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      Chadwick Boseman Convinced He Would Beat Cancer to Film 'Black Panther' Sequel

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      Marvel Studios

      Until about a week before his death, the T’Challa depicter believed he would be able to gain weight and get back in shape for the production of the sequel which is slated to kick off in March 2021.
      Sep 4, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Chadwick Boseman had high hope to return for “Black Panther 2” despite battling colon cancer. According to a new report, the late actor believed that he would beat his cancer to film the sequel until about a week before his death.
      A source close to the “Marshall” star tells The Hollywood Reporter that the SAG Award-winning actor, who had become noticeably thin in recent months, was convinced that he would be able to gain weight and get back in shape for the production of the sequel which is slated to kick off in March 2021. He was even said to be ready to begin the preparation for the filming in September.
      On how Disney grapples with the shocking news of Boseman’s passing, a source says the studio is “processing the grief of losing a loved one … while having to face the economic realities of forging ahead with a billion-dollar franchise without its titular star.” The 43-year-old actor was poised to appear in other interconnected films, as he already had done in 2016’s “Captain America: Civil War”, 2018’s “Avengers: Infinity War” and last year’s blockbuster “Avengers: Endgame”.
      In honor of the late actor, Disney is said to have shifted its focus to pay tribute to Boseman and not on the making of a “Black Panther” sequel at this stage.
      As reported before, only a handful people of Boseman’s very close inner circle knew his cancer diagnosis, so the news of his death on August 28 sent shock waves through Disney and the tight-knit Marvel Cinematic Universe. As to how the T’Challa depicter was able to keep his diagnosis under wraps from the studio for years, film finance attorney Schuyler Moore says a Marvel star wouldn’t likely require a medical examination for insurance purposes.
      “Big studios don’t often [get] completion bonds,” says Moore. “They are more prevalent in the indie filmmaking world. Sometimes, the big studios will look to insure for a particular actor, but they usually have a particular reason for doing so. Otherwise, studios will just shoulder the risk [of sickness or death].”

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      'Cuties' Director Gets 'Death Threats' for Allegedly Sexualizing Children Due to Suggestive Poster

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      Netflix

      Maimouna Doucoure reveals she has received ‘numerous death threats’ following controversial poster released by Netflix to promote her coming-of-age drama.
      Sep 4, 2020
      AceShowbiz – French filmmaker Maimouna Doucoure received death threats after her coming-of-age dance drama “Cuties” launch on Netflix was advertised with an inappropriately sexualised poster.
      The film earned praise when it debuted at January’s (20) Sundance Film Festival in Utah for how it addressed the hypersexualisation of young girls, but its release was hit by controversy due to a suggestive poster of its child stars posing in their dancing outfits.
      The poster sparked a huge backlash, with an online petition associating it with paedophilia gaining more than 126,000 signatures, and Doucoure says she also received death threats from furious members of the public.
      “I received numerous attacks on my character from people who had not seen the film, who thought I was actually making a film that was apologetic about hypersexualiation of children,” she tells Deadline.com. “I also received numerous death threats.”
      The director and screenwriter found the furore all the more bizarre as she has been focusing on promoting the film, about a girl from a traditional French-African family who joins a twerking dance troupe, in France, where it is titled Migonnes.
      “I discovered the poster at the same time as the American public,” she explains. “My reaction? It was a strange experience. I hadn’t seen the poster until after I started getting all these reactions on social media, direct messages from people, attacks on me. I didn’t understand what was going on. That was when I went and saw what the poster looked like.”
      The filmmaker was backed by many who had seen her debut feature, including “Thor: Ragnarok” actress Tessa Thompson, and she says the Netflix poster was “not representative of the film and especially its message.”
      She has, however, made up with Netflix chiefs after receiving a personal apology from the streaming service’s co-CEO Ted Sarandos over the phone.

