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By Entertainment Reporter 
12h ago
In honor of Chadwick Boseman, who passed away on Friday, August 28, M-Net Movies acquired the rights from The Walt Disney Company Africa for a special screening of Marvel Studios’ Black Panther.
The multi-award winning film will air on M-Net Movies Zone channel 139, Monday, August 31 at 7 pm.
With his charismatic and powerful performance as the headline of Black Panther, Boseman defied stereotypes, broke boundaries, and emerged as an inspirational role model and pop culture hero.
The groundbreaking “Black Panther” was the first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to feature a black superhero and became the first superhero film to be nominated for Best Picture at the 91st Academy Awards.
The mega blockbuster received seven nominations and won three Oscars. Boseman himself won a Screen Actors Guild Award and a NAACP Image Award.
While “Black Panther” catapulted Boseman to stardom, he also played some of the most enigmatic and influential African-American icons in history, his breakout role was in “42” as baseball pioneer Jackie Robinson.
On “Get On Up” he gave an electrifying performance as The Godfather of Soul, music legend James Brown, and starred as the first African-American Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall in the riveting drama “Marshall.”
But many agree that his most inspiring screen time will always be as King T’Challa from Black Panther, who ascended to the throne in the fictional African country of Wakanda after the death of his father, King T’Chaka, played by Mzansi’s own actor, Dr.. John Kani.
“Black Panther” became the first film in South African box office history to exceed 100 million rand and became the largest film at that time in South, East and West Africa after its theatrical release. in February 2018.
“Black Panther” was directed by Ryan Coogler and also stars Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Connie Chiume, and Martin Freeman.
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