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21 May 2013 8:10 AM, PDT | ShadowAndAct | See recent ShadowAndAct news »

John Boyega, will star alongside Clare Bowen and Jason Isaacs in Zimbambwean filmmaker Sunu Gonera's Riding with Sugar.   Gonera's last feature film was the 2007 drama, Pride, which starred Terrence Howard, Kimberly Elise, Bernie Mac and others, his feature film directorial debut. Gonera was born in Zimbabwe, where he attended a private school, thanks to a scholarship as well as his athletic abilities, which opened doors for him, including another scholarship to the University of Cape Town, where he got a degree in Psychology. He went on to have a successful career in banking, and eventually decided to take on his dreams of acting and making movies, working his »

- Tambay A. Obenson

14 May 2013 9:56 AM, PDT | ShadowAndAct | See recent ShadowAndAct news »

It never ocurred to me that the 2007 drama, Pride, which starred Terrence Howard, Kimberly Elise, Bernie Mac and others, was directed by a Zimbambwean filmmaker named Sunu Gonera. Film blogging wasn't anything I was doing at the time, and I think was more focused on filmmaking, so I don't recall if I ever bothered to find out who directed the film, or if I did, but didn't do any further research on his name to find out that he was an African man. It's not exactly often that black African filmmakers are helming Hollywood studio movies, so I figured this one deserved mention, since his name really hasn't been mentioned on this blog - well, once, about a year ago, but more as a footnote »

- Tambay A. Obenson

1 May 2013 4:56 PM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »

• In case you chose to forget about Equus and Kill Your Darlings, we’re just here to remind you that Daniel Radcliffe is really never going back to his Harry Potter days. He’s just lined up a new project: an adaptation of Jake Adelstein’s Tokyo Vice, a non-fiction account of Adelstein’s work as an American crime journalist in Japan. Music video director Anthony Mandler (Taylor Swift’s “I Knew You Were Trouble” and Rihanna’s “Diamonds”) will helm the feature, and playwright J.T. Rogers will write the script. [Deadline]

• Natalie Portman knows a thing or two about playing characters blinded by ambition. »

- Lindsey Bahr

3 items from 2013