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EXCLUSIVE: Jurnee Smollett, hot off a SAG ensemble nomination and a Best Actress TV Drama series Critics Choice nom for the HBO series Lovecraft Country, is boarding the Netflix movie Lou as star and executive producer. Smollett joins Oscar winner Allison Janney, who is also starring and executive producing the Anna…

EXCLUSIVE: In competitive bidding, Amazon Studios is in negotiations for Fuel, a pitch for an action vehicle movie for Lovecraft Country star Jurnee Smollett. She is attached to produce with Lovecraft Country EP Misha Green. The script will be written by Kat Wood. The plan is to develop this as a vehicle for Smollett…

Editor’s Note: Rashad Robinson is president of racial-justice organization Color of Change. Founded in 2005, it has more than 7 million members. Last year, it collaborated with actor and producer Michael B. Jordan to create #ChangeHollywood, an initiative that aims to offer tangible ways to invest in anti-racist…

With the Oscars and the Golden Globes easing their restrictions in regards to what qualifies this awards season, let’s all agree that a loophole should be created allowing HBO to submit episode 3 of Lovecraft Country, “Holy Ghost” as Best Feature and Jurnee Smollett as Best Actress. Yes, I mean that. Smollet’s turn as…

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details of tonight's Lovecraft Country Season 1 finale "As an artist, I make art to start conversations, and one always hopes their art is a reflection of the times," says Lovecraft Country showrunner Misha Green in a definite understatement of the discourse and timeliness of the HBO…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about Sunday night’s season finale of Lovecraft Country. Ever since Misha Green unleashed the wonder that is Lovecraft Country to the world in August, she, along with an all-star roster of writers and directors has immersed us in the LCCU: The Lovecraft Country Cinematic…

In August, HBO debuted Misha Green’s Lovecraft Country and the world hasn’t been the same since. The series based on the 2016 novel by Matt Ruff combines sci-fi, horror, social injustice, racial identity and family drama to serve up epicness that TV has never seen before — and Jurnee Smollett is at the front of it…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has set a killer cast for Spiderhead, landing Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller and Lovecraft Country’s Jurnee Smollett to star in the Joseph Kosinski-directed adaptation of the George Saunders short story. Script is by Zombieland and Deadpool scribes Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick. Kosinski is making this…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight's Lovecraft County episode ‘A History of Violence’ on HBO. Tread carefully. EXCLUSIVE: "There was an operative sentence that came to me at the beginning, and it had to do with Jurnee Smollett calling me on a Saturday early early early in the morning," explains…