Nikita Pearl Waligwa, an actress who starred in the 2016 Walt Disney film Queen of Katwe, has died. She had been diagnosed with a brain tumor, according to Ugandan media.
The film was about a chess prodigy rising from a Ugandan slum and was based on the true story of Phiona Mutesi. She began playing chess at age nine…
Genre films famously don't tend to figure in the awards conversation, but nine months after the release of Jordan Peele's sophomore horror Us, there's still a lot of talk about Lupita Nyong'o’s impressive double performance. At the beginning of the film the Oscar-winning actress plays Adelaide, a suburban mom on…
Zackary Momoh (Harriet) has been cast in a leading role opposite Lupita Nyong'o in HBO Max’s Americanah, the limited series based on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's best-selling novel of the same name.
Americanah tells the epic story of Ifemelu (Nyong'o), a young, beautiful, self-assured woman raised in Nigeria, who as a…
Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o was just named Best Actress of the year by New York Film Critics Circle for her performance in Jordan Peele’s Us. But despite her much-acclaimed performance as matriarch Adelaide Wilson and her tethered counterpart Red, as well as the film’s overall commercial and critical success…
Lupita Nyong'o has a new appreciation for those characters in costume at amusement parks. Mainly because a few days before this interview, she was playing one of them at Universal Studios. It's not what you'd expect for an Oscar-winner, but such is Nyong'o's up-for-it attitude, she told Universal staff she'd be happy…
Black Panther and Us star Lupita Nyong'o is to search for a forgotten female army in a documentary for British broadcaster Channel 4.
The network has commissioned Warrior Women with Lupita Nyong'o (w/t), which will see the actress, who also appeared in 12 Years A Slave, journey across Benin, West Africa to uncover the…
HBO Max has given a straight-to-series order to Americanah, a long-time passion project of Lupita Nyong'o. The Oscar-winning 12 Years Of Slave standout will star in and executive produce the limited series based on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's best-selling novel of the same name. Nyong'o’s Black Panther co-star Danai Gur…
Ever hear a grandma tell a tyke, “You’re so cute — I could just eat you up!” Ideally said Nana isn’t a character from Little Monsters, a new Hulu original film starring Lupita Nyong’o, Alexander England and Josh Gad. And lots of kids. And even more ravenous zombies.
While decidedly NSFW, the pic’s new redband trailer…
If you were captivated by the recent hyper-visual CG-laden The Lion King, then the Discovery Channel’s upcoming Serengetiwill make your jaw hit the floor — because it is real life. With the series premiering August 4, it’s close to the release of the new iteration of the Disney film and creator and producer Simon Full…
The international spy thriller 355, which was the biggest deal at last year’s Cannes, has added Avengers: Endgame‘s Sebastian Stan and Edgar Ramirez, and set a July 8 production start in Paris, London and Morocco. Scripted by Simon Kinberg and scripted by Theresa Rebeck, the film is a global espionage thriller that…
EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has won an auction for a sci-fi comedy that is a star vehicle for Lupita Nyong’o, who will re-team with the principals behind Little Monsters, the Sundance film that sold to NEON and Hulu. Abe Forsythe is writing the script and directing. Nyong’o will produce with Made Up Stories' Bruna Pa…
EXCLUSIVE: Screenwriter Janine Eser (Fanie Fourie's Lobola) has been brought on to adapt the screenplay to Trevor Noah's bestselling memoir, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, which has Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong'o attached to star. Liesl Tommy, the director behind the upcoming Jennifer…
