At the core of DreamWorks' The Wild Robot is the heartfelt concept of creating your own found family. The sci-fi animated adventure film — written and directed by Chris Sanders based on the 2016 Peter Brown bestseller — follows Rozzum, a robot that gets shipwrecked during a typhoon on an island…

Ryan Coogler's first Black Panther picked up 7 Oscars noms and took over $1 billion at the box office but the film's production, lead actor Lupita Nyong’o explained this afternoon during a London Film Festival screen talk, wasn't smooth sailing.  "There was a lot of fear from the executives,"…

"I was inspired by AI voices like Alexa and Siri," Lupita Nyong’o joked during her session for The Wild Robot this morning at Deadline’s Contenders London.  In the animated film, which is an adaptation of Peter Brown's award-winning bestseller of the same name, Nyong’o plays a robot called…

Spawned from the New York Times No. 1 bestseller by Peter Brown that managed to speak to multiple generations, not just kids, DreamWorks Animation’s The Wild Robot proves to be a real gem in the genre that likely will become a classic, and no doubt…

A Quiet Place: Day One marks one of the most highly anticipated films releasing this summer after some delays and road bumps to completion. The spinoff film will become part of the franchise and universe originally established by John Krasinski and his wife Emily Blunt, who starred in the first A Quiet Place film…

Perhaps emboldened by the critical success of the “Long, Long Time” episode of HBO's The Last of Us, production company Platinum Dunes takes the third episode in its post-apocalyptic A Quiet Place franchise into surprisingly melancholy territory. It's…

Academy Award-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o will head the competition jury at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival. "I am deeply honored to serve as the President of the International Jury of the Berlin International Film Festival. I look forward to celebrating and recognizing the outstanding work of…

Lupita Nyong’o is remembering her Black Panther co-star Chadwick Boseman on his death anniversary. In a touching tribute, Nyong’o shared a black and white photo of Boeman as they arrived in South Korea in 2018. “Three years ago today, I experienced a singular pain at the news of…

Danai Gurira is this week’s guest in this special episode, taken from our AwardsLine magazine piece entitled “On My Screen.” In the Black Panther sequel Wakanda Forever, the actress resumes her role of Okoye — a part she also played in the Avengers franchise — and here we discuss the night of…

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever has been a worldwide hit and moviegoers have found out that Letitia Wright’s Shuri is the new Black Panther. The writers of the sequel are opening up about what other characters they thought of to assume the role of the superhero following Chadwick Boseman’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Following his star-making role as Eddie Munson in Stranger Things, Joseph Quinn has found his next big project as he is in negotiations to for a leading role opposite Lupita Nyong’o, who is starring, in Paramount's A Quiet Place: Day One. The spinoff will be directed and written…

Lupita Nyong’o made her dream a reality by filming Black Panther: Wakanda Forever when she was able to speak Spanish. The Academy Award winner for 12 Years a Slave was born in México City to Kenyan parents. “I was so excited about it,” she said at a round table for Entertainment Weekly. “It was…