Ster-Kinekor Theatres, The Largest Cinema Chain in Africa

South Africa's Ster-Kinekor Theatres is the largest cinema chain in Africa, followed by Egypt's Al Arabia International and Nu Metro Cinemas of South Africa. Nigeria's Silverbird Cinemas and Genesis Deluxe Cinemas are also increasing the numbers of their cinemas from Nigeria to Ghana and other countries in Africa.

Cinemas are central to the growth of the film industry and Ster-Kinekor Theatres and Nu Metro Cinemas have sustained the growth of the appreciation of cinemas in South Africa and other African countries.

Ster Kinekor Theatres is South Africa's largest cinema exhibitor. They offer 31 Ster Kinekor Junction value cinemas and 6 Ster Kinekor Classic cinemas countrywide, totalling more than 400 screens and 60 000 seats. Cinema Nouveau offers 7 cinemas countrywide, where patrons can experience 'art' movies. At The Zone in Rosebank and at the Gateway complex, patrons can also experience films on special 3D screens. The Ster Kinekor Movie Club has more than 2 million members, offering rewards such as discount on movie tickets, half-price Tuesdays and special newsletters with information on upcoming movies, movie reviews, movie trailers, schedules and show times.

Ster Kinekor originated in 1969 when 20th Century Fox sold their South African theatre business to Sanlam, who already operated Ster Theatres and Ster Films under the Ster brand. The newly acquired business was called Kinekor. Since then, the company continued to open cinema complexes throughout South Africa. Ster Kinekor is now a division of Primedia.

Ster Kinekor represents the following studios in South Africa: Universal Pictures (video), Walt Disney Pictures (theatrical), Miramax Films, Focus Features and PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. Ster Kinkor Theatres - Always Better on Our Big Screen.
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Showing 57 businesses in the category Ster Kinekor:
Ster Kinekor (Arcades Mall)
Zambia, Lusaka, Arcades Mall
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Bayside)
Cape Town, Table View, Bayside Mall
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Bedford Nouveau)
Johannesburg, Bedfordview, Bedford Square Shopping Centre
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Blue Route)
Cape Town, Tokai, Blue Route Mall
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Brooklyn Nouveau)
Pretoria, New Muckleneuk, Brooklyn Mall
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Brooklyn)
Pretoria, New Muckleneuk, Brooklyn Mall
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Cape Gate)
Cape Town, Brackenfell, Cape Gate
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Carlton Centre)
Johannesburg, Johannesburg Central, Carlton Centre
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Carnival City)
Brakpan, Dalpark, Carnival City Casino
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Cavendish Nouveau)
Cape Town, Claremont, Cavendish Square
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Cavendish)
Cape Town, Claremont, Cavendish Square
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Cedar Square Nouveau)
Sandton, Fourways, Cedar Square Shopping Centre
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Centurion Centre)
Centurion, Centurion CBD, Centurion Mall
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Cresta)
Randburg, Cresta, Cresta Shopping Centre
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (East Rand Mall)
Boksburg, Jansen Park, East Rand Mall
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Eastgate)
Johannesburg, Bedfordview, Eastgate Shopping Centre
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Eikestad)
Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch Central, Eikestad Mall
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Festival Mall)
Kempton Park, Esther Park, Festival Mall
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Fourways)
Sandton, Fourways, Fourways Mall
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Garden Route Mall)
George, Kraaibosch, Garden Route Mall
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Gateway Nouveau)
Durban, Umhlanga, Gateway Theatre of Shopping
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Gateway)
Durban, Umhlanga, Gateway Theatre of Shopping
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Greenstone Mall)
Edenvale, Edenvale, Greenstone Shopping Mall
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Irene Mall)
Centurion, Irene, Irene Village Mall
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Kenilworth)
Cape Town, Kenilworth, Kenilworth Centre
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Key West)
Krugersdorp, Krugersdorp North, Key West Shopping Centre
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Kollonade)
Pretoria, Montana Park, Kolonnade Shopping Centre
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Long Beach)
Cape Town, Noordhoek, Long Beach Mall
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Maerua)
Windhoek, Maerua Mall
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Mall of the North)
Polokwane, Bendor, Mall of the North
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Maponya Mall)
Soweto, Klipspruit, Maponya Mall
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Mimosa Mall)
Bloemfontein, Brandwag, Mimosa Mall
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Mooi River)
Potchefstroom, Mooirivier, Mooirivier Mall
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Musgrave)
Durban
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (North Cape Mall)
Kimberley, Monument Heights
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Northgate)
Randburg, North Riding, Northgate Shopping Centre
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Northmead Square)
Benoni, Northmead, Northmead Square
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Parow)
Cape Town, Parow, Parow Centre
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Riversquare)
Vereeniging, Three Rivers, Riversquare Centre
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Rosebank Nouveau)
Johannesburg, Rosebank, The Mall of Rosebank
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Rustenburg)
Rustenburg, Waterfall Park, Waterfall Mall
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Sandton City)
Sandton, Sandton CBD, Sandton City
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Savannah Mall)
Polokwane, Fauna Park, Savannah Mall
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Scottsville)
Pietermaritzburg, Scottsville, Nedbank Plaza
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Shelley Beach)
Shelly Beach, Shelly Beach Central, Shelly Beach Centre
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Somerset Mall)
Cape Town, Somerset West, Somerset Mall
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Southgate)
Johannesburg, Mondeor, Southgate Mall
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Sterland)
Pretoria, Pretoria Central
012 341 7568
Ster Kinekor (The Bridge)
Port Elizabeth, Greenacres, The Bridge Shopping Centre
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (The Wheel)
Durban, South Beach, The Wheel Shopping Centre
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (The Zone)
Johannesburg, Rosebank, The Zone
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Tygervalley)
Cape Town, Bellville, Tygervalley Centre
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (V&A Nouveau)
Cape Town, Waterfront, V&A Waterfront
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Velskoen)
Randburg, Ferndale
011 793 2812
Ster Kinekor (Vincent Park)
East London, Vincent, Vincent Park Shopping Centre
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Westgate)
Roodepoort, Horizon, Westgate Shopping Centre
086 130 0444
Ster Kinekor (Wonderpark)
Pretoria, Karenpark, Wonderpark Shopping Centre
086 130 0444


