Disney’s new live-action version of The Little Mermaid is struggling in the sought-after China market with ticket pre-sales before Friday’s opening showing dismal returns on the back of little to no interest.
Idris Elba is taking aim at those slamming him for saying he does not want to be known only as a “black actor,” calling the backlash “stupid.”
British star Idris Elba ran afoul the woke police when he recently declared that he no longer calls himself a black actor, saying people have become overly obsessed with race. Now the actor is standing firm and refusing to back down from his comments that have angered some on the left.
Disney’s “Star Wars” actor John Boyega has received heavy backlash online after declaring that “I only date black,” with some saying a white man who only dates white women would be considered racist.
A promotional poster for the science-fiction epic Dune produced for the Chinese market removed a black main character from the image.
LONDON — Black actor John Boyega has stepped down from his role as a global ambassador for perfume brand Jo Malone after the company decided to hire a Chinese actor to replace him in an ad he created.
British perfume brand Jo Malone has apologized to Black actor John Boyega of “Star Wars” fame after cutting him out of the Chinese version of a cologne commercial he helped create.
“Star Wars” star John Boyega accused producers of the Disney-backed franchise of “pushing” minority characters “to the side” in the latest trilogy while developing “nuanced” storylines for the movies’ white characters.
Actor and Academy Award-winning director Jordan Peele is donating $1 million to social justice organizations, including Black Lives Matter and Stacey Abrams’s anti-voter suppression group Fair Fight.
Disney is one of the corporations and major Hollywood studios giving full-throated support to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. But the company has time and again been impotent on human rights, silent when it was time to confront the Communist government of China.
British-Nigerian actor and star of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, John Boyega, joined Black Lives Matter activists in London to protest against the death of George Floyd in the United States.
“Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” star John Boyega told racist social media users to “f**k off” during his online tribute to George Floyd, the black man who died after having his neck kneeled on by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker isn’t boring. It’s just dumb and flat and so understandably eager to undo all that The Last Jedi damage, it feels like we’re starting over.
Why does Kathleen Kennedy still have a job?
There were cheers, gasps, droid photo opportunities, casino games and more than a few standing ovations at the jam-packed world premiere of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” Saturday night in Los Angeles, which many are already praising online.
Actor John Boyega decried what he called a lack of people of color in some of Hollywood’s major film and television franchises in an interview released this week.
The goosebumps-inducing first look at the new film picks up right where the The Force Awakens left off, with Rey (Daisy Ridley) having just found Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and beginning her training with him at his island hideaway.
Rev. Jesse Jackson partially credits the casting of black British actor John Boyega for the financial success of “Star Wars: the Force Awakens” in an op-ed piece about “Hollywood apartheid.”
A Chinese promotional poster for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is raising eyebrows among fans on social media, who are criticizing Disney for downplaying the role of a major black character.
John Boyega, who is a rebellious Stormtrooper named Finn in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, answered questions about his sex life, or lack there of, and the controversy surrounding his casting in the new blockbuster film.
Star Wars fans have been clamoring for new footage and details of the upcoming seventh installment, The Force Awakens, ever since the first extended trailer for the film debuted in March.
The Star Wars franchise quieted critics of its primarily white casts in November after the trailer for The Force Awakens revealed John Boyega as the first black stormtrooper, but now the series is growing more diverse and will reportedly feature its first lesbian character.
