Dead Boy Detectives : Exclusive Interview with Actress Yuyu Kitamura

DEAD BOY DETECTIVES. Yuyu Kitamura as Niko Sasaki in episode 3 of DEAD BOY DETECTIVES. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2023 Dead Boy Detectives : Two teenage ghosts work alongside a clairvoyant to solve mysteries for their supernatural clientele, until a powerful witch complicates their plans. Executive Producer : Steve Yockey, Beth Schwartz, Jeremy Carver,…

The Spiderwick Chronicles : Exclusive Interview with Actors Lyon Daniels & Joy Bryant

Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel. Lyon Daniels is an American actor and entertainer, starring as a lead character in the upcoming Roku original live-action series The Spiderwick Chronicles(2024) as well as Netflix film We Can Be Heros(2020) and Amazon Prime series Patriot(2015). Lyon got his start at the young…

City Hunter / Review : It’s All Very Slick, But Still Faithful to the Fans

Ryohei Suzuki, Fumino Kimura, ©Courtesy of Netflix  Like all long-running manga-anime series, the “City Hunter” franchise has a complicated history of adaptations. Technically, this is the first live-action Japanese film based on Tsukasa Hojo’s Shonen series, but previous non-animated film adaptions were produced in Hong Kong (starring Jackie Chan and Gary Daniels) and France (as…

Lily Gladstone and Bowen Yang to Star in Remake of Ang Lee’s ‘The Wedding Banquet’

Lily Gladstone and Bowen Yang have been selected to star in an upcoming remake of Ang Lee’s 1993 romcom The Wedding Banquet. The reboot will be directed by Andrew Ahn from a screenplay by Ahn and James Schamus. The screenplay for the 1993 movie had been co-written by Lee, Schamus, and Neil Peng. According to…

Frank Darabont May Direct Stranger Things’ S5 Episodes

©Courtesy of DarkStar Pictures Legendary horror writer-director Frank Darabont is in talks to come out of retirement to helm two episodes of the upcoming final season of Stranger Things. Film critic Jeff Sneider revealed the news on The InSneider. On the television side of his career, the Golden Globe-nominated filmmaker is best known for developing…

Storyline Revealed For Angelina Jolie’s Cancelled Cleopatra Movie

©By the Sea. Screenwriter Brian Helgeland has revealed the plot details for his canceled Cleopatra movie, which would have starred Angelina Jolie as the titular Egyptian queen. The scribe, who won an Oscar for penning L.A. Confidential, started writing a screenplay for a new Cleopatra film in 2011 for Sony Pictures. Emmy winner David Fincher…

Dead Boy Detectives : Exclusive Interview with Actress Yuyu Kitamura

DEAD BOY DETECTIVES. Yuyu Kitamura as Niko Sasaki in episode 3 of DEAD BOY DETECTIVES. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2023 Dead Boy Detectives : Two teenage ghosts work alongside a clairvoyant to solve mysteries for their supernatural clientele, until a powerful witch complicates their plans. Executive Producer : Steve Yockey, Beth Schwartz, Jeremy Carver,…

The Spiderwick Chronicles : Exclusive Interview with Actors Lyon Daniels & Joy Bryant

Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel. Lyon Daniels is an American actor and entertainer, starring as a lead character in the upcoming Roku original live-action series The Spiderwick Chronicles(2024) as well as Netflix film We Can Be Heros(2020) and Amazon Prime series Patriot(2015). Lyon got his start at the young…

‘Boy Kills World’: Exclusive Video Interview with Director Moritz Mohr

©Courtesy of Lionsgate Check out more of CinemaDaily US’ video interviews on our YouTube channel German-born filmmaker Moritz Mohr has been directing short films and television for almost two decades, but with Boy Kills World, he takes on his first feature film, a violent and gory revenge thriller starring Bill Skarsgård (It, Barbarian) as the…

