ESC format sold to MENA region
The format for the popular European Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) has been sold for production in the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa).
Light at end of strikers’ tunnel?
Positive statements from both the WGA (Writers Guild of America) and the AMPTP (Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers) have sparked hope that...
No Way Of Tying This Kangaroo Down
BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 have formed a commercial three-way joint venture to launch an on-demand service in 2008, tentatively titled Kangaroo...
Coen Bros’ film triumphs
Reports in the Hollywood trade press over the past few weeks have indicated that there is no clear front-runner in the 2008 Oscar race...
Cinemart To Screen SA’s “The Commandments’ Series
CineMart, the co-production market component of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (23 January - 3 February) has selected 39 projects out of a record number of 550 entries...
Marketing Movies To Township Audiences
Unconventional methods of marketing are being used in South Africa to attract audiences into the world of cinema...
Ormerod Departs CNBC
The 24-hours a day business channel CNBC Africa which went on air in June 2007 is to lose its CEO Trevor Ormerod on 17 December...
South Africans Shine At Australia Awards
South African brother and sister Grant and Dee McLachlan won awards at the Inside Film (IF) awards in Australia for the film The Jammed...
Strange WGA Strike By-Product
With the month-long WGA (Writers Guild of America) strike currently crippling TV and film production in Hollywood, the "Los Angeles Times' raised an interesting point...
Big Budget Effects Rule
The motion capture heroic epic "Beowulf' continues to preside at the top of the South African box office having raked in R1.7m in its first week (23 to 29 November)...
























