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Top Ten Money-Making Stars of 2013 1. Jennifer Lawrence 2. Sandra Bullock 3. Bradley Cooper 4. Tom Hanks 5. Denzel Washington 6. Leonardo DiCaprio 7. Robert Downey, Jr. 8. Hugh Jackman 9. Brad Pitt 10. Melissa McCarthy Stars of Tomorrow: Amy Adams James Franco 31 Dec 2013 16:00 Africa/Lagos Jennifer Lawrence Voted Top Money-Making Star of 2013 in Quigley Publishing Company's Annual Poll GROTON, Mass., Dec. 31, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Jennifer Lawrence has been voted the Top Money-Making Star of 2013 in Quigley Publishing Company's 82nd Annual Poll. This is Lawrence's first appearance in the Quigley Poll, and the first time an actor has gone from Star of Tomorrow one year to the Top Money-Making Star the next. After winning an Academy Award and a Golden Globe earlier this year and outstanding performances in ...

30 Dec 2013 13:55 Africa/Lagos Top Ranked Hollywood Seminar Focusing on Screenwriters Gaining Access Through MeetHollywoodExecs.com James Cameron (Avatar), Sylvester Stallone (Rocky), Nancy Myers (It's Complicated), Paul Haggis (screenwriter, James Bond films - Quantum of Solace, Casino Royale; Million Dollar Baby), and Matt Groening (Simpsons) all started as students at Sherwood Oaks screenwriting school. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- For over 40 years, it has hosted some of the most successful seminars in Los Angeles. Students who attended seminars have gone on to win 29 Oscars, 12 Emmys, 2 Studio Presidents, and over $4B in box office sales. Become your own success story. Be part of the school that was featured in People magazine, US magazine, talked about in the Tonight Show. Seminars are open to anyone interested in learning what it takes to succeed in Hollywood. You learn in a close encounter setting where seminars are limited to 18 students. Seminars...

Top 10 Most Outstanding People and Events in Nollywood in 2013 1. Omotola Jolade-Ekeinde , for making the highly esteemed 2013 TIME 100; an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and named the Queen of Nollywood. The first ever for any Nigerian entertainer and boosting the mileage and patronage of Nollywood in the world as she graced the exclusive 2013 Time 100 Gala at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 23, 2013, with the crème de la crème of Hollywood. 2. Kenneth Gyang , one of the youngest filmmakers in Nollywood and his first feature films: the political love story "Blood and Henna" (2012) won Best Achievement In Costume Design and "Confusion Na Wa" (2013), which received funding from the Rotterdam Film Festival’s Hubert Bals Fund won highly coveted awards for the Best Film and Best Nigerian Film at the 2013 Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA), and at the Best of Nollywood (BON) Awards, "Confusion Na Wa" w...

We are glad and grateful to the Almighty God our maker and owner for keeping us alive and well to celebrate the Christmas and looking forward to a more prosperous New Year. We thank all our partners and sponsors in Nigeria and the rest of the world. FULL PAGE COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED/EVANS INDUSTRIES LIMITED, MACNUEL COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED, TRUE LIFE FORUM, HOLLY GORDON, INGRAM OSIGWE, BISI DANIELS, LANCELOT IMASUEN, FEMI ODUGBEMI, EKULO GROUP INTERNATIONAL, QUINTESSENTIALLY NIGERIA, RECHERCHÉ SIGNATURE EVENTS AND LUXURY GIFTS, PALATIALLY INTERLINK NIGERIA LIMITED,ROYAL LIFESTYLES GROUP OF COMPANIES, YOOKOS, BISI BOOKS, AMAZON, GOOGLE, FACEBOOK AND OTHERS. Tweet  

The maiden edition of NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® SERIES is trending as the most popular publication on Nollywood in 2013 with over 480, 000 people seeing it within 72 hours on Facebook and Twitter and thousands more on other websites. The first edition of the NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® SERIES celebrating the Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA); leading actors, actresses, filmmakers and distributors is also the first publication on Nollywood distributed simultaneously in both digital and print versions and in full colour. You can get it in Amazon's Kindle, in paperback and hardcover with discounts on Lulu and as much as 30% discount on bulk orders from the Nigerian distributors, International Digital Post Network Limited. “ Whenever I travel abroad, many of my colleagues, Presidents of other countries, ask me about Nollywood. Nollywood is our shining light. Africans are very proud of Nollywood. That is why we are here today to celebrate the success story of this national, continental and g...

Obi Emelonye's "Last Flight To Abuja" – The full movie (Nollywood Movies 2013) with over 1,493,241 views so far on YouTube is the number one on the Top 10 Most Watched Videos in Nigeria in 2013 excluding Music, but Nollymovies reported the following 19 mistakes in the best selling movie. The movie opened with radio voice-over of the "Good Morning Nigeria Show" with "Manny and the Angels" on Cool FM, Lagos. In 2006, the Good Morning Nigeria Show was hosted by Dan Foster and not Manny and the Angels. Continuity Error:- As the movie starts a large building is shown and "CNS Headquarters" is written on the screen. When they show the board meeting taking place in the building, Chief Nike (Jide Kosoko) refers to their office as "TNS" Other:- The Flamingo name and logo on the plane is obviously printed on paper and then pasted on the fuselage/body of the plane. How much would re-spraying that part of the plane have co...

Have you seen the real photograph of the great Omo n’Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi , the most famous King of Benin who ruled from 1888–1897 before he was captured, deposed and sent on exile in Calabar by British Consul-General Moor during the Benin Expedition of 1897 ? Then have you seen Mike Omoregbe, the Nigerian actor playing the lead role of Ovonramwen in Lancelot Imasuen's historical epic film Invasion 1897 ? He bears a striking resemblance to Omo n’Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi! Even before the makeup-artist made him up for the epic movie, the reigning Oba of Benin, Omo N'Oba Erediauwa and his palace chiefs were stunned by the physical similarities of Mike Omoregbe and Ovonramwen according to Lancelot Imasuen. And that really confirmed that he is destined for the great role in the film. Mike Omoregbe is not a new actor, but he was on his own kind of exile from acting until destiny beckoned on him to return to play the lead role in Invasion 1897 , after nearly 24 years of act...

Rudolph Walker in the Eastenders . Famous British Actor   Rudolph Walker   Replaces Joseph Marcell in Invasion 1897 Famous   Caribbean   born   British Actor Rudolph Walker,   OBE , has replaced   St. Lucian-born English   actor   Joseph Marcell   in Lancelot Imasuen’s historical epic film Invasion 1897 . “This afternoon we signed Rudolph Walker to play a role in Invasion 1897,” said Lancelot Imasuen Friday December 20, as we met in his busy   Lagos   studios to discuss the progress of the film and his short horror film for The ABCs of Death 2 . “Joseph Marcell couldn't make our new date for shooting in   London, because of his other schedules. We will be filming in   London   before the end of the month. And Rudolph has always been my first choice to play a special role in Invasion 1897,” he added. His London based associate producers Joe Ehigiamusoe and Julius Imabe of  J2 Konsult Inc, in the UK mana...