2024 Chicago Japan Film Collective Full Lineup Announced! Greetings from beautiful Chicago, where fall is in full bloom! We are delighted to announce the full lineup for the 2024 Chicago Japan Film Collective (CJFC). This year’s festival, centered around the theme of ‘Co-existence,’ will feature 11 films, including 2 theater screenings and 9…
Mike Flanagan at N.Y. Comi-Con, Photo by Nobuhiro Hosoki Director Mike Flanagan is reportedly working on an adaptation of Stephen King’s novel Carrie as an eight-episode series for Amazon MGM Studios. According to Deadline, Flanagan will serve as writer and showrunner for the project and share the executive producer role with Trevor Macy of Intrepid…
©Blue fox Entertainment It’s no secret that some of the most awesome animated films on the planet have emerged from post-WWII Japan. While Kensuke’s Kingdom is not a Japanese production per se, it is based on a novel by a British-born author who includes the story of a soldier from Nagasaki in his engaging narrative….
©Courtesy of Netflix The original Mobile Suit Gundam deserves a lot of credit for making “mecha” a thing. It was also notable at the time for featuring human beings as both the heroes and the bad guys, within a science fiction anime context. Naturally, most viewers identified with the Earth Federation Forces (EFF), since all…
Tokyo Vice : Jake Adelstein, an American journalist, plugs into the Tokyo Vice police squad and descends into the neon underbelly of Tokyo. Creator : J. T. Rogers Executive Producer: J.T. Rogers, Ansel Elgort, John Lesher, Alan Poul, Emily Gerson Saines, Destin Daniel Cretton, Ken Watanabe, Michaell Mann, Jake Adesstein, Kayo Washio, Brad Caleb Kane….
@Courtesy of A24 Five years after the forgettable The Goldfinch starring Ansel Elgort and Nicole Kidman, the Irish director John Crowley is back with a feature film that is definitely among his best, if not the best. We Live in Time tells the story of Tobias (Andrew Garfield) and Almut (Florence Pugh). While they are…
Parker Finn’s high-concept horror film, Smile, was a huge global blockbuster back in 2022, grossing over $217 million worldwide, so it made sense that Paramount Pictures would want a sequel. Sure enough, Finn’s Smile 2 brings the smiling curse back but with a whole new cast and story. Naomi Scott (Aladdin) plays troubled pop star…
BAFTA Award-winning filmmaker, Park Chan-wook has signed on to co-write and produce the historical drama, War and Revolt, for Netflix, Variety is reporting. The political thriller marks the Korean filmmaker’s first collaboration with the global streaming platform. Netflix is the streaming market leader in Park’s home country. The streamer has been instrumental in the success…
© 2009 Warner Home Entertainment. All rights reserved. Cameron Diaz is making a comeback after having gone into self-imposed retirement ten years ago. Her last appearance had been in 2014 when she starred in Annie. Her upcoming projects will include the appropriately named Back in Action and Shrek 5. The 53-year-old actress told Fortune’s Most Powerful…
Japanese actor Ren Meguro recently spoke to Variety about his experiences of playing the self-serving protagonist of Haru Tennouji on the new fantasy drama series, Trillion Game, which is now streaming on Netflix. During the interview, the performer discussed his experience of playing the young businessman, who’s described as the world’s most selfish person, but…
©Courtesy of Netflix Emilia Pérez : From renegade auteur Jacques Audiard comes Emilia Pérez, an audacious fever dream that defies genres and expectations. Through liberating song and dance and bold visuals, this odyssey follows the journey of four remarkable women in Mexico, each pursuing their own happiness. The fearsome cartel leader Emilia (Karla Sofía Gascón)…
Mike Flanagan at N.Y. Comi-Con, Photo by Nobuhiro Hosoki Director Mike Flanagan is reportedly working on an adaptation of Stephen King’s novel Carrie as an eight-episode series for Amazon MGM Studios. According to Deadline, Flanagan will serve as writer and showrunner for the project and share the executive producer role with Trevor Macy of Intrepid…
© Copyright 2000 – Universal Studios – All rights reserved. Italian director Luca Guadagnino is reportedly in discussions with Lionsgate to direct a new American Psycho movie. An earlier version of the film had debuted in 2000, directed by Mary Harron and starring Christian Bale in the role of Patrick Bateman, a Manhattan investment banker turned…
©Courtesy of Billie Eilish (2022) Prime Video’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith is reportedly looking to shake up its cast. According to Deadline, the titular roles of John and Jane played by Donald Glover and Maya Erskine are up for grabs. The first season of Mr. & Mrs. Smith introduced Glover and Erskine as two spies…
©Courtesy of Netflix Emilia Pérez : From renegade auteur Jacques Audiard comes Emilia Pérez, an audacious fever dream that defies genres and expectations. Through liberating song and dance and bold visuals, this odyssey follows the journey of four remarkable women in Mexico, each pursuing their own happiness. The fearsome cartel leader Emilia (Karla Sofía Gascón)…
Check out more of CinemaDaily US’ video interviews on our YouTube channel Titus Kaphar’s Exhibiting Forgiveness is a powerful and moving personal story that the artist-turned-filmmaker made after having conversations with his own father. It stars André Holland (Moonlight) as Tarrell, an artist whose estranged father La’Ron (John Earl Jelks) comes back into his life…
Hard Truth : Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny ties that bind us. Reunited with Leigh for the first time since multiple Oscar-nominated Secrets and Lies, the astonishing Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a woman wracked by fear, tormented…
©Blue fox Entertainment It’s no secret that some of the most awesome animated films on the planet have emerged from post-WWII Japan. While Kensuke’s Kingdom is not a Japanese production per se, it is based on a novel by a British-born author who includes the story of a soldier from Nagasaki in his engaging narrative….
