Jurnee Smollett Had No Expectations For ‘Lovecraft Country’ Season 2 & Is Excited For ‘Escape From Spiderhead’ [Interview]

Time’s Up has lost a large portion of its board of directors.

Selome Hailu editorTime’s Up’s governing board of directors has issued a new statement about the impending transition of leadership within the group, which includes the exits of several prominent board members.The statement denotes the women’s advocacy group’s “crisis,” including former CEO Tina Tchen’s resignation, as an “opportunity for growth and change.” Political strategist and activist Monifa Bandele replaced Tchen, taking over as interim CEO after previously serving as COO.“We have

posted online Saturday. “We have strong faith in the talent and dedication of our interim CEO Monifa Bandele as a leader.”The group’s statement continued: “To mark the establishment of a new Time’s Up, the organization will have a new and reconstituted board.  To that end, the members of the existing board will be stepping aside over the next 30 days, giving our CEO the ability to refocus the organization’s leadership to suit its mission and needs.

Just over a week after Tina Tchen resigned as the CEO of Time’s Up, the besieged gender equity group has now seen a vast portion of its board of directors exit — willingly.

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HBO’s Lovecraft Country may take place in 1950s Jim Crow America, but the story didn’t just stay in one setting, which gave costume designer Dayna Pink a lot to work with. So much so that Pink isn’t nominated in a period costume category, instead she is nominated for an Emmy in the Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes category.

Birds Of Prey actor Jurnee Smollett is getting her own spin-off from the film.The news first emerged via the Hollywood Reporter who reported that Smollett’s Birds Of Prey character, Black Canary – aka Dinah Lance – is getting her own spin off project and that it is already in early development with HBO Max.The new DC film will reunite Smollett with Lovecraft Country showrunner Misha Green who will write the script. Birds Of Prey producer Sur Kroll will also serve as a producer on this

It looks like Jurnee Smollett is getting her own DC movie!

Warner Bros. and DC Films are moving forward with a Black Canary movie at HBO Max with Jurnee Smollett starring and Lovecraft Country creator Misha Green writing. Sue Kroll will produce the Black Canary movie under her Kroll & Co. Entertainment banner, having also produced Birds of Prey. 

who played Black Canary in last year’s “Birds of Prey,” is attached to star.Misha Green, best known as the showrunner of the supernatural series “Lovecraft Country” on HBO, is writing the script.Black Canary, aka Dinah Lance, is a fantastic hand-to-hand combatant who comes from a family of crime fighters. Her father, Larry Lance, was a police officer, while her mother (also named Dinah) was the original Black Canary.

Angelique Jackson “Lovecraft Country” and “Underground” creator Misha Green and Jurnee Smollett are teaming up for a third project, taking Smollett’s “Birds of Prey” character Black Canary on a new adventure in her own standalone film.

WarnerMedia loves to develop a heap of DC Comics projects, and it sounds like we’ll be getting another one. A report from the usually reliable Cinelinx states that Misha Green (“Lovecraft Country“) is currently writing a project (could be a film or series) that will focus on Jurnee Smollett‘s Black Canary from “Birds of Prey.” The pair had previously worked together on “Lovecraft Country,” so a reunion would make sense on paper.

HBO’s Lovecraft Country earned 18 Emmy nominations this season including Outstanding Drama Series. Based on the Matt Ruff novels of the same name, the series is set in 1950s Jim Crow America where Atticus (Jonathan Majors) searches for his missing father with his childhood friend Leti (Jurnee Smollett) and his Uncle George (Courtney B. Vance). Majora and Smollett are both nominated for Emmys in lead acting categories.

, Ava DuVernay’s limited Netflix series about the Central Park Five, Aunjanue Ellis picked up her second, equally deserved nomination for HBO’s timely horror series,, created by Misha Green and executive produced by Jordan Peele. In the now-canceled show’s first season about an extended family and friends navigating the real-life terrors of America’s Jim Crow era and equally frightful supernatural horrors inspired by H.P.

It would be inaccurate to call Jonathan Majors a rising star. Since his breakout role as Mont, a tender San Francisco playwright subverting the stereotypes of Black masculinity, in the Sundance darling, “The Last Black Man in San Francisco,” he’s been on an enviable pace.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVNeither Elizabeth Olsen nor Jurnee Smollett are strangers to having to really stretch their imaginations to dive into complex characters and even more complicated worlds.Both have superhero films on their résumés: Smollett portrayed Black Canary in DC’s “Birds of Prey,” while Olsen stepped into Wanda Maximoff aka the Scarlet Witch’s shoes for Marvel’s “Avengers” franchise and then some — including Disney Plus’ first Marvel series, “WandaVision.” They

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeYou would have excused the cast for not exactly being on cloud nine with the news. But they handled it like pros — and when I asked them to address the elephant in the room, they cleverly took out the network talking points and read, word-for-word, how they had been coached to explain the sudden decision to end the show.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVFor the past two years, comedy series celebrating their final seasons have cleaned up at the Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2019 it was Amazon Prime Video’s “Fleabag,” which, after being overlooked for its inaugural season, nabbed 11 noms (six wins, including lead comedy actress for creator and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge, as well as the coveted comedy series statue).

Saginaw Grant was a Native American character actor known for roles in TV shows and movies including “Breaking Bad” and “The Lone Ranger.”After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean War, Grant began acting in the 1980s.

Breaking Bad and The Lone Ranger has died of natural causes aged 85.The Native American actor appeared opposite Bryan Cranston in Ozymandias, hailed by some as one of the best episodes of Breaking Bad, and was directed by Rian Johnson.