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The prestigious Screen Nation Awards slated for 16th October, 2011 at the O2 Indigo, London will honour some of the best African Entertainers for their excellent contribution to the African Movie Industry…
Ghanaian star Actress Jackie Appiah and Ama Konadu Abebrese have been nominated alongiside Nollywood heavy weights like Genevieve Nnaji, Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, Mercy Johnson and Funke Akindele to compete for this year’s ‘Favourite West African Actress’ Award. This looks really tough!
The GUBA Awards launched yesterday in spectacular fashion. Esteemed guests were welcomed to the Ghana High Commission to launch the second annual Ghana UK Based Achievement Awards.
His Excellency the Ghana High Commissioner opened proceedings and a heart filled address from GUBA’s first lady’s and CEO Dentaa followed.
Kwasi Kyei Darkwah MA better known as KKD received an early honours for his contribution to the Ghanian community for over 25 years. The award was Presented by the Ghana High Commisioner himself.
Guests included GUBA judge Charles Thompson MBE, KKD and Ghana Black Stars Emmanuel Frimpong and Michael Essien.
The FULL list of nominees are as follows:
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Chapter 4 of Shirley Frimpong Manso’s ten chapter cinema movie series ‘Adams Apples’ will receive a Grand opening at the SilverBird Cinema tomorrow-Friday, 16th September, 2011 (8pm/9:45pm).
In Chapter 4, the story becomes very interesting with unbelievable scandals and more ‘wahala’ as ‘five different people dash marathon-style towards an emergency room, one after the other, to open up a new chapter in the busy lives of the Adams.
Jennifer plays the good friend as she accompanies Linda to a doctor’s appointment. She is rewarded with the charming Dr. Nate. Who knows? This gentleman just might be Mr. Right, instead of that school boy whom she believes “seems to have evaporated into thin air.” The vengeful Ivy however teaches Jennifer she might have spoken too soon, when she ambushes her with an unbelievable scandalous story!
An unplanned rendezvous the night before destroys Kukua’s chances with Denu, just as they are about to take the step that could wipe away the past and bring them together for good.
It’s hardly any easier for Mrs. Adams, who struggles with her conscience, at war with all common sense and advice on keeping her long-buried secret hidden. The only one for whom things seem to turn out okay is Baaba, who is working things out with her eager husband. But wait, there’s a new arrival in town- and skeletons might just start falling out of the closet.’
If you are in Accra and its vicinity and have already seen Adams Apples’ Chapter 1,2 and 3, you cannot miss out on tomorrow’s Grand opening of Chapter 4. You surely can’t let the extra ‘Wahala and excitement’ pass you.
Remember, you do not have to see Chapter 1, 2 and 3 to be able to follow, understand, appreciate and fully enjoy Chapter 4 of Adams Apples.
The cost of producing quality and world class movies like the ones we have been enjoying from the camp of Ms. Shirley Frimpong Manso and her Sparrow Production is very high, and somehow disproportionate to even the returns.
Any well informed African movie lover can attest to the huge disparity between Shirley Frimpong Manso’s movies and the bunch of crap we have on our markets.
The difference in quality may be due to talent, experience and passion. However, the amount of money Sparrow Production pumps into its movies also plays a substantial part in influencing the quality of their movies.
It is greatly unfair that, no matter the quality and the amount of money spent in producing a Ghanaian movie, the default market price has always been 5GHC.
This therefore means quality movie production houses like Sparrow Production’s only hope and avenue of having a break-even is to be able to attract as many people (tertiary students and young workers) as possible to their premieres and cinema openings. By now, you should be aware that VCD sales yield nothing since piracy rules that corner.
Premieres and Cinema showings are the ONLY viable avenues sustaining these quality productions. It is poignant to hear that, some mucky elements within the ‘Ghana Film Censorship Board’ is hell bent on rendering this avenue useless by continuously leaking movies submitted to the ‘Board’ for approval.
Death has laid its icy hands on yet another member of the Creative Arts in Ghana. GhanaCelebrities.Com was informed of the death of the award winning playwright and Director of the National Theatre, Efo Kodjo Mawugbe in the wee hours of today. The outspoken Efo died on Wednesday September 14, 2011 at the Korle-Bu Teaching … Read more
After 3 weeks of intensive competition between 89 countries, Leila Lopes (Miss Angola) has been crowned Miss Universe 2011… The event which was held in Brazil, Sao Paul listed Olesya Stefanko from Ukraine as 1st runner up, Priscilla Machado from Brazil as 2nd runner up and Luo Zilin (China) as 3rd runner up.
As usual, Ghana was a NO SHOW… This brings me to the sickening nature the organizers of Miss Universe Ghana-Insignia Group handled the selection of Ghana’s rep.
As you may know, a certain Miss Erica Yahyra Nego who contested and won Miss Minnesota to enable her go to Miss USA and then proceed to Miss Universe on behalf of USA but failed was PICKED to represent Ghana at the just ended Miss Universe competition.
