John Boyega News

Today, Director/Writer J.J. Abrams and Producer Kathleen Kennedy were joined by stars Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Kelly Marie Tran, Oscar Isaac, Billy Dee Williams, Naomi Ackie, Joonas Suotamo and Anthony Daniels, and droids BB-8 and D-0, for a panel discussion at Star Wars Celebration in Chicago, moderated by Stephen Colbert.

Award-winning British actor John Boyega will narrate the upcoming dramatised natural history series Serengeti, an XIX Entertainment and John Downer Production for BBC One, Discovery Channel and BBC Studios Distribution.

John Boyega is set to executive produce God Is Good, a South African crime-thriller, according to Deadline. Producers are describing the film as in the vein of Prisoners and City Of God. Boyega is also launching a record label, UpperRoom Records, to oversee the film's soundtrack.

Today, the five nominees for this year's prestigious EE Rising Star Award were announced at BAFTA's headquarters, 195 Piccadilly in London.

John Boyega is in talks to star in “A Naked Singularity” with Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions on board to produce, according to Variety.

Today the 34th Santa Barbara International Film Festival announced its recipients for the Virtuosos Award presented by UGG, an honor created to recognize a select group of talent whose noteworthy performances in film have elevated them into the national cinematic dialogue. Yalitza Aparicio (Roma) Sam Elliott (A Star is Born), Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade) Claire Foy (First Man), Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?), Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie (Leave No Trace), John David Washington(BlacKkKlansman) and Steven Yeun (Burning) will receive the award on Tuesday, February 5th, 2019 at The Arlington Theatre.  

John Boyega and Letitia Wright are set to star in Hold Back the Stars, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The six-strong cast includes Theatre Peckham alumni Malachi Green and newcomers Ayanna Christie-Brown and Gustavo Navarro alongside acting stalwarts Geoff Aymer (THEYOUNG VIC, ARCOLA THEATRE, SHAKESPEARE'S GLOBE, BARBICAN, ROYAL COURT), Ray Newe (NATIONAL THEATRE, LIVERPOOL PLAYHOUSE), TerriAnn Oudjar (upcoming ROYAL COURT, THE PLAYHOUSE THEATRE). Joining the cast on stage will be 40 children who form part of Theatre Peckham's renowned arts education and training programme.

The forthcoming adaptation of Watership Down will feature an original song by Sam Smith, it was announced today. The Grammy, Brit and Academy award-winning artist was inspired by Richard Adams' classic novel to write and record Fire On Fire, an original song that will serve as the theme to the forthcoming animated mini-series. Fire On Fire was co-written with Steve Mac and was recorded by Sam Smith with the BBC Concert Orchestra at London's Abbey Road Studios in September 2018.

Matt Smith is joining the STAR WARS: EPISODE IX cast, according to Variety. It's unknown who Smith will be playing in the film, which is currently in production in the U.K.

Lost star Dominic Monaghan is joining Star War: Episode IX, according to The Hollywood Reporter. 

Theatre Peckham today announces the appointment of Suzann McLean as their new Artistic Director. McLean takes up the role on 3 September 2018, taking over from Teresa Early who stepped down, earlier this year, after 33 years.

Star Wars: Episode IX will begin filming at London's Pinewood Studios on August 1, 2018. J.J. Abrams returns to direct the final installment of the Skywalker saga. Abrams co-wrote the screenplay with Chris Terrio.

Variety has reported that J.J. Abrams is in early talks with Keri Russell to join “Star Wars: Episode IX,” which Abrams is writing and directing. Russell and Abrams last collaborated on 2006's “Mission: Impossible III.”

TEEN CHOICE 2018, the summer's hottest LIVE show, is back with a brand-new wave of nominees.

Ten years after the events of the first film, the Kaiju return in Pacific Rim Uprisingwith a new deadly threat that reignites the conflict between these otherworldly monsters of mass destruction and Jaegers, the human-piloted super-machines that were built to vanquish them. Pacific Rim Uprisingarrives on Digital and the all-new digital movie app MOVIES ANYWHERE on June 5, 2018, as well as on 4K Ultra HD, 3D Blu-ray, Blu-ray, DVD and On Demand on June 19, 2018 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Building on the striking visual world created in the first film, Pacific Rim Uprising features a next-generation battleground complete with upgraded Jaegers and new Kaiju that offers a captivating, state-of-the-art spectacle perfect for your next night in. Experience one-of-a-kind special effects and more than forty minutes of bonus content when you own the next installment on 4K Ultra HD, 3D Blu-ray, Blu-ray and DVD.

Founded in the early 1980s on the North Peckham estate, Theatre Peckham has since become a renowned training hub which introduces thousands of young people to theatre every year, and sees its Alumni employed across the Creative Industries.

Fox Hunting, a thought-provoking piece of verbatim theatre about knife crime, comes to the Courtyard Theatre for three weeks in May 2018. Based off transcripts of interviews with South Londoners directly affected by knife crime, which is still on the rise in London and accounts for more than a third of all knife crime offences UK-wide, this new play by 21-year-old David Alade blasts open how it affects the lives of those who perpetrate these crimes as well as the victims, and how it has become a sad normality for teenagers growing up in the capital.

PACIFIC RIM UPRISING, the upcoming sequel of PACIFIC RIM from Legendary and Universal, stars John Boyega and hits theaters on March 23rd. Directed by Guillermo del Toro, the film is set in the near future with Earth at war with the Kaiju, monsters that emerged from an inter-dimensional portal at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The original film earned $411 million at the global box office.

James invites his guests Drew Barrymore and John Boyega for a game of Spill Your Guts, where each of them are posed with both a disgusting food, like turkey testicles, and a hard-hitting question. Each must decide: answer the question truthfully or eat what's in front of them.