Exclusive: African streamer Showmax is readying its latest original out of Nigeria for next month.
Crime and Justice Lagos follows the activities of the fictional Serious and Special Crimes Unit working in the Nigerian capital, which is the biggest and most densely populated city in Africa, led by Deputy Commissioner of Police Femi Biboye (William Benson).
The show, made for MultiChoice’s streaming service, will debut on December 8, with Folu Storms and Jammal Ibraham also starring as the heads of an elite team of detectives.
Nollywood veterans Uche Mac-Auley, Paul Adams and Femi Durojaiye also star, along with emerging talents Margaret Osuome, Ejirooghene “Jyro” Asagba and Makinde Adeniran. Yinka Edward is executive producer.
Deadline understands an international co-production partner is close to boarding the production, whose filming has wrapped.
“Crime and Justice Lagos is unlike any other Nigerian original we have put out,” said Busola Tejumola, Executive Head of Content...
Crime and Justice Lagos follows the activities of the fictional Serious and Special Crimes Unit working in the Nigerian capital, which is the biggest and most densely populated city in Africa, led by Deputy Commissioner of Police Femi Biboye (William Benson).
The show, made for MultiChoice’s streaming service, will debut on December 8, with Folu Storms and Jammal Ibraham also starring as the heads of an elite team of detectives.
Nollywood veterans Uche Mac-Auley, Paul Adams and Femi Durojaiye also star, along with emerging talents Margaret Osuome, Ejirooghene “Jyro” Asagba and Makinde Adeniran. Yinka Edward is executive producer.
Deadline understands an international co-production partner is close to boarding the production, whose filming has wrapped.
“Crime and Justice Lagos is unlike any other Nigerian original we have put out,” said Busola Tejumola, Executive Head of Content...
- 11/28/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Mariska Hargitay Opens Up About Filming Law & Order: Svu's Torture Scenes: "Anything Good Costs You"
Will Benson (Mariska Hargitay) ever be the same? That is the question on Law & Order: Svu fans' minds after last week's shocking season 15 premiere, which featured Detective Olivia Benson being brutally tortured by Billy (Pablo Schreiber). Yes, she eventually escaped and took him down, but she's clearly going to be feeling the effects, physically and emotionally, from the attack for a long time. E! News recently sat down with Hargitay to talk about how difficult it was to shoot the premiere, admitting to us she questioned whether or not she could get through the grueling four-day shoot. Plus, she also talked to us about her Joyful Heart Foundation, which aims to "heal, educate and empower...
- 10/2/2013
- E! Online
When will Beckett visit Castle in NYC? With what “trick” will New Girl treat viewers? Which Once Upon a Time character has Daddy issues? Will Benson’s Svu romance survive her assault? Read on for answers to those questions plus teases from other shows.
Photos | Fall TV Spoiler Spectacular: Exclusive Scoop on 45 Returning Faves
I’ll take any scoop you have on Castle, particularly how much longer Beckett will be a Fed. She belongs in the NYPD close to Castle! –Kristen
As you may have gleaned if you came across the photos from Episode 3, “Need to Know,” Beckett soon enough...
Photos | Fall TV Spoiler Spectacular: Exclusive Scoop on 45 Returning Faves
I’ll take any scoop you have on Castle, particularly how much longer Beckett will be a Fed. She belongs in the NYPD close to Castle! –Kristen
As you may have gleaned if you came across the photos from Episode 3, “Need to Know,” Beckett soon enough...
- 9/26/2013
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Former Big Love star Chloe Sevigny is returning to TV with a guest role on NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.
Law & Order: Svu: Will Benson's new relationship last?
Sources tell us that Sevigny will play a stay-at-home mom who is attacked and kidnapped while video-chatting with her husband, who's halfway around the world. She is slated to start shooting the episode next week...
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Law & Order: Svu: Will Benson's new relationship last?
Sources tell us that Sevigny will play a stay-at-home mom who is attacked and kidnapped while video-chatting with her husband, who's halfway around the world. She is slated to start shooting the episode next week...
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- 2/15/2012
- by Adam Bryant
- TVGuide - Breaking News
"Official Story" was one of the best episodes of Svu this season. The suspense, drama and great acting by both veterans and newcomer Harry Connick Jr all played a role in an entertaining installment that veered off the show's traditional pattern, using the crimes as catalysts for great storytelling.