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      'The Batman' Production Under Investigation as Robert Pattinson Allegedly Falls Sick With Covid-19

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      Warner Bros. Pictures

      Investigation has reportedly been launched as the production for the Caped Crusader movie comes to a screeching halt after the main actor allegedly tests positive for the killer virus.
      Sep 4, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Producers of “The Batman” are hoping cameras will roll again “very soon” after they’ve completed a thorough investigation of the COVID-19 case that closed down the set on Thursday (03Sep20).
      Unconfirmed reports suggest the Caped Crusader himself, Robert Pattinson, is the person who has tested positive for the coronavirus, and while new WarnerMedia Studios & Networks chief Ann Sarnoff insists she cannot talk about individuals linked to the project, she tells Deadline an investigation is underway to find out how health and safety guidelines put in place didn’t keep all employees from getting sick.
      “We’re still in the middle of investigating what is the situation,” she tells the outlet. “We’re pausing temporarily for now until we have more information, but we have all the protocols set up to do contact tracing and hopefully get back up into production very soon.”
      Production on “The Batman” shut down when the pandemic began in March. It started up again earlier this week (beg31Aug20) in Leavesden, England. Director Matt Reeves recently revealed he had completed a quarter of the film, which is scheduled for release in October, 2021.

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      Robert Pattinson Allegedly Tests Positive for Covid-19, 'The Batman' Production Is Shut Down

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      Warner Bros. Pictures

      The Caped Crusader depicter has reportedly been diagnosed with the deadly virus as the production of his comic book superhero movie is forced to close yet again.
      Sep 4, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Production on “The Batman” has stalled after someone on set tested positive for COVID-19.
      Filming only recently started up again after the coronavirus shutdown and now director Matt Reeves has been forced to close the set in Leavesden, England.
      “A member of The Batman production has tested positive for Covid-19 and is isolating in accordance with established protocols,” a Warner Bros. spokesman confirms. “Filming is temporarily paused.”
      The powers that be aren’t naming names but Vanity Fair sources claim the film’s leading man, Robert Pattinson, is the individual who is sick.
      The production initially shut down in March (20), when the quarantine lockdown began and it only began again earlier this week (beg31Aug20) with cast and crew observing strict health and safety guidelines.
      During last month’s (Aug20) DCFanDome virtual event, Reeves revealed he had completed a quarter of the movie, but he had enough for a trailer, which he introduced at the online fan convention.
      “The Batman”, starring Pattinson as the Caped Crusader, is currently scheduled to open in theatres in October, 2021.
      A spokesman for the Twilight star has yet to respond to reports he has tested positive for COVID-19.

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      Michael Rapaport and John Boyega Clash on Twitter Over the 'Star Wars' Actor's Complaint for Disney

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      WENN

      The ‘Dr. Dolittle 2’ star has since come under fire after telling Boyega to ‘be grateful’ for his ‘Star Wars’ role after the latter criticized the movie studio for using his black character as a token.
      Sep 3, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Michael Rapaport and John Boyega had a short back-and-forth on Twitter as the former weighed in on the latter’s interview with GQ magazine. During the sit-down, the British actor criticized Disney for using his black character in “Star Wars” as a token and then pushing it aside, but the comedian thinks that Boyega shouldn’t complain because he was lucky enough to have done so much more than other actors are able to.
      “@JohnBoyega Yo my man you have done so much in such a short period of time. Congrats.. but you ain’t the first actor to have an un nuanced character in a Star Wars movie #beniciodeltoro,” the former “The War at Home” star tweeted on Wednesday, September 2 in response to Boyega’s claims. He added, “Welcome to show business. S**t doesn’t always go ur way.”
      Boyega caught wind of Rapaport’s tweet and was unsure if the 50-year-old really understood what he said, so he asked, “Did you read the article ? Eyes thanks for the additional name to my list though.” Rapaport responded, “Ya I read the article. That’s why I tweeted u.”
      He then doubled down on his comment that “it’s show business” and “things don’t always work out the way YOU plan. Happens to ALL of Us.” He reiterated, “Again be grateful for all u done so far which is a lot more than TONS of great actors of all races who also had roles cut down & will continue to.”
      Boyega, however, refused to take Rapaport’s suggestion, writing back, “no. Thanks though,” while adding a smile character.

