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Hoppet (Leaps and Bounds), a feature film by Peter Naess of Sweden has won the 3rd Lola Kenya Screen Golden Mboni Award in Nairobi, Kenya.

Flying the flag for the protection of composer’s rights in Africa, SAMRO signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Music Copyright Society of Kenya (MCSK) last week in a partnership that will enhance the growth of copyright development on the continent.

Actors Sally Field, Alec Baldwin, Marcia Cross, Tom Hanks, Felicity Huffman, Rob Lowe, William H Macy, Tony Shalhoub, Elizabeth Shue, Gary Sinise, Eric Stoltz and John Turturro are among a group of Hollywood heavyweights who have sided with dissidents of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) protesting the union’s current leadership.

The new Batman movie, The Dark Knight, continues its swoop on the South African box office having made R7.5m in just two weeks.

The Tri Continental Film Festival, one of South Africa’s leading and most well established film festivals, is including OUT OF FRAME in its line-up for 2008

According to the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), it is not holding informal talks with the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) regarding the stalemate in contract negotiations, as implied by SAG leaders.

The Dark Knight, the latest Batman movie starring the late, great and deeply lamented Heath Ledger ...

China’s top 10 websites are co-operating as per a government order to work together to fight piracy of Olympic material.

The ROSCAR (Rhino sculpture) Awards, which forms part of the Durban Wild Talk Africa Film Festival and Conference, is calling for entries.

The Bermuda International Film Festival is calling for entries for its 12th festival of world cinema, 20-28 March 2009. The entry deadline is 1 October 2008.