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A Question for the Nigerian Politician Alleged To Have Instigated the Murder of More than 55 People An Open Question for Ezenwo Nyesom Wike, the Gubernatorial Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Rivers State in the Niger Delta of Nigeria. If you are sure that more people love you enough to vote for you, would you need guns, machetes and thugs to attack and murder supporters of your rival opponent? - See more at: http://www.nigeriansreport.com/2015/04/an-open-question-for-ezenwo-nyesom-wike.html#sthash.QS4PFVfc.dpuf . When we ignore a massacre, we are encouraging a genocide. When we ignore the impunity of political tyranny, we are guilty of failing to protest against man's inhumanity to man. And by our failure, we are as guilty as those aiding and abetting the crimes against humanity from Darfur to the Congo and from the Congo to the Niger Delta and from the Niger Delta to north eastern Nigeria. A massacre is an indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of many...

April 14, 2015 Posted at 17:38 WAT Platts Survey: OPEC Pumps 30.72 Million Barrels of Crude Oil Per Day in March Posted at 17:25 WAT StoryTeller Brings New Levels of Health Reporting to Local TV Newsrooms Posted at 16:18 WAT Family Become First Nigerians to Reach Geographic North Pole, Raising Awareness of Challenge 100 and Remembering the Adbucted Girls of Chibok Posted at 15:14 WAT Women CEOs, Directors, and Shareholders of Large Family-Run Companies to Meet as Women Take Greater Control of Family Firms Posted at 14:00 WAT Thirty Outstanding New Americans Each Awarded $90,000 Toward Their Graduate School Studies in US By Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships Posted at 11:21 WAT Sahara Group Upstream Optimistic over Prospects from OPL 274 Posted at 03:22 WAT Nearly 800,000 children forced to flee violence in Nige...

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Jillian Ada Kelly Releases New Book: THE MOVIE MAKER: CHARLES O. BAUMANN Great-granddaughter of early 1900s silent film pioneer writes how he discovered Chaplin, Sennett, and many more GOLD COUNTRY, Calif., March 25, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Charlie Chaplin and Mack Sennett have been household names for 100 years, but few people know how they got their start in the film industry. Who were the career-makers of the early 1900s in film? They were brave pioneers like author Jillian Ada Kelly's great-grandfather Charles O. Baumann who helped forge a new industry and set the standard for how films are made to this day. Photo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20150324/194203 Before there was ever a Hollywood, there were great filmmakers, producers, directors, and movie executives in New York and New Jersey, those who paved the way for the greatest industry in the world, the movie industry. In the new book THE MOVIE MAKER: CHARLES O. BAUMANN Silent Era Film Pioneer Who Discovered ...

“American Sniper” is the Highest-Grossing Film of 2014 March 8, 2015 The Clint Eastwood-directed drama, starring Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller, has also crossed $500 million worldwide and counting Burbank, CA –Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Village Roadshow Pictures’ “American Sniper” has surpassed two more major milestones, emerging as the top-grossing domestic release of 2014. The film has also surpassed half a billion dollars worldwide, and still climbing. The announcement was made today by Dan Fellman, President of Domestic Distribution, Sue Kroll, President of Worldwide Marketing and International Distribution, Veronika Kwan Vandenberg, President, International Distribution, and Greg Silverman, President, Creative Development and Worldwide Production, Warner Bros. Pictures. To date, the film has grossed an estimated $337.2 million at the domestic box office, and still counting, making it the highest-grossing film in director Clint Eastwood’s long and illustrious ca...

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Ava DuVernay's "Selma" starring British Nigerian actor David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King, Jr; won the Best Original Song Oscar with Glory composed by Lonnie Lynn (Common) and John Stephens (John Legend) and it is a great consolation after all the controversy over the omissions of DuVernay in the nominations for Best Director and Oyelowo in the nominations for Best Actor. The 87th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was held on February 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA. The following list of all the nominees and winners is from The Guardian of UK. TALK OF THE TOWN is bringing you "All The Best Looks From The 2015 Academy Awards" Academy Honorary Awards Jean-Claude Carrière Hayao Miyazaki Maureen O'Hara Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Harry Belafonte Best actor WINNER: Eddie Redmayne for The Theory of Everything Steve Carell for Foxcatcher Benedict Cumberbatch ...

Regal Announces Free Ticket Offer for "Black or White" Two for One Ticket Offer Exclusively at Regal for One Week KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Regal Entertainment Group (NYSE: RGC), a leading motion picture exhibitor owning and operating the largest theatre circuit in the United States, is offering a special two for the price of one ticket offer for "Black or White" from Relativity. This valuable discount is available when purchasing tickets at the box office for shows Friday, February 13 through Thursday, February 19. "Black or White features a remarkable cast led by Oscar winners Kevin Costner and Octavia Spencer," stated Ted Cooper, Senior Vice President and Head Film Buyer for Regal Entertainment Group. "Through our partnership with Relativity, Regal is proud to offer this amazing opportunity to receive a free ticket with each one sold to this magnificent film." "Black or White" is the story of a grandf...

