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Box Office: Captain America: Winter Soldier Soars to $303.3 Million Globally

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Continuing Marvel and Disney’s enviable winning streak, Captain America: The Winter Soldier is making history at the global box office, debuting to a record-breaking $96.2 million in North America for an early worldwide total of $303.3 million. In only 10 days overseas, the sequel has already taken in $207.1 million — eclipsing the entire foreign […]

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The AMAA 2014 Nominees – Full List

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On Wednesday 2nd April 2014, the 2014 Africa Movie Academy Awards nominations announcement went down at the Emperor Palace Hotel, Johannesburg, South Africa. AMAA 2014 Award for Best Film  Children of Troumaron – Mauritius Potomanto – Ghana The Forgotten Kingdom – South Africa Of Good Report – South Africa Accident – Nigeria   AMAA 2014 […]

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VSAFF: Apartheid reverberates in edgy Vancouver South African Film Festival

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Multicultural Vancouver can certainly glean a lesson or two—or, rather, a multitude—from the layered, ethnically diverse, and dynamic social fabric of South Africa, which boasts a whopping 11 official languages. With its documentary-heavy program, this year’s fourth annual Vancouver South African Film Festival (Saturday and Sunday [April 5 and 6], at the Goldcorp Centre for […]

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‘Fast & Furious 7′ Resumes Filming; ‘Last Witch Hunter’ Getting a Rewrite

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There are many benefits to following Vin Diesel on Facebook (his official page is currently at over 70 million “Likes”), which include semi-daily inspirational advice from the actor, photos that encourage you to exercise more, and occasional updates on his developing projects. Thanks to Vin, we know that there’s a new installment in the XXX […]

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South African actor S’dumo Mtshali shines in Donovan Marsh’s iNumber Number

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South African thriller iNumber Number written and directed by Donovan Marsh features one of the country’s rising young actors, S’dumo Mtshali in the lead role of Chili, an honest, undercover cop. Discovered when he entered and won the SABC1 reality competition Class Act in 2010, Mtshali landed his first leading role in Intersexions, a drama […]

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American Produces Afrikaans Film

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A giant leap forward in Afrikaans filmmaking, Die Windpomp represents a rather odd goal set by its American producer Chris Roland (Stander, Hotel Rwanda). From the beginning, even though he didn’t speak a word of Afrikaans, with the exception of “’n Boer maak ‘n plan”, Roland wanted to make an Afrikaans film that was highly […]

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