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Sony Pictures To Distribute "The Interview" Online Beginning Christmas Eve Through Google Play, YouTube Movies, Microsoft's Xbox Video and Dedicated Website Film To Be Widely Available On Demand Throughout The United States The Interview Pervasive Language, Crude and Sexual Humor, Nudity, Some Drug Use and Bloody Violence In the action-comedy The Interview, Dave Skylark (James Franco) and his producer Aaron Rapoport (Seth Rogen) run the popular celebrity tabloid TV show 'Skylark Tonight.' When they discover that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is a fan of the show, they land an interview with him in an attempt to legitimize themselves as journalists. As Dave and Aaron prepare to travel to Pyongyang, their plans change when the CIA recruits them, perhaps the most unlikely candidates, to 'take out' Kim Jong-un. Directors Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg Writers Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg Genre Comedy Stars James Franco (Dave Skylark), Seth Rogen (...

Gone but Not Forgotten: "Gone with the Wind" is Still America's Favorite Movie Gone but Not Forgotten: Gone with the Wind is Still America's Favorite Movie The force is still strong with Star Wars in the #2 spot; Titanic rises from the depths to #3 NEW YORK, Dec. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- It may have premiered 75 years ago, but it would appear that Wind has still got legs: when asked to name their favorite movie of all time, the septuagenarian Civil War epic Gone with the Wind is Americans' top pick again (the film was also America's favorite movie in 2008). With six movies in the can and a much-discussed trailer now making the rounds for Episode Seven, Star Wars soars into the same runner up position it held in 2008. Meanwhile, Titanic is doing anything but sinking; after not making the top 10 in 2008, the 1997 love story may not quite be king of the world this time around – but surely rounding out the top three is none too shabby. (Full results,...

"Selma" official trailer. Photo: David Oyelowo (as Martin Luther King Jr.) and Carmen Ejogo (as Coretta Scott King), photographed on the set of "Selma" at the Georgia State Capitol building, in Atlanta. Credit: Vanity Fair David Oyetokunbo Oyelowo is Martin Luther King, Jr. and Carmen Ejogo is his wife Coretta Scott King in Ava DuVernay 's highly acclaimed American historical drama "Selma" based on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches led by James Bevel,Hosea Williams, and Martin Luther King, Jr. "Selma garnered four Golden Globe Award nominations, including Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Director and Best Actor for Oyelowo and he has already won the 2014 African-American Film Critics Association's Breakthrough Performance Award for Best Actor, http://variety.com/exec/david-oyelowo/. "Selma" will open at the cinemas in the United States on Christmas Day 2014 and will open worldwide from January 9, 2015. Pa...

Photo: Omotola Jalade Ekeinde at the Time 100 Gala with the famous icons of Hollywood Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day-Lewis. Yes, legendary Academy Award winning director Steven Spielberg knows Lupita Nyong'o of Kenya who is famous for winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her critically acclaimed role of "Patsey" in Steve McQueen's multiple award winning historical drama "12 Years a Slave" (2013), and he also knows Rachel Mwanza of Democratic Republic of the Congo who won the coveted Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012, Best Actress at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival, Vancouver Film Critics Circle in 2012 and Best Actress at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards for her unforgettable role as "Komona" in the Academy Award nominated film "War Witch" (French: Rebelle) by Kim Nguyen. But Spielberg did not know Nigeria's Queen of Nollywood Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, aka O...

French-Mauritanian Abderrahmane Sissako's highly acclaimed film "Timbuktu" is among the international nominees for the 19th Annual Satellite Awards for Motion Pictures. Timbuktu competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and the François Chalais Prize. The film has been selected as Mauritania's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards coming up on February 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. INTERNATIONAL PRESS ACADEMY 2014 Nominations 19th ANNUAL SATELLITE™ AWARDS MOTION PICTURES Actress in a Motion Picture Anne Dorval MOMMY Roadside Attractions Felicity Jones THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING Focus Features Gugu Mbatha-Raw BELLE Fox Searchlight Julianne Moore STILL ALICE - See more at: http://www.nigeriansreport.com/2014/12/international-press-academy-announces.html#sthash.2KsqjjVd.dpuf . Tweet

The Island portrays the web of intrigue and machination that characterizes Nigerian high society, as seen through the loves, lives, and exploits of a group of young, attractive, high flying island dwellers in the city of Lagos. Directed by Bobby Boulders on various exotic locations across Africa, The Island features an absolutely stunning and amazingly talented ensemble cast, made up of personalities that will keep you glued to the television as they come together to portray a lifestyle where love and loyalty come with a price-tag and power is only a game of changing seasons. Cast: Demola Adedoyin as Femi Bowen-Cole Tolu ‘Toolz’ Oniru as Yemisi Balogun Seun O as Segun Alaba Eku Edewor as Sade Coker Derin ‘DJ Caise’ Philips, as Jide Ademola Somkele Iyamah as Ada Agu Rotimi ‘DJ Xclusive’ Alakija as Ahmed Bako Zainab Balogun as Teni Bowen-Cole Venita Akpofure as Fola Jimmie as Lanre Jegede Stephanie as Tayo Sowande Tracy Nwapa as Nike Oregun Directed by Bobby Boulders ...

Sharon Stone and Emmanuel Itier won the Humanitarian Award for FEMME at the Lady filmmakers Film Festival in Beverly Hills, CA. Hollywood star Sharon Stone (Casino, Total Recall, Basic Instinct,The Specialist) is excited about the Nigerian premiere of multiple award winning documentary film "Femme" which she co-produced and directed by Emmanuel Itier. The premiere comes up today Friday November 21, at 2 pm at the Silverbird Cinemas, Silverbird Galleria, Victoria Island, Lagos. Sharon Stone has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama for her performance in Casino (1995) and Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her performance in The Practice . She is presently mourning the tragic loss of her 22-year-old nephew Collin, the son of her brother Michael Stone. She and Emmanuel Itier look forward to visiting Lagos very soon. See more details on http://www.totna...

