Seth Rogen and Zac Efron hosted a party at the movies this weekend, and audiences showed up in droves for it. Playing at 3,279 locations, Neighbors opened to an incredible $51.1 million. That’s one of the biggest debuts ever for an original R-rated comedy. Meanwhile, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 fell hard in its second outing. Still, the superhero sequel is making up […]
The upcoming seventh season of the Amy Poehler comedy will be its last, NBC announced Saturday when the network released its 2014-15 schedule that featured the veteran comedy being benched for mid-season. An exact episode count remains unclear. “We have several of our strongest comedies by some of our best auspices being held for mid-season, including the […]
Hugh Jackman, Wolverine, X-Men: Days of Future Past X-Men: Days of Future Past features more mutants than have ever been on screen together before for a massive adventure launching us from an apocalyptic future back into the world of the First Class team. But spanning both time periods, and anchoring the film as he has […]
ABC’s 2014-15 season is finally starting to fall into place. After months of customary radio silence on the renewal front, the first scripted series to get season orders for the coming year are Scandal, Grey’s Anatomy, Revenge, Castle, Once Upon a Time and midseason freshman Resurrection. (As for new series, ABC has thus far committed to Black-ish, American Crime and Shonda Rhimes‘ How to Get Away […]
The Hunger Games star Liam Hemsworth, Now You See Me star Isla Fisher and rising talent Elizabeth Debicki are set to join Kate Winslet and Judy Davis in Jocelyn Moorhouse’s romantic drama The Dressmaker, which Embankment Films will be shopping in Cannes. Principal photography is due to get underway in Victoria, Australia on October 13, 2014. Embankment co-reps US […]
The social injustice of the “mining” black proletarians is still in practice, 20 years after the South African “democracy” they can no longer remain stoic to the system that economically cripples them. They congregate peacefully to discuss matters that can also give them a fair economic advantage in the “Republic” however this is reciprocated with […]
John Boyega, a British/Nigerian actor who featured in the Nigerian movie Half of a Yellow Sun, has been selected to play a leading Jedi role in the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII. After partaking in an intensive casting process, which lasted several months, Boyega defeated Ed Speleers, Jesse Plemons, Matthew James Thomas and Ray Fisher […]
Durban Poison (2013), a South African feature film directed by Andrew Worsdale and produced by the Karoo Film Company, will screen at the Goethe-Centre in Windhoek, Namibia on 31 May at 19h00. The screening is presented by AfricAvenir, a non-profit organisation which aims to educate and inform African and European audiences. The film stars Brandon […]
From the team that produced the box office hit MATERIAL, comes another film, a romantic comedy called TELL ME SWEET SOMETHING. Directed by Akin Omotoso and produced by Robbie Thorpe the film stars Nomzamo Mbatha (ofIsibaya fame) in the title role as Moratiwa and actor/model Maps Maponyane as her love interest, Nat. TELL ME SWEET SOMETHING […]
The most buzz network pilot now has an official green light: Fox’s Batman prequel Gotham is a firm go! Fox announced the decision Monday as the broadcast networks head into their busiest deal-making week of the year. The network upfront presentations to advertisers start in seven days. Most of the decisions whether to renew and cancel bubble shows, as […]
