Lucasfilm has just announced two new cast members of J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: Episode VII, recruited through an open casting call. The studio also said once again that it is not shifting the movie’s Dec. 18, 2015 release date, despite a broken leg that has sidelined Han Solo actor Harrison Ford. But first, a look at the newcomers […]
The next production from the current National Theatre Live season is from acclaimed British playwright Alan Ayckbourn. A Small Family Business will release on Cinema Nouveau’s digital screens in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban and Cape Town and at Ster-Kinekor Blue Route in Tokai, Cape Town from Saturday, 12 July, for four screenings only. A riotous exposure of entrepreneurial greed, […]
Heatstroke, a co-production between South Africa and Germany featuring the talent of Stephen Dorff (Blade) and Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones), releases on 4 July on VOD platforms, iTunes and in cinemas across the US. Directed by Evelyn Purcell, the film tells the story of a family trip which goes wrong when a research scientist […]
Speculation of a sequel to Guillermo del Toro’s hit 2013 science fiction blockbuster,Pacific Rim, has been circulating since before the original movie premiered. In the year since the film’s debut, reports surfaced of a sequel involving Dr. Newton Geiszler (Charlie Day) as a villain or a prequel film that would delve further into the initial Kaiju attack. […]
Videovision Entertainment, The Nelson Mandela Foundation and Ster Kinekor have teamed up to celebrate Madiba by making available the film, Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom, to the public at no cost. The screenings will take place on 18 July 2014 at 09h45 at selected Ster Kinekor cinemas across South Africa (see list below). The film which […]
Never let it be said that Disney is afraid to poke fun at its own tropes. Last year’s animated hit Frozen subverted the studio’s long-established ideas of love at first sight, and back in 2007 Amy Adams played a Disney princess in a fish out of water tale in the partially-animated, mostly live-action romantic comedy Enchanted. It was the kind […]
Universal Pictures has moved up the release date of its next installment in the “Fast and Furious” franchise from April 10 to April 3. The movie was originally scheduled to bow this summer, but after Paul Walker died in a car crash last November while the film was still shooting, the studio moved the release date […]
DStv gives-it-up for Girl Power this month with the launch of a new channel. The Lifetime channel will be launching on channel 131 on Tuesday, 22 July at 19h00, on the Premium bouquet The channel’s soul purpose is to appeal to *think Spanishy accent please* chikitas. It focuses on shows that are either for women […]
Paul Mazursky, a five-time Oscar-nominee who wrote and directed admired movies from Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice to Down and Out in Beverly Hills, died Monday of pulmonary cardiac arrest, according to a family spokesperson. He was 84. Mazursky was a successful actor in the 1950s, starring in many television series, as well as Blackboard Jungle and Stanley […]
United International Pictures and Ten10 Films have announced that from the producers of Jerusalema, comes a new crime thriller, Cold Harbour starring Tony Kgoroge and Fana Mokoena. The film will release in cinemas nationwide on July 25th following its world première at the Durban International Film Festival on 19 July. Sizwe Miya (Tony Kgoroge) is an […]
