‘Queen Of Katwe’ Trailer: Lupita Nyong’o And David Oyelowo Lead Mira Nair’s Uplifting Chess Drama It’s not thatLupita Nyong’ohasn’t kept herself busy since her Oscar win for12 Years a Slave. But we’ve barely seen her, because her two biggest recent roles, inStar Wars: The Force AwakensandThe Jungle Book, have kept her wonderfully expressive face offscreen. Fortunately, that changes this fall withQueen of Katwe. Directed byMira Nair, the based-on-a-true-story drama stars Nyong’o as a poor single mother raising a 10-year-old daughter, Phiona (played by newcomerMadina Nalwanga) in rural Uganda....

‘Roseanne’ Co-Showrunner Whitney Cummings Has Left The Series ABC’s revival ofRoseanneis one of the biggest network comedies on television right now, but despite its popularity, one of its showrunners and head writers, comedianWhitney Cummings, has just stepped down and walked away from the series. According toVariety, Cummings will not be returning for the second season of the revival series (which will be the eleventh season of the show overall).Bruce Helford, Cummings' co-showrunner onRoseanne, revealed the news in a conference call to reporters earlier this morning, and Cummings herself took to Twitter to explain the reasons for her departure:...

‘That Damn Michael Che’ Trailer: The ‘SNL’ Star Brings A New Sketch Comedy Series To HBO Max Michael Checan currently be seen at the Weekend Update desk ofSaturday Night Live, but he almost never gets in on the sketch comedy side of the long-running late night show. But soon he’ll be bringing his own sketches to HBO Max with his own self-titled showsThat Damn Michael Che. We’re not sure why these ideas couldn’t be utilized on SNL, especially since the sketches are using a handful of current and former cast members to make them happen, but you’re able to watch theThat Damn Michael Chetrailer below....

‘The Confirmation’ Trailer: In Which Clive Owen Tugs On Your Heartstrings And Not In A Violent Way For those of us that remember the days whenClive Owenwas on the cusp of serious action hero stardom (remember when he was supposed to be the next James Bond?), seeing the gruff actor in a seemingly warmhearted movie likeThe Confirmationis a little peculiar. Then again, the past few years have seen Owen going out of his way to showcase various unseen facets of his acting range....

‘The Divide’ Trailer: ‘Frontier(s)’ Director Xavier Gens Goes Post-Apocalyptic For his third film, French genre directorXavier Genshas locked a bunch of New Yorkers in the basement of a building as they wait out the end of the world. But it turns out these people aren’t the only survivors, and interactions with people who didn’t make it to shelter set off a chain of events that probably won’t end well. The film isThe Divide, and those who’ve seen Gens' first film,Frontier(s), will immediately recognize some common energy and tension....

‘The Hateful Eight’ Featurette Offers A Brief Lesson On Roadshows And Ultra Panavision Much has been written about the the upcoming theatrical roll-out ofThe Hateful Eight. Before it opens in every multiplex in the world,Quentin Tarantino’s western thriller will have a “roadshow” release, hitting select theaters around the country to screen in 70mm projection. This roadshow version, in addition to being Tarantino’s recommended way of seeing the film,will also have additional footage, including a musical overture and intermission....

‘Walking Dead’ Spinoff Starts This Summer; Called ‘Fear The Walking Dead’ UPDATE: Creator Robert Kirkman has confirmed this show now has a title. it’s calledFear The Walking Dead. Below is a story with the first photo from March 7. There’s more below. There’s a big gap onThe Walking Dead. We never see what happens between Rick’s injury and when he wakes up from his coma. How, specifically, did the world get infested by zombies?...

A ‘Bird Box’ Sequel Is On Its Way This Fall — As A Book Time to open up theBird Boxuniverse again. AfterJosh Malerman’s 2014 post-apocalyptic thriller novel inspired the Netflix mega-hit starringSandra Bullockand that life-threatening viral “challenge,” we’re getting aBird Boxsequel this fall. But wait a bit before you stumble blindly toward Netflix’s homepage — this is a sequel book written by Malerman, who confirmed that his next post-apocalyptic “Bird Boxnovel,” titledMalorie, will be hitting bookshelves in October....

Amazon’s ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Will Film In New Zealand, The One True Middle-Earth The country of New Zealand has become synonymous withThe Lord of the Rings, thanks to its vast array of varied landscapes and evocative environments used in Peter Jackson’s two J.R.R. Tolkien-inspired trilogies over the past twenty years. Amazon has been cagey about where it would set up camp for its upcomingThe Lord of the Ringsprequel TV series, but this afternoon, the company has revealed that showrunnersJ....

Aquaman: King Of Atlantis Trailer: HBO Max Animated Miniseries Makes A Wild, Goofy Splash HBO Max has treated us to some first-look footage at “Aquaman: King of Atlantis.” This animated miniseries was initially announced in early 2020, long before the pandemic upended, well, everything, and even before HBO Max officially launched. But the three-part event has “Aquaman” director James Wan on board as an executive producer, which is kind of a big deal....

Casting Notes: Daniel Dae Kim In Deathgames; Marisa Tomei In The Lincoln Lawyer; Matt Damon Possibly In Tender Is The Night Whether because of the Hawaiian location and sometimes unpredictable schedule of ABC’sLostor because they’re so associated with their island characters, several of the show’s primary actors have yet to book sizable feature gigs outside of the series. Now that the show is about to wrap, however, expect to seeLostmainstays showing up in casting announcements left and right....

Chadwick Boseman Wins Black Jeopardy As T’Challa On A Disappointing ‘Saturday Night Live’ Whenever anyone saysSaturday Night Liveisn’t funny anymore, it’s because they tuned in on a night when the writers and cast didn’t come together for a good episode, and they used that as a judgment for the entire series. And anyone who tuned into this weekend’s episode withBlack PantherstarChadwick Bosemanhosting for the first time certainly got fuel for that misguided fire....

Chris Pine And DJ Caruso Discuss The Art Of Making Money Chris Pine’s pre-Star TrekfilmCarriersmay have been dumped into a few theatres post-Star Trek, but hopefully his real post-Trekstuff will be more interesting and fare better with studio marketing departments. He’s already gotUnstoppablein production, and now he’s part of a deal to fast-track a counterfeiting film calledThe Art of Making Moneyat Paramount.Varietyreports that Pine andDJ Carusoare both in talks to get the film, based on a script byFrank Baldwin, in production early next year....