On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every day of the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. Today’s Free Movie of the Day is the 2008 comedy The Deal, starring William H. Macy and Meg Ryan. You can watch it over on the YouTube channel linked above, or you can just watch it in the embed at the top of this article.
Based on a novel by Peter Lecourt, The Deal was directed by Steven Schachter, who also wrote the screenplay with Macy. The film has the following synopsis: A down-and-out film producer agrees to make his nephew’s film about 19th century English statesman Benjamin Disraeli, but can only get financing if he casts a well-known action star. Production is halted however, when the lead actor is kidnapped, so the producer hatches a scheme with a struggling...
Based on a novel by Peter Lecourt, The Deal was directed by Steven Schachter, who also wrote the screenplay with Macy. The film has the following synopsis: A down-and-out film producer agrees to make his nephew’s film about 19th century English statesman Benjamin Disraeli, but can only get financing if he casts a well-known action star. Production is halted however, when the lead actor is kidnapped, so the producer hatches a scheme with a struggling...
- 2/24/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
From its 2018 launch in Johannesburg as an industry event rooted in the local community, the Africa Rising Intl. Film Festival (Ariff) has sought to promote diversity and inclusion in the South African biz, where Black, female, and LGBTQ filmmakers too often struggle to gain a foothold, and white and male executives still hold a disproportionate amount of power.
“From an access point of view, we don’t have access in terms of the full value chain of the industry,” says Ariff co-chair and president Lala Tuku. “Women and young people, queer members of our society, they are still being marginalized.”
Giving emerging voices a platform is one of the festival’s foundational pillars, and something that Tuku says “is very close to home.” As a young, Black woman looking to break into the industry two decades ago, Tuku says she found few mentors from a similar background who were able to guide her career path.
“From an access point of view, we don’t have access in terms of the full value chain of the industry,” says Ariff co-chair and president Lala Tuku. “Women and young people, queer members of our society, they are still being marginalized.”
Giving emerging voices a platform is one of the festival’s foundational pillars, and something that Tuku says “is very close to home.” As a young, Black woman looking to break into the industry two decades ago, Tuku says she found few mentors from a similar background who were able to guide her career path.
- 12/1/2020
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
From Rififi Pictures comes a new film titled “Tell Me Sweet Something,” directed by the award-winning filmmaker Akin Omotoso ("Man on Ground"), which was inspired by Omotoso’s love of love songs, the romance classic "Love Jones," and his desire to tell a story that celebrates love in the city he loves - Johannesburg, South Africa. Starring Nomzamo Mbatha, Maps Maponyane, Thishiwe Ziqubu, Kagiso Lediga, Thomas Gumede, Thembi Seete and Mandisa Bardill, “Tell Me Sweet Something” tells the story of Moratiwa (Mbatha): an aspiring novelist with writer’s block. She hasn’t had much luck with love ever since her ex-boyfriend Norman went out to buy milk and never came...
- 9/11/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
From Rififi Pictures comes a new film titled “Tell Me Sweet Something,” directed by the award-winning filmmaker Akin Omotoso ("Man on Ground"), which was inspired by Omotoso’s love of love songs, the romance classic "Love Jones," and his desire to tell a story that celebrates love in the city he loves - Johannesburg, South Africa. Starring Nomzamo Mbatha, Maps Maponyane, Thishiwe Ziqubu, Kagiso Lediga, Thomas Gumede, Thembi Seete and Mandisa Bardill, “Tell Me Sweet Something” tells the story of Moratiwa (Mbatha): an aspiring novelist with writer’s block. She hasn’t had much luck with love ever since her ex-boyfriend Norman went out to buy milk and never came...
- 6/8/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Always a feast for the film lover (especially the lover of African cinema), the lineup for the 2015 edition of the New York African Film Festival (Nyaff), which will run from May 6 - 12, announced a couple of weeks ago, includes a few titles you'll recognize like the opening night film - the South African crime drama "Cold Harbour" by Carey McKenzie. Previously titled "Black South-Easter," "Cold Harbour" is a South African crime thriller starring Tony Kgoroge, Fana Mokoena (maybe the most recognizable to USA audiences), Yu Nan, Deon Lotz, Thomas Gumede and Zolani Mahola. It's directed by Carey McKenzie, and produced by Tendeka Matatu. ...
- 4/27/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Continuing with highlights of films set to screen at Paff next month... Previously titled "Black South-Easter," "Cold Harbour" is a South African crime thriller starring Tony Kgoroge, Fana Mokoena (maybe the most recognizable to USA audiences), Yu Nan, Deon Lotz, Thomas Gumede and Zolani Mahola. It's directed by Carey McKenzie, and produced by Tendeka Matatu. The film opens with the mutilated body of a Chinese man that washes up on a Cape Town beach. For township cop Sizwe Miya (played by Kgoroge), this is an opportunity to prove himself and earn the promotion he desperately needs. His boss and mentor, Venske (Lotz), gives Sizwe the case but assigns a...
- 1/27/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
I'm really appreciating the wave of black South African *genre* films we've seen in recent years, from "How To Steal 2 Million," to today's feature, "Cold Harbour," and everything we've covered between the two. Previously titled "Black South-Easter," "Cold Harbour" is a South African crime thriller starring Tony Kgoroge, Fana Mokoena (maybe the most recognizable to USA audiences), Yu Nan, Deon Lotz, Thomas Gumede and Zolani Mahola, directed by Carey McKenzie and produced by Tendeka Matatu. The film opens with the mutilated body of a Chinese man that washes up on a Cape Town beach. For township cop Sizwe Miya (played...
- 11/28/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
I'm appreciating the wave of black South African genre films we've seen in recent years, from How To Steal 2 Million to today's feature, Black South-Easter, which like the former is also a crime thriller, and everything else between. Black South-Easter is an upcoming South African crime thriller starring Tony Kgoroge, Fana Mokoena, Yu Nan, Deon Lotz, Thomas Gumede and Zolani Mahola, directed by Carey McKenzie and produced by Tendeka Matatu. Here's its synopsis: As the annual “Black South-Easters” blow dark clouds over Table Mountain, bringing storms to Cape Town, the ill winds of corruption blow through the city’s townships. In a...
- 11/9/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Lightning Entertainment’s Slate Of New Titles For Cannes Includes Chris Colfer’s Struck By Lightning
Lightning Entertainment has acquired international rights to five feature films and will present the slate of new titles, including the star-studded comedy Struck By Lightning written by and starring Glee.s Chris Colfer, to buyers at the upcoming Cannes Film Market, it was announced today by Robert Beaumont, President of Lightning Entertainment.
Struck By Lightning will make its market premiere at the Marché du Film following its Tribeca Film Festival world debut where it received an overwhelmingly positive response. Servitude will also make its market premiere with promotional footage being shown for family film Heaven.S Door and South African thriller One Last Look. Black South-easter is currently in production.
.We are thrilled to present this eclectic slate of new titles featuring films from across the globe to our buyers at Cannes and we are incredibly excited that both Struck By Lightning and Servitude will be making their market premieres next month,...
Struck By Lightning will make its market premiere at the Marché du Film following its Tribeca Film Festival world debut where it received an overwhelmingly positive response. Servitude will also make its market premiere with promotional footage being shown for family film Heaven.S Door and South African thriller One Last Look. Black South-easter is currently in production.
.We are thrilled to present this eclectic slate of new titles featuring films from across the globe to our buyers at Cannes and we are incredibly excited that both Struck By Lightning and Servitude will be making their market premieres next month,...
- 4/27/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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