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Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentLittle has been confirmed about “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” but much has been discussed in the rumor mill regarding the sequel to Marvel’s enormous hit, “Black Panther.”Following the tragic death of star Chadwick Boseman, who passed in Aug. 2020 after a private battle with colon cancer, various members of the “Black Panther” team have spoken about honoring Boseman’s legacy in the second film.

Viola Davis is being honored!

Sky has unveiled a second series of I Hate Suzie and an adaptation of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, while confirming Universal Pictures’ Wicked will be one of the first projects to be filmed at Elstree Studios, relocating from the U.S.

EXCLUSIVE: The American Pavilion has set its 2022 lineup ahead of Tuesday’s opening of the Cannes Film Festival, with industry-focused panels and discussions including conversations with Eva Longoria, Viggo Mortensen, Scott Speedman, Emily Watson and Letitia Wright.

The full Tribeca Film Festival lineup of 109 feature films from 40 countries and 88 world premieres for the 2022 event that takes place June 9-18 has been announced. It’ll be interesting to see if some of the films at the festival will end up being popular breakouts, land major studio/streamer distribution, or eventually move on to get recognized during awards season.

The Tribeca Festival has unveiled its 2022 lineup of 109 feature films from 40 countries and 88 world premieres including  Joachim Back’s Corner Office starring Jon Hamm and Somewhere in Queens, directed by Ray Romano starring Romano and Laurie Metcalf.

Naman Ramachandran Oscar, BAFTA and Emmy winner Kate Winslet and her daughter Mia Threapleton (“Shadows”) will star in a feature-length episode of the third season of Dominic Savage’s acclaimed Channel 4 series “I Am.”All episodes in the series are named after their lead characters and Winslet’s episode is titled “I Am Ruth.” Created, written and directed by BAFTA-winning filmmaker Savage, the stories for each episode have been developed in a creative partnership with the leading actors, with semi-improvised dialogue. The series debuted in 2019, with Vicky McClure starring in “I Am Nicola,” Samantha Morton in “I Am Kirsty” and Gemma Chan in “I Am Hannah.” The second season, which bowed in 2021, had Suranne Jones in “I Am Victoria,” Letitia Wright in “I Am Danielle” and Lesley Manville in “I Am Maria.” Filming on “I Am Ruth” will start at the end of April for three weeks.

Kate Winslet will star in the first feature-length episode of I Am, Channel 4’s award-winning female-led drama anthology series.

Ironheart TV series will be the first to bring a transgender character into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.The TV series coming to Disney+ has already cast Dominique Thorne (Judas And The Black Messiah, If Beale Street Could Talk) as genius inventor Riri Williams in Ironheart, an original series about the creator of the most advanced suit of armour since Iron Man.Now, a casting call seen by POC Culture says the studio is looking for a “Black, Latina or Afro-Latina transgender woman who is around 18-22 years old” to play a character who is “unapologetically nerdy” with a “mystical bent and unique sense of humour”.Ironheart is expected to release in 2023, though no confirmation has been given.Over the years Marvel has slowly introduced LGBTQ+ characters within its universe.Last year, Chloé Zhao’s Eternals film introduced the first openly gay superhero in the MCU with Phastos, played by Brian Tyree Henry. And Loki’s fluid gender identity and bisexuality were confirmed in his popular Disney+ series last year.Tessa Thompson’s character of Valkyrie has also been confirmed as part of the community.

“Deep Water” to classics like “Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion.” Below, we’ve assembled a list of some of the best new movies on Hulu in March 2022 to help narrow down your decision-making.The less you know about “Fresh” going in, the more delicious the viewing experience will be, but suffice it to say if you’re a fan of darkly comic and sharp original stories with a hint of horror thrown in for good measure (much like, say, “Promising Young Woman”) then you’ll find much to love here. The setup is simple: Daisy Edgar-Jones plays a woman unlucky in love who’s tired of the Tinder game and stumbles upon a charming stranger at a grocery store, played by Sebastian Stan.

Angela Bassett is excited for fans to see what the cast and crew of have been working on. The 63-year-old actress shared an update on the upcoming Marvel film during an appearance on  on Monday. When DeGeneres brought up the sequel, noting that it must be difficult to work on the project after the death of former lead Chadwick Boseman, who played King T'Challa in the first film and died in August 2020 at the age of 43 after a private battle with cancer.

an existing deal between Fox and Warner Bros. that extends through 2022, and similarly saw Guillermo del Toro’s Best Picture-nominated “Nightmare Alley” come to both streaming services at the beginning of February.Based on the 1937 Agatha Christie novel, “Death on the Nile” sees Kenneth Branagh reprise his role as detective Hercule Poirot as another murder is committed – this time on a ship. Branagh directs the 20th Century Studios film just as he directed “Murder on the Orient Express,” and the ensemble cast includes Tom Bateman, Annette Bening, Russell Brand, Ali Fazal, Dawn French, Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, Rose Leslie, Emma Mackey, Sophie Okonedo, Jennifer Saunders and Letitia Wright. The film is written by Michael Green, adapted from Christie’s novel, and is produced by Ridley Scott, Kenneth Branagh, p.g.a., Judy Hofflund, p.g.a.