@Courtesy of Cinetic Media Six years after What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? the Italian director Roberto Minervini is back behind the camera with a feature film set during the American Civil War. In 1862, a battalion of volunteers from the Union Army was sent to the uncharted lands of the West…
©Courtesy of Netflix The original Mobile Suit Gundam deserves a lot of credit for making “mecha” a thing. It was also notable at the time for featuring human beings as both the heroes and the bad guys, within a science fiction anime context. Naturally, most viewers identified with the Earth Federation Forces (EFF), since all…
©Courtesy of Universal Pictures Universal Pictures showed its first full trailer of the Wolf Man trailer at the New York Comic-Con on Friday, following a teaser last month. Christopher Abbott (Poor Things, It Comes at Night), who has been nominated for a Golden Globe, plays Blake, a San Francisco husband and father who inherits his…
Photo by Photo Courtesy of Paramount Pict – © 2024 PARAMOUNT PICTURES Check out more of CinemaDaily US’ video interviews on our YouTube channel Smile 2, which is Parker Finn’s sequel to his 2022 horror film Smile 2 will arrive at theater on October 18th theatrical release date, and with that date just a few days…
GKIDS has unveiled new trailer for The Colors Within for the upcoming U.S. release of the coming-of-age music, anime movie about three students who find friendship after forming a band together. The film is directed by Naoko Yamada (A Silent Voice) from a screenplay written by Reiko Yoshida (Violet Evergarden), with kensuke ushio (Chainsaw Man) composing…
2024 Chicago Japan Film Collective Full Lineup Announced! Greetings from beautiful Chicago, where fall is in full bloom! We are delighted to announce the full lineup for the 2024 Chicago Japan Film Collective (CJFC). This year’s festival, centered around the theme of ‘Co-existence,’ will feature 11 films, including 2 theater screenings and 9…
@Courtesy of Cinetic Media Six years after What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? the Italian director Roberto Minervini is back behind the camera with a feature film set during the American Civil War. In 1862, a battalion of volunteers from the Union Army was sent to the uncharted lands of the West…
@Courtesy of Netflix The ability of Jacques Audiard consists of working inside the genre and at the same time trying to give his interpretation of it. Depending on the film, he decides to follow its rules or surprise the audience with a slightly different tone. His last Emilia Pérez belongs to the latter case: awarded…
In “Mending Wall,” Robert Frost wrote: “good fences make good neighbors,” but it is unclear whether the poet laureate truly agreed with the sentiment. For the Chenoweth Family and their neighbors, the border a gasmask-clad man draws around and through their properties represents a deadly sinister invisible barrier. The mystery man certainly looks creepy—presumably that…
©Courtesy of Adult Swim Do not expect much cross-promotion for this new anime series in the Guggenheim rotunda. For many viewers, the sight of any seemingly benign spiral will cause great unease, even after just one episode. As fans of Junji Ito’s cult-classic manga and the 2000 live-action adaptation directed by Higuchinsky (a.k.a. Akihiro Higuchi)…
@Courtesy of Netflix How far would you go in order to fulfill your lifelong dream? What would you be willing to sacrifice? And how much of yourself would you change? These are the main questions that develop the narrative arc of Dump Matsumoto, the charismatic main character of the Japanese Netflix series The Queen of…
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