South Africa’s easy-to-access online streaming entertainment hub VIDI, which allows viewers to watch their favourite TV series and movies as and when they want, was unveiled today. VIDI is the first South African streaming service to offer both a monthly subscription option and/or an instant rental option across one platform. There is no programme scheduling but […]
A Tiny and mysterious cat-like creature awakes in the remains of his smouldering spaceship and finds himself on a journey through a beautiful and dangerous world, in aquest to find answers. Blending together 3 of the most popular genres of online video (animation, sci-fi and cat) into one 6-minute action-packed short, Loïc Bramoullé seems like […]
Antoine Fuqua and Denzel Washington are hitting a groove. Fuqua directed Washington to an Oscar in Training Day. Their latest team-up, The Equalizer, is gaining so much buzz work has already begun on a sequel. Now the actor is in early talks to join the director in a remake of the classic John Sturges film The Magnificent Seven. The remake has been […]
This year’s 22 Jump Street riffs numerous times on the idea of the continued franchising of the Jump Street brand, before it culminates in an end credits sequence that (as our Kofi Outlaw put it in his review of the sequel) “all but confirms the fact that the filmmakers, too, know that the Jump Street well has been drained dry after two runs.” Apparently, […]
The action Sci-Fi flick Lucy, once gain dominates the South African box office chart for a second consecutive week. The film that is distributed by United International Films made over R2.11 Million over the past weekend. Also the blockbuster hit boasts for being the only title in the top 5 to make over a million […]
Most of Kevin Costner’s most famous films wouldn’t seem to be easy sells. How would it today sound to pitch a studio on a Civil War soldier befriending Sioux Indians on the South Dakota plains? Or on an Iowa farmer who hears voices? But while Costner’s industry clout was once impervious, he’s had to fight […]
Reese Witherspoon, who won an Oscar in 2006, is generating critical buzz again, appearing at the Toronto film festival Monday in two based-on-true-life films. “You never set out to make a film that’s going to get awards,” Witherspoon commented about the talk surrounding her performances in The Good Lie,”about an American woman who takes in Sudanese […]
On Monday, 8th September 2014, The Vent presented its fourth successful Cinema Escape event at The Zone, Rosebank in partnership with Ster-Kinekor Theaters. The Vent presented an exclusive pre-screening of The Giver, starring Brenton Thwaites, Jeff Bridges and Meryl Streep. The event proved to be a success with a full house cinema. The attendees included movie enthusiasts who […]
It’s official: Fox is plotting a TV sequel to Tom Cruise‘s 2002 feature Minority Report. The drama has landed at the network with a hefty put-pilot commitment that has a significant penalty attached, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The Minority Report follow-up takes place 10 years after the end of Precrime in D.C., when one of the three Precogs struggles to lead a […]
The Stephen Hawking drama “The Theory of Everything” debuted to a triumphant reception at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday night, bringing a moment of déjà to at least a few people at the Princess of Wales Theater. It was almost exactly four years ago, after all, when another film about a famous Englishman with trouble […]