State of Affairs - Series Premeire Clip - CIA Analyst Every President Has A Secret Weapon. Katherine Heigl stars in this new NBC series as a CIA analyst in charge of the president's daily briefing. Tweet

Fact Not Fiction Films' most recent feature, "A Dark Reflection" screenings today, November 7th and tomorrow November 8th at AFM, conveys a truth regarding passenger air travel amongst the major airlines. Based on actual events, this film tells a compelling story that raises awareness regarding the air quality made available to captive airline passengers. A truth that was endorsed in the High Court of Australia in 2010 when Joanne Turner won her 18-year fight for justice, resulting in compensation for injuries due to her exposure to toxic chemicals onboard a commercial jetliner. The filmmaker contends that airlines, and their bosses, have withheld the truth for decades that passengers have been exposed to toxic chemicals onboard aircraft. This issue is one that the filmmaker, and others, have repeatedly communicated to the airlines, "So the airlines can never claim that they didn't know", begins former British Airways captain, Director and Producer Tris...

LIFTING OFF TODAY, FANDANGO'S "INTERSTELLAR" TICKET-BUYERS CAN ENTER FOR A CHANCE TO WIN A TRIP TO THE FRONTIER OF SPACE ON XCOR'S LYNX SPACECRAFT Out-of-this-World Trip Made Possible Through a First of its Kind Partnership Between Paramount Pictures, Fandango, Motherboard and XCOR Aerospace LOS ANGELES, Oct. 31, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Starting today on Fandango, the nation's leading moviegoer destination, film fans buying a Fandango movie ticket to Christopher Nolan's highly anticipated Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures' release, "INTERSTELLAR," will be entered for a chance to win the ultimate escape: a trip to the frontier of space on XCOR's Lynx Mark II spacecraft. It's a fitting sweepstakes for Nolan's grand adventure. According to a Fandango poll of more than 1,000 "INTERSTELLAR" advance ticket-buyers on its site, 81% of fans say they have always dreamed of space travel. The once-in-a-lifetime trip, w...

Who are these posters always ending their posts and comments with "GEJ till 2019" on Nairaland , Nigeria's largest and most visited online public opinion forum? Are they the internet trolls of the ruling party PDP or just genuine fans and supporters of President Goodluck Jonathan? Realistically, would they be posting "GEJ till 2019" if they have lost people to the catastrophic war in the north east of Nigeria? If they lost people during the tragic immigration recruitment exercise in March and till date nobody has been prosecuted for the preventable deaths of 18 innocent Nigerians who would not have died if the government appointed competent people to head the Nigeria Immigration Service. If their sisters are among the missing Chibok school girls the government is using to play bloody politics for the 2015 presidential election so that they will be released in praise of the President when some of their unfortunate parents have died from heartbreak? If they...

Ang Lee To Direct "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" Three-Time Oscar® Winner Commits to TriStar and Film4 Collaboration as Next Film Spring Start Planned CULVER CITY, Calif., Sept. 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Tom Rothman's TriStar Productions and Film4 announced today that the three-time Oscar®-winner Ang Lee has chosen an adaptation of Ben Fountain's acclaimed novel Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk as his next film, his first since winning the Academy Award® for directing the groundbreaking Life of Pi. The film will be produced by Lee, Ink Factory's Stephen Cornwell, Rhodri Thomas and Simon Cornwell and by Film4, who originally optioned the book. Simon Beaufoy wrote the script. TriStar has been developing the project with Film4 and Ink Factory since opening its doors at the end of last year. Tessa Ross, who oversaw Film and Drama for Film4 until recently being named to run the UK's National Theatre, was instrumental on behalf of that studio. M...

Great opportunities come with great possibilities . ~ Orikinla Osinachi . This people-friendly news and entertainment mobile video app iPost Nigeria is like YouTube, Mobli and Keek rolled into one. And projected to have the fastest ROI for tech startups in Africa’s biggest and largest Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) market with over 125 million users of mobile phones and tablets. iPost Nigeria Mobile Video social media platform is for all users of mobile phones and tablets in Nigeria and the rest of the world to record and do live streaming of news and information on incidents and events from wherever they are located in Nigeria and other parts of the world. It is more interactive than any other mobile video app in Africa, because iPost Nigeria Mobile Video app allows users to instantly record, upload and share both short and long videos of events and incidents as they happen 24/7 on all video formats and they can monetize their videos and earn regular revenue from ...

Left Behind is an apocalyptic Action-Thriller movie starring Nicolas Cage based on the New York Times bestselling novel that brings biblical prophecy to life in modern times . The most important event in the history of mankind is happening right now. In the blink of an eye, the biblical Rapture strikes the world. Millions of people disappear without a trace. All that remains are their clothes and belongings, and in an instant, terror and chaos spread around the world. The vanishings cause unmanned vehicles to crash and burn. Planes fall from the sky. Emergency forces everywhere are devastated. Gridlock, riots and looting overrun the cities. There is no one to help or provide answers. In a moment, the entire planet is plunged into darkness. Left Behind - Starring Nicolas Cage. In theaters on October 3, 2014. More details: http://leftbehindmovie.com. DUCK DYNASTY'S WILLIE ROBERTSON LETS THE FULL FORCE OF THE RAPTURE BE KNOWN IN PROMOTING HIS UPCOMING FEATURE FILM LEFT BEHIN...