PRESS RELEASE: “The longlist, or ‘Man Booker Dozen’, for the £50,000 Man Booker Prize is announced today, Wednesday 29 July 2015. This year’s longlist of 13 books was selected by a panel of five judges chaired by Michael Wood, and ...
Read More »“Pixels” fails to unseat “Minions” at SA Weekend box office.
WEEKEND TOP 10 for 24 to 26 July 2015 1 MINIONS (Incl 3D) 2 PIXELS (incl 3D & Imax) 3 JURASSIC WORLD (Incl 3D & Imax) 4 ENTOURAGE 5 TERMINATOR: GENISYS (incl 3D & Imax) 6 INSIDE OUT (incl 3D) ...
Read More »UMUZI TO PUBLISH NEW ZAKES MDA NOVEL
Zakes Mda’s new novel, a work of historical fiction titled Little Suns, will be published by Umuzi in 2015. In the novel, to be released in December, Malangana (‘Little Suns’) searches for his beloved Mthwakazi. They were parted after the ...
Read More »Minions stays top of SA Box Office WEEKEND 17 to 19 July 2015
1 MINIONS (Incl 3D) 2 JURASSIC WORLD (Incl 3D & Imax) 3 TERMINATOR: GENISYS (incl 3D & Imax) 4 INSIDE OUT (incl 3D) 5 SAN ANDREAS (incl 3D) 6 MAGIC MIKE XXL 7 TED 2 8 SPY 9 BLACK SEA ...
Read More »World premiere date announced for the new Bond film, “Spectre”.
PRESS RELEASE. Albert R. Broccoli’s EON Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, and Sony Pictures Entertainment are delighted to announce that the World Premiere for Spectre will take place in London on Monday, October 26, 2015. For the first time ever, the film will open ...
Read More »Jacana’s new imprint provides a platform for black writers
The past few months have seen a wave of discussion about race and South Africa’s literary landscape. Perhaps, the most well known, was writer Thando Mgqolozana’s comment “I will never be seen at another literary festival unless it is a black literary ...
Read More »New “Terminator” smashes into SA weekend box office top spot
The South African box office didn’t mirror its U.S. counterpart over the past weekend. Jurassic World held on to the top spot at the North American box office over the 4th of July weekend, fending off Terminator: Genisys and Magic Mike ...
Read More »Rodriguez will return to South Africa again in 2016.
Singer-songwriter Rodriguez just can’t stay away. The legendary musician will visit South African again next year, for a fourth tour here. His last tour to South Africa, in 2013, sold out in minutes and he performed to over 40 000 ...
Read More »Oscar-winning composer, James Horner, killed in plane crash
James Horner, the Academy Award-winning composer who worked on the soundtracks for films like Titanic, Bravehart, and Field of Dreams, has died at the age of 61. Horner was killed after the small aircraft he was piloting crashed near Santa ...
Read More »Pharrell Williams SA tour dates announced
Big Concerts in partnership with Woolworths have announced that Grammy award-winning producer and performer Pharrell Williams will perform 2 public concert dates in South Africa in September 2015. Williams has helped create such classics as Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky”, Robin ...
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