The Japanese anime producer Koichiro Ito was arrested this week by Wakayama police and charged with soliciting nude images of a 15-year-old girl from Nagano he met online. The alleged incident occurred in September of 2021. According to the Mainichi Shimbun, the 52-year-old Ito admitted he knew the young woman was a minor. “I had…
Destin Daniel Cretton will be writing and directing a live-action film for Lionsgate based on Naruto, the popular manga character. Cretton recently cowrote and directed Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings for Marvel Studios. He will be producing the Naruto project through his Hisako company, along with Jeyun Mumford. Also involved with the…
Mickey 17, the much-anticipated sci-fi thriller by Korean director Bong Joon-Ho, will finally be released on January 31, 2025, says Warner Bros. The film will also be available on IMAX screens. It had originally been scheduled to debut on March 29, 2024 until it was postponed indefinitely. According to Variety, the rescheduling is allowing the…
Tim Burton is reportedly poised to direct a remake of the cult classic Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, which was originally released in 1958, the year of his birth. Like the original, the new film would be a Warner Bros. production. According to an article in Deadline, Gillian Flynn, of Gone Girl, Dark Places,…
© 2011 – IFC Wim Wenders Stiftung, the foundation associated with the German director, has sealed a deal with agent Salaud Morisset to handle distribution rights for 25 of his films. The arrangement would include theatrical, festival, and non-commercial rights for all unsold territories around the globe. Commercial rights to his catalog remain with Hanway Films….
©Sundance Institute Greenwich Entertainment has just acquired the North American rights to Aum : The Cult at the End of the World, a documentary about the Japanese doomsday cult that engineered a sarin-gas attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995. The film will be released at select theaters and on home-entertainment platforms beginning this…
© 2012 – Pierre Grise Productions French director Leos Carax’s next project, It’s Not Me, is an autobiographical film that will star Denis Lavant, who has been the leading man in several of his previous movies, including Boy Meets Girl, Bad Blood, Lovers on the Bridge, and Holy Motors. It’s also been rumored that Adam Driver…
Ridley Scott is reportedly talking with Paramount Pictures about directing an upcoming biopic about the Bee Gees musical group. Though nothing has yet been finalized, Deadline is reporting that Scott would also produce the as-yet-untitled film along with Michael Pruss, Graham King, and Stacey Snider. John Logan, who will write the script, had earlier been…
Speculation has been rampant about whether the upcoming Joker sequel will or will not be a musical. Though Lady Gaga will be one of the leads, cinematographer Lawrence Sher insisted to an interviewer that “it’s not a musical per se, it just has music in it. The music is part of the film and the…
Madame Web, Sony’s latest Marvel film, has been released today to the general disapproval of critics, and amid reports by star Dakota Johnson that the script underwent “drastic changes” during production. “And I can’t even tell you what they were,” Johnson was quoted in The Wrap as saying. In Madame Web, Johnson plays the leading…
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