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The Story Of The Soul Sisters Premiere set for Lagos

The much awaited Nigerian premiere of Rahman Oladigbolu's award winning film In America: The Story Of The Soul Sisters comes up on Thursday September 8, 2011, at the Genesis Deluxe Cinemas at The Palms in Lekki, Lagos. Popular award winning American actor Jimmy Jean-Louis is Tai Ojo in this movie that has been described as one of the best movies by African filmmakers in the Diaspora. Rahman, a graduate of Quincy College and Harvard University is also the author of On Holy Pilgrimage: A Long Journey for Freedom.



In America: The Story Of The Soul Sisters won the 2011 seventh Edition of the Annual African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) for the Best Film for African Abroad and the Best Emerging Filmmaker's Award at the 2010 Roxbury International Film Festival in Boston, Massachusetts.



"It is a masterpiece that showcases the ignoble sub-culture where illegal immigrants are forced to exist in the US. It chronicles the terrible and dishonorable lifestyle that these individuals live on a daily basis just to survive in the West. Added to this desperation is the incessant plea for financial assistance from families in the homeland. Not since Kafka has someone so aptly captured the depths and essence of Western existentialism and its culture of individualism."

~ Benjamin Nwosu
Nigerian Village Square


Mirlyne Dorvilus and Kandace Cummings as Sade George and Sonya Ibrahim

The Story


An African medical student seeking better professional opportunity in the United States finds herself caught up in the American immigration war. With the political heat mounting on illegal immigrants, she's faced only with a dilemma: she either continues to live on the fringes of the society, where there's no hope for her career goal, or give up all hope on the American dream.

A young American puts her life on hold to restore the glory of her parents estranged marriage. After years of painful sacrifice, and amid the storm of her adolescent crises, she has to make a last shot for their reconciliation, or give up forever on her parents as she goes away to college.

What happens when the lives of these two young women cross? The result is a soul-touching friendship that tests the limits of political laws and redefines human dedication.