      Michael Rapaport and John Boyega clashed on Twitter over the ‘Star Wars’ actor’s complaint for Disney.
      While their argument ended there, Rapaport has caught endless backlash from social media users who think that he, as a white actor, doesn’t have the right to tell Boyega to be grateful for his “Star Wars” role. One person accused him of being racist, writing, “Please block that racist POS.”
      “Always saying the most! This is a pattern….Michael is a hinderance to our community,” another called him out. A third user told Rapaport to shut up, “Being in Black films doesn’t give you a pass – mind your business.”
      “not the NON-BLACK man telling you to ‘be grateful’ okay microaggressions. change starts with calling out the problem, not accepting it for what it is,” another slammed Rapaport, before praising Boyega, “blackness is a key part to the problem. thank you for standing your ground-i applaud you.”
      In the said interview, Boyega aired out his displease with Disney for marketing the presence of a black character in the latest “Star Wars” trilogy but failing to bring Finn’s story to a satisfying conclusion. “What I would say to Disney is do not bring out a black character, market them to be much more important in the franchise than they are and then have them pushed to the side. It’s not good. I’ll say it straight up,” he said.
      He continued, “So what do you want me to say? What they want you to say is, ‘I enjoyed being a part of it. It was a great experience…’ Nah, nah, nah. I’ll take that deal when it’s a great experience. They gave all the nuance to Adam Driver, all the nuance to Daisy Ridley. Let’s be honest. Daisy knows this. Adam knows this. Everybody knows. I’m not exposing anything.”

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      Tilda Swinton Inserts Nod to Chadwick Boseman in Venice Speech, Pals Recall Him Filming Through Pain

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      WENN

      The ‘Doctor Strange’ actress caps her speech with ‘Wakanda Forever’ while accepting the Golden Lion Award during the opening ceremony of the Venice Film Festival.
      Sep 3, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Tilda Swinton has paid tribute to Chadwick Boseman at the Venice Film Festival. The actress, who was honored with Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement, inserted a nod to the late actor in her rousing speech about the power of cinema.
      “Viva Venezia. Cinema cinema cinema. Wakanda Forever. Nothing but love,” she capped her speech delivered during the opening ceremony of the festival on Wednesday, September 2. The “Wakanda Forever” line is a reference to Chadwick’s blockbuster movie “Black Panther”.
      Tilda also said when accepting the award, “Cinema is my happy place, my true motherland. Its fellowship is my heart’s family tree. The names on the list of those awarded this honor, meanwhile, they are the names of my masters. They’re the elders of my tribe. The poets of the language I love above others. I sing their songs in the bath. I’m the punk kid film nut hitching a ride to the station to get to the foothills of the heights of their achievements.”
      Chadiwck died of colon cancer at age 43 on August 28. He was battling the disease for four years before succumbing to it and chose to keep the battle private with only a few of his very tight-knit group of friends and members of his team, including producing partner Logan Coles, longtime agent Michael Greene of Greene & Associates Talent Agency and trainer Addison Henderson, aware of his cancer diagnosis.
      Speaking after the actor’s passing, his close pals reveal how Chadwick sometimes struggled through pain while filming his movies. Michael shares that while filming the upcoming Netflix film “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”, Chadwick “was really in hard-core pain,” but “felt that being able to be with [co-star] Denzel [Washington] and to launch this cycle of [playwright] August Wilson at Netflix was so exciting to him.”
      Addison, who is also an actor and director, recalls Chadwick sitting and giving him script notes for hours “while battling and dealing with his own things.” Later, after shooting “Da 5 Bloods” in Thailand followed by reshoots of his 2019 film “21 Bridges”, “he was tired but he came to Buffalo, where I shot my movie, and stayed for days with me, just to talk through stuff with me, just to be a good brother,” Addison reveals. “He didn’t have to do that, he could have gone home and just rested. For me, that was just something that I’ll never forget.”
      Describing how the late actor spent his final days, Addison says, “He was just living his artistic life to the fullest and using his time and his moment to really affect people.”