K.J. Yossman Lady Gaga will present the Rising Star segment at the BAFTA awards in London.Actors Ariana DeBose, Harris Dickinson, Lashana Lynch, Millicent Simmonds and Kodi Smit-McPhee are the 2022 nominees for the BAFTA EE Rising Star Award.It is the only BAFTA award voted on by the British public.Lady Gaga, who is also nominated for Best Actress at the London ceremony, for her performance in “House of Gucci,” will introduce last year’s Rising Star winner, Bukky Bakray, who will announce the winner.

NAACP Image Awards has officially been kicked off! As usual, this year's ceremony honoring people of color across television, music, literature and film is preceded by a week-long celebration, with five nights of virtual awards leading up to Saturday's live telecast.Hosted by returning emcee and seven-time NAACP Image Awards winner Anthony Anderson, the ceremony will include Issa Rae, Kerry Washington, LL Cool J, Morgan Freeman, Questlove, Tiffany Haddish, Zendaya and more presenting awards, while Samuel L. Jackson accepts the NAACP Chairman's Award and Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project, receives the Social Justice Impact Award.The preceding non-televised nights will be hosted by actor and comedian Affion Crockett, with awards presented by Cory Hardrict, Demetrius Shipp Jr., Khleo Thomas, Lori Harvey, Wendy Raquel Robinson and more.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorWhen costume designer Paco Delgado was creating Gal Gadot’s look as the heiress Linnet Ridgeway Doyle in Kenneth Branagh’s “Death on the Nile,” he played with the concept of wealth touched by vulnerability.Branagh assembled an all-star cast, including Annette Bening, Russell Brand, Armie Hammer, Rose Leslie, Sophie Okonedo and Letitia Wright, for his retelling of the Agatha Christie murder mystery among a group of friends joining Linnet and Simon Doyle (Hammer) on their honeymoon in 1930s Egypt.At the center of the film is Linnet, a woman who on the surface has everything. She’s powerful, but Delgado says she’s insecure. “She’s surrounded by people who constantly criticize her, and she feels everyone wants to take her money.

Death on the Nile (★★☆☆☆) miscalculates from the start, marching into a mystery Christie herself showed no interest in exploring: the origins of Hercule Poirot’s trademark mustache.Director and star Kenneth Branagh, helming his second Christie adaptation following the 2017 hit Murder on the Orient Express, digs into a black-and-white, WWI-set prologue that firmly establishes Belgian sleuth Poirot as the film’s romantic hero.Christie’s sturdy plots and colorful characters certainly invite inventive reinterpretation, but it feels misguided making this or any Poirot story more about the man solving the mystery, than about the mystery that Poirot must solve.The sprightlier 1978 version of Death on the Nile, directed by John Guillermin and scripted by Sleuth playwright Anthony Shaffer, struck a more satisfying balance between the famous detective and the cast of suspects all harboring motives for murder.That whodunnit boasted a lineup of eccentric legends — Bette Davis, Angela Lansbury, Maggie Smith, David Niven, and, of course, Peter Ustinov as Poirot — inhabiting Dame Agatha’s larger-than-life characters while swooning about in Anthony Powell’s Oscar-winning ’30s-era costumes.The result was gloriously camp, as much as it was wickedly intriguing.

The long-awaited movie Death on the Nile has finally arrived in theaters and audiences checking out the film this weekend will probably wonder if they should stick around for an end credits scene.

“West Side Story” the film will likely be on at least one of those streaming services within the next few months. Secrets abound aboard the SS Karnak, the steamboat that promises an intriguing adventure down the Nile River for its passengers. A nasty love triangle, compliments of Linnet Ridgeway-Doyle, brings about her demise.

produced another PR liability for the studio in the interim. That said, “Death on the Nile” is projected by independent trackers for an opening between $11-13 million. That would be less than half of the opening of its predecessor, “Murder on the Orient Express,” which opened to $28.6 million in November 2017 and in its previews made $1.6 million.

stars as playboy Simon Doyle in the adaptation of the 1937 Agatha Christie novel. He was accused of rape and cannibalistic desires back in January 2021. Letitia Wright — known for “Black Panther” and cast here as grumpy Rosalie Otterbourne — has espoused what many perceived to be anti-vaccine statements.Ditto Russell Brand, who has the role of Dr.

The stars of Death on the Nile are gearing up for the release of their new movie!

Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of “Death on the Nile” begins with a sequence that is miles removed from Agatha Christie — indeed, it feels like a Branagh has spliced in a missing reel from “1917.” In an unbroken take, his camera snakes through a WWI-era foxhole, ending with the delivery of orders for a suicide mission. But maybe not.

