Felix Duke, President, Creative Industry Group (CIG), says Her Imperial Majesty Empress, Dr. Elham Madani, has concluded arrangements to establish a World Cinema Academy (WCA) Class Film/Cinema School in Nigeria. Duke told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday that Madani of Imperial House of Madani, Wales, UK, has set up a five-man team for the project. The CIG president, also Director, Creative Industry Department and Publicity of the project, said that the members...
The Venice Film Festival will go ahead as scheduled at the beginning of September. Luca Zaia, Governor of the region around the Italian city made this known on Sunday as the spread of the coronavirus in the country slows. Organised by the Biennale di Venezia Company, Venice is the world’s longest running film festival. In January it announced that Cate Blanchett would preside over its 77th edition. Due to the lockdown imposed on the film...
Action star Tom Cruise is working on a movie shot in outer space, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has said. “NASA is excited to work with @TomCruise on a film aboard the @Space_Station!,” NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine wrote on Twitter. “We need popular media to inspire a new generation of engineers and scientists to make @NASA’s ambitious plans a reality,” Bridenstine added. He gave no details but the tweet followed a report in Hollywood...
A short film exposing the pressure on young people to take to crime and drug abuse has premiered in Abuja. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the film, ‘Vices’, was directed by acclaimed director, Favour Akubo and feature several young actors including Samuel Kazim who played the lead. ‘Vices’, endorsed by the National Orientation Agency (NOA), involve a young man, Ikechukwu Obiora who is in the centre of peer pressure to commit crime and...
Mr Jasper Johnson, the Executive Chairman of Afro International Film Market and Festival (ALFMF), Nigeria, on Friday said that the global arts festival would soon be performing in Nigeria. This is coming decades after the second world black and African Festival of Arts and Culture “Festac 77”. Johnson, who made the disclosure in Abuja at the inauguration of the festival, said that the decision to host the festival in Nigeria was because of her...
“Operation Last Dance”, a Nollywood advocacy film, which exhibits Nigerian military’s gallant fight against insurgency in the North East has been launched at the Federal Capital Territory(FCT). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the film was launched at the 9th Biennial Lecture of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) and award night held at the Sheraton Hotels in Abuja. Veteran actors, filmmakers and investors, as well as top security officers and heads of...
Nigeria TV host and media personality, IK Osakioduwa and Kenya TV/Radio Presenter, Amina Abdi Rabar have been announced as co-hosts for 7th edition of the African Magic viewer’s choice award (AMVCA). Sponsored by Amstel Malta, this event would two featured a special award categories – Best Dressed Male and Best Dressed Female. This is in recognition of the best dressed guests on the red carpet at the event slated for Saturday, March 14, 2020 in...
Initially due for release in April, but has now been moved to November 25th, James Bond Movie ‘No Time to Die’ has been postponed because of the coronavirus outbreak, producers announced on Twitter. According to MGM which handles the domestic release, Universal which handles the international release and the Producers, Michael Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, the decision was taken after careful consideration of the global market. This makes the movie the first Hollywood film to...
The Federal government says it made a total of $104 million from film and music industry in 2019. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed madder this known during an official visit to the Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation, NTDC in Abuja. He described the Nigerian film industry as an untapped assets that needs to be explored for economy prosperity. According to Mohammed, the creative industry remains the fastest growing sector of the economy with $53 million and $51 million...
Hundreds of people gather around a dusty square in Daloa, in the Ivory Coast, transfixed by films projected onto the side of a giant truck. It is part of the Cinéma du Désert project, which aims to educate West Africans about the dangers of making the perilous journey to Europe. Children giggle and applaud as one of the cartoon characters on screen, a coxer (human trafficker), proclaims: “Quit your job and leave! People will employ you to...
