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  • Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom enjoys success in South Africa

    Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom enjoys success in South Africa

    Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom has got really good reviews on the home turf. The film has won rave reviews from South Africans who flocked to its opening night. Directed by Justin Chadwick and the script written by William Nicholson, the film has managed to make Mandela’s life story a highly watchable film.

    The fact that it is faithful to history is making it even more popular, even in the US, where it had a limited. The film that stars Elba as the South African revolutionary and Naomie Harris as Mandela’s wife, Winnie, an activist in her own right, has grossed $73,000 within two days.

  • Idris Elba to star in Beasts of No Nation

    Idris Elba to star in Beasts of No Nation

    MUMBAI: The film financed by Red Crown Productions has roped in Elba, a prominent British actor who was recently seen in Pacific Rim as Stacker Pentecost. Cary Fukunaga will direct the adaptation of Uzodinma Iweala’s bestselling novel.

     

    Red Crown Productions’ Daniela Taplin Lundberg and Riva Marker, Parliament of Owls’ Fukunaga and Primary Productions’ principal Amy Kaufman are producers while Daniel Crown and Bill Benenson will be executive producers.

     

    The story is about a young boy called Agu who turns to mercenary fighters when his west African country is engulfed by a war. He has to face the death of his father and the disappearance of his mother as

     

    sister while fighting with a mute man he makes a friend. He will play the lead role of commander.

     

    Beasts of No Nation was packaged by WME. IM Global’s specialty label Acclaim will do international sales at Toronto Film Festival. Fukunaga has previously directed Jane Eyre and is currently on HBO’s series True Detective.

     

    Elba is to be seen as Nelson Mandela in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, releasing this November. Both Elba and Fukunaga are repped by WME and managed by Anonymous content.