The Latest Breaking News from Chadwick Boseman

The latest installment of the MCU is one that pays homage to a character lost too soon.

LOS ANGELES — Growing up in Clovis, California, near Fresno, young Nate Moore and his siblings occupied themselves with movies, video games, sports, books and — crucially — comics.

The death of leading man Chadwick Boseman left big shoes to fill, but Wakanda Forever doesn’t recast or conjure King T’Challa, instead expanding the story-world of the original.

The stars of Marvel’s “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” found ways to keep Chadwick Boseman’s memory alive in their first movie since the actor’s death.

"Black Panther" was my quarantine movie. I'm not sure how many times I've seen it in total, but I'm sure it's north of 100. Sometimes I would just have it playing on mute in the background, as if it were more art installation than cinema. It was comforting, and in…

The death of actor Chadwick Boseman looms large over "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," the sequel to "Black Panther," the 2018 blockbuster that signaled a new — and long overdue — form of representation in the superhero genre at large.

A big, rangy Marvel follow-up — made without the grand presence of Chadwick Boseman, who died two years after “Black Panther” came out in 2018 — “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” acknowledges the loss of both King T’Challa and the actor who played him with a grave and moving extended prologue.…

2018’s “Black Panther” wasn’t just a wild success, it was an axis-shifting historically significant moment — the first major comic book movie featuring a Black superhero, it was the first superhero movie to be nominated for Best Picture, and it won three Oscars, for its score, production design and costumes.…

Strong performances of grief in Ryan Coogler’s follow-up are laced with real and palpable pain