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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…

Get ready to escape to the paradise known as Guava Island. Amazon announced today that the New Regency Film Guava Island starring Donald Glover, Rihanna, Nonso Anozie and Letitia Wright will launch globally at 12:01 am PT April 13 on Amazon. For those who don’t have Amazon — you’re in luck. The film will be available…

Black Panther star Letitia Wright, Widows star Cynthia Erivo, Sorry To Bother You‘s Lakeith Stanfield, American Animals actor Barry Keoghan and Wild Rose lead Jessie Buckley have been nominated for BAFTA’s EE Rising Star Award. The nominees, revealed this morning at BAFTA’s London headquarters, were selected…

Hugh Grant, Jodie Whittaker and Letitia Wright are among 386 new BAFTA members. The 2018 intake span the film, games and TV industries across eleven countries. Scroll down for the full list of new members. Among new members are BAFTA-winner Grant, Doctor Who star Whittaker, BAFTA-nominee Willem Dafoe, Black Panther…

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…

Black Panther has been a cultural sensation. The Marvel film’s foregrounding of African American actors, “Africa” and strong female characters combined to make it a groundbreaking superhero feature. It also made it a box office juggernaut, grossing $1.35 billion worldwide and becoming only the third film ever to…

It was an emotional start to the day for 24-year-old British actress Letitia Wright, who plays Wakandan princess Shuri in Disney's Afro-futurist superhero hit Black Panther. Catching sight of herself in a brief clip from the film, Wright laughingly wiped a tear from her eye, adding, "I can't believe I'm crying at 11…

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: Wakanda forever! Letitia Wright is to play the lead role in her Black Panther co-star Danai Gurira’s stage play The Convert, I can reveal. A hot ticket just became even hotter. Actor-writer Gurira, who also stars in The Walking Dead, is bringing her acclaimed play, about a girl who converts to Catholicism…

Black Panther star Letitia Wright suggested at the MCM Comic-con show in London that her character, Shuri, may take over as Wakanda’s future leader. The show ran from Friday and ended today. Wright was answering an audience member question on whether she was prepared to step up as ruler after Thanos’s actions in Aveng…

Letitia Wright is known for roles in various British-based TV and films, but since she has come stateside, she has been wasting no time in becoming a force in the acting game — and her role in the upcoming Black Panther is a testament to that. In the highly anticipated Marvel Studios pic, the Guyana-born British…

EXCLUSIVE: Letitia Wright, who is poised to breakout with her role as Princess Shuri in Disney/Marvel’s highly anticipated Black Panther standalone, has joined with WME. The British-born actress boast an impressive upcoming film slate for 2018. In addition to Black Panther, which will be released February 16, she…