City Hunter / Review : It’s All Very Slick, But Still Faithful to the Fans

Ryohei Suzuki, Fumino Kimura, ©Courtesy of Netflix  Like all long-running manga-anime series, the “City Hunter” franchise has a complicated history of adaptations. Technically, this is the first live-action Japanese film based on Tsukasa Hojo’s Shonen series, but previous non-animated film adaptions were produced in Hong Kong (starring Jackie Chan and Gary Daniels) and France (as…

The Hazy Days of Art College 1994

©Courtesy of Dekanalog Like many young people, the Chinese art students in this film largely ignore politics. Very few of them could have conscious memories of the Cultural Revolution, unlike superstar Chinese artists Ai Weiwei, Cai Guo-Qiang, and Wang Guangyi. However, these artists-in-training consciously aspire to their level of success. They also hope to make…

‘Abigail’: Beware of That Bloody Ballerina!

©Courtesy of Universal Pictures Welcome back, bloodsucking fiend! It is always a (guilty) pleasure to return to a vampire movie where the undead is an old-fashioned, terrifying thirsty killer. Even if the dark humor behind the whole production makes Abigail some kind of horror comedy, nonetheless the main character – a young ballerina who plays…

Ron Howard’s JIM HENSON IDEA MAN // Trailer / Disney+ May 31

©Jim Henson Idea Man, Courtesy of Disney+ The legendary James Maury Henson was an American puppeteer, animator, cartoonist, actor, inventor, and filmmaker who achieved worldwide notability as the creator of the Muppets. Now, the “Sesame Street” and “The Muppet Show” icon is at the center of Academy Award winner Ron Howard‘s latest documentary, “Jim Henson…

DADDIO | Official Trailer (2024) : Starring Dakota Johnson, Sean Penn

©Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics Sony Pictures Classics has dropped a new trailer for a single-setting drama feature “Daddio” starring Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn which sees almost all of the narrative unfold within the confined space of a car. New York City, JFK airport. A young woman jumps into the backseat of a yellow…

“IF” | Final Trailer- Ryan Reynolds, John Krasinski, Steve Carell

©Photo by Courtesy of Paramount Pictures – © 2023 PARAMOUNT PICTURES Paramount Pictures has dropped a new trailer for a highly anticipated John Kransinski’s latest film, “If” which is starring Ryan Reynolds and Kransinski, whilst the latter also writes and helms based on his original screenplay. It follows a young girl who has the ability…

Naples Announces CALL FOR ENTRIES  for 16th Annual Naples International Film Festival 

Artis—Naples Announces CALL FOR ENTRIES  for 16th Annual Naples International Film Festival  NIFF to take place October 24-27, 2023    Naples, FL (April 19, 2024) — Artis—Naples announced today that the call for entries has begun for the 2024 Naples International Film Festival (NIFF), which is scheduled to take place October 24-27 at the newly established Alamo…

Tribeca Festival Announces 2024 Feature Film Lineup!

The Tribeca Festival has announced the features lineup for its 2024 edition, which will open with the world premiere of Hulu documentary Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge, directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Trish Dalton. The festival highlights in this year’s features lineup include the world premieres of documentaries about Liza Minnelli (Liza: A Truly Terrific…

“The Spiderwick Chronicles”/An Adaption that Grew Up with It’s Readers

©Courtesy of Roku Television So “The Spiderwick Chronicles” is based on the children’s book series by the same name by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black (also executive producers in this series). The first book came out in 2003 and then left for 4 subsequent books. These books led to a film adaptation in 2008, again by the…

‘We Were the Lucky Ones’ Review: A Story of Family and Survival

It’s difficult to truly comprehend and grapple with the impact of the Holocaust, which sought to and unfortunately succeeded in wiping out the Jewish population of much of Europe. We Were the Lucky Ones, a limited series based on the book of the same name by Georgia Hunter, charts the journey of one family that…

‘Shōgun’ is an Enthralling Japanese Historical Epic

It’s impossible to truly know what life was like and how people actually behaved hundreds of years ago. There are written records, paintings and then photographs, and, in more recent years, gradually more available video evidence so that those in the present day can perceive a moderately insightful look into the past. Imagining the first…