Rahman in glasses with Jimmy Jean-Louis with 2010 AMAA awards

About the Director:

Rahman was born in Oyo State, Nigeria, into the royal family of the kingdom once known as Oyo Empire. He started his formal education at Alaafia Nursery and Primary school at Ibadan, completed his primary education at Saint Andrews Demonstration, Oyo, and his secondary education at Olivet Baptist High School, also at Oyo. Then he made a decision to come to the United States to study film production. But as a thinker says, events sometimes mock at human foresight, and there is nothing more certain than the unforeseen. A peculiar unforeseen would be Rahman’s lot for the next decade after his decision, and which culminated in his first book, On Holy Pilgrimage: A Long Journey For Freedom. Though Rahman decided to write the book to tell his story, to awaken the world about the depth of the mysteries within which life is cocooned, the book initially served only as a therapeutic avenue for him to keep his sanity while going through one of the worst experiences any human could be subjected to. With his body tortured by a mysterious illness, and his intellect by the conflict of cultures, Western scientific and traditional African cultures, his primary motivation to write the book was his discovery of the concept of reincarnation, a complex reality without which he thinks higher understanding of life might be impossible. Confused in his world, living ‘on the lip of insanity, not knowing the reason he was made to suffer, whether by science or witchcraft or fate, Rahman discovered the human mind, the balcony from which both the inside and outside of the universe could be perceived. Spending seven years on the sick bed, this territory became his only realm of work and! play. It would transform the worldview that Rahman had ever known, and put him on the pedestal to a new height, a new way of life. Rahman now lives in Massachusetts.

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Americans' Thoughts on Terrorism Over the Last 10 Years

The following report is very important and should be shared without bias.



2 Sep 2011 10:00 Africa/Lagos


USA TODAY/Gallup Poll Looks at Americans' Thoughts on Terrorism Over the Last 10 Years

PR Newswire

MCLEAN, Va., Sept. 2, 2011

MCLEAN, Va., Sept. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- In the final week leading up to the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and the events that changed America ten years ago, USA TODAY and Gallup have conducted an exclusive poll looking at Americans' thoughts on terrorism and how they've changed over the last decade.

USA TODAY/Gallup poll results show:

* The proportion of Americans who say the government should take steps to protect its citizens against terrorism, even if it means violating civil liberties, has dropped almost in half since the days after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. In January 2002, 47% of Americans said they were willing to have the government violate some of their basic civil liberties in order to prevent more acts of terrorism. Asked the same question last month, only 25% answered the same way.


* In a striking contrast with the national mood 10 years ago, fewer Americans now think that "the Muslim world considers itself at war with the U.S.'' In March 2002, 71% agreed with that statement. Nine months later that number had dropped to 60%, and today it's down to 51%.


* Faith in the government's anti-terrorism capacity has dropped. Asked less than a week after 9/11 how much confidence they had in the government to protect citizens from terrorist attacks, 41% of respondents said "a great deal.'' By March 2002, 24% agreed with that assessment. Now, only 22% do.


* Who's winning the war on terrorism? Not much has changed in how Americans answer that question. A month after the 9/11 attacks, 42% said the U.S. and its allies were winning, and by the following January that rose to 66%. By April 2002, the percentage of Americans who felt their nation was winning the terror war fell into the minority. They have constituted a majority only three times since -- twice immediately after the Iraq invasion in early 2003 and once in January 2004, after Saddam Hussein's capture. In June 2007, the last time until this year that USA TODAY and Gallup asked who was winning, only 29% said the U.S. was winning. Asked the same question last month, respondents agreeing that the U.S. and its allies were winning the terror war had climbed back to 42% -- the same as 10 years ago.


* People seem less worried about the imminent likelihood of a terrorist attack today. Only 38% consider one somewhat or very likely "over the next several weeks,'' compared to 66% ten days after 9/11. A series of mysterious anthrax attacks, which eventually killed five people, drove that up to 85% the following month. In the 18 times the question has been asked since late 2003, the highest "likely" response was May 2 this year, one day after Bin Laden was killed. The highest ever was the 85% in the anthrax attack period.


The USA TODAY/Gallup poll was taken a month before the 10th anniversary of the attacks. Full poll results are in today's edition of USA TODAY and online at usatoday.com.

USA TODAY is a multi-platform news and information media company. Founded in 1982, USA TODAY's mission is to serve as a forum for better understanding and unity to help make the USA truly one nation. Today, through its newspaper, website and mobile platforms, USA TODAY connects readers and engages the national conversation. USA TODAY, the nation's number one newspaper in print circulation with an average of more than 1.8 million daily, and USATODAY.com, an award-winning newspaper website launched in 1995, reach a combined 5.4 million readers daily. USA TODAY is a leader in mobile applications with more than nine million downloads on mobile devices. The USA TODAY brand also includes USA TODAY Education and USA TODAY Sports Weekly. USA TODAY is owned by Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI).