EXCLUSIVE: The Farewell and Honey Boy producer Kindred Spirit is expanding with the appointment of Sam Intili who joins the company as Head of Creative after departing Animal Kingdom.

K.J. Yossman On Tuesday, Ariana DeBose, Harris Dickinson, Lashana Lynch, Millicent Simmonds and Kodi Smit-McPhee were announced as the 2022 nominees for the BAFTA EE Rising Star Award.Nominees are selected for demonstrating “exceptional talent in film over the past year.” Previous winners of the award have included James McAvoy, Eva Green, Tom Hardy, Kristen Stewart, Tom Holland, Letitia Wright and Micheal Ward.The award, which is in its seventeenth year, is the only BAFTA honor to be decided by the general public, who can vote for their favorite online.Just hours after the nominations were unveiled, DeBose and Dickinson sat down with Variety to discuss their nominations.Congrats on the nominations! How are you feeling? DeBose: I’m just thrilled that I get to be here in London to celebrate this nomination and celebrate all of my fellow EE Rising Star nominees, because I am very well aware that every single one of them is massively talented and I find them all incredibly inspiring.Dickinson: Wonderful, thank you very much.

The BAFTAs have announced the 2022 nominees for the Rising Star Award!

BAFTA EE Rising Star Award.The award is now in its seventeenth year.The nominees were announced by 2021 Rising Star winner Bukky Bakray (“You Don’t Know Me”) and presenter Edith Bowman on Tuesday.The five actors have been selected for demonstrating “exceptional talent in film over the past year.” Previous winners of the award have included James McAvoy, Eva Green, Tom Hardy, Kristen Stewart, Tom Holland, Letitia Wright and Micheal Ward.BAFTA’s Rising Star award is the only one of the EE British Academy Film Awards that is decided by the public. Voting will open at 11AM on Feb.

Top Boy on Twitter.The hit series first aired in 2011 until 2013 on Channel 4, before being resurrected by Netflix for a third series in 2019.Walters, who has played Dushane Hill in the show since its inception, shared a photo on Twitter earlier today (January 30) of what looks to be a new poster for the series being put up in London. The actor’s headshot takes up most of the advert, while the word “before” seems to be written over his face.Beneath him, the word “TOP” is visible, with the rest of the poster not plastered up when the photo was taken. “Tomorrow,” Walters captioned the tweet.

Evangeline Lilly feels very strongly about vaccine mandates.

Ant-Man franchise star Evangeline Lilly took to Instagram, revealing that she was at a Washington D.C. rally in “support of bodily sovereignty,” and protesting Covid vaccine mandates.

The post included black-and-white pictures taken at what appears to be the same rally where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. compared vaccine mandates to the Holocaust saying, “Even in Hitler’s Germany, you could cross the Alps into Switzerland.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, according to reports.The actor, who plays M’Baku in 2018’s Black Panther, is believed to have a more prominent role in the sequel.According to The Hollywood Reporter, Duke negotiated a “hefty raise” for his return in the sequel after having an “expanded role” in the Black Panther mythos. It’s unclear in what capacity the role will be expanded.In the original Black Panther, M’Baku leads the Jabari Tribe and challenges T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) to a fight for control of Wakanda.

Yesterday, news hit that Marvel Studios and director Ryan Coogler finally resumed production on “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” following an injury sustained by co-star Letitia Wright on set over the summer. Filming paused while the British actress recovered, and she seemingly has resolved vaccine requirements to return to Atlanta to shoot the movie, as indicated in a report from The Hollywood Reporter.

What’s the deal with “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever?” That’s the question that many people are asking right now. Towards the end of 2021, it was revealed that star Letitia Wright was actually injured on the set of the film and this caused the entire production to be halted with everyone expecting to reconvene in January.

Online ticket retailer Fandango polled more than 6K ticket-buyers this month and asked which theatrical tentpoles they’re the most excited about in 2022, Disney/Marvel’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever topping the list followed by Sony/Marvel’s animated feature Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One).

Disney‘s Death On The Nile, which still stars Armie Hammer in spite of multiple accusations of sexual and emotional abuse made against him.The Agatha Christie adaptation is the latest directorial effort from Kenneth Branagh, and sees Hammer star opposite Branagh, Gal Gadot, Tom Bateman and Letitia Wright.He plays Simon Doyle, husband to Gadot’s moneyed Linnet Ridgeway-Doyle.

K.J. Yossman BAFTA has unveiled its 2021 BAFTA Breakthrough cohort, including “It’s a Sin” star Lydia West and “Censor” director Prano Bailey-Bond.Supported by Netflix, the annual talent initiative, which originally launched in 2013 as “Breakthrough Brits,” was renamed BAFTA Breakthrough in May 2020 and expanded to include the U.S.