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Deep-seated desire: Radical changes are needed to get local audiences back into cinemas and supporting South African productions.

Rewriting the South African cinema script

Movie theatres are empty but South African stories are abundant — what’s the disconnect?

Issues: Botswanan artist and photographer Thero Makepe’s work Insurance, 2024 will be at his exhibition It’s Not Going to Get Better.

Diary: The realities in Botswana, A Month of Love and Fresh Met operas on South African big screens

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Redefine currently leases 73 116 square metres to Pick n Pay.  (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Pick n Pay, Ster-Kinekor unprofitable for Redefine

The property group says it is reducing space it lets to underperforming tenants

It’s a wrap for Team Jemini, one of 34 teams of local filmmakers who will showcase their creativity on the big screen.
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Creativity in the fast lane with 48HFP

Joburg creatives bring films from scratch to screen in just 48 hours

Star-crossed lovers: Roméo et Juliette will be one of the operas screened at Ster-Kinekor theatres.

Diary: A new gallery opening, Sjava deluxe edition, and opera at Ster-Kinekor

The Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live high-definition cinema simulcasts is into its 17th season at select Ster-Kinekor and Cinema Nouveau cinemas

Blinkered: The big screen industry is still recovering from Covid. Ster-Kinekor went into business rescue in January 2021 until November 2022. Photo: Sourced

Ster-Kinekor suffers blockbuster blues

But the cinema group’s chief executive insists that the show will go on as load-shedding abates

Seven budget-friendly family vacation activities: How Old Mutual Rewards makes it possible

Enhance your holiday experience without straining your finances. Old Mutual Rewards helps you to stretch both your imagination and your hard-earned Rands further

Ster-Kinekor’s successful exit from business rescue has saved it from liquidation and ensured the continued employment of staff and the refinancing of existing capital structures.

Ster-Kinekor escapes liquidation, thanks to investment

The R250 million transaction involved dealing with the cinema group’s debt, as well as the purchase of 100% of its shares by UK and local firms

The release of the new James Bond, film’s favourite super spy, is more significant than ever. (Photo by Money SHARMA / AFP) (Photo by MONEY SHARMA/AFP via Getty Images)

‘No Time to Die’: James Bond’s not-so-secret mission to save cinema

The release of the new James Bond, film’s favourite super spy, is more significant than ever

Film director Rethabile Ramaphakela and her sister Katleho released their romcom, Seriously Single, on Netflix, after it could not screen in cinemas. (Photo: Paul Botes)

What’s the future for cinema?

Industry experts say movie theatres will survive the effects of the lockdown only if more of them start providing an experience viewers can’t replicate at home

Directed by Kagiso Lediga and Tebogo Malope in the first original African series commissioned by US streaming giant Netflix. (Netflix)
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Queen Sono moers the dudes

The spy drama with its kick-ass heroine Queen Sono shows the continent in a new light

Behind the scenes of Blood in Blood out, a short film created under the 48-hour film project. (Ntsiki Tladi)
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When your friends become your crew

With help from friends, colleagues, and family, an upcoming director makes his big-screen debut

Leaps and bounds:3D films are becoming ever more popular and have changed the way we want to be entertained.(Kenzo Tribouillard, AFP)

Romance of the movies fades

As Ster-Kinekor’s cinemas switch over ?to digital only, what ?do we lose with the ?end of celluloid?