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Diane Kruger looked casual and comfortable while stepping out with her daughter  in New York. The Operative actress was ready for business wearing a navy blazer, but then also ready to relax in a baby blue sweat suit on Sunday.  Krueger, 45, carried a pink and red shopping bag, and a surgical mask in one hand while staying close to her three-year-old.

Lupita Nyong’o is at a wedding in Pakistan this weekend and she wore two looks by an emerging designer!

Lupita Nyong’o is 39!The fashion icon celebrated her birthday on Tuesday, March 1, posting a few photos to her Instagram page to celebrate the occassion.The first set of pictures the actress uploaded shows her frolicking on the beach, wearing a long, flowy skirt as she spins around in the sand to celebrate another year. “It’s my birthday, and I’ll twirl if I want to!” she wrote in her caption, tagging her location as Karachi, Pakistan.A post shared by Lupita Nyong'o (@lupitanyongo)Her next post proved just how much the actress likes to twirl, showing Lupita in another skirt that she paired with a matching cropped blazer on top.Of course, being the professional she is, it looked like Nyong’o still had work to tend to on her birthday, but she was still having the time of her life, writing in her caption: “In my birthday suit and loving it!”A post shared by Lupita Nyong'o (@lupitanyongo)Ever since the Black Panther star stepped foot on her first red carpet so many years ago, she’s become a favorite among fans and fellow celebs alike.

Angelique Jackson For the first time in two years, the African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) will present their annual award ceremony honoring the best in film as an in-person event, after pivoting to a virtual production amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The 13th AAFCA Awards will be held on March 2 at the SLS Hotel in Los Angeles, with a limited capacity audience and other health and safety protocols in place.  “It’s exciting and it’s a little nerve-wracking because, with COVID, it’s a day-to-day thing in terms of the transmission rates and the number of diagnoses,” AAFCA president and co-founder Gil Robertson tells Variety. “But we’re hopeful, prayerful and confident that the numbers will remain at an acceptable level to allow us to present a very nice and classy show.”   Ultimately, it’s a return to form for the organization, established in 2003 with the mission to amplify Black voices in film criticism and arts and entertainment journalism from across the African Diaspora.

Editor’s Note: Wall Street Journal reporter Erich Schwartzel’s new book Red Carpet: Hollywood, China and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy includes a chapter on Fan Bingbing, one of China’s biggest global stars who disappeared from public view in 2018 shortly after she was cast to star in the female action spy movie The 355. In the excerpt below from the Penguin Press book, Schwartzel takes readers from Cannes through Fan’s house arrest — where she was “watched constantly, even while taking showers” — to her eventual reappearance (albeit via greenscreen and with a body double for The 355) as she had become what Schwartzel calls “the most famous chicken used by Chinese authorities to scare the monkeys of its entertainment industry.”

Penélope Cruz will be honored at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival with the 2022 Montecito Award, which recognizes an actor’s career achievements and is named for one of the beautiful and stylish areas in Santa Barbara.Cruz was recently nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actress category for her work in Pedro Almodovar’s “Parallel Mothers.”“In the most complex role written by the master Almodovar, Penelope Cruz delivers the best performance of her career and a master class in calibration and detailed acting,” SBIFF’s executive director Roger Durling said in a statement. “In my book, she’s one of the great performers of our time.”In “Parallel Mothers,” two women, Janis (Cruz) and Ana (Milena Smit), meet in a hospital room where they are going to give birth.

Nope – the secretive new horror film from Get Out and Us helmer Jordan Peele – has landed online ahead of its premiere during the Super Bowl LVI later today.Billed by Universal Pictures as an “expansive horror epic” and “a new pop nightmare”, the film’s storyline remains shrouded in mystery. What we do know, per an official synopsis, is that Nope will terrorise an ensemble cast (led by Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer and Steven Yeun) as they “bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery” in “a lonely gulch of inland California”.Towards the end of the trailer, Palmer’s character – supposedly the great, great, great granddaughter of the man featured in The Horse In Motion (believed to be the first moving picture) – is flung into the atmospheric force teased to be at the film’s core.Check out the trailer for Nope below:Nope was formally announced last July, following months of speculation that Kaluuya would reunite with Peele for a clandestine horror.

