South African Novelist Zakes Mda and Michael Bronner Co-write a $16 Million Film on Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela
By Blessing Uwisike April 30, 2026 Cynthia Erivo, Thabo Rametsi and Guy Pearce have joined the cast of The Road Home, a musical drama about South African jazz legends Miriam “Mama Africa” Makeba and Hugh Masekela and their Apartheid-era Graceland tour with Paul Simon. The film is directed by Academy Award winner Bill Condon, from an […]
Studiocanal & Canal+ Set Graceland Band Pic ‘The Road Home’ With Cynthia Erivo, Thabo Rametsi & Guy Pearce
By Anthony D’Alessandro April 23, 2026 Studiocanal has teamed with Flora Films on The Road Home starring Cynthia Erivo (Wicked, Harriet), South African multiphyphenate Thabo Rametsi (Silverton Siege) and Guy Pearce (The Brutalist). Oscar winner Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters) will helm from an original screenplay by Michael Bronner (The Mauritanian, United 93), from a story by Michael Bronner and Zakes Mda. Exiled from […]
‘The Mauritanian’ Producer Set To Adapt Fatin Abbas’s Novel ‘Ghost Season’ Into Feature Film
By Zac Ntim, Melanie Goodfellow June 23, 2025 1:29am EXCLUSIVE: Smashing Dandelions, the new production company founded by The Mauritanian writer and producer Michael Bronner and Bhakti Shringarpure, has set plans to adapt Ghost Season, the novel by Sudanese-American writer Fatin Abbas, into a feature film. South Sudanese documentary filmmaker Akuol de Mabior […]
Sabrina Elba Joins Cast of Lula Ali Ismaïl’s ‘Nuur’ for Scythia Films
Sabrina Elba will join the cast of “Nuur.” The upcoming feature from director Lula Ali Ismaïl (“Dhalinyaro”) is being produced by Scythia Films, the banner behind the Oscar-nominated “The Apprentice.” Elba joins previously announced cast members Omar Abdi (“The Gravedigger’s Wife”) and Hamza Fouad (“Riverdale”). The film is adapted from the novel “The Youth of […]
Lula Ali Ismaïl Directing ‘Nuur,’ Omar Abdi, Hamza Fouad Starring in Scythia Films, Good Question Media Production
Scythia Films, the production banner behind “The Apprentice,” has tapped Lula Ali Ismaïl to direct “Nuur,” the story of an academically gifted 17-year-old boy growing up in Dixon, a Somali community in Toronto. Omar Abdi, who appeared in “The Gravedigger’s Wife,” and Hamza Fouad, best known for his work in “Riverdale” and “Arrow,” are attached […]