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EXCLUSIVE: Rapman utilized a superpower of his own — one that didn't require him to don figure-hugging spandex tights and a cape — to survive the setbacks he encountered making the earthshaking new Netflix drama Supacell that began streaming Thursday.  "My superpower is discipline," he…

As far as the three young women sitting in row E at London's Bush Theatre were concerned, the name of the character Tosin Cole was playing in Benedict Lombe's "spicy" love story Shifters, wasn't Dre — short for Dream — but "Dreamboat." It's a double whammy of love, well, sort of, for Cole (Till, Bob M…

Eddie Marsan has joined the cast of Supacell, Blue Story director Rapman’s Netflix drama series about a group of South Londoners who develop superpowers. Marsan (Ray Donovan, Deadpool 2) will play a character named Ray in the show, which has now wrapped shooting in London. No launch date has been…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix’s Rapman-created Supacell series, about a group of regular people who gain superpowers, is up, up and away with Tosin Cole (61st Street) signed on to play lead character Michael Lasaki. Filming begins in South London on Monday. Speaking exclusively to Deadline, Blue Story creator Rapman…

Netflix has announced five new scripted series that it has commissioned out of the UK, all of which will shoot in the country in 2022. On the list is Supacell, a superhero drama following a group of seemingly ordinary people from South London who unexpectedly develop super powers, with no connection between them aside…

After a week of controversy, UK multiplex chain Vue is set to remove its ban on showing gang movie Blue Story. The pic opened in the UK over the weekend via Paramount, grossing an impressive $1.7m (and we hear holds during the week have been strong), but was dogged by controversy after an incident at a Birmingham…

Rapman, real name Andrew Onwubolu, has hit out at UK multiplex chain Vue over its banning of his film Blue Story. The cinema said it had taken the measure after "25 significant incidents," following an initial widely reported incident involving a machete at a Birmingham site on Saturday (November 23) during the film’s…

UK artist/director Rapman, a.k.a Andrew Onwubolu, is set to direct Blue Story, a feature film which he also wrote based on his short video trilogy of the same name. Paramount Pictures acquired the worldwide distribution rights and is aiming to release the pic sometime this year. BBC Films developed and co-financed the…