Tag: BLACK PANTHER
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Rihanna announces release of new single she wrote with Tems
Music star, Robyn Fenty popularly known as Rihanna, has announced the release of her new single she wrote with Nigeria’s Tems, the first after a six-year hiatus from the music industry. “Lift Me Up” was also written with music producer, Ludwig Göransson; and Black Panther’s director, Ryan Coogler, Billboard reports. Rihanna, who has in the…
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Nigeria’s UFC champion, Usman lands Black Panther movie role
Nigeria’s UFC welterweight World champion, Kamaru Usman landed his first movie role after doing exploits in martial art. Usman has been given a role in the next series of “Black Panther” a movie from Disney and Marvel Studios. The Movie will be premiered in America on the 11th of November 2022 with Usman’s face pasted…
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Chadwick Boseman role will not be recast in Black Panther 2’
Disney paid tribute to the late Chadwick Boseman Thursday by announcing that his pioneering role in “Black Panther” will not be recast in the sequel, as the company set out details of its upcoming Marvel superhero films and series. TheNewsGuru recalls that Boseman died in August after a four-year battle with colon cancer, having never…
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Chadwick Boseman, star of ‘Black Panther’ movie is dead
Chadwick Boseman, the actor who found fame as the star of the groundbreaking film “Black Panther” and who also portrayed pioneering Black figures such as Jackie Robinson, James Brown and Thurgood Marshall, died on Friday. He was 43. A statement posted on Mr. Boseman’s Instagram account said the actor learned in 2016 that he had…
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Roma’, ‘Black Panther’ make history at 2019 Oscars nominations
The critically acclaimed Netflix film ‘Roma’ and superhero flick ‘Black Panther’ have scored record-breaking nominations for the 2019 Oscars. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the nomination list for the 91st Academy Awards was revealed on Tuesday while the ceremony has been scheduled to hold on Feb. 24. Academy president John Bailey, ‘The Big…
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Black Panther: Disney partners Nollywood filmmaker to produce ‘Sade’
Popular production studio, Disney, is currently developing an African fairy tale movie “Sade’’ with Nigerian-American producer and director, Rick Famuyiwa. Sade, according to news from Disney over the weekend, will be centred on an African princess after the fashion of the commercially successful “Black Panther’’. The movie was pitched by Nigerian writer, Ola Shokunbi and…
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Nigeria Nnedi Okorafor to write standalone book on Black Panther `Shuri’
Nigerian award winning comic writer Nnedi Okorafor has been commissioned by Marvel Comics to write a standalone book for Black Panther character ‘Shuri’. Shuri, who gained global acceptance and fan base after the release of the block buster ‘Black Panther’, is the younger sister of lead character T’Challa. The role was played in live action…
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Black Panther to be first film shown publicly in Saudi Arabia
Marvel blockbuster, Black Panther will break Saudi Arabia’s 35-year long cinema ban, becoming the first movie to be shown publicly in the Oil-rich country since they were shuttered in the 1980s. The Marvel superhero film will receive a gala opening on April 18 in Saudi Arabia’s brand new AMC theater in Riyadh, the country’s capital.…
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Black Panther fever hits Orezi in ‘Ijo Wakanda’
Nigerian pop star, Orezi a.k.a Ghen Ghen master leverages on the Marvel produced Black Panther, creating a groovy song around the flick. The song produced by Dapiano is a fast paced dance track in which Orezi glorifies the bum of his love-interest, calling her ‘Omoge Wakanda’. So far fans of the singer have been applauding…
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‘Black Panther’ becomes the most tweeted movie of all time
The pop culture sensation ‘Black Panther’ has set another record as the most tweeted movie ever. Twitter reports that Ryan Coogler’s box-office smash has been tweeted about more than 35 million times. That pushes it ahead of the previous record-holder, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” The most recent “Star Wars” installment, “The Last Jedi,”…