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ViacomCBS International Studios Inks First-Look Animation Deal With John Boyega’s UpperRoom Productions

ViacomCBS International Studios’ children’s division VIS Kids has signed a first-look deal with John Boyega’s UpperRoom Productions as part

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John Adedayo “Golden Globe Winner” Adegboyega, everyone!

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Congratulations!! 🍾

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John Boyega And Robert De Niro To Star In Netflix’s ‘The Formula’ Directed By ‘The First Purge’s Gerard McMurray

EXCLUSIVE: Gerard McMurray, who directed Burning Sands, one of Netflix’s first original features for the streamer, has made his return to the studio as he is set to direct The Formula with Jo…

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I’d like to think that Anakin and Finn would get along great. So I made this little edit of them interacting because it’s what Finn deserves. 

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John Boyega has recently appeared in a BBC anthology miniseries about racial injustice in the UK called Small Axe. It’s directed and written by black British people

This is mostly a PSA post to let people know about it, so that whoever’s interested can go watch it to show support for John/ Steve McQueen and tell the BBC that people are interested in black stories in the UK. I’m also asking that people watch it as legally as they so that the watch count goes up, and they get the message

It’s free on BBCiPlayer for people in the UK (and I guess if you have a vpn that works lol) and MAYBE Amazon prime but if it’s available anywhere else, please add on to this post

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It’s on Amazon prime. Every Friday until dec 18 there’s a new release. It’s soooo good.

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The force works in mysterious ways and after years of travelling  through the galaxy Finn was able to find a path to his destiny

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John Boyega Calls For Studios To Protect Actors From Racist And Sexist Fandoms

John Boyega has been outspoken about the treatment of POC...

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Episode 135A: Race and Fandom Revisited: Part 1 — Fansplaining

Flourish and Elizabeth hear from eight fans of color about their observations and experiences regarding race and racism in fandom.

I'm on this week's Fansplaining (a two-parter), a follow up to their 2016 episode of race and fandom (which I also participated in). I'm Holly Quinn, ftr.

If you prefer reading to listening, there is a full transcript on the linked page.

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Diversity isn’t enough: Why actors like John Boyega are fed up - Chicago Tribune

Diversity isn’t enough: Why actors like John Boyega are fed up

If Hollywood's workplace culture remains unchanged, then the very people hired in the spirit of diversity are being set up to fail

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Jedi Finn in the Leaked The Force Awakens Shot List

Jedi Finn in the Leaked The Force Awakens Shot List

John Boyega recently criticized Disney and Lucasfilm for sidelining Finn even while advertising him as a Jedi character ahead of the first m

SWSC lays out the evidence that Finn was meant to be a Force-using co-protaginist.

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Worse, it was clearly removed to support The Last Jedi.

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I don't know how people continue to defend TLJ.

I mean, I don't know how anyone defended TLJ from the moment RJ smugly unveiled that first poster with Finn nowhere to be seen -- he was telling us what he was doing right there, to, as they say, thunderous applause.

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John Boyega and Lucasfilm’s racism and lies

When all know how the companies loved to use Black Lives Matter to help their PR, or at least they did when they could still monetize it. 

One of the companies that did that had been Lucasfilm who did that by supporting John Boyega when he had gone out to protest back in June of 2020.

The funny thing is, and by funny I mean bull shit, Lucasfilm has never shown support for John Boyega through the years as he’s faced years of racism from both the Star Wars Community and from folks within their own company.

In fact, even during the push to boycott John’s casting, Lucasfilm had never said a word in support of John Boyega.

They showed zero support for the STAR of their own new trilogy, yet were sure to put his face eveywhere in the marketing

And this got me thinking how much they had used John Boyega’s Finn in the marketing of the film “The Force Awakens” to advertise a Black Jedi, and how even the film had set it up, and yet John Boyega had this to stay in regards to how The Last Jedi treated him and his character.

And through the years, many folks would defend Lucasfilm under the excuse that the story of Rey and Kylo was actually the main story, that Finn was just a red herring or that his story would take away from hers.

Well to all those people, get your clown shoes because Daisy Ridley just said “LOL NOP!” to all that.

So no, they never had Rey’s story nailed down. They never had Kylo’s story either. Think about that, in a story where Rey could have been anything and everything always had to be about Kylo, Finn was sidelined for no reason.

Oh, wait. I know the reason and I talked about it in this video in detail:

So I’m just wondering, if Lucasfilm stood with the Black community, why did they sideline Finn? If Lucasfilm actually stood with John Boyega, why did they not only show zero support for him until they could use it for PR? Lucasfilm never stood with the Black Community, it never stood with John Boyega, and they deserve all the backlash they’re getting for this fake woke trilogy.

Retweet this so everyone knows what they did, so they know how they lied, and if you stand with John Boyega 

I Stand With John Boyega

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John Boyega: 'I’m the only cast member whose experience of Star Wars was based on their race'

In his first interview since finishing Star Wars and that unguarded address from a Hyde Park stage, he explains how both platforms inspired

Wow, what an interview. (Read the whole thing)

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If you are a member of the Organization of Transformative Works community (which includes Archive of Our Own, Fanlore, and the TCW academic journal) as an author and/or reader please read this open letter about the organization's failure to address racism on its platforms, and, if you agree, sign.

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First Look: John Boyega Stars in ‘Naked Singularity,’ Directorial Debut of ‘It’ Writer (EXCLUSIVE)

Variety has been given exclusive access to the first-look image for “Naked Singularity,” starring John Boyega and Olivia Cooke, which is bei

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John Boyega at Hyde Park (lLondon)

 ‘We are a physical representation of our support for George Floyd. We are a physical representation of our support for Sandra Bland. We are a physical representation of our support for Trayvon Martin. We are a physical representation of our support for Stephen Lawrence.’ Boyega, 28, added: ‘I’m speaking to you from my heart. Look, I don’t know if I’m going to have a career after this, but f*** that.

‘Today is about innocent people who were halfway through their process, we don’t know what George Floyd could have achieved, we don’t know what Sandra Bland could have achieved, but today we’re going to make sure that won’t be an alien thought to our young ones.’

‘I need you to understand how painful this sh*t is. I need you to understand how painful it is to be reminded every day that your race means nothing and that isn’t the case anymore, that was never the case anymore.’

Read more: metro.co.uk

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We’re spreading these photos of John Boyega, and good we should. But in the midst of all that don’t ignore the haunted pain in his eyes. Or the tears running down his cheeks. There’s a brokenness there that’s been felt for generations. One sharp like shattered glass. It’s an aching that’s fueled outcry for years, we can’t ignore that

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tragically, he’s right when he said he might not work after this. in the coming months or years, we need to be watchful to see how he is treated by mainstream Hollywood. we can’t ignore the outcry now, and we can’t ignore it once anti-black racism isn’t in the headlines anymore. he has been outspoken against racism from day one and he has been the target it of it since the force awakens. none of this is new from him. the pain has been there for years. he’s been speaking out for years and now he’s only getting louder. don’t only spread the photos, go listen to his speech. go read what he’s been posting on social media. but most importantly, don’t stop once this high has simmered down. don’t go back to ignoring it.