Author: OIkeade

Soul premiered on Disney+ in December 2020. According to Nielsen’s viewership stats, viewers spent nearly 1.7 billion minutes watching Soul on Disney Plus in the US in its first weekend.
It is currently showing in Nigerian cinemas and still available digitally on Disney+.

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The nominations for this year’s Golden Globes, given out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, were made known today. The categories cover television as well as motion picture programming. The nominations in the motion picture category always give hints on what is to come at the Academy Awards. Mank and The Trial of the Chicago 7 lead in the by motion picture category with six and five nominations respectively. In the television series and program category, The Crown nabs 6 nominations, five goes to Schitt’s Creek and four for Ozark, and The Undoing. Netflix rules in both categories, boasting 42 nominations,…

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Dear reader, We hope you have enjoyed the changes so far—less puns, daily news, and more voices providing insights related to film and TV. We hope you do not merely have to agree with these voices. You can oppose statements that you disagree with in the comments section. Some readers have complained about the complexity of the comments submission process. We assure you that we are looking into it (Are we? could be PR). However, in the meantime you can air your opinions on our twitter and Instagram pages. We value the discussion that film generates as a community. So,…

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Netflix has revealed the cast for its next big budget adaptation, Sandman, by Neil Gaiman (American Gods, Good Omens). According to The Hollywood Reporter when the series order was made last year, “The drama, from Warner Bros. TV, landed at the streamer with what sources describe as a massive financial commitment and DC Entertainment’s most-expensive TV foray ever.” Tom Sturridge will lead the series based on Gaiman’s DC Comics, playing Dream, the Lord of the Dreaming. Gwendoline Christie co-stars as Lucifer, Ruler of Hell. Other faces include Vivienne Acheampong, Boyd Holbrook, Charles Dance, Asim Chaudhry and Sanjeeve Bhaskar. Netflix’s synopsis:…

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Our favourite 2020 guilty pleasure, “Too Hot To Handle”, has been renewed for two more seasóns by Netflix. It is quite understandable if you have forgotten that this reality television series premiered in the first half of 2020 as the ‘pandemic’ year turned out to be an eventful one. As we settled into our lockdown last year April, “Too Hot To Handle” kept viewers glued to their screen as they binged and tweeted about it at the same time.For those outside the bubble, “Too Hot To Handle” is a reality dating competition series, where contestants are housed in the same…

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After Bridgerton’s first season success, Netflix has been forced to turn its attention to the fight against the online circulation of sex scenes involving Rege Jean and Phoebe Dynevor. The Shonda Rhimes produced series features a number of steamy scenes between the two young actors. These scenes can now be found across the internet, most especially, where you do not want them—on porn websites. Bridgerton is a Netflix period drama series, adapted from Julia Quinn’s series of novels. Netflix describes it as a story in which eight close-knit siblings of the Bridgerton family look for love and happiness in London…

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Written by Adigun BoluwatitoContact:+234 814 791 9343 WandaVision premiered on Friday, the 15th of January, coming to be the first Disney+ drama series from Marvel Studios. Paul Bettany and Elizabeth Olsen will be reprising their roles as Vision and Wanda Maximoff, coming to be Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first movie stars to headline a Marvel TV series since Clark Gregg of S.H.I.E.L.D. It is quite obvious from the trailer released, that WandaVison will be making a lot of references to the 23 previously released MCU films. In fact, Kevin Feige, the chief of Marvel Studios has acknowledged that WandaVision will also…

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This piece is the final installment of an ongoing 3-part series, in which we have expressed our opinion on the the future of cinema. Issue #1 can be read here.Issue #2 can be read here. Physically or digitally, the future of cinema is in great hands. Cinema’s prospects aren’t as dire as people make it to seem. It has only resulted in reduced take-home pay for a few (at the top) who have been treated (or should I say spoilt) to a certain share of the cake for a long time.Who do we blame? Studios, who according to David Fincher…

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