Disney+ Sets Animated Sci-Fi Anthology ‘Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire’, Picks Up ‘Kiya And The Kimoja Heroes’ – Annecy

Spike Lee made history at the Cannes Film Festival jury press conference Tuesday.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefAMM Global, a production and investment company spun out of Hong Kong’s Asia Television, and Phoenix Waters Productions have announced “Crypto Keepers,” which they claim will be Asia’s first NFT drama series.NFTs or non-fungible tokens, which aim to lock in the value of digital intellectual property, have taken the art and music worlds by storm and are now being expanded into more traditional media spheres.The drama, an English and Cantonese language hybrid, is

If you thought that you would finally be able to enjoy TV after the EUROs then you are sorely mistaken as the British & Irish Lions rugby team will be playing in South Africa this summer.

Rebecca Davis editorA senior journalist at Hong Kong’s recently shuttered pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily has been arrested at the airport attempting to leave the city, according to local reports.Editorial writer Fung Wai-kong was halted Sunday and arrested on suspicion of “conspiring to collude with foreign countries or foreign sources to endanger national security,” a crime punishable by up to life in prison via the city’s Beijing-imposed security law.

Lil Nas X laid it all out on stage at the BET Awards on Sunday with a royal rendition of “Montero”, sealed with a kiss.

Lil Nas X laid it all out on stage at the BET Awards on Sunday with a royal rendition of “Montero”, sealed with a kiss.

Jesse Eisenberg, Adrien Brody and Riley Keough will star in “Manodrome,” a thriller from South African director John Trengrove as he makes his English-language directorial debut.

Jesse Eisenberg, Adrien Brody, and Riley Keough will star in Manodrome, a film written and to be directed by South African director John Trengrove, marking his English-language debut. Pic package will be presented to buyers and financiers during the Cannes virtual market just getting underway.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterJesse Eisenberg, Adrien Brody, and Riley Keough have been cast in director John Trengrove’s English-language feature debut “Manodrome.”Launching sales at the virtual Cannes market, the South African director of “The Wound” presents a nihilistic thriller following Ralphie (Eisenberg), an Uber driver and aspiring bodybuilder who is inducted into a libertarian masculinity cult and loses his grip on reality when his repressed desires are awakened.Keough, Gina

Apple Daily, Hong Kong’s most-read newspaper and the territory’s leading opposition voice, may end all its operations by the end of this week.Local authorities and the city’s new Security Bureau have arrested several of its top editors on national security grounds and ordered the freezing of HK$18 million ($2.3 million) of its affiliates’ financial assets.

Naman Ramachandran Producer Tendeka Matatu’s London and South Africa-based production company Ten10 Films is expanding and rebranding as Ten10 Entertainment.The Ten10-produced neo-noir thriller “Cold Harbour” is currently streaming on Netflix.The name change reflects the outfit’s rapidly growing global slate of original series and film projects, which will be overseen by new head of development Jafta Mamabolo, an actor, writer, director and producer from Johannesburg.Based out of South Africa,

Sky News' Kay Burley has branded herself an "idiot" for breaking COVID regulations on her 60th birthday in December.The journalist was celebrating at a "Covid compliant" restaurant but afterwards "popped into" another venue to use the bathroom.MORE: Sky News host Kay Burley flies to exclusive South African resort after breaking COVID-19 rulesThe breach saw her suspended from work for six months after an internal investigation found she and "a small number" of staff broke Tier 2 rules.WATCH:

Christopher Vourlias To understand the success of Triggerfish, the fast-rising, Cape Town-based animation house, which won the prestigious MIFA Animation Industry Award this week in Annecy, one need look no further than the circumstances of its birth 25 years ago.South Africa was finally emerging from the shadows of apartheid, a cruel and exploitive system of institutionalized racism that had oppressed its Black-majority population for nearly 50 years.

Rebecca Davis editorFive hundred Hong Kong police officers raided the offices of pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily on Thursday.

Jamie Lang Disney EMEA hosted its annual Studio Focus at this year’s Annecy Animation Festival, lamentably pre-recorded for the second edition in a row, where the company announced a pair of new African series, the sci-fi anthology series “Kizazi Moto: Generation of Fire” led by “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” co-director Peter Ramsey, and a musical kids show titled “Kiff” from South Africa.“This year’s fest is about celebrating African animation,” said Orion Ross, VP of original

Christopher Vourlias Disney has tapped top toon talents from across the African continent for “Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire,” a Disney Plus Original anthology of animated films set to premiere on the Mouse House’s streaming platform in late 2022.Inspired by the continent’s diverse histories and cultures, the 10-part anthology brings together a slate of rising animation talents from six African nations to produce action-packed sci-fi and fantasy stories that will present bold visions of advanced

EXCLUSIVE: The nutty world of Kiff is coming to Disney Channel, which ordered the animated series from South African creators and executive producers Lucy Heavens (Space Chickens in Space) and Nic Smal (Caillou). Kent Osborne (Adventure Time, Spongebob SquarePants, Phineas and Ferb) serves as co-producer and story editor.

Ben Croll Following the launch of startups in Kenya and South Africa in 2015, and the victory of Nigerian filmmaker Joel Kachi Benson’s “Daughters of Chibok” at Venice’s VR competition in 2019, industry eyes have looked to the African XR ecosystem with ever-growing interest.Some of that interest, however, has been a little short-sighted, so speakers at a NewImages panel about the growing African ecosystem made sure to set the record straight.“Over the years, there’s been a refocus on the