Angelique Jackson The popular YouTube Originals series “Super Sema,” starring and executive produced by Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o, has appointed UTA as its North American licensing and publishing agency.UTA will work alongside global toy licensee Just Play to focus on retail initiatives and key partnerships in publishing, apparel, home and accessories for the program, which is the world’s first children’s animated series focused on an African kid superhero.The series follows the world-changing adventures of an extraordinary young African girl, Sema, and her twin brother MB, who are on a mission to protect their town Dunia from the villainous Tobor. Fueled by STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) superpowers, Sema knows that with determination and creativity, anything is possible.

One of Hollywood’s most powerful and prestigious law firms is expanding its rooster and name.

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Emmy-nominated writer Theresa Rebeck is set to pen The Faithful for Concordia Studio, based on the true story of how a fight over land between St. Stanislaus Church and the St. Louis archdiocese became a battle to define the future of Catholicism. The story is based on the life of Father Marek Bozek.

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.

EXCLUSIVE: Mainstay Entertainment has promoted literary manager and producer Tim Honigman to partner. He joins the company’s founding partners Norman Aladjem, Ray Moheet, Derek Van Pelt and Rob Lee.

NEW YORK -- Isla Fisher's character in the new genre-bending series “Wolf Like Me” is a romantic catch. Kind of.She speaks four languages, makes cheese and pottery and is good at close-up magic. On the other hand, she can be distant and absolutely beastly.

The glamorous spies of “The 355” were no competition for the movie theater’s reigning webslinger.Spider-Man’s box office dominance continued in its fourth weekend in theaters, adding another $33 million, according to studio estimates on Sunday. With $668.8 million in North American ticket sales to date, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” is now the sixth highest grossing release of all time domestically.

The quintet of women in the film packs major starpower. Jessica Chastain plays CIA agent Mason “Mace” Brown, Diane Kruger (“In the Fade,” “National Treasure”) plays rival German agent Marie, Lupita Nyong’o portrays computer intelligence hacker Khadijah and Penélope Cruz rounds out the espionage foursome as Colombian therapist Graciela.

Universal and FilmNation’s greatly panned (24% on Rotten Tomatoes), but star-studded female spy movie The 355 is not off to the best of starts with $350K from Thursday night previews which started at 7PM yesterday at 2,300 theaters.

Where to start with Universal’s female-led action spy movie “The 355,” a staggeringly ill-conceived effort on every level if we’re going to put it lightly and politely. From all accounts, “The 355” was born on the set of “X-Men: Dark Phoenix” (a terrible movie, to be candid), wherein co-star Jessica Chastain said to the film’s writer/director Simon Kinberg (paraphrasing), “why don’t we do an action espionage movie with all-women leads?” Kinberg immediately said yes, and Chastain went into her Rolodex of famous friends and quickly found a star-studded cast to be on board.

It’s always a little suspect when too much is made of a big action movie being “female-fronted.” Unfortunately, Hollywood has decided lately that in course correcting for decades of gender inequity in certain genres that it’s not enough to just make an action-packed movie starring more than one woman: They must let the audience know that they know that this is A Girl Power Moment. And frankly, whether it’s the lady Avengers assembling in “Infinity War,” a montage of Girls Doing Sports and Science in the latest “Charlie’s Angeles,” or all of “Ocean’s 8,” it’s never not insulting to its purported audience.There have been subtler, cleverer and just plain better efforts at bringing women to the forefront of so-called male genres (from “Widows” to “Spy”), but it’s hard not to go into something like “ The 355,” which has been written about as a female “Jason Bourne” meets “Mission: Impossible” for over four years, a little wary.

Fighting for what’s right! Many Hollywood actresses have utilized their platforms to try and close the gender pay gap and advocate to be compensated the same as their male counterparts.

