Arnold Schwarzenegger’s name alone just doesn’t sell tickets like it once did, judging by the poor ticket sales for his post-politics solo movie vehicles (The Last Stand and Sabotage); pair him with other action stars and/or a bankable property, however, and the story isn’t necessarily the same. Arnold’s teamup with Sly Stallone on Escape Plan last year made solid returns at […]
M-Net will be launching two diverse new cutting-edge general entertainment channels in October 2014 to form part of its varied family of premium channels on DStv. While the channel names, as well as the detailed schedules are still under wraps, we can confirm that these two channels will be aimed at distinct audiences and will […]
In the week since Universal and Focus Features premiered the trailer for Fifty Shades of Grey, the 2 1/2-minute promo has become the biggest online trailer launch in history, the studio said. The steamy adaptation of E L James‘ 2011 erotic bestseller tracks the love affair between a naive young woman and a dashing entrepreneur who was damaged as a youth […]
Life is good for Richard Linklater. His latest film, twelve year opus Boyhood, has wrapped up its fourth week in circulation, nearly turning out a tidy profit while emerging as one of the best reviewed 2014 pictures to date. Not a bad return on investment, for certain, especially since Linklater will likely be able to ride the wave of its […]
Warner Bros. has shown Big Bang Theory stars Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki and Kaley Cuoco the money. After protracted negotiations thatpushed back the show’s Season 8 start date until Wednesday, the trio have agreed to new three-year contracts worth $1 million an episode, per Deadline. (That’s up from the $300K-an-episode they had been earning.) When all the perks are factored […]
Live Bafana Bafana matches are about to disappear from the SABC after pay-TV newcomers Siyaya TV won exclusive radio and television rights to all South African national football teams in a six-year broadcast deal worth R1bn. The SABC’s current deal with the South African Football Association (Safa) was worth around R45m over three years and will […]
Transformers: Age of Extinction” became the first film this year to pass $1 billion at the global box office. The Michael Bay film is the second picture in the giant robots franchise to hit those lofty heights, after 2009’s “Transformers: Dark of the Moon.” The latest “Transformers” was propelled by a record-breaking reception in China, where the […]
Like HBO’s Game of Thrones, AMC’s The Walking Dead is wildly popular, unabashedly violent, and famous for killing off major characters, sometimes when you least suspect it. So with the end of season 4 leaving Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and his thoroughly traumatized but still-tough band of survivors in a grim position as they are held by the likely […]
Paramount, at one point, planned to release two Paranormal Activity installments this year; the spinoff Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones released back in January, but development on Paranormal Activity 5 has gone slower than anticipated. Slow enough that, at the 2014 CineEurope Conference in June, the studio announced that the sixth Paranormal Activity movie overall won’t be releasinguntil 2016. Well, it turns out that […]
There are now two Universal-backed project – a modern reboot of The Mummy franchise and a new film set in the Snow White and the Huntsman universe – that are suddenly moving forward at a steady pace, after having looked all but dead for a while. Yesterday, we learned that the next Mummy movie has gained a new director in Alex Kurtzman, who is also […]
