Monday, July 7, 2014

Couples We Loved At The Wimbledons - Will and Kate, David and Victoria, Chiwetel and Sari

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Novak Djokovic defeated Roger Federer in 5 sets to win the Wimbledon Championships over the weekend, but more interesting were the couples by the courtside. We spotted three of our favorites.

Will and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge returned to their prime seats over the weekend, and Victoria Beckham wore one of her own designs beside her husband David Beckham.

Also spotted were Chiwetel Ejoifor sporting a clean shaved look accompanied by his fiancee Sari Mercer. By his other side is movie love interest [Love Actually] Kiera Knightly.


Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Half of a Yellow Sun Movie Comes To The US Cinemas

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Yay! The Half Of A Yellow Sun movie is opening in US theaters on May 16th. It will also screen at the upcoming New York African  Film Festival which opens May 7 - 13. Meanwhile, the Nigerian Film and Video Censors Board has continued to delay the showing of the movie in Nigerian cinemas, with the producers given no date for a planned classification and release.

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Half of a Yellow Sun Premieres in London, Arrives Nigeria April 25th

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The Half of a Yellow Sun movie was premiered in the UK this past weekend and will hit the cinemas on Friday for general viewing. A lot of the cast and crew including Chimamanda Adichie, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, John Boyega and director Biyi Bandele attended the event. The movie berths in Nigeria April 25 and early summer in the US.

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Half of a Yellow Sun Movies Premieres April 11 in the UK - See New Trailer

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Half Of A Yellow Sun movie is based on the bestselling novel of the same title by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and follows the lives and loves of four people against the backdrop of the 1967-1970 Nigerian-Biafran war. Biyi Bandele adapted the screenplay and directes, and it stars Chiwetel Ejoifor, Thandie Newton, Anika Noni Rose, Dominic Cooper and John Boyega as Ugwu. The movie has now gotten the greenlight and will open in the U.K. on April 11th. I hope it comes to the US this summer too.

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Couple Love - Chiwetel Ejiofor And Girlfriend Sari Mercer

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Chiwetel Ejiofor has been front and center in the news recently with this being hollywood red carpet and awards season. He has been nominated for an Oscar for his main actor role in 12 years a slave and at all events in the run up, he has always taken Sari Mercer, his girlfriend along. They look very good together too...

Monday, December 9, 2013

Hollywood's Leading Black Actors on Oprah's Next Chapter

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It's awards season in the Hollywood calendar and black actors are very well represented this year, with many of them and their movies being touted for top honors at the Oscars. Chiwetel Ejiofor in Twelve Years a Slave, Idris Elba in Mandela's biopic, Long Walk to Freedom, and Micheal B. Jordan in Fruitvale Station, a story based on the true life murder of a young black man in urban America.

Tuesday, February 19, 2013