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Jordan Peele‘s newest movie, Nope, is aptly titled, as a mysterious flying object over ominous clouds in the film’s first act makes it clear this is not your average alien horror flick.

Angelique Jackson Oscar winner Daniel Kaluuya has signed with WME for representation. In 2021, Kaluuya won the best supporting actor Oscar for his portrayal of Fred Hampton, the late Black Panther Party leader, in “Judas and the Black Messiah.” He was previously nominated for best actor for Jordan Peele’s psychological horror hit “Get Out.” The British star has consistently delivered standout performances in such films as “Black Panther,” “Widows,” “Queen & Slim,” “Nope” and “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.” Also a writer, producer and director, Kaluuya produced Adamma Ebo’s Sundance-premiering comedy “Honk for Jesus.

Jack Dunn Tribeca Festival 2024 has revealed the participants for this year’s Tribeca Festival Creators Market, which features a curated selection of creatives pitching feature, episodic, audio and immersive projects to a group of industry leaders. Companies in attendance for the pitch market include Sony Pictures Classics, NEON, Cinetic Media, Paramount+, MAX, IFC Films and the Sundance Institute.

Wilson Chapman editorIn celebration of Juneteenth, AMC Theatres will present special screenings of “Judas and the Black Messiah,” “The Best Man” and other popular movies focusing on Black voices.From this Friday to Wednesday, select AMC locations will offer special screenings of “Judas and the Black Messiah,” “The Best Man,” “Just Mercy” and “42.” The screenings will be available to audiences at a discounted price of $5.Directed by Shaka King, “Judas and the Black Messiah” tells the story of Black Panther chairman Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya, who won an Oscar for the role) and his murder by the FBI, after being betrayed by informant William O’Neal (Lakeith Stanfield). The film premiered last year to critical acclaim, and was nominated for six Oscars.

Crooked Media and Audacy have teamed up on a new podcast series about radical left wing organization The Weather Underground.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeDominique Fishback holds her own opposite Samuel L. Jackson in Apple TV+’s “The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey,” and she says that was inspired by the strength of the character. “I wasn’t really nervous because Robyn is not nervous of Ptolemy,” she tells Variety’s Awards Circuit Podcast.

Angelique Jackson Marvel star Dominique Thorne has signed with M88 for representation.Thorne will soon make her MCU debut as the comic book character Riri Williams, aka Ironheart, a brilliant inventor who built her own version of the Iron Man suit in an MIT dorm, in the highly-anticipated movie “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” Thorne will then go on to headline her own Disney+ series, “Ironheart.”The young actor made her feature film debut in Oscar-winning filmmaker Barry Jenkins’ critically acclaimed 2018 movie “If Beale Street Could Talk.” She played Sheila Hunt, the younger sister of Fonny Hunt (Stephan James), one half of the movie’s central love story. Thorne next starred opposite Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield in Warner Bros.’ Academy Award-nominated film “Judas and the Black Messiah.” Directed by Shaka King and executive produced by Ryan Coogler and Charles D.

Carole Horst Dominique Fishback earned acclaim in “Judas and the Black Messiah” playing Deborah Johnson, the wife of murdered Black Panther leader Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya, who won an Oscar for the role). She’ll next be seen in the Apple TV Plus limited series “The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey,” which bows March 11 on the streamer. It’s a heavyweight project: The series is based on Walter Mosley’s novel (he exec produces) and stars Samuel L.

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.

Joking about parents’ sex lives is always going to be great late-night fodder.

Oscars 2021 winner Daniel Kaluuya was mistaken for Leslie Odom Jr as he was interviewed by a journalist in the winner’s room last night.The 32-year-old star took home an Academy Award for best supporting actor in an evening full of history-making wins, a for his role of American activist Fred Hampton in Judas And The Black Messiah.After risking the wrath of his mum with a risqué nod to his parents having sex in his acceptance speech, Daniel answered questions from the press where one reporter accidentally confused him for Leslie, who was nominated for the award for his performance as Sam Cooke in One Night In Miami…The uneasy error was captured on film and has since been shared widely on social media.‘I want to congratulate you on this,

kicked off the 93rd Oscars with a strut through Union Station to the socially distant stage. “We are mourning the loss of so many, and if things had gone differently this past week in Minneapolis? I might have traded in my heels for marching boots.

“Fight for You” is taking home Oscar’s best original song at the 93rd ceremony from the Warner Bros. movie Judas and the Black Messiah. 

Gallery: Zoom, snobs, and no-shows! The 10 biggest moments of the BAFTAs 2021 (BANG Showbiz)The movie tells the story of the betrayal of Illinois Black Panthers chairman Fred Hampton and Daniel paid tribute to his co-stars for their work. He said: "It’s so hard to make a film about a man like this. I share this honour with the gift that is LaKeith Stanfield, the light that is Dominique Fishback.

Judas and the Black Messiah is now an Oscar Award-nominated film.As we all continue to revel in the well-deserved win for this masterfully-told true story of the rise and murder of Black Panther Party leader chairman Fred Hampton at the hands of the FBI, it’s also worth noting that the way the story made it’s way to the big screen in the first place is equally as important as the history it brings to life.Speaking candidly during an enlightening conversation at the second annual ESSENCE Hollywood House, the film’s co-producer and MACRO founder & CEO Charles D.

Embarrassing your parents never gets old, even when you’re an Oscar winner. Daniel Kaluuya gave his parents a hilarious shoutout during his acceptance speech during the Sunday, April 24, Academy Awards, sending his mother and sister into fits of confusion and laughter.

Oscars 2021 tonight (April 26) for playing Fred Hampton in Judas And The Black Messiah.Kaluuya held up the chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party as an example of how to help others. “What a man,” he said as he collected the trophy.

Daniel Kaluuya, the British actor, who played charismatic leader the Black Panther Party. Fred Hampton, in Judas and the Black Messiah, has won the Oscar for supporting actor, describing in an emotional acceptance speech how inspired he was by his character and how lucky he felt.

Back on December 4, 1969, Akua Njeri was Deborah Johnson, a 19-year old who was more than eight months pregnant with the child of her fiance Fred Hampton, the Chairman of the Chicago Chapter of the Black Panther Party. Through the Shaka King-directed Judas and the Black Messiah, the tragic events of that evening are detailed in a gory scene in which FBI and local law enforcement agents burst through the door where they and 10 others slept.

It took 10 years and the fortuitous meeting of four writers to tell the story of how Fred Hampton, the inspiring leader of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panthers, was murdered by the FBI with the help of William O'Neal, an informant who infiltrated the Illinois chapter of the party. Kenny and Keith Lucas, twin brothers known for their comedy work as the Lucas Brothers, had been working on a script about Hampton when they brought it up to director Shaka King, who signed on to co-write and direct.

Gold Digger, The Post’s ongoing musings on Oscars opposition, we check out those five very different nominees.Kaluuya, who plays Black Panther honcho Fred Hampton in “Judas and the Black Messiah,” has everything going for him this year. Not only does he give a thunderous performance as the impassioned orator, his film was also the last of the eight Best Picture nominees to debut — it premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and landed on HBO Max just a week later — so it’s fresh in voters’ minds.