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CONTACT: Heidi Zimmerman, Director/Communications, +1-703-854-5304, hzimmerman@usatoday.com

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Hurricane Irene frightens movie goers away from Cinemas

A view of a nearly deserted 7th Avenue near Times Square in Manhattan as Hurricane Irene closed in on the New York City area August 28, 2011. Hurricane Irene battered New York with heavy winds and driving rain on Sunday, shutting down the U.S. financial capital and most populous city, halting mass transit and causing massive power blackouts as it churned slowly northward along the eastern seaboard. Photo Credit: The Christian Post.


Who goes to the movies in a stormy weather?

Rentrak the leader in multi-screen media measurement reported that movie ticket sales dropped by 18.9 percent due to Hurricane Irene, as compared to the same weekend in 2010.

New York, Boston and New Haven in the Northeast were the most affected by the horrifying hurricane. But the overall theatrical box office sales increased by 3.9 percent from the beginning of the summer 2011 box office period.

The following is the full report of the impact of Hurricane Irene on movie theaters across the U.S.

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Hurricane Irene kept most New Yorkers away from the theaters. Photo Credit: In Sing News



Rentrak Announces the Impact of Hurricane Irene on Movie Viewing Across Box Office, Home Entertainment and On-Demand Usage
—Movie Fans Not Deterred By Hurricane As Storm Activity Boosts Home Entertainment Rentals and Paid On-Demand Viewing During Severe Weather—

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PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 2, 2011

PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Rentrak Corporation (NASDAQ: RENT), the leader in multi-screen media measurement serving the advertising, television and entertainment industries, today announced the impact of Hurricane Irene on multi-screen movie watching behavior.

While movie theater ticket sales and in-theater viewing were negatively impacted in some areas of the Northeast as consumers could not travel to their local movie theater, at the same time many consumers added renting DVD and Blu-ray disc movies to their storm countdown preparations. Where electricity was intact, many consumers watched an increased number of paid VOD movies while stuck indoors due to heavy rain.

At movie theaters, Rentrak's Box Office Essentials™ reported that movie ticket sales dropped 18.9 percent due to the hurricane, as compared to the same weekend in 2010. While Hurricane Irene did dampen tickets sales this past weekend in the Northeast with New York, Boston and New Haven most impacted, theatrical box office sales are overall up 3.9 percent from the beginning of the summer 2011 box office period.

According to Rentrak's Home Video Essentials™, on Saturday, August 27, 2011 while Hurricane Irene moved its way up the Eastern seaboard coast, the number of DVDs and Blu-ray discs rented in the coastal states north of Virginia increased, ranging from 30% to as high as a 300% increase in physical media rentals in some instances. Once the effects of Hurricane Irene were starting to be felt north of Virginia late on Saturday afternoon and continuing into Sunday, then disc rentals dropped dramatically down to levels 20-40% below the weekend period prior to the severe weather activity (August 19 – 21, 2011).

Rentrak also reported information from its OnDemand Essentials™ service for On-Demand viewing via cable and other TV services, for paid movie content during the hurricane weekend period. Across the Northeast & Mid-Atlantic Census Regions of the U.S., Rentrak saw a ten percent increase in transactions on demand for paid movie viewing usage for that part of the country.

"On Saturday, August 27th, while Hurricane Irene was hitting the Southeastern coastal states, people from states north of Virginia still had relatively good weather so they went out and rented a large number of DVDs and Blu-ray discs in preparation for being stuck indoors when Irene continued up the coast," said David Paiko, Vice President of Home Entertainment at Rentrak Corporation. "While it was logical that bad weather impacted movie-going in theaters in the same region, Hurricane Irene drove a significant increase in movie rentals across bricks and mortar locations, as well as a spike in paid VOD movie transactions."

The Northeast & Mid-Atlantic Census Regions are made up of Main, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. No other region of the country saw this increase in VOD usage during this past weekend.

About Rentrak Corporation

Rentrak (NASDAQ: RENT) is a global digital media measurement and research company, serving the most recognizable companies in the entertainment industry. With a reach across numerous platforms including box office, multi-screen television, and home video, Rentrak has developed more efficient metrics to be used as database currencies for the evaluation and selling of media. Rentrak is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with additional U.S. and international offices. For more information on Rentrak, please visit www.rentrak.com.

