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Some people claim it's all about the money and making the Oscars. What about Slumdog Millionaire? It was directed by a foreigner but with the local actors/ actresses. He even used their local dialects for the movie with English subtitles. The movie grossed in a lotta dough and won prestigious awards, no?

The last time I checked Dev Patel is a London boy acting in English sitcoms

Freida is from a Portuguese decendant living in India.

Now lets talk about the Indians used, we are talking about Bollywood stars.


The Bottom line is if you want to see the Ini Edo, Tonto and Gene in the Movie then stump up the cash for the movie (Around £15m) if not then shush!!! at the end of the day none of you have the legal right to the story.

Ghandi was played by Ben Kingsley an Englishman (not Indian)

Che was played by Benicio del Toro a Puerto Rican (not Cuban)

Selena was played by Jenifer Lopez a Puerto Rican (Not Mexican)

Mandela was played by both Danny Glover and Morgan Freeman Americans (Not South Africans)

Troy was played Brad Pitt and Sean Bean who have no relationship to Greeks, Eric Bana and Peter O’Toole are not Trojans.

Gwyneth Paltrow is American but played a Shakespeare character

Colin Farrell, is Irish who played a Macedonian King in Alexander the great

Halle berry is a terrible actress and she only got that award so the black community would be quiet about a black women never getting an Oscar

They could have easily given it to Angela for her role as Betty Shebazz in Malcolm X

Oh please!!!! she wasnt even nominated

why should i blame Nigerian actresses for reetarded writers/directors? They can only do what they are asked to do? Bimbo has mentioned that she barely acts now cos the scripts she gets are garbage, I respect her for that,. but how many can afford to do that?

The last time I checked the writers were not holding a gun to the actresses head

Bimbo Akintola who still remains one of my favorite and in old Nollywood i will go for Liz Benson although some may not agree,but for her time she was articulate and did a good job.Terry is speaking a native language in Totsi,I would like to hear her speak english

Go and watch catch a fire or good bye bafana

@Omar22 White actors have a higher chance of winning Oscars than their Black counterparts. Chiwetel and Adewale Akinnuoye are examples of actors that, if Hollywood were black run, would have won or be nominated for Oscars at some point (even if for supporting roles at best).  

The Oscars generally is not a good tool to measure talent in actors of color.

Angela Basset hasn't won an oscar, but Jennifer Hudson and Hally Berry have. Come on now

Look lets put aside racism! Adewale is good but not that good, Chiwetel is very good and he would definitely in an oscar but come on Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise or Kean Reeves have not won the gong,

Angela Bassette only came close once when she acted the in "Whats Love got to with it",  but she lost to Holly Hunter who was a better actress than her and she never got close  to the award, she didnt even act in a blockbuster movie since then the role she turned down (monster Ball) got Halle Berry the award,  Jennifer Hudson was brilliant in her role in Dream Girls despite the fact that they (producers) tried so much to make Beyonce the star of the movie

You believe SA produces better actresses than Naija? Where could the SA actresses be?? if back in the day Steven Spielberg cast an unknown actress outside south Africa to act opposite whoopi Goldberg in sarafina why did they have Jennifer Hudson act as Winnie Mandela??

Name me a better Nigerian Actress than Terry Pheto?

Look at you. Na white woman you can quickly name.  

has she done an actual SA movie? Can she even speak the language? one of those entitled fools who watched as real SAs cleaned after her.

She is fluent in Afrikaan, lets put aside colour!!

If you were to put up $50m to finance a movie (African story) would you pick A Nollywood star over a Hollywood star?

Go and read about Jamie Foxx's comment about his experience when they were filming A Given Sunday acting alongside Al Pacino and Diaz, this is a guy who is so used to low budget movies like Booty Call or Players Club was told to take a giant step, he said he was so nervous that they had to scale down his character in movie!

We have better actors in Nigeria than they do in South Africa

I believe Charlize Theron is South African!!!


AN OSCAR ACADEMY WINNER!!!!

omar22, I believe we have amazing actresses, yet you dont agree so obviously we're not gonna agree

If you think a woman who received an American RAZZIE award is better than every actress in Nigeria, na your wahala be that o.

Who?

An Actress in Sharon Stone of Abuja or Blackberry Girls
An Actress in Omo Ghetto or Jenifa

Why do you think the likes of Vivica fox, Nia Long, Gabriel Union all disappeared from the cinema screen now on home movies unless if Perry Tyler gives them a call? because they are not versatile they are like an upgrade of the Nollywood stars

abeg No be the same JK that was living in her CAR before the book became successful. Im sure even if the book wasnt such a massive success, she would have made the same rules.

