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Movies

                   

Botswana: Nigerian-Based Churches Spreading Like Veldt Fires

allafrica.com
5 hrs ago 4 related
        

Posted to the web 13 October 2008 Jacob Makusha If David Livingstone, one of the eminent Christian missionaries in Africa, were to rise from the dead he would be amazed at the way Christianity is spreading across the continent....

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'Cotton-Eyed Joe' singer tries moviemaking

charlotte.com
3 hrs ago 1 related
        

Dave Moody and the Moody Brothers band became famous in the '80s when their recording of the song “Cotton-Eyed Joe” became an international hit. Then, in the 1990s, Moody resurfaced as one of the nation's most respected gospel...

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Nigeria: I'm Not Bitter About My Failed Marriage

allafrica.com
4 hrs ago 1 related
        

Shan George's life, if scripted, would make an interesting movie. In what looks like Coming to America, Shan like Akeem (Eddy Morphy) rebelled against the norm of forced marriage and left home for Lagos in search of light, life...

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Nigeria: GSMA, Mofilm Call for Short Films in First Global Mobile Film Festival

allafrica.com
4 hrs ago 1 related
        

The GSMA, the global trade group for the mobile industry, and Mofilm, a pioneer of short films for mobile and on-line distribution has announced the first Global Mobile Film Festival at the next Mobile World Congress in...

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Local Film Distributors Raise the Flag of Kinauganda Films of Kinauganda

allafrica.com
2 hrs ago 1 related
        

Godfrey Kaweesi, the proprietor of Hills Videography, a film distribution centre at Majestic Plaza, looks at the Ugandan film industry with a lot of optimism. The 26-year-old businessman was one of the first distributors to...

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Uganda: Cinema Boom Turns Streets Into Schools of Drama

allafrica.com
2 hrs ago 1 related
        

Posted to the web 13 October 2008 Joachim Buwembo Nairobi What does it take to produce great actors? The Uganda film industry is no different and movies are being produced here and there, depicting our situation and using...

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Ridley Scott takes on 'War'

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10 hrs ago 7 related
        

Los Angeles: Film based on Haldeman novel 'Forever' -- Fox 2000 has acquired rights to Joe Haldeman’s 1974 novel "The Forever War," and Ridley Scott is planning to make it into his first science fiction film since he delivered...

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Reaching for a higher profile, Abu Dhabi opens a hub for Western media

iht.com
8 hrs ago 9 related
        

Twenty years ago, Abu Dhabi's cultural cachet in the West was as a punch line in the cartoon "Garfield." On Sunday, a spate of companies announced that they were setting up shop in Abu Dhabi, an island city that is the capital...

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yahoo.com: Pianist David Helfgott, subject of the Oscar-winning movie Shine, is back in Australia to perform. yahoo.com

Helfgott to play Nov 6 Sydney concert (AAP)

yahoo.com
10 hrs ago
        

Pianist David Helfgott, subject of the Oscar-winning movie Shine, is back in Australia to play for a home audience after a European tour. The 1997 film starring Geoffrey Rush and featuring a soundtrack by Helfgott, was based on...

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Buffalo Bill museum goes Hollywood

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7 hrs ago
        

A few hundred visitors were expected Sunday for a new exhibit that looks at Colorado in the movies By Sally S. Ho The Denver Post Jeff Mosteller, a re-enactor playing the role of the character, 'Mild Bill Halfkok' participates...

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