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I remember being in Cannes in 2018 as five top female stars announced with great fanfare an action movie project that would reverse the time-honored tradition of almost exclusively male ensemble films in the genre. The quintet — Jessica Chastain, Penélope Cruz, Lupita Nyong’o, Fan Bingbing and Diane Kruger (who subbed…

Lupita Nyong’o has bowed out of virtual interviews for her upcoming Universal pic The 355 after testing positive for Covid, Deadline has confirmed. While the Oscar winner didn’t make specific reference to her exit from the presser, she confirmed her positive test in a post published to Twitter on Tuesday. “I too have…

Actors Lupita Nyong’o and Mark Hamill were among the winners in the Daytime Emmys' Children's and Animation categories, announced Saturday. Nyong’o won out in the category of Outstanding Limited Performance In a Children's Program, with her turn as “The Storyteller” in Netflix’s Bookmarks: Celebrating Black…

Natalie Portman and Lupita Nyong'o are to star in a limited series adaptation of Laura Lippman's book Lady In The Lake for Apple TV+. The series will be directed by Honey Boy director Alma Har'el, who co-created and will co-write with Colony and The Man In The High Castle writer Dre Ryan. Lady In The Lake is produced…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o is partnering with Nairobi-based media and tech startup Kukua in support of their franchise Super Sema, a new YouTube Originals kids and family program. Super Sema marks Africa's first kid superhero animated series and will debut the first eight episodes on March 8…

Netflix said Thursday that it is turning Sulwe, the bestselling children’s book by Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o, into an animated musical, the latest move by the streamer to bolster its feature animation slate that already includes Richard Linklater's Apollo 10½: A Space Age Adventure, Henry Selick's Wendell & Wild…

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…