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Jade Osiberu's Gangs of Lagos has screened at the ongoing Toronto International Film Festival TIFF. Osiberu while announcing its TIFF outing on Instagram said she never dreamt about making #GangsofLagos years ago or would have known just where the journey would take her but she couldn't be more grateful. Shot in 2021, with tobi Bakre in his debut lead role, the crime thriller is centered on a group of friends who […]

Ace stand-up comedian Bovi Ugboma has renovated some of the class and staff rooms of the University Staff School in Benin city. The commissioning of the newly renovated classroom block and staff rooms took place yesterday, at the premises of the school and was done by the deputy governor of Edo State, Philip Shaibu. The deputy governor later took to his Instagram page where he praised the comedian for his […]

Show creator of the television series The Crown, Peter Morgan has hinted that filming its sixth and final season which recently began will stop out of respect to late Queen Elizabeth II. Morgan in a statement said The Crown is a love letter to The Queen and he has nothing to add for now, just silence and respect. The British Royal family, at 6:30 pm yesterday, announced that the 96-year-old […]

Netflix has dropped the official trailer for its South African-Made series The Brave Ones directed by Akin Omotoso set to begin streaming on Netflix from September 16. The six-part supernatural thriller series follows a goddess reincarnated as a young woman who must harness her divine powers to avenge her sister's death and protect her family from destruction. The Brave Ones will star Sthandile Nkosi in the lead role as Ntsiki, […]

Chuks Enete's Sillo Studios is set to debut its drama-comedy Inside Life based on true events. Inside Life set for September 9, 2022, theatrical debut follows Larry, a young man who gets arrested and remanded in prison a few days before his wedding and he must figure out a way to survive the tough realities of living with inmates while plotting a means to get released in time to get […]

Amazon Studios has unveiled Nollywood actress turn producer, Kemi Lala Akindoju as one of its four-member local originals development team. Akindoju joined the team set to work alongside Wangi Mba-Uzoukwu, as the Senior Movies Creative Executive. Other confirmed executives included M-Net's former Head of Local Productions and Independent Films Kaye Ann Williams, Brendan Gabriel, and Mike-Steve Adeleye. Amazon's latest announcement follows its August's local slate reveal after they officially launched […]