Author: The Vent

FOX Greenlights First Comedy-Horror Anthology, “Scream Queens” from GLEE Creators

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FOX has ordered SCREAM QUEENS, a new genre-bending comedy-horror anthology series, it was announced today by Dana Walden and Gary Newman, Chairmen and CEOs of Fox Television Group. The series, produced by 20th Century Fox Television, is from Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan and Dante Di Loreto, the executive producers of GLEE and “American Horror […]

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Disney Animation’s ‘Moana’ Set for 2016 Release

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Walt Disney Animation Studios has been on roll of late, with such films as Wreck-It Ralph and Frozen having both earned critical acclaim and cleaned up at the box office, and next month’s Big Hero 6 looks to keep that win streak alive. The Mouse House will unveil two Pixar animated features next year, with Inside Out arriving in June and The Good Dinosaur in November in lieu of […]

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Ebola TV Series in the Works From Lynda Obst, Ridley Scott

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As the Ebola virus continues to dominate the headlines, producer Lynda Obst and director-producerRidley Scott are bringing the deadly pathogen to the small screen with a limited series for Fox TV Studios based on Richard Preston‘s 1994 nonfiction best-seller The Hot Zone. For the past year, the pair quietly has been working on the property, which they optioned two decades […]

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Miners Shot Down – TOMORROW NIGHT DSTV SCREENING

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AfriDocs is proud to screen Miners Shot Down, the documentary that is essential viewing for every South African, as well as for anyone concerned with human rights and democracy. Although specifically about a particular incident that takes place 20 years into South Africa’s democracy, the film is extremely relevant for international audiences due to its global […]

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Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s final Lead Role

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Ster Kinekor Entertainment is releasing an upcoming film titled A Most Wanted Man starring the late actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman in his final lead role on a mission to make the world a better place, releasing  24 October 2014. Hoffman plays the brilliant, rumpled, hard-drinking, chain-smoking Gunter Bachmann, who heads a secretive branch of German security, assigned specifically as watchdogs against […]

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Vuzu Amp to debut a new scripted reality show: ‘The Real Jozi A-Listers’

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Viewers who thought they had seen everything homegrown reality television has to offer are in for a side-splittingly funny, defiantly unique and undoubtedly unmissible treat whenThe Real Jozi A-Listers makes its debut October 31st at 19:00 on VUZU Amp. The showfollows the daily lives of comedian Tall A$$ Mo; comedian and actor, Trevor Gumbi; model and actor Masego “Maps” […]

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‘Pirates of the Caribbean 5′: Javier Bardem in Talks to Play the Villain

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (a.k.a. Pirates of the Caribbean 5) is formally set to begin production in Australia by February of next year, which means that directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg (Kon-Tiki) will be firming up the cast for the film over the next few months. Johnny Depp is already in place to […]

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