{"id":12558,"date":"2021-08-13T12:09:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T10:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=12558"},"modified":"2021-08-13T12:09:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T10:09:24","slug":"award-winning-mr-johnson-to-premiere-on-dstv-boxoffice-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2021\/08\/13\/award-winning-mr-johnson-to-premiere-on-dstv-boxoffice-in-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Award Winning &#8220;Mr Johnson&#8221; To Premiere On DStv BoxOffice In September"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Following its local and international festival tour, Mr Johnson, the latest film from the Azania Productions stable <em>(Broken Promises 4-Ever, Blessers)<\/em> will premiere on DSTV BoxOffice next month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/MR-JOHNSON-Jana-Cilliers-and-Paul-Slabolepszy.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/MR-JOHNSON-Jana-Cilliers-and-Paul-Slabolepszy.jpg?resize=600%2C253&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/MR-JOHNSON-Jana-Cilliers-and-Paul-Slabolepszy.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/MR-JOHNSON-Jana-Cilliers-and-Paul-Slabolepszy.jpg?resize=300%2C127&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Jana Cilliers &amp; Paul Slabolepszy<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The film follows the adventures of David Johnson who wakes from a 47-year coma at the age of 73.\u00a0 He has a hard time dealing with his aged body and the fact that he has missed out on more than half his life.\u00a0 As he slowly steps into a strange new world, his youthful exuberance is undimmed and, with a little prodding, he tackles life, and love, with the energy of his 26-year old self.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Johnson stars Paul Slabolepszy <em>(Apprenticeship of a Mahatma, Saturday Night at the Palace)<\/em> and Jana Cilliers <em>(Die Boekklub, Die Leeftyd van Orgidee), <\/em>Graham Hopkins (<em>Eye in the Sky), <\/em>Carla Classen (<em>Stroomop) <\/em>with Marinus Gubitz (O<em>nortodoks)<\/em>, Mila Guy (<em>Wonderlus),<\/em>Frank Rautenbach (<em>The Bang Bang Club)<\/em>, Sisanda Henna (<em>Griekwastad)<\/em>, Jailoshini Naidoo (<em>Keeping Up with the Kandasamys<\/em>), , Drikus Volschenk (<em>Dis Ek, Anna<\/em>), Antony Coleman (<em>Blood Diamond<\/em>), Heike Brunner (<em>Knysna)<\/em> and Clayton Boyd (<em>The Entity<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The film was made with support of the Department of Trade and Industry, National Film and Video Foundation and Indigenous Film Distribution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Johnson is distributed by Indigenous Film Distribution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MR JOHNSON Official trailer\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DsstmCBb5SY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following its local and international festival tour, Mr Johnson, the latest film from the Azania Productions stable (Broken Promises 4-Ever, Blessers) will premiere on DSTV BoxOffice next month. The film follows the adventures of David Johnson who wakes from a 47-year coma at the age of 73.\u00a0 He has a hard time dealing with his&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2021\/08\/13\/award-winning-mr-johnson-to-premiere-on-dstv-boxoffice-in-september\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Award Winning &#8220;Mr Johnson&#8221; To Premiere On DStv BoxOffice In September<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}