Oscar winning Kenyan-Mexican actress Lupita Nyong’o is teaming up with Brad Pitt to produce the on screen version of Americanah, a prize-winning novel by prominent Nigerian writer and author of Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Nyong’o said she was honoured to be able to bring the book to life as a movie: […]
Angela Bassett is stepping behind the camera to make her directorial debut with the project for America’s Lifetime network and she has cast The Butler star as the tragic R&B icon, according to TVLine.com. The film, tentatively-titled I Will Always Love You: The Whitney Houston Story, will focus on the singer’s rise to fame, her turbulent marriage to […]
The heartwarming 1994 Tom Hanks epic Forrest Gump is getting another run. The film, which received the Best Picture Oscar that year, is headed to IMAX screens on September 5th to mark its 20th anniversary, according to The Hollywood Reporter. It follows the unlikely exploits of a slow-witted yet uniquely skilled man as he finds himself on the […]
“Edge of Tomorrow,” starring Oscar® nominee Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt and directed by Doug Liman, has earned an outstanding $33 million at the box office in early international openings ahead of its June 6 worldwide debut. The announcement was made today by Veronika Kwan Vandenberg, President of International Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures. “Edge of Tomorrow” had […]
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 […]
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 […]
When DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon was released in 2010, it took many by surprise—including the studio itself. Directors Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders‘ deeply compassionate and gorgeous film remains one of the best animated features in recent memory, and following its overwhelmingly positive response, DreamWorks began working on a sequel. The follow-up, How to Train Your Dragon 2, […]
After the record-breaking box office success of James Cameron’s Avatar, speculation of a possible sequel – and sequels – began immediately. Four years later, Fox confirmed that the highest-grossing film in history would be getting not one, not two,but three sequels to be released over three years starting in December 2016. With shooting on the films scheduled […]
