The Fault In Our Stars vaults into the South African box office at an impressive number 3, with over R1.57 million, racked in for the weekend June 13-15, ‘Stars’ makes an impressive feat. by having been only available on 39 screens nationwide, the lowest number on the top 5 and the 4th lowest for the top […]
Cinema Nouveau announces the exclusive screening of the second production from the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), in collaboration with Picturehouse Entertainment. The company’s acclaimed production of Henry IV Part 1 releases on Saturday, 21 June, for limited screenings at Cinema Nouveau theatres and select Ster-Kinekor cinemas countrywide. The filmed version of the live stage production has four screenings […]
Movie-lovers have enjoyed the eleven state-of-the-art Ster-Kinekor cinemas on offer at Sandton City for over 40 years, resulting in it being one of the group’s busiest sites. With the opening of the cinema chain’s premium cinema experience, Cine Prestige, at its popular Sandton complex, Ster-Kinekor will ensure that audiences continue to experience ‘Great Moments at their Greatest’ […]
After the hilarious sell-out debut for “Comedy Central Presents Sex Live at the Lyric” nailed the topic of sex once and for all, comedy channel Comedy Central (DStv Channel 122) has revealed more detail its race-inspired comedy sequel, “Comedy Central Presents Colourblind Live at the Lyric”. “Comedy Central Presents Colourblind Live at the Lyric” takes place at the Lyric […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