Oh yeah, she even begged and lived out of her suitcase her and her daughter, she approached so many publisher for her book they all said NO NO NO, but one decided to give it a go, Best decision ever made!!!!

JK Rowling commanded much more respect at the time of the First Harry Potter movie than any author in the world ever will.

How many tens of millions of copies did the series sell anyway?


Chimamanda's novel was not a bestseller although it did very well in literary circles - I'm not sure that placing her and Rowling at the same fame level is a good idea.

JK Rowling was almost a Billionaire before the first movie was screened

In other words they followed her word. it's HER book. she makes THE rules. No matter the "production company". JK wanted the movie to stay true to her book.

Now what is stopping Chindieme from commanding the same respect?

J. K. Rowling has the financial muscle to fund all the series the Nigerian Author is not in the same category. Harry Potter is not a true life story. The main fact here is that Nollywood stars are not up to scratch!!! I could remember watching the "Mirror Boy" Genevieve was the mother of a Gambian boy! tell me if Gene is so GOOD why didnt she speak with a Gambian Ascent? I have watched so many version of Mandela played by Americans with Afrikaans ascent. I have seen Omotola act as a student, wife, house-girl and top official! she acted the same way, she spoke the same way in all  4 roles and its the same for the rest! eyes rolling looking down their nose at people, am sorry top actresses and actor do not act a role but they become the character of the person they are acting! Will Smith had to learn how to speak like Muhammed Ali, gain the physique and the swagger and arrogance before he starts shooting not the Crash Bang Wallop they churn out in seconds at Nollywood,

Plenty of Nigerian actresses that could play the role

I BEG TO DIFFER


Do you honestly believe if I put forward 10s of million of $$$$ for a movie, I wouldnt go anywhere near a Nollywood actor or actress? even if the movie is based of the life story of my twin brother!

Am sorry it has to be F1 2010 and F1 2011

Thats proper racing from car set up, tyres, circuit, penalties and strategies,

Not only God's words but also his promises!!!

Not only God's words but also his promises!!!

I understand you do not fall sick and you get money from other areas. Why do you think this is happening just because you pay tithes? Do they pay tithes in Dubai? why are they so rich and have better life expentancy than Nigerians. Do Bill Gates, warren Buffet and Carlso Slim pay tithes? In fact i just read in the papers this morning that Bill Gates is giving another $750million to help in the work against fighting the scourge of AIDS.Why isnt there a known tither in the top 10 richest men in the world?

Look its simple,  in the bible they are some principles that say if you do A you would get B! No matter what you believe in! they are principles some call it God's promises,  and it didnt say Christain, Muslim, Jews, Gentiles or unbelievers,,,

Example: "In the Bible it says give and it shall be given unto you" thats why God blesses so many of those who are into Charity work. Look at David Beckham I cant remember the last time someone said they saw them in church compared to Taribo that owns a Church,  Look at countries like UK and US that give Aids to the poor! compared to Nigeria with all the oil in the world Am yet to think that we have handed £1bn to other parts of Africa unless theirs an agenda!


Thats why someone like Creflo Dollar always argue that if a Non believer could tap into such principles and become weathy why we believer take the right steps, Napolean Hill released a book in the 20s or 30s but they paid him to withdraw the book from the market, because its a book that coach you how to be wealthy and all the principles were taking from the Bible!

in the 70s and 80s Preachers, Pastors, Bishops all looked like the were suffering despite the fact they are spreading the Gospel but now things have changed, In the book called "the Secret" it says it starts in the mind and thoughts (in the Bible it says the mind is the gateway into our life) The book also said if you could imagine and see what you want you could have it, and if you go to the story of the Tower Babel, God first saw a completed city in the minds of the people of Babel thats why he stopped it saying "Gen 11:6 6And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

I could understand Peter Odemwingie because he needs the energy and he is into sports,

what's the business case behind Gene and the Energy drink industry

Its like asking Julia Roberts to advertise for Lucozade?

If you want to watch it

go to www.Veetle.com and go to Entertainment and seach through the pages, you could also watch the latest movies and sports events.

regarding Spartacus, I saw it! something is missing with the guy playing Spartacus and the storyline is getting "iffy" but I would wait and watch the whole series in one go! I dont want to be in suspense at any point so I would wait. but the storyline is taking a direction I dont like.

And then the Alarm bell rang!!!

What walks like a duck, quack like a duck, moves like a duck is probably a DUCK!!!!

We would never learn, one of the fruit of our seed is the Super Eagles not qualifying for the ANC!!!

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Unfortunately, in doing so they fool credulous Westerners, but they disagree with Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, who said, "Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him"

Blasphemy!!!!

What a load of Rubbish!!!! What would happen to a Muslim lady that marries a Christian ?

Are they called M-Class or ML class

Am not sure! just asking?

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