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President Goodluck Jonathan had been warned not to contest in the 2011 election because he would not be allowed to govern the country well, but he refused to listen to the prophecy then. ~ Oba Adedapo Tejuosho, the Osile Oke Ona, a paramount ruler of Egba in Ogun State, Nigeria. Source: http://www.nigeriafilms.com/news/28671/4/oba-tejuosho-warns-politicians.html Tweet

How to Train Your Dragon 2 Soars Past $500,000,000 At Global Box Office DreamWorks Animation's High-Flying Sequel Becomes Highest Grossing Animated Film of the Year LOS ANGELES, Aug. 15, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- On the heels of yesterday's opening day of $5.6 million in China, DreamWorks Animation's How to Train Your Dragon 2 soared past the $500 million mark at the global box office. The highly acclaimed sequel is now not only one of the best reviewed films of the year, but also 2014's highest grossing animated film to-date and one of the top ten grossing films of the year in any genre. "We have been incredibly proud of How to Train Your Dragon 2 from the moment we saw it and we're thrilled that it has been embraced around the world with such enthusiasm," said Chief Marketing Officer Dawn Taubin. "This film is not only an artistic and technical achievement for DreamWorks, but its strength at the global box office proves that audiences are embrac...

Harley-Davidson® And Marvel Studios Confirm Project LiveWire™ Will Appear In Marvel's 'Avengers: Age Of Ultron' Announcement at San Diego Comic-Con Confirms Harley's First Electric Motorcycle will Light-Up the Screen in Another Heroic Adventure from Marvel, Alongside New Street 750 . Harley-Davidson and Marvel Studios unite to confirm that Project LiveWire - Harley-Davidson's first electric motorcycle - will appear in Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron as the ride of choice for Natasha Romanoff (a.k.a. Black Widow). SAN DIEGO, July 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at the San Diego Comic-Con, Harley-Davidson® and Marvel Studios will introduce Project LiveWire™ – Harley-Davidson's first electric motorcycle – to fans gathered at the annual international convention. Project LiveWire, which is featured in Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron, will be the ride of choice for Natasha Romanoff (a.k.a. Black Widow) played by Scarlett Johansson, in an epic scene wi...

Emmys 2014: The Complete List Of Nominations Mindy Kaling and Carson Daly revealed the nominees for the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards on Thursday. The rapid-fire nominations announcement at Hollywood's Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre wrapped up with AMC's Breaking Bad deservedly ... Tweet

South Korean Filmmakers Protest Early Release Of 'Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes' 20th Century Fox Korea on Friday announced that Dawn of the Planet of the Apes will open in South Korean theaters on July 10 instead of on July 16, igniting vehement protest among ... Tweet

The second edition of NOLLYWOOD MIRROR®, the number one and most widely circulated publication on Nollywood, the Nigerian film industry is out! It is now selling on Lulu and Amazon Kindle Store in both paperback and eBook versions. On the cover is the montage of the top new movies by the most ambitious Nigerian filmmakers showing the impressive developments in the Nigerian film industry in 2014. This edition is loaded with beautiful and wonderful features celebrating Lancelot Imasuen’s “Invasion 1897”, the Nigeria Centenary epic on the invasion of the Benin Kingdom by the British Empire in 1897 with the capture and exile of the King of Benin, Omo n’Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi; The Beauty Queens of Nollywood; President Goodluck Jonathan’s unprecedented support for Nollywood; Special Effects in Nollywood movies by Geoffrey Gania; Orlando Martins, the first Nigerian Hollywood star with the great American President Ronald Reagan; “Palaver”, the first feature film made in Nigeria in 1926; ...

Yvonne Okoro is one of the most beautiful actresses in the world and rocks both Nigerian and Ghanaian movies 24/7 and one of the 34 Beauty Queens of Nollywood and Kannywood featured in the second edition of NOLLYWOOD MIRROR®. Tweet

LOS ANGELES, June 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX; TSX: IMX) and Sony Pictures Entertainment today announced that The Equalizer, the highly anticipated reteaming of Academy Award® winner Denzel Washington and acclaimed director Antoine Fuqua, will be digitally re-mastered into the immersive IMAX® format and released in IMAX® theatres worldwide starting September 26. Fuqua directed Washington in the critically lauded 2001 box office hit Training Day, for which Washington won the Academy Award® for Best Actor. In The Equalizer, Denzel Washington plays McCall, a man who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when McCall meets Teri (Chloe Grace Moretz), a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can't stand idly by – he has to help her. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of...

Nigerian Censors Want Cuts To Half Of A Yellow Sun Nigerian censors say parts of the movie "Half of a Yellow Sun" could undermine national security and they want cuts to allow the film, partly set during Nigeria's 1960s civil war, to be ... Tweet

Nollywood Goes To the Philippines Nollywood has gone to the Philippines on the platform of NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® with the second edition designed and packaged by Juvelin T. Aripal, from Quezon City, the most populous city in Philippines and part of Metro Manila where English is one of the official languages.   Juvelin T. Aripal Juvelin is one of the foremost magazine designers in Asia, famous as Art Director/Magazine Designer for Best Friend Magazine based in Japan, a newspaper layout artist at Commuter Express and Alerto Filipino, Editorial Coordinator cum Layout Artist at New Day Publishers and as a large printer operator and graphic artist at EMCA Graphix with numerous clients from Philippines, Japan, Hong Kong, United States of America and other countries. NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® is introducing to Filipinos, the phenomenal emergence of Nollywood in the world of movies making the Nigerian film industry the biggest and largest in Africa and second largest in the world in numbers o...

One of the most accomplished filmmakers in Africa Tunde Kelani will release a new trailer and movie poster of his new film "Dazzling Mirage" on June 19, 2014, for the World Sickle Cell Awareness Day. The United Nations classified sickle cell anemia as one of the most gangrenous common genetic diseases in the world which can lead to death. It is most common in several African and Asian countries. Also, locally, statistics indicate that there is a high sickle cell anemia rate. Dame Taiwo Ajai-Lycett and Tunde Kelani. June 19th of every year was set to be the World Sickle Cell Awareness Day to increase awareness of this disease as being one of the most common health related problems. Moreover, it seeks to correct misconceptions about this disease, highlighting the importance of early before birth detection to know whether or not the fetus will be affected or if it is just a carrier. It should be noted that several treatment methods were discovered and its symptoms were ...

I have known Fred Amata when there was no Nollywood. It was in the 1980s at the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) on Victoria Island, Lagos. A time I call the Golden Age of NTA when NTA was the Mecca of the entertainers and celebrities in Nigeria. I was there before Fred arrived. Even though I was only a prolific scriptwriter and puppeteer for a weekly puppet drama produced by Rowland Henshaw and Bimbo Odekunle between 1980 and 1985, I was earning more than many of the NTA actors, producers and others when I was only 18. 19 of the 25 TV puppet plays I wrote were produced and I could afford to fly to anywhere in Nigeria and overseas and was able to sponsor the participation of Nigeria in two international children's book fairs in Japan in 1983 when I was only 20. Fred Amata, "Aje Butter" Keppy Ekpeyong Bassey and others were not celebrities then. And I have been following Fred's career since the late 1980s to date and you cannot help falling in love with his sign...