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Actress and stuntwoman Carrie Bernans was critically injured during an alleged hit and run in New York City at 1:30 a.m. Monday. Bernans, whose work includes 2023’s The Color Purple as well as Marvel’s Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War/Endgame, was hurt along with eight others. Per her…

Lupita Nyong’o couldn’t let this day pass without a callback to one of her favorite colleagues. Taking to Instagram, Nyong’o remembered fellow actor and Black Panther co-star Chadwick Boseman today on what would have been his 46th birthday. Boseman died on August. 28, 2020 from colon cancer…

Taraja Ramsess, a stuntman in Black Panther, The Avengers and many other films, was killed alongside two of his children in a car crash on Halloween night on an Atlanta highway, according to reporting by local affiliate WSB-TV. Related Stories …

EXCLUSIVE: The BFI London Film Festival closes Sunday with the world premiere of The Kitchen, a movie set in a dystopian London where an impoverished community is forced to fend for themselves in ramshackle apartment blocks. It marks the feature directorial debut of Oscar- winning actor Daniel Kaluuya and…

Lupita Nyong’o is remembering her Black Panther co-star Chadwick Boseman on his death anniversary. In a touching tribute, Nyong’o shared a black and white photo of Boeman as they arrived in South Korea in 2018. “Three years ago today, I experienced a singular pain at the news of @chadwickboseman…

Editors' Note: This guest column by former Luke Cage showrunner and Creed II writer Cheo Hodari Coker is part of Deadline’s series commemorating the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop on August 11. In 1999, Yasin Bey — then known as Mos Def – dropped the seminal album "Black On Both Sides.” The first…

EXCLUSIVE: Blockbuster hits Black Panther and The Woman King have cleared the path for Netflix to succeed with Jada Pinkett Smith-narrated docu-drama African Queens, according to the show’s exec. Premiering this week, African Queens will first tell the story of Queen Njinga of Angola and subsequently…

Ryan Coogler has revealed the complicated backstory on what his film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was supposed to be before the tragic death of the original film’s star, Chadwick Boseman. Speaking to the New York Times, Coogler said the original intent was to make the film’s center about the…

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever has been a worldwide hit and moviegoers have found out that Letitia Wright’s Shuri is the new Black Panther. The writers of the sequel are opening up about what other characters they thought of to assume the role of the superhero following Chadwick Boseman’s…

Lupita Nyong’o made her dream a reality by filming Black Panther: Wakanda Forever when she was able to speak Spanish. The Academy Award winner for 12 Years a Slave was born in México City to Kenyan parents. “I was so excited about it,” she said at a round table for Entertainment Weekly. “It was just…

BAFTA has set Black Panther director Ryan Coogler to deliver this year's prestigious David Lean Lecture. Coogler will give the lecture on December 12 in London. Previous speakers include Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, Paul Greengrass, David Lynch, Lone Scherfig, Oliver Stone, and Peter…

Michaela Coel revealed her pride to be joining the cast of Wakanda Forever, as she took her place on the red carpet in London for the film’s European premiere. Coel, who previously became the first Black woman to win the Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series for her work on I May De…