The episode had utilized forward momentum as the investigation went from the crime against Rand to the shameful coverup of Cori Green's rape. There was so tons of action, but it never felt overwhelming. The hour kept a good pace, highlighting all the important points and players in the conspiracy. I never felt bombarded by too much information, and it was easy to follow the investigation.
The story of the Cori's rape obviously referenced the Halliburton/Kbr scandal of a few years ago. It was difficult to watch Cori and her father deal with the aftermath of her poor treatment by the company,...
The episode had utilized forward momentum as the investigation went from the crime against Rand to the shameful coverup of Cori Green's rape. There was so tons of action, but it never felt overwhelming. The hour kept a good pace, highlighting all the important points and players in the conspiracy. I never felt bombarded by too much information, and it was easy to follow the investigation.
The story of the Cori's rape obviously referenced the Halliburton/Kbr scandal of a few years ago. It was difficult to watch Cori and her father deal with the aftermath of her poor treatment by the company,...
- 1/19/2012
- by tlopez@utk.edu (Teresa L.)
- TVfanatic
Tackling a current sports medical issue, "Spiraling Down" displayed the devastating affects of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (Cte). The episode, although a bit uneven and lacking in suspense, made good use of its guest star, Treat Williams, to bring to life the tragic downside of a sports career.
Svu has dedicated many episodes to exploring the issue of personal responsibility. A long list of defense attorneys has argued environmental and medical factors that seem to exonerate the defendants from any wrongdoing. While the detectives (and sometimes the juries) have been slightly swayed by these arguments, the show usually places most of the accountability on the individual and the choices he/she makes.
But this week, we and Benson could clearly sympathize and even excuse the behavior of former quarterback Jake Stanton. From the moment he appeared in the station, it was clear that he couldn't understand the severity of the situation...
Svu has dedicated many episodes to exploring the issue of personal responsibility. A long list of defense attorneys has argued environmental and medical factors that seem to exonerate the defendants from any wrongdoing. While the detectives (and sometimes the juries) have been slightly swayed by these arguments, the show usually places most of the accountability on the individual and the choices he/she makes.
But this week, we and Benson could clearly sympathize and even excuse the behavior of former quarterback Jake Stanton. From the moment he appeared in the station, it was clear that he couldn't understand the severity of the situation...
- 12/8/2011
- by tlopez@utk.edu (Teresa L.)
- TVfanatic
Julie James Jennifer Love Hewitt) is back. So is her seafaring boyfriend Ray Bronson (Freddie Prinze Jr.), and, of course, the guy with the slicker and that nasty hook (Muse Watson).
But that's about the only resemblance between the ultralame "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" and the far superior 1997 original, which, minus the "Still" part, grossed more than $125 million in worldwide boxoffice.
But while the first installment benefited from the comparatively masterful talents of "Scream" scribe Kevin Williamson and Scottish director Jim Gillespie, the sequel's Trey Callaway (UPN's late "Mercy Point") and director Danny Cannon ("Judge Dredd") couldn't have less of a feel for the horror genre.
Their flimsy approximation is a listless, resoundingly hollow affair, completely devoid of anything resembling suspense or tension. Even the stubbornly unkillable Ben Willis traipses around looking about as menacing as the Gorton's fisherman.
Fans of the original may be hooked over the opening weekend, but poor word-of-mouth should send subsequent numbers dropping quicker than movie's doomed characters.
Heroine Julie James, who showed some feisty spirit the first time around, has apparently regressed into a mopey zombie since most of her friends were unceremoniously offed a year earlier.
Paranoid and hallucinatory, she has had little success leaving the messy past behind her by attending college in Boston. Enter spunky roommate Karla Wilson (Brandy), who has just won an all-expense-paid vacation for four in the Bahamas during the Fourth of July weekend (during one of the film's more contrived bits of business), which just happens to coincide with the anniversary of the big bloodbath.
Contending the vacation would be therapeutic, Karla talks her into joining her along with her boyfriend Tyrell (Mekhi Phifer) and platonic classmate Will Benson (Matthew Settle). Quicker than you can say, "How Julie Got Her Boogeyman Back," the tropical island paradise turns ugly as the evil fisherman once again rears his obscured head.
Packed with an embarrassment of illogical plot points even by conventional horror standards and static scene after static scene, "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" is as awkward and cumbersome as its marquee-crowding title. And when it finally gets around to the thriller stuff, Cannon's idea of shooting mayhem is to whip out the strobe lights while John Frizzell's score shamelessly cribs from everything from "Psycho" to "Friday the 13th".
