Word that MGM has plans to remake The Magnificent Seven started to make the rounds online around two years ago, back when the project was being envisioned with Tom Cruise receiving top billing, as far as the cast goes. The project has been showing new signs of life over the past six months (following Cruise’s departure); first, with John Lee Hancock […]
The highly successful 2013-14 season Live in HD from The Metropolitan Opera in New York, launched in November last year, comes to a close this week with the final production, La Cenerentola. The season has featured ten magnificent productions, ‘live’ from the Met. From Saturday, 07 June, for limited shows, the final production in the current Met: Live in HD season […]
The FAULT IN OUR STARS celebrates the power of young love in all its magic, power and complexity. That was one of the attractions for the multi award-winning actress Laura Dern, who plays Frannie, Hazel Grace Lancaster’s mother in the film. Looking beautiful, in Rag & Bone jeans and boots and a cream Stella McCartney […]
Hectic Nine-9, the daily, live, variety show on SABC 2, continues its trend of being the most popular local youth and children’s program in South Africa. In the latest viewership results released this week, Hectic Nine-9 topped the charts for April 2014 as the best local and international youth-specific program on television. The program just […]
With the recent release of “Maleficent,” which grossed more than $170 million worldwide in its opening weekend, Disney is working fast on its next live-action fairy-tale adaptation. Bill Condon is set to direct a live-action version of “Beauty and the Beast” for Disney. Evan Spiliotopoulos is writing the script with Mandeville Films producing. The studio’s 1991 animated feature version […]
HBO has put in development drama series MaddAddam, executive produced by Oscar-nominated Black Swanhelmer Darren Aronofsky through his Protozoa Pictures banner. The project, based on Margaret Atwood’s book trilogy Oryx and Crake(2003), Year Of The Flood(2009), and MaddAddam (2013), is being developed as a potential directing vehicle for Aronofsky. MaddAddam marks the first project to come out of the three-year first-look deal the filmmaker and his Protozoa Picturesinked […]
Andile Ncube has been announced as the host of the first The X Factor South Africa, which makes its highly anticipated debut on SABC1 on Saturday, 6 September at 18:00. Ncube began his TV career on the SABC1 music show One, which he helped transform into the channel’s flagship music show. Later, as one of the show’s executive […]
This weeks short film of the week, a movie documentary about a young boy who defies all the odds. Doctors gave him a five-percent chance of survival when he was born three months pre-mature. Now, he’s defying everyone’s expectations. Visit: www.shortoftheweek.com for full synopsis “MATT“ Director/ Producer: Seth Shapiro DP/Editor: Taylor Hawkins Camera: Erik Butts […]
Hey, remember “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom?” Six months after its US theatrical release, no one would blame you if it’s already slipped to the back of your mind. Despite its prestigious trappings and its unplanned topicality in the wake of Nelson Mandela’s death last December, Justin Chadwick’s well-intentioned biopic of South Africa’s first democratically […]
If you are looking forward to catching all the explosive action of EFC AFRICA 30, but don’t have access to tickets for fight night, Ster-Kinekor has you covered! South Africa’s leading cinema chain will again be screening all 12 bouts of EFC AFRICA 30 live on its big screens, using the latest in digital projection, in select cinemas […]
