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Most people have seen the classic skit on “Chappelle’s Show” of Eddie and Charlie Murphy and their crew playing Prince and his squad in a game of basketball. Based on a real-life event, Eddie Murphy stopped by “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” and told his version of how the famous face-off went. “It was…

Jay-Z , Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey have pooled their resources together and established a bitcoin endowment. The endowment will be called ₿trust and initially focus on developing the crypto currency in India and Africa. “JAY-Z/@S_C_ and I are giving 500 BTC to a new endowment named “₿trust to fund #Bitcoin ₿development, initially focused…

Ryan Coogler just tightened his grip even harder on Hollywood and signed a five-year overall exclusive television deal with his company, Proximity Media, and The Walt Disney Company. The Black Panther director will develop new television shows for the studio and the first project will be a drama based in the Kingdom of Wakanda for…

Chadwick Boseman‘s Black Panther performance was too “iconic” to be recast. The 43-year-old actor tragically passed away in August 2020 following a secret four-year battle with colon cancer, and Marvel boss Kevin Feige has insisted the “immensely talented” star will not be replaced as King T’Challa in the upcoming Black Panther sequel because his performance in…

Black Panther 2 is set to begin shooting in July 2021. The much-anticipated Marvel movie is poised to start shooting in Atlanta in July and will last for upwards of six months. The upcoming film — which will see Tenoch Huerta star as one of the antagonists — has been delayed because of the sudden…

Black Panther director Ryan Coogler shared his thoughts on the untimely passing of Chadwick Boseman. On Sunday, Aug. 30, 2020, Coogler used social media to shed light on his relationship with Boseman and his impact on and off the screen. “I finally met Chad in person in early 2016, once I signed onto the film,”…

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“You can murder a revolutionary, but you can’t murder a revolution,” says Fred Hampton, the chairman of Illinois’ chapter of the Black Panther Party in the new the film, Judas and the Black Messiah. On Thursday, Aug.6, Warner Bros. Pictures’ released the trailer for the film that follows the life of Hampton leading up to…

Hollywood’s top Black directors made great strides in 2019. From Spike Lee winning an Academy Award for Blackkklansman to Ava DuVernay receiving critical acclaim for her explosive miniseries When They See Us, Black excellence was front and center. With the start of the year 2020 less than two months away, Black film directors continue pushing the culture…

At the 2019 Disney D23 Expo, Disney and Marvel revealed a slate of new films. In addition to sequels, the Disney-Marvel-Pixar branches unveiled plans for original films starring a who’s who of talent. As expected, T’Challa and the rest of the Black Panther cast will return along with some new faces. Here are five films…

Award-winning filmmaker and veteran producer and director Roger Bobb is preparing for the 10th anniversary of BronzeLens Film Festival with excitement. This year’s event kicks off Wednesday, Aug. 21, and continues through Sunday, Aug. 23, in Atlanta. The festival, which Bobb helped create with producer and award-winning recording artist Kathleen Bertrand, has grown exponentially since it began a decade…

The Screen Actors Guild Awards were held Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019. Black Panther took the night’s biggest prize, Outstanding Performance By a Cast in a Motion Picture. The cast of the comic book blockbuster gathered on stage at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles to accept the final award of the evening, with actor Chadwick…

Oprah Winfrey has shared the 2018 film that she feels is a game changer. The 64-year-old star has hailed director Ryan Coogler because she thinks Black Panther is “bigger than a movie.” Winfrey says the Marvel movie, represented a “game-changing” moment for the film industry. She said: “I just wanted to say that when I first saw Black Panther…

LeBron James has confirmed he and Ryan Coogler will team up to make a Space Jam sequel. The NBAer will star in the highly anticipated Warner Bros. movie — the follow-up to the live-action 1996 original, which featured Michael Jordan — and he is delighted to be working with the Black Panther director on the…

Black Panther continues to break records. During the weekend of March 9, the film surpassed the $1B mark making it the highest-grossing film starring a majority Black cast with a Black director. The film has reached $1 billion in 26 days. The film made it to $1 billion due to a strong opening in China…

In a Hollywood move that will shock absolutely no one, Marvel Studios has announced that the billion-dollar blockbuster Black Panther will get a sequel. Well, duh! If Hollywood can make about 15 Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street movies — most of which were absolutely horrible but still made enough money to justify…

There were so many underlying messages and anecdotes running through the entire two hours and fifteen minutes of Marvel’s Black Panther that it’s hard to keep up. The boldest and perhaps most impactful lesson is seeing the effect of Michael B. Jordan’s character Erik Killmonger being separated from his history, his roots, his past. After…

Angela Bassett and her husband Courtney B. Vance wanted their twins to be part of the Black Panther filmmaking process because it is such an inspiring movie. The 59-year-old actress plays Ramonda — the mother of titular hero T’Challa and Queen Mother of fictional African nation Wakanda — in the Marvel Cinematic Universe movie, which…

Black Panther is taking the world by storm with its record-breaking box-office numbers and predominantly Black cast. The stars of the Ryan Coogler-directed film once again hit up the red carpet to celebrate the film’s success, this time during New York Fashion Week.

In 2014, Marvel Studios announced that they’d be moving forward with creating a Black Panther movie. The project had been in planning and pre-development ever since then, and now Marvel has finally released both the movie poster and first teaser trailer for the new movie. Along with Marvel’s new Spider-Man, Black Panther will be the…

Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler have caught backlash for a picture published by Vanity Fair. The photo coincided with an interview that highlighted their impressive run with Fruitvale Station and Creed. However, some have criticized the photo and suggested that the image of two Black males embracing is effeminate and homosexual. After we posted the image…