©Courtesy of Universal Pictures Carl Erik Rinsch, a film director, was sentenced to prison this week for defrauding Netflix out of $11 million by claiming to have created a TV series that never materialized. CBS News reported that a federal prosecutor’s spokesperson stated that the director of “47 Ronin” has been convicted of wire fraud,…
Photo by Scott Garfield/Scott Garfield – © 2019 Paramount Pictures Corporation. All rights reserved. It’s unlikely that Tom Cruise’s proposed outer-space movie will be lifting off from the launching pad anytime soon, due to the actor’s reluctance to get involved with President Trump in the permissions process. The film, which Cruise hoped to make…
©Courtesy of the Museum of Chinese in America Shanghai-born documentary filmmaker Christine Choy, whose 1987 Oscar-nominated film Who Killed Vincent Chin? galvanized the Asian-American community, died on December 7 in Manhattan. She was 73. In a career spanning fifty years, the outspoken Choy made more than eighty films and received dozens of awards, including a…
Paramount has approached Warner Bros. Discovery’s shareholders with an all-cash offer, CNN is reporting. The film studio will place the bid in order to gain control of Hollywood’s most lucrative mass media and entertainment conglomerate. Paramount’s offer to purchase WBD comes after Netflix placed a bid on Friday. However, Paramount was originally considered to be the…
©Courtesy of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association The Golden Globes nominations were revealed during a live press conference this morning, with Nine and Eight nominations for “One Battle After Another” and “Sentimental Value” respectively, “Sinners” is the next film, followed by seven nominations, six by “Hamnet,”five by “Wicked: For Good,” and four by “It Was…
©Courtesy of Mirai Eigahsa Junichi Yasuda’s “A Samurai in Time” film, which won the Best Picture award at the 48th Japan Academy Film Awards and was released in August, is set to have 6 episodes spin-off series, according to reports. The filming for “Shinpai-Muyounosuke: Tenka Gomen” will start next spring, and it will be broadcast…
©Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures “Super Troopers 3: Winter Soldiers,” the third installment in the Broken Lizard comedy franchise, will make its theatrical debut on August 7, 2026. Returning to direct the upcoming film will be Jay Chandrasekhar, who also helmed Beerfest and Club Dread for the franchise. The Super Troopers films follow the antics of…
©Courtesy of Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery Netflix announced today an $82.7 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, a move that will have a vast impact on the media industry. Warner’s studio operations and its streaming business are included in the arrangement, which is expected to happen by the third quarter of 2026. Under…
©Courtesy of New Line Cinema, “Mortal Kombat” The actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, who was born in Japan and trained in the US, one of the most successful Asian actors that appeared in numerous films from the 1990s and 2000s, has passed away. Tagawa was born in Tokyo, Japan, and raised by his Japanese Takarazuka actress mother…
Kino Industries’ CtrlMovie will release the interactive slasher film, Slay Day, in theaters in fall 2026, Variety is reporting. The drama will ask viewers in each theater to collectively vote on each critical decision using their smartphones. As a result, each audiences’ choices will alter the story as the movie plays on the big screen….
Tammie Rosen, who had served since 2020 as the chief communications officer for the Sundance Film Institute, has died of cancer at the age of 49. From 2007 to 2019, she had previously been the executive vice president of communications and programming at the Tribeca Film Institute in New York City. In announcing her passing,…
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