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  • Mark Angel Comedy team accepts Senate invitation as Emmanuella lands Disney role

    The Mark Angel Comedy team has accepted Senate President Bukola Saraki invitation of popular Nigerian comedienne Emmanuella Samuel to the upper house of Nigeria’s bicameral legislature, after the lad landed a Disney Hollywood film role.

    TheNewsGuru reports yesterday Senate President Saraki invited the Nigeria’s most popular kid sensation to the Senate, while also congratulating her for landing the Disney role.

    TheNewsGuru reports comedienne Emmanuella took to Instagram to announce her Disney Studios presence, saying, “I never dreamed of being here so soon”.

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    Accepting the invitation to the Senate, in a tweet, the Mark Angel Comedy team expressed excitement, and thanked the Senate President for the invitation.

    Emmanuella was three months ago signed as a brand ambassador to Blueboat Fresh Yo yoghurt, a deal said to be worth millions of naira, ultimately, making the young chap a millionaire.

    Emmanuella was in 2016 awarded the best new comedienne and princess of comedy at the Afro-Australia Music and Movie Awards in Australia.

    She is also the first African to have one million subscribers on her YouTube channel.

    In a recent post on Instagram, the lad mulls becoming an Olympic gold medalist.

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  • Saraki invites Nigerian comedienne, Emmanuella to Senate

    Nigeria Senate President Bukola Saraki has invited popular comedic act, Emmanuella Samuel of Mark Angel Comedy company to the Nigerian Senate to discuss how to develop the potential of young talents in the creative industry.

    This is coming after the fledgling talent was seen with Disney Studios producers, and The Guardian reporting the popular comedienne Emmanuella is set to feature in a Disney Hollywood film.

    In his congratulatory message to Emmanuella, after hitting the Disney Studios deal to feature in the Disney Hollywood film, Saraki charged the lad to “make them laugh over there”.

    “Congratulations Emmanuella! Make sure you make them laugh over there,” the Senate President tweeted, adding: “Your story is an inspiration. Come by the @NGRSenate sometime, let’s discuss how we can develop the potential of our young talents in the creative industry”.

    Comedienne Emmanuella, who took to Instagram to announce her Disney Studios presence, said, “I never dreamed of being here so soon”.

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    Emmanuella was in 2016 awarded the best new comedienne and princess of comedy at the Afro-Australia Music and Movie Awards in Australia.

    She is also the first African to have one million subscribers on her YouTube channel.

     

  • 5 Trending movies you must see this weekend

    Here is a list of top trending movies carefully compiled for your viewership by TheNewsGuru.com to keep your holidays groovy. Enjoy it!

    The Foreigner

    This is an interesting movie about Quan who is a humble London businessman whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love — his teenage daughter — dies in a senseless act of politically motivated terrorism.

    His relentless search to find the terrorists leads to a cat-and-mouse conflict with a British government official whose own past may hold the clues to the identities of the elusive killers.

    Proud Mary

    Taraji P. Henson is Mary, a hitwoman working for an organized crime family in Boston. Mary’s life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes awry.

    Busted

    Queen, born as a girl child into a decent home whose father’s strictness and mother’s ignorance led her into the arms of the maid whose consolation changed her entire being.

    Now as a grown woman unknown to her parents Queen has a different understanding to Life and has taken to a new lifestyle, she eventually meets The Love of her life Blessing; another beautiful young lady who willingly surrendered to the lifestyle due to the economic hardship.

    Hangman

    Decorated homicide detective Ray Archer (Al Pacino) partners with criminal profiler Will Ruiney (Karl Urban) to catch one of the city’s notoriously vicious serial killers, who is playing a twisted version of murder using the child’s game… HANGMAN, while journalist Christi Davies (Brittany Snow) reports on the crime spree, shadowing the detectives.

    Downsizing

    Downsizing imagines what might happen if, as a solution to over-population, Norwegian scientists discover how to shrink humans to five inches tall and propose a 200-year global transition from big to small.

    People soon realize how much further money goes in a miniaturized world, and with the promise of a better life, everyman Paul Safranek (Matt Damon) and wife Audrey (Kristen Wiig) decide to abandon their stressed lives in Omaha in order to get small and move to a new downsized community — a choice that triggers life-changing adventures.

     

     

  • Photos: Red carpet highlights from 2018 Golden Globes Award

    The 75th Golden Globes Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles last night. All eyes were on the stars of the big and small screens as they arrive on the Golden Globes 2018 red carpet dressed in black in solidarity with survivors of sexual assault and harassment.

    In the week before the ceremony, hundreds of females in film signed up to the Time’s Up campaign, shining the spotlight on gender equality in the workplace.

    From Kendall Jenner’s glamorous high-low tulle dress to woman of the night Oprah Winfrey’s stunning velvet dress; hollywood’s best brought unforgettable black dresses that did not disappoint.

    Kendall Jenner
    Issa Rae
    Naomi Campbell
    Mariah Carey
    Penelope Cruz

    …And the woman man of the night!

    Oprah Winfrey

    See more stylish looks from the night below.

    Dakota Johnson
    Catherine Zeta Jones
    Allison Williams


    Viola Davies

    Christina Hendricks
    Kate Hudson
    Maryl Streep and Ai-Jen Poo
    Gal Gadot
    Kerry Washington
    Jessica Biel
    Reese Witherspoon
    Angelina Jolie
    Mary J. Blige

     

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  • Facebook original TV quality shows to premiere soon

    Facebook Incorporated is reportedly in talks with Hollywood studios about producing originally scripted, TV quality shows.

    Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that the social network aims to launching original programming by late summer in what will be the outcome of the talks.

    The social media giant has indicated that it is willing to commit to production budgets as high as $3m per episode, in meetings with Hollywood talent agencies, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

    According to reports, Facebook is hoping to target audiences from ages 13 to 34, with a focus on the 17 to 30 range.

    The company has already lined up “Strangers”, a relationship drama, and a game show, “Last State Standing”, the report said.

    Although, Facebook is yet to release official statements on the matter, the tech firm is expected to release episodes in a traditional manner, instead of dropping an entire season in one go like Netflix and Amazon.com, WSJ reported.

    The company is also willing to share its viewership data with Hollywood, the report added.

    Meanwhile, recently, Apple hired co-presidents of Sony Pictures Television, Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg to lead its video-programming efforts.

    Apple began its long-awaited move into original television series last week, with a reality show called “Planet of the Apps”, an unscripted show about developers trying to interest celebrity mentors with a 60-second pitch on an escalator.

    The company’s future programming plans include an adaptation of comedian James Corden’s “Carpool Karaoke” segment from his CBS Corporation show that will begin airing in August.

     

  • ‘La La Land’ leads diverse Oscar nominations line-up

    ‘La La Land’ leads diverse Oscar nominations line-up

    Romantic musical “La La Land” led the Oscar nominations on Tuesday with 14 nods, including the top prize of best picture and best actor nominations for its stars, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone.

    It will contend with sci-fi movie “Arrival” with eight nods; war movie “Hacksaw Ridge”; modern western “Hell or High Water”; and dramas “Manchester by the Sea,” “Moonlight”, “Hidden Figures,” “Lion” and “Fences.”

    The 14 nominations of “La La Land” for the highest honours in the movie industry equalled the record held by 1997 blockbuster “Titanic” and the 1950 film “All About Eve.”

    In the best actor category, Gosling will compete with Casey Affleck, who plays a grieving father in “Manchester by the Sea”; “Fences” star Denzel Washington; British actor Andrew Garfield of “Hacksaw Ridge” and Viggo Mortensen’s unorthodox dad in “Captain Fantastic.”

    In a key difference from 2016 and 2015, seven people of colour were among the acting nominees, and four of the five best picture contenders told African-American or Indian stories.

    They included supporting actor nominees Dev Patel for “Lion,” and Mahershala Ali and Naomie Harris for “Moonlight,” the tale of a young boy struggling with his sexual identity in an impoverished Miami neighbourhood.

    “Hidden Figures,” about three black female mathematicians working on the U.S. space programme in the 1960s, brought a supporting actress nod for Octavia Spencer.

    Last year, all 20 acting nominees were white, unleashing#OscarsSoWhite backlash on social media for the second consecutive year.

    Some notable absences on Tuesday’s list included Annette Bening’s star turn in “20th Century Women” and Amy Adams performance as a linguist in “Arrival.”

    Martin Scorsese’s religious passion project “Silence,” which was 28 years in the making, was missing from the main categories and earned just one nomination, for sound editing.

     

  • Christmas Special: 5 Exciting movies to see this Christmas

    These movies are bound to be good company for everyone this Christmas, and you should make it an exciting Christmas weekend as top movies are scheduled to hit the cinemas.

    Below are some exciting movies to see on Christmas day…

    AYAMMA

    Ayamma is a Nigerian story based on love, treachery, lust and revenge all entwined in the beauty of music & dance, set in the beautiful Akwa Ibom state, Ayaama tells a story of a dangerous love triangle between a beautiful maiden Ihuoma (Adesua Etomi), the handsome prince and heir to the throne Prince Daraima (Wole Ojo), and his betrothed bride, envious Princess Ama (Tinsel star, Theresa Edem), the arrogant child to a neighbouring Monarch.

    PASSENGERS

    On a routine journey through space to a new home, two passengers, sleeping in suspended animation, are awakened 90 years too early when their ship malfunctions. As Jim and Aurora face living the rest of their lives on board, with every luxury they could ever ask for, they begin to fall for each other, unable to deny their intense attraction until they discover the ship is in grave danger. With the lives of 5,000 sleeping passengers at stake, only Jim and Aurora can save them all.

    ASSASSIN’S CREED

    Assassin’s Creed is another interesting movie about Callum Lynch who travels back in time to 15th-century Spain through a revolutionary technology that unlocks the genetic memories contained in his DNA. There, he lives out the experiences of Aguilar de Nerha, a distant relative who’s also a member of the Assassins, a secret society that fights to protect free will from the power-hungry Templar Order. Transformed by the past, Cal begins to gain the knowledge and physical skills necessary to battle the oppressive organization in the present.

    COLLATERAL BEAUTY

    The Christmas will not be complete without this movie. When a successful New York advertising executive (Will Smith) suffers a great tragedy, he retreats from life. While his concerned friends try desperately to reconnect with him, he seeks answers from the universe by writing letters to Love, Time and Death. When his notes bring unexpected personal responses, he begins to understand how these constants interlock in a life fully lived and how even the deepest loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.

    DANGAL

    Former wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat (Aamir Khan) trains young daughters Geeta (Fatima Sana Shaikh) and Babita (Sanya Malhotra) to follow in his footsteps and become world-class grapplers.