I am not a football fanatic but from the little I have heard and seen, I thought Ghanaian striker Asamoah Gyan was doing great at Sunderland FC…How come they are loaning him for a season to Al-Ain? What team is that even? Let the soccer fans coach me on this… Was Gyan sinking that fast … Read more
The wanna-be queens have just gone through their first task that is to warm them up for the tougher ones ahead. The task was dubbed ‘media interaction and profiling’. In this task ace broadcaster, Kwame Sefa Kayi had a close-up interaction with the ladies in groups of four. The series was recorded at the Aphrodisiac Night Club in an ambiance of relaxation.
The task got the ladies to think on their feet while Mr. Sefa Kayi propelled them to come out with honest responses to the questions put before them. It was a one-on one interaction with each of them that disclosed interesting stories about them and their families.
The task was basically to know the individual personalities of each of the contestants and to also know their views on social issues such as HIV/AIDS, Malaria, premarital sex and homosexuality.
I have realized that it is not only the bad acting, bad lightening and bad camera works which are hurting the African movie industry. The sort of titles (names) we give to our movies are seriously lame and this is a major killer of the industry. Before you even get to watch the movie to … Read more
Information reaching GhanaCelebrities.Com has it that, the various Ghanaian nominees and celebrities who were happily showing their nomination and invitation letters for the upcoming Nollywood & African Film Critics’ Awards (NAFCA) 2011 to be held in USA have been denied VISAS by the USA Embassy…
It is sad but a bit FUNNY that, at a time when ‘Who is a celebrity in Ghana‘ is under discussion, a bunch of our so called Celebrities could not even secure VISAS with their celebrity status…
I am told a large number of Ghanaian movie stars (names withheld) have been BOUNCED US Visas…Do you remember Reggie Rockstones popular tune? Guess the names of these celebrities?
So many awards everywhere, oh aba! Award this, award that!
To find out those who have gotten their passports stamped with VISA DENY, check out the list of the nominees below… Do you want me to name them for you? LOL!
One thing you cannot take away from Actress Juliet Ibrahim is her body contours…The Ghana Movie Awards 2011 Best Actress was one of the few celebrities who flew to USA to grace the 6th Annual Nigeria Entertainment Awards. Though Juliet Ibrahim was not nominated for any award, she presented an Award on that night and … Read more
One of the many reasons why I founded GhanaCelebrities.Com is to help celebrate those in the limelight alongside using the platform to showcase their talents… Do not get it twisted, it does not rain everyday, when these stars meant to be celebrated find themselves in the wrong pit, we give it to them on here accordingly…
I cannot count the number of times people have asked me, why do you sometime result to bashing these Ghanaian celebrities if indeed the intention and purpose of your site is to mainly celebrate them? The answer I have always given is simple, GhanaCelebrities.Com was created to be used both as a shield and a sword…(Defend and celebrate the good works of our stars and also bash and bring to light the dirty works of these same stars).
The reason behind this post is to react to an interview Ghanaian celebrities-Roselyn Ngissah and Beverly Afaglo granted newsone recently…The two stars mentioned that Ghanaians back home do not know how to treat celebrities and DEMANDED to be treated as celebrities…
Roslyn Ngissah told Newsone that, “You know someone sees you and goes like…if the person wants to say hi, then the person goes like oh it is her, it is not her.
But when we meet people who have travelled abroad and come back, when they meet us they are like ‘oh I want an autograph’ because they understand how to celebrate stars over there. It is not yet here but we are gradually getting there.
Charter House, the organisers of the annual Ghana Music Awards said goodbye and farewell to MTN, their long standing headline sponsor for the Ghana Music Awards at Citizen Kofi in Accra yesterday.
MTN has been replaced with Vodafone as the new sponsor of the awards. According to the organisers, Vodafone has showed its readiness and loyalty to the growth of the Ghana Music Industry, hence the reason why, they will be headlining the awards, commencing 2012.
Mrs. Theresah Ayaode, the Executive Director of the awards, thanked MTN, who has sponsored the awards for close to a decade. She conceded that, indeed, the interest and investment made by MTN to the brand over the years added value to the franchise and acknowledged that, that has brought the awards this far.
With the sponsorship baton handed over to Vodafone; the awards will be now known as ‘Vodafone Ghana Music Awards Festival’. The network known for its great and catchy commercials comes in at a time when the whole entire awards process and content is being looked at critically.
Most celebrities will happily pose with their fans or allow them to take pictures but I was shocked to find out that Kwabena Kwabena wanted £1 before he will take a picture with a fan.
After the Ghana vs Brazil game I was informed that Kwabena Kwabena was outside the stadium, as a seasonal writer for GhanaCelebrities.Com, I rushed by to try and have a chat and also get some pictures with the talented singer for publication.
To my horror two Macho men who were with Kwabena Kwabena demanded that I pay £1 before I can take a picture with him. I tried to take a picture of just him but one of the Macho men blocked the lens of the camera and repeatedly told me £1 per picture.
Information reaching GhanaCelebrities.Com has it that, Vodafone Ghana has taken over as main sponsors of the annual Ghana Music Awards. This means, instead of MTN Ghana Music Awards, we will now have Vodafone Ghana Music Awards… Information on why the organizers/owners of Ghana Music Awards-Charter House have decided to part ways with MTN for Vodafone … Read more
