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 has picked up U.S. rights.
Production is now underway on location in London. Also starring are Mala…
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…
Since Star Wars: The Last Jedi was released there has been this buzz that Tom Hardy, Prince Harry and Prince William made cameos as Storm Troopers. Well, the rumors are true — at least we think — based on the deleted scene above which will be included on the DVD which will be released in April.
The scene has Finn (John…
The Kaiju are back. How’d they get into our world, you wonder? “Someone let them in,” answers this new trailer for Pacific Rim Uprising.
With new footage and poster art, this peek at the Universal-Legendary sequel features lots of action between the big monsters and the Jaeger pilots who fight them. We see John Boyega…
After an arduous journey from the snowy south, John Boyega has finally made it to Hollywood for the world premiere of Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
The Twitterverse has been following Boyega, who plays Finn in Star Wars, as he has tweeted about being grounded in Atlanta after five to 12 inches of snow fell on the city and…
2nd Update, 12:03PM: Sources inform Deadline that Star Wars: The Last Jedi star John Boyega has found a ship, err plane, out of Atlanta’s snow storm and is expected to make it to the Hollywood premiere tonight at the Shrine Auditorium. Five-to-twelve inches of snow have dumped on Atlanta’s metro area with the…
Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit can be a difficult film to watch and was surely a difficult film to make. But her reasons for taking on the biographical drama of the 1967 Detroit race riots were always clear, allowing her to persist while wading through emotionally difficult terrain.
“If you think of race as the third rail…
