©Courtesy of Toho Studios “THE FINEST JAPANESE FILM EVER MADE.” — Donald Richie TOSHIRŌ MIFUNE STARS IN AKIRA KUROSAWA’S SEVEN SAMURAI U.S. PREMIERE OF 70th ANNIVERSARY RESTORATION RESTORED FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER IN 4K JULY 5 – 18 AT FILM FORUM ©Courtesy of Toho Studios A new 4K restoration of Akira Kurosawa’s epic masterpiece, SEVEN SAMURAI…
©Courtesy of Gainax After 40 years in business, Gainax, the iconic Japanese animation studio, filed for bankruptcy in Tokyo on May 29. Originally known as Daicon Film, the studio is best known for its Neon Genesis Evangelion series, launched in the mid-1990s, which earned its producers more than $2 billion in global revenues. The history…
Benoit Blanc returns in his most dangerous case yet. Production has begun in London on Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, the third film featuring the celebrated, Southern-fried detective created by writer/director Rian Johnson and played by Daniel Craig. The new installment is produced by Johnson and producer Ram Bergman’s production company T-Street. Aaaaand we’re off!…
©Courtesy of Disney Andrew Stanton has been tapped to direct the upcoming Toy Story 5, according to a statement by Pixar’s chief creative officer Pete Docter. Stanton is a veteran creative with Pixar, having directed Finding Nemo and WALL-E for the studio, both of which won Oscars for Best Animated Feature. He also wrote the…
©Seberg, courtesy of Amazon Studios Kristen Stewart will play astronaut and physicist Sally Ride in The Challenger, an upcoming TV series about the space race of the 1970s. Ride was the first woman and the first member of the LGBTQ+ community to be launched into space at a time when astronauts were typically heterosexual white…
It’s really sad to hear the news that a wonderful drama Series, Tokyo Vice, has come to a conclusion. At a panel at the PGA’s Produced By Conference in Los Angeles on Saturday, the producers confirmed that the show will be ending its existence on Warner Bros. Discovery platform. The series, which was initially developed…
© 2019 CJ ENM Corporation All right reserved. Yeon Sang-ho, the prolific Korean director acclaimed for Train to Busan (2016), is poised to make his first English-language film for TriStar Pictures. Titled 35th Street, the movie will also be in the action/horror genre. Yeon will be directing the film and co-writing it with Ryu Yong-jae. No…
©Photo by Sergei Bachlakov/ABC – © 2016 American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. According to press reports, Canadian director Shawn Levy is being seriously considered to direct Marvel Studios’ next Avengers film, the fifth in the series. Destin Daniel Cretton had originally been attached to the project, but he left in November of 2023…
©Courtesy of Amazon Prime Amazon Prime is reportedly set to create a six-episode live-action series adaptation of the one of the most popular SEGA game franchise “Ryu ga Gotoku(Like a Dragon)”. A press conference was held in Tokyo on June 4 to announce the global distribution of the new movie Take Masaharu and Takimoto Kengo…
Takashi Yamazaki’s Godzilla Minus One is setting records on the Netflix and VOD charts, where it captured the number one spot on both this week, an unprecedented accomplishment. The film, which was released in December, has already grossed some $56 million in North America alone, picking up an Oscar for best visual effects. Though the…
©Courtesy of Netflix Netflix will soon start filming the second season of its highly popular One Piece anime in South Africa, but it’s unclear how many episodes that would include, or whether the streamer plans to move ahead with a third season. The confusion arose when actor Brashaad Mayweather was quoted in an interview with…
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