilers about Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker — and there would be a lot of them — but instead I am taking on the central questions for the final chapter in the nine-episode movie series: Does it work…

The interstellar, multi-generational saga of House Skywalker reaches its concluding and (hopefully) climactic chapter with Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the ninth installment in the space opera that has captivated moviegoers since the Carter Administration. The mega-release from Disney’s Lucasfilm and…

We are mere weeks away from the release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, but as Disney and Lucasfilm close the final chapter of this saga, director JJ Abrams as well as stars Daisy Ridley, John Boyega and Oscar Isaac took the dais at CCXP to share the end of this adventure with the passionate fans in Sao…

The mystery of the purloined Star Wars script has been solved: The Rise of Skywalker star John Boyega says it was his script that ended up recently — if briefly — on eBay. And the cleaner did it. Appearing today on ABC’s Good Morning America, Boyega told host Michael Strahan that he’d left his script for Star Wars: The…

Black Panther star Letitia Wright and Star Wars‘ John Boyega will lead cast in Steve McQueen’s upcoming BBC TV drama Small Axe, about London’s West Indian community between the 1960s-80s. As we reported yesterday, Amazon is co-producing in the U.S. Production is now underway on location in London. Also starring are Mal…

Star Wars actor John Boyega and Us‘ Lupita Nyong’o are to narrate forthcoming BBC and Discovery’s natural history series Serengeti. Boyega will narrate the British version, while Nyong’o will narrate the U.S. version. The series, which is being produced in association with Discovery and BBC Studios Distribution…

EXCLUSIVE: Financier/producer/distributor Anton has come aboard John Boyega-starrer Naked Singularity to co-finance with 3311 Productions and executive produce. The company is handling worldwide sales, kicking off at the EFM this week; Endeavor Content is repping domestic. IT co-writer Chase Palmer will make his…

EXCLUSIVE: John Boyega will executive produce South African crime-thriller God Is Good, which is being described by producers as in the vein of Prisoners and City Of God. The Star Wars and Pacific Rim star is also launching a record label, UpperRoom Records, which will oversee the film’s soundtrack. God Is Good is…

EXCLUSIVE: After a slowdown for the elections, the business is kicking back into high gear before the holidays. A hot package creating buzz around town today is one that is built around the Katie Khan science fiction novel Hold Back the Stars. Star Wars‘ John Boyega and Black Panther‘s Letitia Wright are attached to…

EXCLUSIVE: Stars Wars actor John Boyega, Black Panther’s Letitia Wright and Snowfall lead Damson Idris are among patrons of newly opened LA drama school Identity School of Acting. The West Hollywood-located school, which opened this week, is the LA branch of the successful London institution of the same name, which…

EXCLUSIVE: John Boyega will executive produce UK fantasy horror A Spriggan from writer-director Keir Burrows (Anti Matter) and producer Josephine Rose (Slaughterhouse Rulez) of new outfit Bandit Country. The Star Wars actor joins via his Upper Room Productions banner, through which he recently co-produced Pacific Rim…