Straitjacketed by the moribund plotting, Hewitt is confined to looking drugged while forced to utter such clunkers as "I'm not dying on this island. Do you hear me?" Even Brandy's perky presence does little to rev things up, again thanks to the script's bland characterizations.
The scariest thing about this purported horror flick is just how frighteningly it misses the mark.
I STILL KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER
Columbia
Columbia Pictures presents
in association with Mandalay Entertainment
A Neal H. Moritz production
A film by Danny Cannon
Director: Danny Cannon
Screenwriter: Trey Callaway
Producers: Neal H. Moritz, Erik Feig, Stokely Chaffin, William S. Beasley Director of photography: Vernon Layton
Production designer: Doug Kraner
Editor: Peck Prior
Costume designer: Dan Lester
Music supervisors: Sharon Boyle and John Houlihan
Music: John Frizzell
Casting: Jackie Birch
Color/stereo
Cast:
Julie James: Jennifer Love Hewitt
Ray Bronson: Freddie Prinze Jr.
Karla Wilson: Brandy Tyrell
Martin: Mekhi Phifer
Ben Willis: Muse Watson
Will Benson: Matthew Settle
Nancy: Jennifer Esposito
Running time -- 96 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
But that's about the only resemblance between the ultralame "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" and the far superior 1997 original, which, minus the "Still" part, grossed more than $125 million in worldwide boxoffice.
But while the first installment benefited from the comparatively masterful talents of "Scream" scribe Kevin Williamson and Scottish director Jim Gillespie, the sequel's Trey Callaway (UPN's late "Mercy Point") and director Danny Cannon ("Judge Dredd") couldn't have less of a feel for the horror genre.
Their flimsy approximation is a listless, resoundingly hollow affair, completely devoid of anything resembling suspense or tension. Even the stubbornly unkillable Ben Willis traipses around looking about as menacing as the Gorton's fisherman.
Fans of the original may be hooked over the opening weekend, but poor word-of-mouth should send subsequent numbers dropping quicker than movie's doomed characters.
Heroine Julie James, who showed some feisty spirit the first time around, has apparently regressed into a mopey zombie since most of her friends were unceremoniously offed a year earlier.
Paranoid and hallucinatory, she has had little success leaving the messy past behind her by attending college in Boston. Enter spunky roommate Karla Wilson (Brandy), who has just won an all-expense-paid vacation for four in the Bahamas during the Fourth of July weekend (during one of the film's more contrived bits of business), which just happens to coincide with the anniversary of the big bloodbath.
Contending the vacation would be therapeutic, Karla talks her into joining her along with her boyfriend Tyrell (Mekhi Phifer) and platonic classmate Will Benson (Matthew Settle). Quicker than you can say, "How Julie Got Her Boogeyman Back," the tropical island paradise turns ugly as the evil fisherman once again rears his obscured head.
Packed with an embarrassment of illogical plot points even by conventional horror standards and static scene after static scene, "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" is as awkward and cumbersome as its marquee-crowding title. And when it finally gets around to the thriller stuff, Cannon's idea of shooting mayhem is to whip out the strobe lights while John Frizzell's score shamelessly cribs from everything from "Psycho" to "Friday the 13th".
Straitjacketed by the moribund plotting, Hewitt is confined to looking drugged while forced to utter such clunkers as "I'm not dying on this island. Do you hear me?" Even Brandy's perky presence does little to rev things up, again thanks to the script's bland characterizations.
The scariest thing about this purported horror flick is just how frighteningly it misses the mark.
I STILL KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER
Columbia
Columbia Pictures presents
in association with Mandalay Entertainment
A Neal H. Moritz production
A film by Danny Cannon
Director: Danny Cannon
Screenwriter: Trey Callaway
Producers: Neal H. Moritz, Erik Feig, Stokely Chaffin, William S. Beasley Director of photography: Vernon Layton
Production designer: Doug Kraner
Editor: Peck Prior
Costume designer: Dan Lester
Music supervisors: Sharon Boyle and John Houlihan
Music: John Frizzell
Casting: Jackie Birch
Color/stereo
Cast:
Julie James: Jennifer Love Hewitt
Ray Bronson: Freddie Prinze Jr.
Karla Wilson: Brandy Tyrell
Martin: Mekhi Phifer
Ben Willis: Muse Watson
Will Benson: Matthew Settle
Nancy: Jennifer Esposito
Running time -- 96 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 11/6/1998
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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