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Ghallywood Movies Were As Worst As Kumawood — Chris-Vincent, Member Of 2018 Golden Movie Awards Grand Jury

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Film critic, Lawyer, Founding Editor of Ghanacelebrities.com and a member of the 2018 Golden Movie Awards Jury, Chris-Vincent Agyapong has stated without mincing words that Ghallywood movies that were submitted for review were as worst as Kumawood during the Jury’s press interaction.
Chris-Vincent also observed that Ghanaian movie makers overused drones in most of the movies that were submitted to be reviewed by the Jury.

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Akrobeto Is A Better Actor Than Ekow Blankson And He Knows It – Kofi Asamoah Blasts Ekow Blankson For Calling Kumawood "Concert Party"

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Just recently TV Africa’s Managing Director, himself an actor Ekow Blankson described the Kumasi movie industry affectionately known as Kumawood as a concert party with no direction whatsoever. This hasn’t gone down well with the folks at Kumawood and they are letting him have their piece of mind. Describing the new crop of Ghanaian actors … Read more

Ghanaian Actors Are Comedians In Disguise – Ekow Blankson Describes Kumawood As "Concert Party"

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Most Ghanaians are ardent movie lovers but would never be caught wasting time to watch Ghanaian movies simply because of the sheer mediocrity and low-quality acting that is characteristic of most of our current movies. Most of our movies lack originality and most of those we parade as our best actors and actresses are really … Read more

"NOTORIOUS" Shatta Wale Remains My Favourite Ghanaian Musician — Van Vicker

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Ghallywood and Nollywood actor, Van Vicker has described controversial dancehall artiste, Shatta Wale as Ghana’s most “notorious”.
Van Vicker speaking on the red carpet at the 2018 3Music Awards disclosed that Shatta Wale remains his favourite Ghanaian artiste even though he is notorious and sometimes behaves weird.

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Actress Maame Serwaa To Bury Her Mother On January 20th

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Kumawood actress, Clara Benson knew in Showbiz as Maame Serwaa to bury mother on January 20. Her mother, Mrs Rose Amoateng Benson died a few months ago after a short illness.
Her one-week celebration was graced by popular movie stars like Jackie Appiah, Martha Ankomah as well as Kumawood movie stars.

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I Love Kumawood, I Don't Care What Anybody Says — Shirley Frimpong Manso

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Shirley Frimpong Manso has shown a massive level of support to her colleagues in Kumawood, indicating she loves what they are doing and calling on the critics to shut up.
According to Shirley, Kumawood is doing what they can with the resources available to them, and since the people love it that’s all that matters.

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Ghana's Failure To Make 2018 Oscars Tells Us 'There Are Still Things We Have To Put Together' — Adjetey Annan

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Adjetey Anang

Not a single movie was chosen – in a hilarious turn of events, none of the movies submitted by Ghanaian filmakers for consideration for the 2018 Academy Awards met the standard and were thrown out.
Local movie stakeholders, whether in Kumawood or Ghallywood, have complained constantly that their products are not patronized by Ghanaians due to foreign soap operas. What they often fail to admit is that their product does really suck.

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Foreign Soaps Are Destroying Nolllywood Too — Patience Ozorkwor Sympathises With Ghanaian Filmmakers

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Ghanaian movie makers are constantly complaining about the influx of foreign telenovelas into our industry and the detrimental effect that is having on them.
And the problem is not limited to Ghana, as Nollywood actress Patience Ozorkwor herself has confirmed.

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Ghallywood Actor James Gardiner Says He Is Ready To Take Up A Kumawood Movie Role

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James Gardiner

With this never-growing industry, we call the movie industry, I don’t in any way blame the Ghallywood finest, James Gardiner for his readiness to switch tables to the scenes of the Lil Win’s.
In fact, he sees opportunities in a no so rare place. I hope no one would come and slam me for saying this or misconstrue my stance to otherwise but the movie industry has never been anything to sing glories of.

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Government To Implement Policy For Ghanaian Stations To Air 70% Local Content

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Kumkum Bhagya

Looks like finally there would be some policy changes from government in response to the complaints of local actors and producers about the influx of foreign content taking over Ghanaian tv.
According to Communications Minister Ursula Owusu-Ekufful, a policy proposal is being drawn up which would compel Ghanaian stations to show at least 70% of Ghanaian content at prime time.

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Lydia Forson Says She Will Star In Kumawood Only IF The Script Is ‘Quality’

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There seems to be a trend among Ghallywood actresses to assume that there is a certain level of inferiority in Kumawood scripts which we’re not quite sure exists.

Both industries produce a lot of whack movies, but Kumawood makes more sales. This insistence for those in the english speaking industry to emphasise they would only do ‘quality’ twi movies is getting a little old.

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Kumawood Director Blasts Martha Ankomah For Saying She Wouldn’t Act Kumawood Again

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Kumawood director Jackson Bentum has hit out at Martha Ankomah for saying she does not take Kumawood scripts because they are usually only about witchcraft.

Bentum, an award winning director in his own right, says the actress knows nothing about directing of movies and thus, she should not talk about matters in which she has no expertise.

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Here’s Why I Don’t Do Kumawood – Martha Ankomah – And Her Reasoning Makes A Lot Of SENSE

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Actress Martha Ankomah, a devoted Christian, has said that her reluctance to act Kumawood roles is because too many of their scripts revolve around witchcraft and the use of ‘juju’.

Speaking with Hitz Fm, Ankomah said the worst part of such stories is that the insertion of the juju does not even make sense story-wise, and therefore for her she would not waste her time acting such roles.

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