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      John Boyega Calls Out Disney for Making 'Star Wars' Black Character Nothing More Than Just a Token

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      Walt Disney Pictures

      The actor who plays ex-stormtrooper Finn in the ‘Star Wars’ sequel trilogy accuses the movie studio of being fake as they push the characters of color to the sideline.
      Sep 3, 2020
      AceShowbiz – John Boyega has slammed Disney chiefs for failing him and his “Star Wars” co-star Kelly Marie Tran by sidelining their characters in the latest instalment, “The Rise of Skywalker”.
      The film, which concludes a new trilogy of “Star Wars” films that began with 2015’s “The Force Awakens”, focused heavily on Daisy Ridley’s character Rey and Adam Driver’s villain Kylo Ren – with ex-stormtrooper Finn, played by John, and mechanic Rose Tico, played by Kelly, taking a backseat.
      In a new interview with GQ magazine, the “Detroit” star criticised bosses at Disney for marketing the presence of a black character in the movies but failing to bring Finn’s story to a satisfying conclusion.
      “You get yourself involved in projects and you’re not necessarily going to like everything,” he says. “What I would say to Disney is do not bring out a black character, market them to be much more important in the franchise than they are and then have them pushed to the side. It’s not good. I’ll say it straight up.”
      Warming to the theme, he says he and Asian-American Kelly were also underserved by the failure to foreground their charaters’ blossoming romance and stories.
      “Like, you guys knew what to do with Daisy Ridley, you knew what to do with Adam Driver,” he rages. “You knew what to do with these other people, but when it came to Kelly Marie Tran, when it came to John Boyega, you know f**k all.”
      “So what do you want me to say? What they want you to say is, ‘I enjoyed being a part of it. It was a great experience…’ Nah, nah, nah. I’ll take that deal when it’s a great experience. They gave all the nuance to Adam Driver, all the nuance to Daisy Ridley. Let’s be honest. Daisy knows this. Adam knows this. Everybody knows. I’m not exposing anything.”

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      Chris Evans May Re-Team With Chris Hemsworth in 'Extraction' Sequel

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      Words are the ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ actor is wanted to play a major role in the follow-up to the hit Netflix movie starring his ‘Avengers’ co-star.
      Sep 2, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Chris Evans may have hung his Captain America costume, but it doesn’t mean that he won’t be able to reunite onscreen with a fellow Avenger again. The 39-year-old actor may work together with Chris Hemsworth in an “Extraction” sequel as his future project.
      According to We Got This Covered, Anthony and Joe Russo, who produced the 2020 action thriller, are looking to add a few more MCU stars into the follow-up to the hit Netflix movie and Evans is high on their list. It’s unclear if the “Knives Out” star has been formally approached yet, but he is reportedly eyed for a major role in the upcoming sequel.
      Should the report be true and Evans sign up for the second “Extraction” movie, he will also re-team up with the Russo brothers who directed the last two Avengers movie, “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Avengers: Endgame”. Joe Russo wrote the script of the first movie based on the graphic novel “Ciudad” by Ande Parks, the Russo brothers, Fernando Leon Gonzalez and Eric Skillman.
      “Extraction” follows a black ops mercenary who must rescue an Indian drug lord’s kidnapped son in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Directed by Sam Hargrave, it was released on April 24 and became the most watched original film in Netflix’s history, making a decision to give a green light to the sequel a no-brainer. Joe Russo has reportedly been hired to write the sequel, with Hargrave and Hemsworth both expected to return.
      The Russo brothers are no stranger to recruiting MCU stars for their projects. While co-producing “21 Bridges”, the filmmaking duo tapped the late “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman to take the lead role. They also directed Spider-Man depicter Tom Holland in their upcoming crime drama film “Cherry” and are set to reunite with Evans in Netflix’s movie “The Gray Man”, which also stars Ryan Gosling.
      Evans, who last portrayed Captain America in 2019’s blockbuster “Avengers: Endgame”, has intentionally shied away from a straightforward action movie since 2010’s “The Losers” in a bid to diversify his roles. He was last seen in 2019’s mystery film “Knives Out”, written and directed by Rian Johnson with a star-studded cast.

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