United International Pictures scores their second consecutive week at number 1 on the South African box office chart, with Zac Efron and Seth Rogen comedy Bad Neighbours. The film opens up at the summit with over R1.77 million made in its debut weekend. What is remarkably notable for the feature is that it was played […]
Following the finale of Breaking Bad this spring, HBO’s crime drama, True Detective offered us a much-needed fix of intense, well-made, character driven, psychological television. Starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson as two Louisiana detectives searching for a serial killer thought to have been caught seventeen years earlier, the show won over critics and audiences with its dark occultist […]
The Flash is getting a chilly character addition this fall. The CW’s Arrow spin-off has just cast Prison Break actor Wentworth Miller as Leonard Snart, a.k.a. Captain Cold. The freeze-gun-touting villain is one of Barry Allen/The Flash’s biggest adversaries in the DC Comics, and is the leader of the Rogues—a group of his enemies. Miller will guest star as the character in […]
Guardians of the Galaxy is a family movie in more ways than one. Not only is it part of the greater family of Marvel movies, it also stars director James Gunn’s brother, Sean Gunn, as Yondu’s first mate Kraglin, and Gunn’s old friend Nathan Fillion in a cameo appearance. Marvel legend Stan Lee has also revealed that he will have […]
Warner Brothers’ production of Tarzan is finally well underway. The film, helmed by Harry Potter director David Yates and starring True Blood’s Alexander Skarsgård as the vine-swinging, loin-clothed hero of yore, has been in the works for a few years now, facing several setbacks and production delays. But the reboot of the century-old story of the boy raised by apes in the […]
Sony Pictures has announced their future releases for July 2014 till January 2015. The films are a variety of comedies, thrillers and dramas makes sure you dot these films down on your for your indulgence in cinema escape… THINK LIKE A MAN TOO Release date: 25 July 2014 Starring: Kevin Hart, Gabrielle Union, Wendi McLendon-Covey Genre: Comedy Directed […]
With the relaunch of IMAX on South African shores The Vent sat down with Fiaz Mahomed, the CEO of Ster-Kinekor Theatres. At the press filled grand opening of South Africa’s second IMAX theater at The Grove, Pretoria. Fiaz Mahomed discusses what it means to take cinema to the next level, why Pretoria is the ideal destination for IMAX and what movies […]
“We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference.” Nelson Mandela Every year on 18 July, South Africans across the country heed the call by the Nelson Mandela Foundation to devote 67 minutes of their time to helping others. There will be hundreds of fitting acts […]
The origins of a project that would eventually become The Rover date back several years to when David Michôd was starting out on his career and, at that point, still wondering whether he would make it as a filmmaker. He certainly did, of course. Michôd announced his arrival on the international stage in 2010 with the […]
The upcoming movie being developed by Lionsgate and rights holder Saban Brands will be scripted by X-Men: First Class writers Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz. Additionally, Roberto Orci, one of the screenwriters behind the Transformers and Star Trekmovies, is coming on board as an exec producer. Orci who recently split with screenwriting partner Alex Kurtzman, has formed a new venture, Sneaky Shark. Orci will develop the movie’s story along with […]
