US online retail giant Amazon said on Sunday it plans to produce 16 feature films a year, throwing down the gauntlet to Netflix, whose African war drama Beasts of No Nation may be headed for…
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#MustRead: Four lessons from Lupita
Written by Isis Nyongo for MumsVillage There’s been considerable buzz about Lupita Nyong’o’s first official visit to Kenya since becoming a global star. I joined three other mums from the MumsVillage community in attending…
Full list of Oscar Award winners
‘Birdman’ and ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ were the big winners at the 87th Annual Academy Awards last night (22.02.15). Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu’s comedy drama about an ageing film star trying to reinvent himself as a…
Pistorius fights for bail as slain girlfriend cremated
Oscar Pistorius’s slain girlfriend is to be cremated today as the South African “Bladerunner” athlete appears in court for a bail hearing expected to reveal more about what happened the night she was shot dead….
Hugh Jackman gets Hollywood Walk of Fame star
Australian actor Hugh Jackman got a Hollywood double whammy Thursday as he was nominated for a Golden Globe and got his star on Tinseltown’s famous Walk of Fame on the same day. Jackman, who is…
Oprah, James Earl Jones to receive Oscars
August 4, 2011 – US talk show queen Oprah Winfrey is to be honored with an Oscars statuette later this year for her outstanding humanitarian work, Academy Awards officials said Wednesday. The 57-year-old television megastar…