The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has concluded on its list of nominees for the 78th Golden Globe Awards. Leading the big-ticket ceremony is streaming platform Netflix, which fetched a total of 42 nominations for their films and television shows. On the film side, Netflix’s ‘Mank’ and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ are nominated in the best motion picture drama …

Angelina Jolie’s latest screen work ‘Those Who Wish Me Dead’ has landed a May 14 theatrical release date. Directed by Taylor Sheridan, the film is an adaptation work on Michael Koryta’s novel of the same name. It is developed with the premise of a teenage murder witness, who is lost in the wilderness with two assassins hunting him. A survival …

Apple Music today announces the latest featured artist in its Africa Rising artist development program as Ghanaian singer-songwriter and producer, Amaarae (real name Ama Serwah Genfi). ‘’It’s amazing to be selected by Apple Music as their Africa Rising artist. The love and support the album has received from the Apple Music family has been incredible to say the least. I …

The five-year deal allows the ‘Black Panther’ director’s Proximity Media to develop series for other Disney outlets. Black Panther filmmaker Ryan Coogler is building out the world of Wakanda. As part of a new, five-year overall exclusive deal between Disney TV and Coolger’s Proximity Media, the writer-director is developing a Wakanda-based Disney+ series. The deal also allows Proximity to develop …

Veteran American producer and writer Norman Lear has been tapped to receive the 2021 Carol Burnett Award. The honorary mention handed out at the Golden Globe Awards is determined by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s board of directors and given to a figure who has made outstanding contributions to the television medium on or off the screen. “Norman Lear is …

Hollywood is still processing the loss of Cicely Tyson. Since her breakout role in ‘Sounder’ Tyson stayed busy in upping her small and big screen character choices.  At a time where lesser roles were the only alternative for black women, Tyson willingly denied herself the chance to commit to roles that subverted the humanity of black people. “I saw that …

Cicely Tyson, the incomparable screen legend who helped transform the black community by portraying strong African-American women in film and television, has passed away at age 96. In a career that spanned over seven decades, Tyson was a big pillar to many major figures in Hollywood and as such, news of her death has everyone immortalizing her astonishing legacy. Oscar …

Providing an in-depth look inside the contemporary ghetto lifestyle of Nigeria, Funke Akindele-Bello and JJC Skillz-directed film ‘Omo Ghetto (the saga)’ has in one month become Nigeria’s highest-grossing movie of all time. The film, which debuted in Nigerian cinemas on Christmas day, December 25, 2020 has amassed a total of N468,036,300, after staying number one on the Nollywood charts for …

Jane Fonda will be honoured at next month’s Golden Globe with the Cecil B. DeMille award. The honourary title is conferred on a Hollywood figure who has contributed much to the entertainment industry, be it film or television. Fonda’s turn to receive the lifetime mention follows her six decades long career that has netted two Academy Awards, seven Golden Globes, …

A+E Studios and ITV Studios America are teaming with writer Michael Hirst for a big-budget TV series based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic novel, The Great Gatsby. A network is not yet involved as the co-producers plan on shopping the series to premium cable and streaming outlets. Envisioned as a closed-ended miniseries, Hirst (Elizabeth, The Tudors, Vikings) will pen the …