Oscar Nominee Bradley Cooper and Roberto Coin // Photo Courtesy of Colin Young-Wolff (PRNewsFoto/Roberto Coin) source: Roberto Coin. The Hollywood Reporter And Roberto Coin Honor This Year's Oscar Nominees NEW YORK, Feb. 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- On Monday evening, February 2nd, Roberto Coin sponsored The Hollywood Reporter's star-studded event honoring the nominees of the 87th annual Academy Awards at Wolfgang Puck and Barbara Lazaroff's legendary flagship restaurant, Spago in Beverly Hills, CA. The evening was hosted by The Hollywood Reporter, who welcomed notable guests such as Bradley Cooper, Patricia Arquette, Robert Duvall, Michael Keaton, Marion Cotillard, and Laura Dern. Roberto Coin had some of their newest jewelry on display throughout the night including pieces from the Unique Pieces, Haute Couture and the iconic Pois Moi. Roberto Coin and Oscar Nominee Patricia Arquette // Photo Courtesy of Colin Young-Wolff (PRNewsFoto/Roberto Coin) source: Roberto Co...

Angel Grace Productions Takes On "Scout" Berlin's EFM is First Stop for Road Trip Film Starring Ellen Burstyn, Danny Glover, India Ennenga and James Frecheville BURBANK, Calif., Jan. 28, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- BrownBag Pictures and Decipher Entertainment announce that Angel Grace Productions will handle international sales on their recently completed film "Scout." Sales will commence at the EFM in Berlin, according to producers Beverley A. Gordon, Dwjuan Fox and Nicolas Emiliani, with the film having its first market screenings. Reder & Feig LLP represents US sales for "Scout." "Scout" tells the story of a rebellious girl who takes a troubled young man on a road trip to find her little sister, who has gone missing. Academy Award® winner Ellen Burstyn ("Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore," "Interstellar"), Danny Glover ("Lethal Weapon" franchise) and Golden Globe® winner Jane Seymour ("East of Ede...

REINVENTING DOCUMENTARY FILM-MAKING IN DIGITAL SPACE. The 5th iREP Film Festival is scheduled to hold from the 19th to 22nd March, 2015, in Lagos, and it promises to be four days of over 40 documentary film screenings, insightful panel discussions, training and workshops, and networking. iREPRESENT Documentary Film Festival 2015 is planned to take full advantage of online connectivity and interaction through livestream broadcast and feedback. #‎iREP2015‬ is premised on the reality that Digital media technology is expanding narrative possibilities and shaping audiences’ experiences of how realities are articulated. Documentary filmmaking is coming to terms with these new realities and continuously finding hybrid strategies to navigate the blurred lines crisscrossing verite and satisfying the ever changing temperament of the digital world that is hip, fun-seeking, chaotic, multi-tasking, and attention sapping. For documentary filmmaking, digital technology presents a challenge an...

Martha L. Ruiz Named Co-Leader of PwC's Oscars® Balloting Team PwC Enters its 81st Consecutive Year Preserving Secrecy of Oscars Winners LOS ANGELES, Jan. 22, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- PwC announced today that Martha L. Ruiz has joined Brian Cullinan as the new Oscars balloting co-leader overseeing the Oscars balloting process, replacing longtime balloting co-leader Rick Rosas. This year marks PwC's 81st year leading the Oscars balloting process on behalf of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the Academy). Ruiz joins a very small group of PwC partners who have safeguarded the world's most famous and best kept secrets for over eighty years. Ruiz and Cullinan will be the only two people in the world who know the identities of the Oscar® winners before they are revealed on ABC's live telecast at 4:00 p.m. PT (7:00 p.m. ET) on Sunday, February 22, 2015. "PwC's role in the Oscars balloting process represents the firm's lasting legacy of utmost a...

All 20 of this year's acting contenders are white. So what? There are no women in the directing or writing categories. So what? The hashtag #OscarsSoWhite on Twitter is unnecessary bellyaching. Africa made the the nominations with Mauritanian Abderrahmane Sissako's critically acclaimed "Timbuktu" competing for the Best Foreign Film Oscar. And he will make headlines all over the continent if he wins it. Thank God Cheryl Boone Isaacs, President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is BLACK, otherwise they would have called her a white supremacist from the KKK. All these bellyaching and farts over lack of diversity in the membership of the Academy and 2015 Oscar nominations are irrelevant to the fact that merit determined the nominations and not politics of racism. Politics should be separated from the Oscars and it would be stupid to use racial diversity and equality to determine the nominations and winners of awards whether in the Arts or Science...

Actor Chris Hemsworth with director Ron Howard, winner of the Critics' Choice LOUIS XIII Genius Award, during the 20th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards at the Hollywood Palladium on January 15, 2015 in Los Angeles, CA. source: Louis XIII de Remy Martin media contact info: http://www.LOUISXIII-COGNAC.com/. Chris Hemsworth Presents Prestigious Critics' Choice LOUIS XIII® Genius Award to Film Icon Ron Howard at 20th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards LOS ANGELES, January 16, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- LOUIS XIII & Broadcast Film Critics Association Honour the 'A Beautiful Mind', 'Apollo 13' and 'In the Heart of the Sea' Director for Demonstrating Unprecedented Excellence in the Cinematic Arts LOUIS XIII Cognac and the Broadcast Film Critics Association proudly bestowed the third annual "Critics' Choice LOUIS XIII Genius Award" to legendary filmmaker Ron Howard this evening, presented by actor Chris Hemsworth at the 20...