As part of Youth Celebration, Kasi Movie Nights is taking a trip down memory lane with the screening of the world acclaimed SARAFINA! What better way to celebrate, inspire and motivate the youth than to show them where it all began. The iconic characters, such as Leleti Khumalo and Somizi Mhlongo, in Sarafina have since […]
Based on this weekend’s returns, the Transformers aren’t going to face extinction any time soon. At the American box office, the fourth installment in the immensely successful franchise opened to an estimated $100 million. That’s the biggest opening of the year so far ahead of Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($95 million). More importantly, it took in over $201 […]
On the 19th of June 2014, press members and movie fans were treated to a prestigious night at Sandton City`s Ster-Kinekor Cine Prestige grand opening, with a special movie pre-screening of the action packed Edge of Tomorrow starring Hollywood`s finest actors Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. The attendees were given a first-class cinema treatment that which included […]
Gareth Cliff’s Gareth Cliff Show will be dropped from Comedy Central just a month and a half after it launched, TV journalist Thinus Ferreira reported on his blog on Wednesday, 25 June 2014. This is because the simulcast of Cliff’s web radio show, CliffCentral, on Comedy Central (DStv channel 122) failed to attract enough viewers, Ferreira reported. Comedy Central’s […]
On Wednesday, 25 June 2014. The Vent sat down with IMAX President for the Middle East, Europe and Africa region, Andrew Cripps and Ster-Kinekor Theaters CEO, Fiaz Mohamed, at the press filled grand opening of South Africa’s second IMAX theater at The Grove, Pretoria. As previously reported by The Vent on Tuesday; the new theater […]
Get ready for the battle to continue, when the fourth installment in the global blockbuster Transformers franchise blasts its way onto Ster-Kinekor’s IMAX® 3D screens in June. All the action happens at the IMAX® 3D theatres at Ster-Kinekor Gateway in Durban and the brand new IMAX theatre at Ster-Kinekor The Grove Mall in Pretoria East, from Thursday, […]
South African director Ian Gabriel was awarded top honours last night when his film Four Corners was named Best Film in the feature film category at the Niagara Integrated Film Festival (NIFF). The South African coming of age thriller had its Canadian Premiere screening on Saturday evening where it competed with 30 other films in […]
As predicted, American Idol‘s trio of existing judges will all be coming back for the show’s 14th season. Fox announced Tuesday that Jennifer Lopez, Keith Urban and Harry Connick, Jr. will return to the judges’ bench, along with host Ryan Seacrest. “I am thrilled our consummate host, Mr. Ryan Seacrest, is returning for Season 14, together with Jennifer, Harry […]
How To Train Your Dragon 2 opened at number 1 on the South Africa Box Office. The film accomplished this feat, with an impressive R4.58 million made over the weekend June 20-22. ‘Dragon’ now joins the ranks of fellow animated features Rio 2, which had previously topped the box office on its weekend of release and […]
Über-producer Jerry Bruckheimer may have ended his first-look deal with Disney following a series of under-performers and franchise non-starters, but talk of a fifth adventure starring Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow persists. Long-rumored to be subtitled Dead Men Tell No Tales, Pirates of the Carribean 5 was supposedly going to be released in 2015, before its release was postponed to 2016 - but […]