The 355, the movie Jessica Chastain was promoting, she made sure she and the other working moms in the cast didn't have to choose between the project and their families, setting up a “kids” trailer on set. "I love bringing families on set," Chastain told .

Lupita Nyong’o has bowed out of virtual interviews for her upcoming Universal pic The 355 after testing positive for Covid, Deadline has confirmed.

Gallery: 'My son would love it!' These actors all want to be superheroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (BANG Showbiz)'The 355’ - which also stars Penélope Cruz, Fan Bingbing and Lupita Nyong’o - follows a CIA agent (Chastain) teaming up with other international spies in order to recover a top secret weapon and stop World War 3. The ‘National Treasure’ star - who has three-year-old daughter with fiance Norman Reedus - admitted the set was also a great environment for their kids.

Writer/director/producer Simon Kinberg has got to be riding high at this exact moment. His Apple TV+ series “Invasion,” just got picked up for a second season and his new Universal spy movie, “The 355,” starring Jessica Chastain, Penelope Cruz, Lupita Nyong’o, and more is due in theaters next month (it’s on our list of the 100 Most Anticipated Movies Of 2022).

Celebs remembered Chadwick Boseman on what would have been his 45th birthday on Nov. 29.

At the time of Wright’s injury, the studio said the injury wouldn’t impact the production schedule.Wright will return along with fellow “Black Panther” stars Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Daniel Kaluuya, Winston Duke, Florence Kasumba and Angela Bassett.

The beloved “Serengeti” docuseries is making a wild return.

Lupita Nyong’o shared a touching tribute on Instagram following the death of her “Black Panther” co-star, Dorothy Steel. She died this past Friday, in her home in Detroit.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterVariety highlights up-and-comers who will be feted during a brunch Oct. 24 at the Newport Beach Film Festival.Since 1998, Variety has been selecting its 10 Actors to Watch. Past honorees include over 35 now Oscar winners and nominees, such as Mahershala Ali, Timothée Chalamet, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Brie Larson, Lupita Nyong’o and Melissa Leo.

Black Panther co-star Dorothy Steel, who has died at the age of 95.Steel played one of the elders in the first Marvel film directed by Ryan Coogler, and went on to star in the sequel alongside Nyong’o. The actor fell ill while filming, and flew home to be with her family.“I will miss Miss Dorothy Steel on the Black Panther 2 set,” Nyong’o wrote on her Instagram account.

Jessica Chastian has some cuts and bruises on her face from a previous fight in the brand new trailer for The 355.

Fans of high-octane action-thrillers are cautioned to strap on their seatbelts for the arrival of a new trailer for female-led espionage flick “The 355”.

Work together or die alone, that’s the motto of “The 355,” an action thriller about a dream team of spies, played by a formidable group of female stars, that come together in a hard-driving original approach to the globe-trotting espionage genre. The film is jampacked with names, Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong’o, Penélope Cruz, Diane Kruger, Fan Bingbing, Sebastian Stan and Édgar Ramírez, all star.

Work together or die alone, that’s the mottos of “The 355,” a action thriller movie about a dream team of spies, played by a formidable group of female stars, that come together in a hard-driving original approach to the globe-trotting espionage genre. The film is jampacked with names, Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong’o, Penélope Cruz, Diane Kruger, Fan Bingbing, Sebastian Stan and Édgar Ramírez all star.

Celebs are the masters of self-promotion, and nothing says “look at me!” more than a selfie.

Lupita Nyong’o is stepping out for her fourth Met Gala!

2021 Met Gala!Celebs like Megan Fox, Jennifer Lopez and Jennifer Hudson brought their A-game to the famous red carpet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on Monday, while stars like Ciara, Addison Rae, Ben Platt and Lupita Nyong’o truly embraced this year's theme, «In America: A Lexicon of Fashion,» an exploration of the nation’s sartorial identity and a deep dive into American ingenuity. Co-chair Billie Eilish looked like Old Hollywood royalty in a dramatic, pale pink Oscar de la