DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon 2 was not just one of the better-received sequels of the 2014 Summer Movie Season, it remains one of the best-reviewed films of this year in general, and just crossed the $600 million mark at the worldwide box office over the 2014 Labor Day holiday frame. It’s also the top-grossing animated motion picture […]
M-Net and Endemol SA advise that, due to a devastating fire at the Big Brother house on 2 September 2014, Big Brother Hotshots will not launch Sunday 7 September as scheduled. The cause of the fire at this stage is unknown and investigations will commence as soon as it is safe to do so. At this stage, […]
A traveler in Washington DC gets a mysterious gift: A laptop that grants all his wishes. How will he wield his unexpected powers? Created as a part of the Four Stories competition held by Intel and W Hotels,Eugene is the darkly comedic tale of a man granted the power to make wishes come true when he mysteriously receives […]
From 24 September, MTV (DStv channel 130) will air The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, an Emmy Award-nominated US late-night talk show, after acquiring the African TV broadcast rights from NBC Universal International Television Distribution. The show will air on weekdays at 18h00, with an omnibus edition running on from 17h00 to 19:00 on Saturdays and […]
EbonyLife TV will be launching to DStv customers in Southern Africa (including South Africa) on 10 September 2014. The channel is currently available to DStv customers in 44 countries in West, East and Central Africa. Since its launch in July 2013, EbonyLife TV has gained prominence as Africa’s first global black entertainment and lifestyle channel, […]
Steven Soderbergh, who helmed the original male stripper flick penned by Channing Tatum and Reid Carolin, tweeted a shot of the sequel’s clapperboard on Sunday, adding, “It’s ON!” While he’s passed the director’s torch to his oft-collaborator Gregory Jacobs (who was Soderbergh’s first assistant director on Side Effects, Behind the Candelabra and the Ocean’s films, among other films), he has signed on as XXL’s director of photography, camera […]
Actress and producer Anel Alexander (‘Discreet’, ‘SemiSoet’, ‘Faan Se Trein’) and Johan Kruger (‘Prisoner of War’, ‘Winnie Mandela’, ‘Spud II’) are teaming up to adapt ‘Rachel Weeping’, a soon to be released novel by best-selling local author Brett Michael Innes (‘The Story of Racheltjie de Beer’), into an Afrikaans feature film provisionally entitled ‘Sink’. Innes […]
Get on Up, the biopic of legendary performer James Brown, will open this year’s Zurich International Film Festival. The feature from The Help director Tate Taylor looks at Brown’s rags-to-riches rise from extreme poverty to topping the music charts as a soul and funk superstar and proponent of black pride. Chadwick Boseman, who played another African American legend, Jackie Robinson, in Brian Helgeland‘s 42, is the Godfather of […]
2003 saw an unlikely milestone emerge in the form of the supernatural horror/action genre-blend franchise, Underworld. The vampires vs. werewolves flick featured an untested creative team (Len Wiseman and Kevin Grevioux) shepherding a collection of unlikely action stars, which included theatrically trained actors like Michael Sheen (Masters of Sex) and Bill Nighy (Harry Potter); a pretty-boy leading […]
Shonda Rhimes has already made a huge name for herself as a showrunner, creator and producer. Now, she’s slated to add actress to her list of achievements with an appearance on “The Mindy Project.” In an episode slated to appear early in the fall, Rhimes will play herself, according to media reports. No further plot details […]
