Keshet International Boards South African Murder Mystery ‘Paradys’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Once a model, always a model! Charlize Theron may have moved on to the acting world, but she hasn’t left her cover girl experience far behind! The stunning Oscar winner looked like she stepped off the runway on Friday (March 4) when she attended the Santa Barbara Film Festival in the tony seaside town of southern California. As she graced the stage to give a speech, the Mad Max: Fury Road star stole the spotlight in a fabulous fringe ensemble!

Naman Ramachandran The annual BAFTA film awards will stream exclusively on BritBox, the British programming focused subscription streaming service from BBC Studios and ITV, in the U.S., Canada and South Africa. The 75th EE British Academy Film Awards will stream at the same time as it is broadcast on the BBC in the U.K.

EXCLUSIVE: The documentary film team at Netflix might be popping champagne corks together right about now, if Covid didn’t inhibit the whole in-person office scenario. They’ve got a lot to celebrate.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentHulu has acquired U.S. rights to “Fireheart,” Anton’s ambitious animated family feature directed by Laurent Zeitoun (“Leap!”) and Theodore Ty (“Kung Fu Panda”) with a voice cast headlined by Olivia Cooke, William Shatner, Laurie Holden and Kenneth Branagh.The deal was negotiated with Hulu by CAA Media Finance and Anton’s Cécile Gaget on behalf of the producers. “Fireheart” will debut on Hulu’s streaming platform in the U.S.

EXCLUSIVE: 101 Studios (Yellowstone), Above the Line Productions (Official Secrets), Campfire Studios (WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn) and Pzaj  (Camp Hideout) are teaming up on a feature documentary about the corruption within global soccer organization FIFA.

Naman Ramachandran U.K. broadcaster ITV has commissioned real-life drama “Stonehouse,” from “A Very English Scandal” writer John Preston, directed by BAFTA-nominated Jon S. Baird (“Stan & Ollie”).

Anna Karen has been killed in a house fire in east London.

South African rapper Riky Rick has died aged 34, his family have confirmed.

Series Mania Forum’s 2022 Co-Pro Pitching Sessions.One of Europe’s most prestigious TV competitions, with titles competing for a €50,000 ($56,000) grand prize, this year’s Sessions form part of the Forum, which runs March 22-24.The lineup is rich in projects backed by top-tier producers and sales forces, while sluiced by large themes, such as racial and gender equality.The latest from top Italian company Fandango, producer of “Gomorrah” and “My Brilliant Friend,” “The Impossible She” turns on about the first woman to be selected for a Formula 1 race.

The Vampire Diaries. But despite their different career paths, the couple has gradually become regarded as one of the most endearing —especially as White performed in his last Olympic Games in Beijing in February 2022. After connecting at an event in late 2019, the couple locked down together and is still going strong in 2022. Here's everything you need to know about Shaun White and Nina Dobrev's relationship.July: At the 2021 Teen Choice Awards, Shaun White presented the cast of Nina's show The Vampire Diaries with the awards for Choice Show in the sci-fi/fantasy category.

risky business.The 59-year-old action star proved that he still does his own stunts accomplishing a “Top Gun” moment on Tuesday when he landed his own helicopter in South Africa.And in typical Tom Cruise fashion, he was smiling and waving the whole time.Gillian Soames, who lives in Hoedspruit, said the “Jack Reacher” actor has flown by her town several times, but she got to witness his mega-watt smile up close when she snapped photos of him expertly landing the chopper.“For the last week, he has driven past my house two or three times a day and flies over every day and night to wherever they are filming that day,” she told South West News Service.In fact, Soames said that Cruise was staying just a few hundred meters from her home and has been a “delight” to locals.“I must have seen him 11 times now,” she added, “but yesterday was the first time he took off his mask to smile for us so we could see his face.” Soames, 49, also added it’s the first time she’s seen him flying the helicopter on his own, though the veteran actor is well-known for doing his own risky stunts — like recently when he was photographed riding atop a speeding train and grinning for fans and paparazzi. “It was also the first time he flew the chopper himself,” she noted to SWNS.

photographer Frank de Beer told Caters News Agency of the acci-dental video, which was filmed in Balule Nature Reserve on Feb. 7.The fotog reportedly got the jaw-some shot by leaving the video camera on a dirt path frequented by lions in an effort to get one of the big cats to pick it up in its maw.

Christopher Vourlias A quirky, colorful murder mystery set in the South African outback will be served up in “Recipes for Love and Murder,” which premieres its first two episodes Feb. 15 as part of the Berlinale Series Market Selects lineup at the European Film Market.Based on the best-selling novels by Sally Andrew, the series follows recipe advice columnist Tannie Maria and her colleague, rookie journalist Jessie September, who spring into action when a woman who was seeking advice about an abusive husband is found dead.Between cooking rich mutton curry and decadent chocolate cake, answering letters, and getting in the way of the local policemen, Maria and Jessie are determined to solve this murder mystery and catch the killer.

Charlize Theron revealed the identity of her Super Bowl LVI companion on Instagram. Theron, 46, shared a selfie of herself and the man nobody could identify. It turns out he was the husband of one of Theron's friends.

Not so fast! Charlize Theron wants everyone to know that she is, in fact, not dating her 2022 Super Bowl date.

Christopher Vourlias Known Associates Entertainment, the production company behind the South African adaptation of the Colombian telenovela that inspired “Ugly Betty,” is planning to break ground on a Hollywood-style film studio outside Johannesburg that will boost capacity in one of the world’s hottest shooting locations.Cradle Film Studios will be built across the road from the Cradle of Humankind, a sprawling archaeological site where traces of some of the earliest humans were discovered.Comprising state-of-the-art studios and backlots, a data center, an innovation hub, and a housing development, the complex will be located 30 miles from Johannesburg and just 10 minutes from an international airport. It will also include a theme park that takes its inspiration from the world-renowned fossil site.

Christopher Vourlias Peter Nadermann’s Nadcon Film and South African genre specialists Gambit Films (“Indemnity”) are teaming up to adapt a trilogy of best-selling crime thrillers, Variety can reveal.The “Revenge Trilogy” is based on the Cape Town-set novels from South African author Mike Nicol. The books will be adapted for screen by Gambit’s Daryne Joshua and will be produced by Gambit Films and Nadcon Film in cooperation with ZDF Enterprises, which co-owns Nadcon.The story begins with ex-gun-runners Mace Bishop and Pylon Buso, who made an illicit fortune while part of the struggle against Apartheid but are now at the helm of a private security company, trying to settle into a comfortable life in Cape Town.

Christopher Vourlias Germany’s Sola Media has closed a wave of international sales for the animated feature “Finnick,” produced by Riki Group, which will be released by Sony Pictures Russia in Russia and CIS on March 24.The CGI-animated comedy follows the adventures of 13-year-old Christine, who befriends the young prankster Finnick – one of the furry and usually invisible beings known as Finns. The odd couple has to team up as detectives to solve the mysterious events happening in their city.The Stuttgart-based sales agency has inked deals with Eagle Pictures (Italy), Independent Films (Benelux), Koch Films (German/Austria/Switzerland), Vertigo Releasing (U.K.), Tanweer (Greece), Selmer Media (Scandinavia), Myndform (Iceland), Rialto (Australia and New Zealand), and Black Sheep Films (South Africa), and holds exclusive distribution rights in multiple additional territories.