Spragga to return as Top Shotta 3:00 pm
A television series, Top Shottas starring Ky-Mani Marley and Spragga Benz, is in the making.According to Spragga Benz, it has no link to the 2002 movie Shottas except for using the same cast members.
Reward for info on videographer's murder
7:40 pm
A reward of $200,000 is being offered for information leading to the arrest and charge of those responsible for the shooting death of film production professional Courtney “Sudz” Sutherland.
'Intermission' at Palace
5:40 pm
LOCAL cinema operators Palace Amusement Company has taken the decision to close down its operations until the end of the current government measures to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Thursday, February 11, 2021
THE most recent curfew hours announced by Government to combat the spread of COVID-19 is forcing motion picture exhibitor, Palace Amusement Company, to close its New Kingston Drive-In cinema for the next week.
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A number of local film and television industry players are responding favourably to the call by the the Filmmakers Collaborative of Trinidad and Tobago (FILMCO) for Jamaican content be featured on the recently launched online streaming platform.
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LOS ANGELES, United States (AP) — Cicely Tyson was a black actor who knocked down doors so other women of colour could walk through them.
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WHEN the Sundance Film Festival opens in Park City, Utah, in the United States this Thursday, Jamaican actress and activist Donisha Prendergast will have the distinction of having a film on show at the event. She is the lead actress in the short film Black...
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EVEN super spy James Bond is grappling with the negative effects of COVID-19. For the third time, the latest in the franchise – No Time to Die – has been postponed.
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Jamaican actress and film producer Nadean Rawlins is brimming with excitement as she prepares to participates in the Rotterdam Lab, a film producers' training workshop which starts on Monday.
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NEW YORK (AP) — For a man who first appeared on television when he was two, showing Bob Hope how he could already swat golf balls, the public actually knows little about Tiger Woods.
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AP: After five consecutive years of North American revenues exceeding US$11 billion, this year they're expected to cap out at an almost 40-year low of around US$2.3 billion. That'll be down 80 per cent from last year according to data firm Comscore. Globally, where markets have been able...
MoreWednesday, December 30, 2020
IF Tariq St Patrick, central character from the long-running American drama Power and its spin off Power Book II: Ghost, had a favourite Jamaican artiste, it would be Tommy Lee Sparta.
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It has been nearly 50 years since its release and local cult classic The Harder They Come continues to engage audiences and wow critics.
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FOR a second time, No Time To Die — the latest instalment in the James Bond franchise — had its release date pushed back due to the negative effects COVID-19 was having on global box offices.
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A group of local film-makers are not giving up the fight to develop their short film into a series for the international streaming platforms.
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LONDON (AP) — Sean Connery, the charismatic Scottish actor who rose to international superstardom as the suave secret agent James Bond and then abandoned the role to carve out an Oscar-winning career in other rugged roles, has died. He was 90.
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Jamaican Marguerite LeWars Gordon has heaped accolades on the late actor Sean Connery with whom she shared screen time in the film Dr No, the first instalment of the James Bond movie franchise which was filmed in Jamaica in 1962.
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OVERBLOWN political rhetoric, runaway crime, and a stagnant economy. Jamaica 2020? Try 1980. Forty years ago the situation in Jamaica was not much different than today, which marks the 40th anniversary of the 1980 General Election.
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