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  • CSA T20 Global League reschedules player draft dates

    CSA T20 Global League reschedules player draft dates

    MUMBAI: CSA T20 Global league has rescheduled its player draft from 19 August to 26 and 27 August. Almost 400 players from 10 countries have confirmed their interest in the league.

    The owner of Stellenbosch (Brimstone) franchise has meanwhile pulled out of T20 Global League.

    Brimstone was among two South African owners in the league proposed by Cricket South Africa. Osman Osman, the owner of a lifestyle brand, was the other local buyer, while the other six franchises went to two IPL franchises, two PSL franchises, and representatives from Hong Kong and Dubai.

    These seven franchises will be based out of Durban, Benoni, Pretoria, Cape Town, Bloemfontein, Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth.

    CSA chief executive Haroon Lorgat said: “We are engaged in promising discussions with several interested parties, both local and abroad, who are interested in owning the Stellenbosch franchise.”’

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  • ‘The Lunchbox’, ‘Monsoon Shootout’ travelling to more festivals overseas

    ‘The Lunchbox’, ‘Monsoon Shootout’ travelling to more festivals overseas

    NEW DELHI: The Lunchbox directed by Ritesh Batra appears to be garnering much more attention than it would have got at the Oscars. The film has visited many international festivals and is set to go to two more soon.

    The Lunchbox will compete at the 24th Stockholm Film Festival being held from 6 to 17 November, and at the American Film Institute Festival from 7 to 14 November.

    Amit Kumar’s Monsoon Shootout and Remo D’Souza’s Any Body Can Dance (ABCD) will screen under the Asian Images section in Stockholm.

    The Lunchbox, making its Nordic Premiere at the festival, will compete with films like Paul Wright’s For Those in Peril, Anthony Chen’s Ilo Ilo and Amat Escalante’s Heli. The section showcases directors making their first, second or third feature film.  .

    Monsoon Shootout has earlier been screened at Cannes, Durban, Sydney, Jerusalem and London Indian Film Festivals. Remo D’Souza’s Any Body Can Dance (ABCD) is a 3D dance film directed and choreographed by Remo D’Souza and produced by UTV.

    Meanwhile, a total of 32 titles will be screened in the World Cinema section of the AFI. The complete programme includes 119 films (83 features, 36 shorts) from 43 countries.

    The Lunchbox, featuring Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur and Nawazuddin Siddiqui, had its world premiere at the International Critics’ Week of the Cannes Film Festival and has since travelled to several important festivals including Telluride, Toronto, Karlovy Vary, Zurich and BFI London.

  • Madhuri Dixit and Priyanka Chopra to perform in Durban

    Madhuri Dixit and Priyanka Chopra to perform in Durban

    MUMBAI: The divas of Bollywood Madhuri Dixit and Priyanka Chopra are set to perform at Saifta (the South Africa India Film and Television Awards) at Durban‘s ICC on 6 September.

     

    Chopra is a former Miss World and one of Bollywood‘s leading ladies, while Dixit is arguably Bollywood‘s best actress and dancer.

     

    The A-list actresses are the latest to add their names to the stellar Bollywood line-up which includes Ranveer Singh and Siddharth Malhotra, tele-stars Manish Paul, Mona Singh, Apurva Agnihotri and Shilpa Agnihotri.

     

    Dia Mirza and film-maker Karan Johar will host the awards this year. Initially, Saif was the first choice, but he was unable to attend because of a clash of dates.

     

    To add more spice, more than 150 prominent film and TV personalities, including actors, film producers and former model John Abraham, will be walking the Saifta red carpet, along with the who‘s who of the film and television industry from both countries.

     

    These celebrities will get a chance to rub shoulders and interact with 30 top film and TV personalities of South Africa.

     

    Model Jaqueline Fernandes, who wowed the audience at the Saifta launch in March, along with the unconventional rapper Hard Kaur, will be back by popular demand.

     

    With little more than two weeks until the awards, the organisers, Celebrity Locker and the Department of Economic Development and Tourism in KZN, are billing the event as the social occasion of the year.

     

    An audience of 6,000 fans and celebrities is expected to attend the gala Saifta extravaganza, and plenty more are expected to gather on the Durban ICC Arena Concourse to watch the Bollywood stars walk the red carpet.

  • Korean broadcaster SBS International gets rights for 2010, 2014 Fifa World Cups

    Korean broadcaster SBS International gets rights for 2010, 2014 Fifa World Cups

    MUMBAI: Football Media Services (FMS), the joint venture between Infront Sports & Media and Dentsu handling the distribution of Asian broadcast rights to the 2007-2014 Fifia events on behalf of soccer’s governing body Fifa has successfully negotiated a broadcast rights agreement with Korean broadcaster SBS International.

    The agreement covers the broadcast rights in Korea for all 2007-2014 Fifa events, including all matches of the 2010 and 2014 Fifa World Cups.

    SBS International is the international acquisition arm of Seoul Broadcasting System, one of the leading national South Korean television and radio networks. SBS was previously a joint rights holder for the 2002 and 2006 Fifa World Cups along with two other major networks in Korea.

    FMS MD TMichael Francombe says, “The agreement with SBS International is a great start for Fifa’s distribution plans in Asia and for Football Media Services. I am confident that SBS will be an excellent and innovative partner for Fifa.

    “Working with a major national broadcaster will ensure maximum coverage and audiences for the Fifa World Cups and other Fifa events in this important Asian market.”

    The 2010 Fifa World Cup will take place across nine cities in South Africa: Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Bloemfontein, Nelspruit, Polokwane, Port Elizabeth, Pretoria and Rustenburg. The final event will consist of 64 matches. The international signal will be produced by Host Broadcast Services (HBS). HBS was also the host broadcaster for the 2002 World Cup Korea/Japan and 2006 Fifa World Cup Germany.