Johannesburg – The Walt Disney Company Africa is proud to announce that local comedian and 94.7 presenter Darren Simpson, will lend his voice for the theatrical release of Disney’s upcoming animation Planes: Fire & Rescue, out in cinemas across South Africa in 3D on Friday 26 September. Darren will voice the character Drip, one of five […]
Following a devastating fire which destroyed the Big Brother Africa Hotshots house at Sasani Studios in Johannesburg yesterday, M-Net and Endemol South Africa are frantically working on finding a new camera house which could be elsewhere in Africa – or in the world! Big Brother Africa Hotshots, the 9th season of the voyeur reality format show was supposed […]
George Clooney has come on to direct “Hack Attack” for Sony Pictures, delving into the hot-button topic of celebrity privacy scandals. The pic will be an adaptation of journalist Nick Davies’ account of the British phone hacking scandal surrounding Rupert Murdoch’s news empire. The adaptation will be produced by George Clooney and Grant Heslov through their Smokehouse banner […]
As DC prepares their shared movie universe, a lot of speculation has surrounded who Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is going to play. For over a year, the wrestler-turned-blockbuster actor had teased that he was in talks with Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment for a comic book role – a character that had not been brought to the big screen […]
DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon 2 was not just one of the better-received sequels of the 2014 Summer Movie Season, it remains one of the best-reviewed films of this year in general, and just crossed the $600 million mark at the worldwide box office over the 2014 Labor Day holiday frame. It’s also the top-grossing animated motion picture […]
M-Net and Endemol SA advise that, due to a devastating fire at the Big Brother house on 2 September 2014, Big Brother Hotshots will not launch Sunday 7 September as scheduled. The cause of the fire at this stage is unknown and investigations will commence as soon as it is safe to do so. At this stage, […]
A traveler in Washington DC gets a mysterious gift: A laptop that grants all his wishes. How will he wield his unexpected powers? Created as a part of the Four Stories competition held by Intel and W Hotels,Eugene is the darkly comedic tale of a man granted the power to make wishes come true when he mysteriously receives […]
From 24 September, MTV (DStv channel 130) will air The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, an Emmy Award-nominated US late-night talk show, after acquiring the African TV broadcast rights from NBC Universal International Television Distribution. The show will air on weekdays at 18h00, with an omnibus edition running on from 17h00 to 19:00 on Saturdays and […]
EbonyLife TV will be launching to DStv customers in Southern Africa (including South Africa) on 10 September 2014. The channel is currently available to DStv customers in 44 countries in West, East and Central Africa. Since its launch in July 2013, EbonyLife TV has gained prominence as Africa’s first global black entertainment and lifestyle channel, […]
Steven Soderbergh, who helmed the original male stripper flick penned by Channing Tatum and Reid Carolin, tweeted a shot of the sequel’s clapperboard on Sunday, adding, “It’s ON!” While he’s passed the director’s torch to his oft-collaborator Gregory Jacobs (who was Soderbergh’s first assistant director on Side Effects, Behind the Candelabra and the Ocean’s films, among other films), he has signed on as XXL’s director of photography, camera […]
