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Americanah will not be moving forward at HBO Max. The limited series had been a longtime passion project of Lupita Nyong’o who was set to star in and executive produce the adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's best-selling novel of the same name. Nyong'o's Black Panther co-star Danai Gurira wrote the pilot and was…

Jessica Chastain revealed that The 355 came out of seeing little to no action films featuring women ensembles. After learning about the women involved in international espionage while working on Zero Dark Thirty, the producer and star said she knew a story about women spies was worth telling. During the New York Comic…

Universal has dropped the official trailer for espionage thriller The 355 (aka 355). The female-fronted globetrotting actioner stars Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong'o, Penélope Cruz, Diane Kruger, Fan Bingbing, Sebastian Stan and Edgar Ramírez. Check out the first look above. Universal still has this one dated on…

Lupita Nyong’o has released an incredibly soul-stirring, inspirational and thoughtful tribute to her friend and Black Panther co-star Chadwick Boseman, who passed away on August 28, causing a shock and an outpour of emotion in Hollywood and beyond. The actress took to Instagram to share her feelings and thoughts about…

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…