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Sweden to host informal Nordic-African ministerial meeting in Skåne

1 Sep 2011 11:55 Africa/Lagos


Sweden to host informal Nordic-African ministerial meeting in Skåne

STOCKHOLM, September 1, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- Next week, on Monday 5 and Tuesday 6 September, Sweden will be hosting an informal foreign ministers meeting between the Nordic countries and eleven African countries at Örenäs Castle, south of Helsingborg. Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt will host the meeting and Minister for Trade Ewa Björling and Minister for International Development Cooperation Gunilla Carlsson will also be taking part.


At the meeting ministers will discuss economic development and growth against the backdrop of the strong economic outlook in several African countries, freedom on the Internet, democracy and state-building, and other topical issues.


Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt will host the meeting. Sweden's Minister for Trade Ewa Björling and Minister for International Development Cooperation Gunilla Carlsson will also be taking part. In attendance will also be foreign ministers (or other representatives) from Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland, and Benin, Botswana, Ghana, Lesotho, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania and Djibouti.


This year's will be the tenth informal Nordic-African ministerial meeting of its kind. Each year the job of hosting the meeting has alternated between an African country and a Nordic country.


Press conference

A press conference with Mr Bildt and Ms Carlsson will be held after the meeting. Please bring your press credentials.


Time and place:

Tuesday 6 September, approx. 12.15

Örenäs Castle, Landskrona, Sweden


Source: Sweden - Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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Wanted: More Ambitious Women For Nigerian Men

Mrs. Peju Adebajo, the young Managing Director/CEO of Mouka Limited

Wanted: More Ambitious Women for Nigerian Men

Until you break out of the shell, you can never excel to rule your world.

You wonder why many women and men are still single and searching in Nigeria?

We do not have enough ambitious women.

Most of our women have little or nothing to offer the men.

We need ambitious women who can make a great difference in our lives.
Nigerian women like Mrs. Peju Adebajo, the young Managing Director/CEO of Mouka Limited, whose dignity, integrity, nobility and humility make her the pride of her husband and family and a blessing to Nigeria.
We need more women like her in Nigeria.
Women who can make us proud, and not liabilities.

Highly recommended is The daughter also rises on http://www.economist.com/node/21526872?fsrc=nlw|mgt|08-31-11|management_thinking.

ZHANG YIN (also known by her Cantonese name, Cheung Yan) was the eldest of eight children of a lowly Red Army officer who was imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution for “capitalist offenses”. Today she is one of the world’s richest self-made women, with an estimated fortune of $1.6 billion. In the early 1980s, as a dogsbody in a paper mill, she noted that the waste paper her superiors so casually discarded was actually worth something. She has been capitalizing on her insight ever since.

Note that what made ZHANG YIN a billionaire was from her realization that the waste paper her superiors so casually discarded was actually worth something.



Nigerian women have their own dreams, but majority of them have allowed the dictatorial and sexist Nigerian men to either compel or talk them into discarding their dreams and become cowardly submissive to the men. And what have the men done for the women?
Playing tin-gods to them.

A typical Nigerian husband thinks buying a posh car for his wife and living in a luxury apartment or duplex is a GREAT ACHIEVEMENT that would be all for life.
How much is the total cost of a posh car and a mansion in Nigeria?
Patapata, N200, 000, 000 (two hundred million naira) only.
So, that is all you and your dreams are worth?
Less than USD$2 million?
Is that all and why God made you for on earth?

That is the best and greatest ambition of majority of Nigerian men and selfish pursuit for such social status symbols have left Nigerian men and women mere consumers of perishable luxuries, without producing the tools we need to develop a productive nation.

Nigeria is a poor nation of redundant women at the mercy of shortsighted Nigerian men who have failed to excel in nation building.

Nigerian women must break out the shell of their bondage and challenge the men from the bedroom to the boardroom and achieve more even where the men have failed woefully, in leadership.

There is no romance without finance.
So, be more ambitious to make a great difference and see how much your success will make you more independent and more productive.

The ambition of Nigerian women must go beyond their bottom power and rise to higher grounds of human achievement in nation building.

Men respect independent women and often insult those who are not.
So, do you want men to respect you or disrespect you for life?

Make The Daughter Also Rises: How Women Overcome Obstacles and Advance in the Family-Owned Business your handbook. It is a must read for every literate woman.


~ By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima,
Thursday September 1, 2011.


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